What is your opinion on the british?

Yeah, what do you think of them? If you happen to be british yourself, don't vote.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    *throws tea in harbor*

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  • Meatballsandwich

    They're good at imperialism, and absolutely horrendous at cooking.

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    • Ummitsstillme

      Embarassingly. Their best food is Indian. France is just miles away and is one of the culinary meccas of the world.

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      • Meatballsandwich

        Yeah, I wonder why they didn't develop a better cuisine tbh, considering they're that close to France. Maybe the British were like " We don't want to be like our enemies, the french. The french eat nice food, and thus we shall eat crap! "

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        • Boojum

          There's some truth in that. I'm sure there are still many Brits (particularly older ones) who dismiss a lot of dishes as "foreign muck" and refuse to even try them.

          I suspect that, for the majority of Brits, French food is still considered over-priced, pretentious and something only for the upper class. But on the other hand, virtually every British town has one or more restaurants serving Indian, Chinese and Italian food. In cities, it's not hard to find Thai, Mexican, Greek, Turkish, Japanese and Korean restaurants. They obviously wouldn't stay in business if there weren't a lot of people who were willing to pay to eat there.

          I don't know a lot about French cuisine, but I'm pretty sure there's a big difference between what you get in a Michelin starred restaurant in France and what ordinary French people eat every day. And I'm also sure that it's just as limited and repetitive as what ordinary Brits eat, although the ingredients and style of cooking will be slightly different, and there may be more fresh produce due to cultural traditions and France's climate being a bit warmer than Britain's.

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

        happy bastille day!

        *butters snails*

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    • 1WeirdGuy

      Use to be*

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      • Meatballsandwich

        Well, they've certainly gotten better at cooking since back in the days.

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        • DADNSCAL

          That’s because they’ve finally learned from the Italians. My Italian grandmother lived 2 doors away from my stepdad’s mother, who had 13 kids. Every year my stepdad’s mother wanted all her grandkids there between Christmas and New Years to give us our presents. The food was inedible, consisting of boiled meat, potatoes and some kind of greens like rhubarb. My sister andI would pick at the food and then walk over to my grandmother’s to eat pasta. 😋

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          • Boojum

            Having lived in Italy for several years, my view is that Italians can be incredibly parochial about food, and the range of ingredients available in the typical Italian shop or market is very limited compared to what's normal these days in Britain.

            I can completely understand you much preferring Italian food to the classic British crappy meal of boiled beef, potatoes and over-cooked veg, but the food eaten by ordinary Italians day-to-day rapidly gets pretty damn boring if you come from a country where Indian, Chinese and Thai food is considered perfectly normal. My wife found cooking in Italy particularly challenging since she's Dutch, and it was simply impossible to find the ingredients used in Indonesian and Surinam dishes.

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            • dude_Jones

              Meh, no reason to get didactic. From across the pond, my view is simply this: why worry about the food in England when the ale on tap is top shelf stuff?

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    • YE

      So the English breakfast is a fluke?

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  • MonteMetcalfe

    They talk all funny like.

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    • Grunewald

      The ones who put 'like' on the end of every sentence, do. Especially if they do so with rising intonation 😉.

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      • MonteMetcalfe

        It's pronounced with a very lengthy Southern drawl sounding similar to the word "lock".

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        • Grunewald

          Oh, then it's not the accent I'm thinking of.

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  • Somenormie

    I'm British myself lol.

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  • bigbudchonger

    I'm British and I'm proud to be so!

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  • 1WeirdGuy

    I dont wanna shit on an entire country's population but here it goes. I have an English name probably came from there. Have family there. Have met really cool British people. They get really hype at sporting events. They know how to party. They're smart and seem socially intelligent (probably the accent).

    The negative: They're for the most part extremely left wing. They speak about the united states and conservatives as though we are beneath them. They often have a smug attitude as if they're better than you. They virtue signal. They act like they stand against hate but often are more hateful than the ones they stand against. Basically like California with accentd.

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    • momgetthecamera

      I'm sorry if it comes off like some of us think we're better than you.

      Southerners or mostly those near London are quite lefty/politically vain and there are plenty of other parts of the country where people don't feel that way at all, but are always ready for a chat, and don't feel above anyone. So hopefully you find better places if you visit. Americans are our cousins, by language, heritage, and history, and I don't understand disliking a country with so many differing states and ways of life within one nation- especially if you haven't lived there.

      I wish I could say I was a nationalist without making it seem like I hate others. I don't. I just know a country is not just a piece of land, but a people, and the people and culture matter for the country to exist as it is. I love my country and I don't apologise for it. I hope that the people in my country love it the way it is, and I want it to be a home for my children. I'm against all colonialism and don't discriminate on race.

      I visited america in 2017 and you guys seem really loud, but in a good way. Really easy to talk to and cheerful. I like how optimistic you guys seem, and how you live in big houses and don't go to prison for saying something online, and celebrate everything, like returning to school, or pregnancy announcements, or other things. The standards for produce aren't as good over there, but I look up to your way of life in general.

