Got to defend the 'wet Brit' jokes!  If you want wet, go to Ireland! Britain isn't really very wet (we often have droughts - like this spring, for instance - and water shortages).  I happen to have a home in both SE England and Eastern Hungary, and the annual rainfall is EXACTLY the same for both places - it just come is different amounts at different times...  No, it's not rain that Britain has, it's BLOODY CLOUDS!!!