I haven't seen any racism, though there is quite a lot of mick-taking around the Welsh. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Though there have been a couple of worrying documentaries about racism in the police force in Birmingham, I think it is. So I'm sure Britain is racist, but just not overly more than any other country.
Here we go... USA: Only in this country can you elect to supersize every meal of every day and then end up sueing the restaurant that fed you... Only in this country will you find its citizens more worried about electing their next pop music star than electing their next Governor Only in this country can you find a black man setting fire to his own house in hopes of cashing in the insurance policy by attempting to frame a white man for the crime. Only in this country can you find a Muslim man attempting to legally divorce his Muslim wife via an e-mail notification because he lusted after a white woman. Only in America can you threaten a manager of a discount retail store for not carrying enough sizes in the Big & Tall section... Only in America is a man of South Asian heritage considered a terrorist unless he can shoot a basketball in to a 10' tall hoop located 20' from said basket... and the coup de gras (sp?): Only in America can a Pakistani kid take a Polish girl out to an Israeli restaurant to be served humus by two Turkish chefs and an Albanian host, and when a group of jews observe this by saying, "must be some wild party in the gene pool," another jew observing the same scene prints an article about "ethnic intimidation" in the local newspaper the next day... Uh...Mashuganah, Mashuganah
have you heard british english. nowhatamean, init, guy, at deenda da day, yea, etc. I love It. " not ".
British english? English varies all over england. And Northumbrian is allegedly about as close to the original saxon as you can get, in words and enunciation. Part of the problem is the penetration of american culture, so that people think its cool to mimic inner city gangsters with short lives and no brains. I've lived in Shffield, Manchester, and visited London, newcastle, birmingham and a few other places and they all pronounce things slightly differently, or use different words. So, to sum it up, the only "british" english is correct BBC english as used by all the best newsreaders, except that its dying out, you could blame weirdoes who think its a good idea to have local identity etc. But better local identity than one homogenoous mass preyed upon by commercialism? Desertratuk- youll be fine as long as you stay away from the dodgiest bars at the wrong time of day. I remember when I was a student at St Andrews, when braveheaert came out there were a couple of attacks on english students by somewhat drunk locals. It all stopped soon enough. Which uni are you at, I'm just being curious. Of course the scots treat the english better than the english treat themselves, our ancestors self consciously destroyed much of the scottish identity they were heir to. If anyoen asks when the scots are going to be more british, ie stop making anti english football team comments, just say theyll do so when the english become britons. For a long while, scotland was known as north briton, an extraordinarily self effacign move. Of course teh Victorians kind of rebelled agasint that. As for Henman, I knew he was going out when I heard on teh radio on the way to work that he was taking on an unseeded player later that day. "ah ha, just the person to knock him out" I though. i should have put a bet on it.
The british Parliment are like obedient dogs they will do anything for the USA and. I personally believe that we suck at everything I mean we suck at cricket, we kinda suck at football and we hate the French (what the f**ks wrong with the french). A lot of the british have also been brainwashed into thinking that just because someone is Afghan or German they are gonna blow us to peices or start WWIII. The most likely thing to start WWIII is GW Bush bombing some country just because they said "the US are pricks".
I think the UK tiddlywinks team have won an international competition or two. And if you'll note that Scotland and Wales know they suck at football, like the French, and dont play cricket all that much. In fact, so many britons hate the french so much that they buy up retirement homes there to push up the house prices, and eat french cheese and drink french wine, so as to deny the french the pleasure of it. All the pro war people I've met here find self interest and international geopolitics a better excuse to go to war with Iraq and Afghanistan than any fears about these countries actually being a physical danger.