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    • Meatballsandwich

      They're just butthurt over the fact that they lost their colony.

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      • 1WeirdGuy

        At this point a large portion of them that would willingly give their countries sovereignty away and they openly believe nationalism is not only bad but dangerous and racist. Things are gonna get really bad there in the next few decades.

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    • bigbudchonger

      Dw bro, Labour is beggining to die in this country fortunately

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      • Grunewald

        How so? Asking for a friend.

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        • bigbudchonger

          You know I mean the Labour party right, just to clarify? They're losing the working class big time. The red wall is breaking down, and they got desecrated in the last big election.

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  • Tommythecaty

    This thread is a dumpster 🔥

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

      what better place to have a fire?

      its all contained in a steel shell and easily extinguished if need be but if not its a lovely spectacle

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    • Grunewald

      Pretty much.

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  • RoseIsabella

    I wanna learn more about the Welsh, because I get in touch with my roots.

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    • Grunewald

      Awww you have Welsh roots? The Welsh ladies I know are friendly in the same way you are 💞.

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      • RoseIsabella

        Thanks, dear heart, I hope to travel there someday! 💓🌹

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        • Somenormie

          I've been there a few times it must be interesting if you love seeing hills and if you love going to urban areas.

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          • RoseIsabella

            Some of the pictures of landscapes there look like the sort of places where faerie tales would happen.

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        • Grunewald

          😊

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    • Boojum

      Here's an article about one aspect of traditional Welsh culture. The beach in the pictures is just down the road from our house, and we've eaten at the funny little beach food-stall a few times.

      https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/13/welsh-caviar-should-we-all-start-eating-laver

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      • RoseIsabella

        Thanks!

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  • Tinybird

    I'm British

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    • Ok, how's it feel being British?

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      • Tinybird

        Boring V.V

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        • Britain boring? Yeah right. Come to Scandinavia if you want to know what boring really is like.

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  • Snobby bastards.

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  • Ummitsstillme

    They are quite posh for such a generally unattractive group.

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    • Grunewald

      Meet some of the inhabitants of Toxteth, Birkenhead or Oldham then come back to me with this 'posh' thing.

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  • idolomantis

    When I was about 3 years old, I think, I remember being at my grandpa's house looking through his backyard. I had a cousin named Joe who was maybe like 1 year younger than me? 2 basically.

    Anway, I always liked looking for bugs in people's backyards. My mom was usually off participating in her various and unique hobbies (I once found a pot of boiling water on a stove at one of her friends' houses and asked her if it was glass soup. It was just full of pipes, hopefully colorful ones. I can't really remember that part. But yeah, her friend also had a pretty cool fish that I played with, and that thing basically ate whatever it could. Mostly goldfish.) My personal favorite hobby as a small child was just watching ant hills. Usually I just handed the ants stuff to play with like rocks or leaves. I did give them other bugs oftentimes too, though. I've always loved starting bug wars.

    Anyway, back on the original topic, my cousin Joe wasn't very nice. I found a really cool snail in the backyard and I named it the King of England. Joe didn't seem to appreciate this. He poured salt all over my new snail and I watched in horror as the poor thing died. Then I ran back into my grandpa's house screaming "JOE KILLED THE KING OF ENGLAND!!!"

    Somehow this story got mutated into me saying "She said that he killed the "God of England!". That's why my dad's side of the family still kinda pisses me off, honestly. I don't think I really even believed in God back then, I was always kinda teetering back and forth between wanting to believe in it, but then I also realized that if God is real, well, why not ghosts and other terrifying shit? Too many contradictions for my taste, but I digress.

    Indian food is my probably my favorite kind of food because I generally prefer a vegetarian diet. I'm basically a flexitarian honestly. I just don't really appreciate it when people randomly forget that my acts of kindness come in forms other than just money and then they think they can pull a fucking fast one on me. The worst part is when they start acting like liars and then refuse to make eye contact with. But, again, I digress...

    So the UK is one of my favorite countries because my grandma raised me like that. But yeah, I still like meat on occasion, just very little. Fruits and vegetables just taste waaay better to me.

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  • Curiouskitten444

    I live in canada and all the britties ive met have been kind so far.

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  • Throwaway0423

    My family is a bunch of British immigrants. They piss me off for a multitude of reasons but those reasons aren't because they're British. Actually no. One of them pisses me off because they're British. No idea if that puts me in the Brit category-- I was born in the states. Hopefully not.

    Having said that some of the most supportive friends of mine are British. But they're not part of the UK that wants to commit crimes over a sport.

    I will say though that I've met way less Welsh and Scottish morons than I've met English ones...

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  • Saturnian

    We are both good and bad.

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  • YE

    I think Boris Johnson's hair would make good pillow stuffing.

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    • Grunewald

      You wouldn't catch me sleeping on it!!

