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"Lie back and think of England" (in Italian: sdraiati e pensa all'Inghilterra) is an English saying with roughly the same meaning as "grit one's teeth", i.e. put up with what is happening, though this comparison is complicated by the statement's seemingly sexual undertone. It was used both in England and among expatriates outside the country when conditions were difficult. It is given as encouragement to do something unpalatable.
The origins of the phrase are not clear. According to one urban legend, "lie back and think of England" was an instruction given to brides or women in general in the Victorian Era regarding how to cope with the sexual demands of their husbands. While childbearing was considered a patriotic duty, women were not supposed to enjoy sexual intercourse, and brides in particular would have been ignorant of the facts thereabout. One version of this legend has it that Queen Victoria gave this instruction to her daughter on her wedding night. According to other, perhaps less reliable, urban legends, the phrase originated in the diary of Lady Alice Hillingdon (Alice Marion Mills née Harbord-Hamond, 1857–1940) in 1912:

I am happy now that George calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week, and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs, and think of England.


Lie Back and Think of England is also an album by British folk music group Oysterband, released in 1983.

"Lie back and think of England" (in Italian: sdraiati e pensa all'Inghilterra) is an English saying with roughly the same meaning as "grit one's teeth", i.e. put up with what is happening, though this comparison is complicated by the statement's seemingly sexual undertone. It was used both in England and among expatriates outside the country when conditions were difficult. It is given as encouragement to do something unpalatable.
The origins of the phrase are not clear. According to one urban legend, "lie back and think of England" was an instruction given to brides or women in general in the Victorian Era regarding how to cope with the sexual demands of their husbands. While childbearing was considered a patriotic duty, women were not supposed to enjoy sexual intercourse, and brides in particular would have been ignorant of the facts thereabout. One version of this legend has it that Queen Victoria gave this instruction to her daughter on her wedding night. According to other, perhaps less reliable, urban legends, the phrase originated in the diary of Lady Alice Hillingdon (Alice Marion Mills née Harbord-Hamond, 1857–1940) in 1912:

I am happy now that George calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week, and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs, and think of England.


Lie Back and Think of England is also an album by British folk music group Oysterband, released in 1983.

"Lie back and think of England" (in Italian: sdraiati e pensa all'Inghilterra) is an English saying with roughly the same meaning as "grit one's teeth", i.e. put up with what is happening, though this comparison is complicated by the statement's seemingly sexual undertone. It was used both in England and among expatriates outside the country when conditions were difficult. It is given as encouragement to do something unpalatable.
The origins of the phrase are not clear. According to one urban legend, "lie back and think of England" was an instruction given to brides or women in general in the Victorian Era regarding how to cope with the sexual demands of their husbands. While childbearing was considered a patriotic duty, women were not supposed to enjoy sexual intercourse, and brides in particular would have been ignorant of the facts thereabout. One version of this legend has it that Queen Victoria gave this instruction to her daughter on her wedding night. According to other, perhaps less reliable, urban legends, the phrase originated in the diary of Lady Alice Hillingdon (Alice Marion Mills née Harbord-Hamond, 1857–1940) in 1912:

I am happy now that George calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week, and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs, and think of England.


Lie Back and Think of England is also an album by British folk music group Oysterband, released in 1983.

"Lie back and think of England" (in Italian: sdraiati e pensa all'Inghilterra) is an English saying with roughly the same meaning as "grit one's teeth", i.e. put up with what is happening, though this comparison is complicated by the statement's seemingly sexual undertone. It was used both in England and among expatriates outside the country when conditions were difficult. It is given as encouragement to do something unpalatable.
The origins of the phrase are not clear. According to one urban legend, "lie back and think of England" was an instruction given to brides or women in general in the Victorian Era regarding how to cope with the sexual demands of their husbands. While childbearing was considered a patriotic duty, women were not supposed to enjoy sexual intercourse, and brides in particular would have been ignorant of the facts thereabout. One version of this legend has it that Queen Victoria gave this instruction to her daughter on her wedding night. According to other, perhaps less reliable, urban legends, the phrase originated in the diary of Lady Alice Hillingdon (Alice Marion Mills née Harbord-Hamond, 1857–1940) in 1912:

I am happy now that George calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week, and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs, and think of England.


Lie Back and Think of England is also an album by British folk music group Oysterband, released in 1983.

Stereophonics... look who's there... Eddie Jordan :)

Stereophonics... look who's there... Eddie Jordan :)

Stereophonics... look who's there... Eddie Jordan :)

Stereophonics... look who's there... Eddie Jordan :)

More about the Bunga Bunga party ^_^. More details...leaked :), as Beady Eye album, lol. 

There was a piano, as in Beady Eye ^_^ 

Because, you know, Milan-born Berlusconi (People of Freedom party, party in every sense, lol) sings and writes songs (Mariano Apicella is the musician from Naples, who was also at the party). 

Liam's woman is called Nicole, and this one of Bunga Bunga, Nicole too ^_^, Minetti (and of course also her phone number leaked). 

There was also a lap-dance pole and pink sofas :) for the girls, dressed as policewomen, nurses, etc. Here is Nicole dressed as a school girl, as in Beady Eye-The Boat that rocked-Bring the light video, and as my how-to-be-dressed-for-Beady-Eye-concert advices :)

well...usually I'm not a big fan of big...I forgot the name in English, lol

Kaiser Chiefs, "Ruby", as one of the girls of the "scandal"

More about the Bunga Bunga party ^_^. More details...leaked :), as Beady Eye album, lol. 

There was a piano, as in Beady Eye ^_^ 

Because, you know, Milan-born Berlusconi (People of Freedom party, party in every sense, lol) sings and writes songs (Mariano Apicella is the musician from Naples, who was also at the party). 

