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"Take a look at South Africa and UK. Cases have completely decoupled from hospitalizations and deaths."
"Maybe it also has to do with where you live, but in the UK. I was taking a film class and my teacher asked us if anyone knew who James Dean was, no one except me knew who he was"
"It's raining more than I can ever remember it raining in early Summer. The drinking water hosts parasites. The hotels of our formerly bustling coastal holiday towns are full of homeless people and asylum seekers. If you want to buy a studio flat in a slum you must first sacrifice a goat."
"im in the uk everyone has a story"
"What are the vibes like where you are in Albion this morning? Obviously a massive Labour landslide but some fascinating sub-plots... Personally feeling pretty despondent. There's no question that the tories deserved to lose and for months the only question was the severity of the beating they would "
"on the one hand it would help with unchecked immigration. On the other it seems fitting for a nation that seems obsessed with surveillance and tracking people."
"Could it just be a symptom of a repressed UK culture where alcohol consumption is the only way you can emote?"
"Didnt realise the UK had got so fat til I went to a Toby carvery today. Went with extended family for christmas lunch and people were huge, my dad made a joke about this women having 6 guts. It was pretty bad to see this level of gluttony"
"nooo guys look the GDP growth forecast is bad, look, it's going down, what are we going to do!! the UK should be more like Canada, the immigrants are doing the jobs that British people just won't do and that makes the economy better"
"Where at all in the UK can you find non-franchised food for the people? If I wanted to go out for a no-frills meal here to the same standard, the absolute best I could do is maybe a pub, but a lot of them have fallen into the gastropub trend where they all wanna serve flashy posh food with none of t"
"I graduated from a good state school, summa cum, and currently have to fellowship in Europe. I'm looking at grad school in the UK next year."
"I keep trying to get my grubby hands on a new chef's knife in the uk but they keep asking me for ID and then i fail the id check because i dont have a credit card or they cant 'find me in the system'"
"Anyone got a lowdown on why this alliance exists? Obviously the uni-educated middle class types just go with the view that will make them look the best morally to other people, rather than objectively looking at facts."
"In the UK unless you go to a private school, the 'coolest' kids at your average secondary are most likely going to be the wannabe chavs/roadmen skipping school to smoke weed behind the bike sheds."
"I know Japan and the UK have been uniquely shit for a while, but is it not possible that this is the beginning of a broader worldwide recession?"
"Bloody old England finally being pushed to the periphery of global empire. While I do genuinely feel for young people in the UK, you do also kind of love to see it in a broader historical sense."
"I'm thinking of moving to the countryside cos uk job market is fucked and it seems particularly bad in urban hubs such as where I live (trendy city, university town etc). Every job market is completely oversatured."
"I live in the UK and our government is actively supporting a genocide in front of our eyes and barely even speaking on the matter. I'm so angry with our politicians but with no place to direct it except their inboxes."
"When I moved to the UK for college, he messaged me one day saying he now resides at a squat in a town halfway from Liverpool to Manchester"