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  • my_life_my_way

    Hate them

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  • hauntedbysandwiches

    British > American/Canadian

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  • momgetthecamera

    Lmaoo, get me out of here I hate that so much

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    • Belladda6

      Let’s switch places. I’m in south east America though, so I’m not sure if that’s better.

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      • momgetthecamera

        I don't know, I'm assuming it's sunny and warm, but that's all I know. Why would you want to leave somewhere like that?

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        • Belladda6

          Too hot, shitty people. I love the cloudy weather in the British Isles. When it becomes cloudy here, I become more happy.

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  • GuvnorsOtherWoman

    My mother was British, my father Irish, I have dual nationality but am more loyal to the Irish side. I have lived there since the age of 8 and would emigrate if I could because I don't like it here for mainly political reasons. Am even less enamoured with America though although I love the Golden Gate Bridge and Mount Rushmore.

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  • Grunewald

    I'm fed up of how whenever something bad happens (like racism at a football match) everyone immediately pounces on the government rather than the perpetrators of the misdeed, even when the government had nothing to do with it - the government's condemnation or condolences weren't worded or delivered in the way the grandstanding opposition party leader said they should be, the government needs to pass new laws, the government needs to spend more money, the government is incompetent, the government allowed it to happen, the government's policies caused it to happen; if the government had pumped more money into this or that then it wouldn't have happened, etc. This isn't just the oppostion party or its supporters - this is the general public. And it's over stupid minutiae, much of the time. The media and the opposition just goad the people and everyone screams blue murder at the government like a petulant toddler. 'I want! Give me!'

    There's a lot of framing and posturing in the US too - and the UK has pretty much copied it - but in the UK it isn't just an annoying habit; it's the heart of the circus that is the entire political establishment, and the weekly scandals sound absolutely ridiculous sometimes. The press and media feed off the acrimony, the people swallow it along with their soaps and TV dramas, and the politicians just play into their hands.

    For example:
    Some US Republican states pass laws to prevent voter fraud but that also make it harder to vote.

    Biden says it's the biggest attack on US democracy since the Civil War. I find this quite a ridiculously exaggerated thing to say, but essentially, it is true that people who already find it harder to vote, which is maybe disadvantaged people and ethnic minorities who might vote Democrat, would be less likely to vote. Essentially it does indirectly influence turnout in a way that doesn't promote equity.

    Compare this to Keir Starmer. Boris Johnson condemned the booing at the football match when the England crowd booed the taking of the knee. He later condemned all racism and issued a rule that people who engage in online racial harrassment of players should be banned from attending games. Keir Starmer accuses Boris Johnson of giving a green light to racism because he didn't include mention explicitly in his statement that it was the booing of the taking of the knee that he condemned, but just said he condemned booing. It's a storm in a teacup.

    It's almost as if the people who did the booing aren't even responsible.

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  • DADNSCAL

    I’m neutral because they still support their obsolete monarchy, while the common people struggle with one of the highest tax rates in developed countries. Also, I thought it was pretty low to level racist attacks against the 3 players who missed their penalty shots in the World Cup final. And then even lower to beat up Italian fans outside Wembley stadium after England lost.

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    • bigbudchonger

      The monarchy provides shit loads of money though, dude, that goes straight to the state. It's a very profitable and altruistic thing to support in the modern age.

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    • momgetthecamera

      I generally detest football fans for beating people up for race/supporting teams, or often their own wives at home, just because of a football match.

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    • Boojum

      Kinda ironic how you rightly condemn the racist arseholes who slithered out from under their rocks during the recent Euro Cup, but you also criticise Brits who support the monarchy. I'm sure a Venn diagram of those two groups would show that the racist circle was virtually all within the monarchist circle. Those racists will almost all be virulent English nationalists, and I'm sure their definition of what it means to be English includes undying loyalty to the Crown.

      As far as tax is concerned, you're simply wrong. But that's understandable, since the supposedly painfully high rate of taxation in the UK is often cited by Americans who are opposed to state-funded healthcare. Have a look at where the UK falls on this table and the relative positions of the USA and the UK:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe#/media/File:Payroll_and_income_tax_by_country.png

      I will grant you that the USA has a kick-ass military which makes the British military look pretty pathetic. But on the other hand, nobody in the UK has to declare bankruptcy after a family member becomes seriously ill, the country's infrastructure isn't in an advanced state of decay, and while you do see a few people sleeping rough in cities and homelessness and poor quality housing is a serious issue, it's trivial compared to what's common in the USA.

      As for how many Brits want to keep the monarchy, opinion polls show a steadily declining level of support, and it's getting close to a 50-50 split. Much of that support will be from people who don't think or care much about politics, and who have an emotional attachment to Elizabeth personally - she's the only queen most Brits have ever known. Some of the support will be from those who have an aversion to change of any sort. So it's really not that different to the common belief in the USA that your current system of government is - despite all the evidence to the contrary - the best possible, and it's better to stick with what we know.

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