My rant about the UK that i wrote ages ago: Greedy Government. Taxs etc In Britain today the government seems to be dipping its hands in your pocket in everything you do, in every avenue of life, thestate is there waiting. If you go down to the shops in your car and break the speed limit by 5 mph, you can get pulled over and fined - it does happen, if you put petrol in your car you hand over a huge some into the treasury. If you own a home, you can be paying anything over a grand for rates every year, you have to pay VAT on food and alcohol (its a ridiculous amount on alcohol) - its not a small percentage we pay but alot of money. If you own a car, you pay road tax - that is used to put speed bumps and stuff all over the place that are completely not needed. We pay tax on just about everything. I wouldnt mind if the country was in a really good state of affairs as a result, but its just the same as always. I suppose they have to use the money for funding the police, firebrigade, NHS etc but non of these things are any better or worse than other countries police hostpital care etc. So where does the money go? Do they just save it all up or is it actually getting put to use? I dont know but it seems to me that there is alot of benefits for just about everything, if your a single mother: benefit if you have a disability: benefit if you dont work: benefit if you cant be bothered working: benefit and so on and so on. Im not saying that they dont deserve it, what im saying is the system needs to be tidyed up so people that genuinly need benefits receive it and those who dont, go out and work. So possibly this is where the majority of the funds are going but im not certain. Public transport Public transport is diabolical in britain, its unreliable, expensive, dirty and crowded. So, to make people use it (against their will), they try and make driving as stressful as possible and as expensive as possible. Stressful because of speed cameras, the constant watch by the man, over crowded road network - the roads havnt been upgraded in years and arent adequate for the amount of cars needing to use them. - traffic calming (speed bumps, narrow bits in the road (enough just for a cars width and no more)etc). The rail network has been neglected because of privitisation. As a result, its better to drive and is still better all round except for the environment - modern cars arent all that polluting compared to what they used to be and are more efficient. Blame culture Just like america, we are starting to see more and more people sue for any sort of incident. For example: Im walking down the street, not looking where im going and trip on a paving slab, so i sue my local council and receive lots of money. Effectively, im being paid fore my own stupidity, it was my fault, but i can blame the council because the paving slab was a "danger". Taking money that could be going to a better use. Now, it was my fault, the council didnt intend to hurt me but they are getting financially raped for nothing. Its getting so bad that they are going to ban sueing councils. But, this can be applied to any walk of life and is. Some people make a job out of suing people (not the lawyers). Gutter press Papers such as the Sun scaremongering and dramatising news warping and distorting whatever they please to make a quick bob. The Scottish Parliament The money that has been wasted on this stupid parliament building for a bunch of wankers who stand about debating everything but have no real power to do anything because the things that matter are not a devolved issue thus making the parliament quite irrelivant. The Cannabis issue It just pisses me off, it should be legal end of argument. That is just the tip of the ice berg of things that piss me off about the UK
I do not live in the UK but my genetics are mostly English. I have damn English teeth to a certain degree. Not as bad as prince... whatever the hell his name is.
I agree with everything Dudish Dude and el kapitan has said. And with regards to what Dudish said, I can't even where my German Flecktarn jackets out without being hackled by someone. Am I not allowed to be a litle pround of my birthplace? Gawd, some people today. Also, you should here Southern English. It's like English redneck. OI! Ged 'ere now. Ah wan' you ta 'ave me baby. Gross.
Ahhh, southern english. Most civilised people know that civilisation decreases the further south you go from the WAtford gap. Except for occaisional holdouts. Whats a Flecktern jacket?
I'm almost at the bottom of the south! All that's left is the Isle of Wight! And a flacktarn jacket is one of these things: http://www.flecktarn.co.uk/graphics/gallery/pictures/flecktarn60.jpg
Oh, one of those. Your probably lucky you dont have a quick meeting with your local aremd response unit. I would assume that pointing out the GDR has been a friend of ours for 50 years doesnt help. Actually, try to imagine a british reenactor playing a waffen SS bloke. I read about one who did, and he gets a hell of a lot of abuse from some people. The isle of wight. Yachting land. and don't start me on london......
Woah, I don't walk around with the G36s or gas masks! Just the jacket! lol. It doesn't help when I politely inform them that we had occupid most of Germany for a good part of the last century. People in the UK need educating WITHOUT the bias. London...that place needs demolishing and then rebuilding.
I wouldn't be surprised if the UK became part of the USA since both the prime minister and the president are complete and utter ARSEHOLES!!!