Liam's woman is called Nicole, and this one of Bunga Bunga, Nicole too ^_^, Minetti (and of course also her phone number leaked). 

There was also a lap-dance pole and pink sofas :) for the girls, dressed as policewomen, nurses, etc. Here is Nicole dressed as a school girl, as in Beady Eye-The Boat that rocked-Bring the light video, and as my how-to-be-dressed-for-Beady-Eye-concert advices :)

well...usually I'm not a big fan of big...I forgot the name in English, lol

Kaiser Chiefs, "Ruby", as one of the girls of the "scandal"

More about the Bunga Bunga party ^_^. More details...leaked :), as Beady Eye album, lol. 

There was a piano, as in Beady Eye ^_^ 

Because, you know, Milan-born Berlusconi (People of Freedom party, party in every sense, lol) sings and writes songs (Mariano Apicella is the musician from Naples, who was also at the party). 

Liam's woman is called Nicole, and this one of Bunga Bunga, Nicole too ^_^, Minetti (and of course also her phone number leaked). 

There was also a lap-dance pole and pink sofas :) for the girls, dressed as policewomen, nurses, etc. Here is Nicole dressed as a school girl, as in Beady Eye-The Boat that rocked-Bring the light video, and as my how-to-be-dressed-for-Beady-Eye-concert advices :)

well...usually I'm not a big fan of big...I forgot the name in English, lol

Kaiser Chiefs, "Ruby", as one of the girls of the "scandal"

More about the Bunga Bunga party ^_^ on 16 March 2011. 

More details...leaked :), as Beady Eye album, lol. 

There was a piano, as in Beady Eye ^_^ 

Because, you know, Milan-born Berlusconi (People of Freedom party, party in every sense, lol) sings and writes songs (Mariano Apicella is the musician from Naples, who was also at the party). 

Liam's woman is called Nicole, and this one of Bunga Bunga, Nicole too ^_^, Minetti (and of course also her phone number leaked). 

There was also a lap-dance pole and pink sofas :) for the girls, dressed as policewomen, nurses, etc. Here is Nicole dressed as a school girl, as in Beady Eye-The Boat that rocked-Bring the light video, and as my how-to-be-dressed-for-Beady-Eye-concert advices :)

well...usually I'm not a big fan of big...I forgot the name in English, lol

Kaiser Chiefs, "Ruby", as one of the girls of the "scandal"

More about the Bunga Bunga party ^_^ on 16 March 2011. 

More details...leaked :), as Beady Eye album, lol. 

There was a piano, as in Beady Eye ^_^ 

Because, you know, Milan-born Berlusconi (People of Freedom party, party in every sense, lol) sings and writes songs (Mariano Apicella is the musician from Naples, who was also at the party). 

Liam's woman is called Nicole, and this one of Bunga Bunga, Nicole too ^_^, Minetti (and of course also her phone number leaked). 

There was also a lap-dance pole and pink sofas :) for the girls, dressed as policewomen, nurses, etc. Here is Nicole dressed as a school girl, as in Beady Eye-The Boat that rocked-Bring the light video, and as my how-to-be-dressed-for-Beady-Eye-concert advices :)

well...usually I'm not a big fan of big...I forgot the name in English, lol

Kaiser Chiefs, "Ruby", as one of the girls of the "scandal"

In a recent post was writing about how to a girl should dress for a Beady Eye concert, as a schoolgirl, and also about the Last Shadow Puppets (they are: Miles Kane will play at Beady Eye gigs, and Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, engaged to Alexa Chung in photo - last year Liam Gallagher said David Bowie, in the little pic on the floor, is one of his inspirations). 

The 1st round is over and you can vote in the 2nd for the Zoo magazine students awards (to be on the magazine cover), clicking here. 

Unfortunately Megan Fox (recently in Milan for Armani) and Alexa aren't there, but there are cute girls for the future :)

Standing next to me

Come closer, new song

In a recent post was writing about how to a girl should dress for a Beady Eye concert, as a schoolgirl, and also about the Last Shadow Puppets (they are: Miles Kane will play at Beady Eye gigs, and Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, engaged to Alexa Chung in photo - last year Liam Gallagher said David Bowie, in the little pic on the floor, is one of his inspirations). 

The 1st round is over and you can vote in the 2nd for the Zoo magazine students awards (to be on the magazine cover), clicking here. 

Unfortunately Megan Fox (recently in Milan for Armani) and Alexa aren't there, but there are cute girls for the future :)

Standing next to me

Come closer, new song

In a recent post was writing about how to a girl should dress for a Beady Eye concert, as a schoolgirl, and also about the Last Shadow Puppets (they are: Miles Kane will play at Beady Eye gigs, and Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, engaged to Alexa Chung in photo - last year Liam Gallagher said David Bowie, in the little pic on the floor, is one of his inspirations). 

The 1st round is over and you can vote in the 2nd for the Zoo magazine students awards (to be on the magazine cover), clicking here. 

Unfortunately Megan Fox (recently in Milan for Armani) and Alexa aren't there, but there are cute girls for the future :)

Standing next to me

Come closer, new song

In a recent post was writing about how to a girl should dress for a Beady Eye concert, as a schoolgirl, and also about the Last Shadow Puppets (they are: Miles Kane will play at Beady Eye gigs, and Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, engaged to Alexa Chung in photo - last year Liam Gallagher said David Bowie, in the little pic on the floor, is one of his inspirations). 

The 1st round is over and you can vote in the 2nd for the Zoo magazine students awards (to be on the magazine cover), clicking here. 

Unfortunately Megan Fox (recently in Milan for Armani) and Alexa aren't there, but there are cute girls for the future :)

Standing next to me

Come closer, new song