"You almost look British"

Oh, honestly!  Just a google search of the woman in this article will show she is a charlatan!  "A natural intuitive empath", right.  She can no more read a face than she can read my @rse.

Vicky

lol! some people make a fortune reading arses.....some celebs swear by it! 

lol! some people make a fortune reading arses.....some celebs swear by it! 

 

I can't quite put my finger on what the look is that makes British people look British (although I will agree with whoever said it was more noticeable in men) but when my friend visited she said it had something to do with their chins. Shrug. Who knows?

I think your friend was mistaken.


Vicky

Isn't it just a combination of things:  you pass someone in the street and think they look or walk or something -- different.  You can't pin it on any one thing.  Many times you see people and wonder.  Then you hear them speak and you think Aha!
Recently I saw one of the students in the cafeteria wearing a tee shirt which said something about rugby.  That caught my eye so I watched him (like you do) and when he spoke to his mate that clinched it.  I might have told myself it was his nose or chin or whatever but really it was the whole deal.

Now that I can agree with!

Vicky

I kind of do it in reverse, when I'm on the tube, I try to spot my fellow Americans.  Style is the dead giveway (if I don't hear them talk). 

But, I think that's really it.  I haven't noticed actual physical features where I'm like "oh..clearly they are from -------" or anything like that.    I mean, one of the guys here looks like your very stereotypical California surfer type, but was born and has lived only in the UK.

There is something that makes us know what types of people we are looking at. When I worked in a book shop many years ago, I could tell by looking at the people who walked in the door what section of the shop they were going to head towards and what types of book they would buy.  In fact, the staff used to play games at guessing it.  We were not wrong often.

I agree, it has to be the package as a whole.