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"He works as a quiz show researcher over in England which seems unfair and should disqualify him, and is probably why he talks like that. Dude has unbelievable timing with the buzzer and knows basically everything."
"I see a lot of commentary on this sub about how the UK has gone to shit. Usually posted by Americans, so allow me to add something concrete to the discourse: We live(d) in a terrace in a Northern English city, in a nice street."
"I'm a 22f law student. He's a mid twenties paralegal. I live in Scotland. He in England."
"I am a recovering femcel and have been seeing my boyfriend for around three months. He's originally from England and is slightly chubby."
"Been back on the island a few months now from England, and genuinely the biggest culture shock is just how much it's engrained in our culture to just talk nonsense to see if the other person you're talking to will buy it."
"England: absolute powerhouse of music across all social classes from 1964 to roughly ~2013"
"Britain makes people bald. In order to save the sad hairline of British men, scientists have done a lot of research."
"I'm also online enough to know that Britain is economically going through some tough shit(standard of living going down, brexit, etc) What exactly happened? I feel like in the 2000s Britain had this image of cool, and cultured.( Think British Indie music) what the hell happened? was it the financial"
"I grew up in a very poor family in England. I had a loving family, but we were very poor materially. We lived for our summer holidays, as many working class English people do."
"Like you invented this shit, you have the best leagues, but your team is just ass. It's NEVER coming home."
"I'm 23 recently graduated from college with an English degree (hahah yeah stupid literature student) and came to England for a life with my wife. Overall is fine on the surface but I'm developing a deep hatred for English people generally. Everyone looks down on everyone else, it feels like the Amer"
"My mom came to England in the 90s and basically spent her 20s either studying or working an admin job, had a huge amount of fun and had me at 30 when my Dad was a 34 year old introverted engineer type."
"Being from England copying white americans copying black Americans, Jamiroquai is unreal, a copy of a copy, a referent twice removed."
"The Victorian era is synonymous with a rather stiff, buttoned-up moralism, but it's easy to forget that a big reason why this is the case is because the era immediately preceding it was one of high fashion, hedonism, relative sexual liberty - a kind of roaring twenties of the 19th century."
"Sitting a nice hotel bar or something in England with strong Victorian vibes but they're blasting some katy Perry remix. That sucks. Whatever happened to playing jazz or classical music and keeping pop music reserved for the evening?"
"Also my boyfriend was traveling in Europe with his brother but they missed their flight home and are broke and have been trying to hitchhike back to England from Germany for almost five days now and I'm pretty sure they're sleeping rough and they won't get any help and it's stressing me out."
"Meghan Markle only makes sense if she returns to England in triumph. Come on girl go back to the castle and truly take over."
"I saw a video this weekend of a rave in England in 1989. No one was facing the stage and people were all in a massive crowd dancing with each other and by themselves simultaneously in this abandoned warehouse."
"I grew up in an ordinary town in England where it's pretty palpable that no one really enjoys their life; basically a dead end place that no one in their right mind would move to but at the same time most people don't have the money to move out of. It sucks!"
"Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German"
"For all their alleged cultural dominance outside of England in the Anglosphere, nobody ever seems to be a WASP. Anyone noteworthy always has an ancestry that's like part Irish, German, Jewish, Italian or some shit. No one's ever originally from like Staffordshire or directly claims an English herita"
"There's a sheer terror in the UK - especially among sort of liberal, establishment types - about treating England as a nation or nationality seperable from 'Britishness', but I'm all for it. Scottish people are Scottish, Welsh people are Welsh, Northern Irish people are tied in knots with regards to"
"I'm visiting England and I've already seen it a couple times. Seems to be some kind "queer" thing in that they look like the type who would be offended for laughing at how laughable they look."
"And did those feet in ancient time, / Walk upon Englands mountains green: / And was the holy Lamb of God, / On Englands pleasant pastures seen!"
"Even the posh twats I'm friends with in England barely care anymore."
"I'm an American but I like English people. They get so much shit from whiny Irish and Plastic Paddys just because Oliver Cromwell was mean to them 400 years ago or whatever."
"Personally, I just think they talk real funny and their food and cultural contributions suck."
"I used to do stand-up comedy in England in my late teens/early 20's. I was doing pretty well on student gigs, and decided to give what is called the 'Comedy Circuit' a go. It's one of the worst places possible."
"the only western country that seems to be handling it with any sort of decency or consideration for the public is england which i have a deep respect for and am super envious of anyone who's lived there during the bulk of it."
"IMO: Underrated. Best band to come out of England after Britpop. Alex Turner is a fucking genius."
"I'm SO EXCITED to go to England!!!!! Omg!!!!!!! Eeeeeeeek!!! So my dear friends and travellers, give me your advice, im trying to do this cheap but jam packed"
"I saw a video this weekend of a rave in England in 1989. No one was facing the stage and people were all in a massive crowd dancing with each other and by themselves simultaneously in this abandoned warehouse."
"I'm taking advantage of the bank holiday and am in a rural corner of England"
"in 1000 AD Chinese merchants' sons were spending time reading, studying and preparing to take a written standardized tests while in England nobody would understand why anyone outside of the nobility would need to learn anything"
"So I'm a student at one of the top most prestigious universities in England."
"I'm SO EXCITED to go to England!!!!! Omg!!!!!!! Eeeeeeeek!!!"
"After Percy died, Mary Shelley had financial trouble and had to move back to England from Italy. She later went back to Italy with her son and wrote about her travels there though she still lived in England."