Mentions (41)
"Just as an aside, this is in a very white part of the UK so it's not some white supremacist exclusionary thing, it seems to just be easily accessible blackmail. I'm guessing this would have a different context in an American school."
"Just read the report that the UK is somehow banning 16-17 year olds from listening to "explicit" content on Spotify, and anyone under 18 has to give ID to be able to even use the app."
"In line with austerity and economic downturn British pop culture is nonexistent and appeals to the worst of society. Trending musicians are knife crimers with the worst accent you've ever heard in your life, rapping about killing a woman and its get danced to by a r slurred woman who looks like a cr"
"Most people with minor illness, but that still need treatment, just ignore them. Dealing with getting a GP (primary health care) appointment is such a pain in the arse and they make you feel like a scammer/ungrateful prick for even daring to try and get an appointment. GP receptionists act like nigh"
"However if you look at the situation now in the UK (and if I'm reading correctly) you have 100,000 "asylum seekers" most of them working age men being smuggled over in small boats across the channel, getting to the UK and put up at great expense in hotels, not being allowed to work and often being w"
"My parents (East Africa born, of Pakistani extraction) both immigrated to the UK as young children during the early 70s, and were brought up over here. They've always been religious and observant Muslims, but culturally I considered them to be quite westernised, with social circles consistently larg"
"Post in the main UK sub about a Porn ID verficication, as you can imagine they're very unnerved. But just reading the comments, you can absolutely feel something murky underpining all that concern."
"There's only migrants and and asylum seekers everywhere. Really feels like the UK if not worse."
"Wild times we live in. If someone from the UAE attends University in the UK, they return to the UAE as Islamic radicals"
"Maybe some opposition in Australia and the UK and Ireland say something... and they either end up getting pushed out or do shady deals down the line with them regardless."
"Spent a year away from the UK in Australia, now back and cannot believe the country was this bad before... The greatest proof of how much more happy things were there: I didn't feel oblige to use Reddit much."
"And I can guarantee if/when it happens, just like with Trump, people will just dismissively blame "ignorant uneducated bigots" and the "inherent racism of people in this country" rather than thinking about the sociopolitical conditions created by centrist politicians that turned people away from the"
"We have had 14 years of Tory rule and it's been pretty awful, live in a very safe Labour seat and ended up voting Green. Probably the least memorable election campaign, at least in my voting memory"
"I've seen even the most mushy-brained libs question their world view when I tell them in the UK I needed to buy a TV license to watch television. Libertarian landslide if this information becomes widespread in 2024"
"When Lizz Truss was ousted as UK prime minister back in 2022, it was reassuring to get see that yes - it does actually matter who the leader of your country is."
"Theres this caste in the uk of smug middling Gen X professionals who just complain about literally everything, whining on the comment section of BBC news everytime some new project is announced about how shit it is going to be and that we shouldn't even bother with nuclear reactors/roads/trains/airc"
"Even though I probably shouldn't have dropped a couple grand on a solo trip to the UK it has improved my general outlook of life immensely"
"Just recently visited some friends in L.A. (I am from the UK) and was shocked at how taboo drinking alcohol is. These people will literally go to AA if they have more than 4 drinks a night. Not saying the UK doesn't have a drinking problem, but how has this puritanical mindset taken over?"
"Yet in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, you have access to some of the best labor rights, a decent wage compared to the rest of the world, benefits that are more than fair, and genuinely a positive standing in the world where you aren't hated, (outside of trivial rivalries). The empire of co"
"I've only ever used dating apps in big cities in the UK, north america and South Asia and it wasn't anything like this let me tell you"
"We're not reopening on 21 June as had been the plan, but the government hasn't quite decided whether that will be because of the India variant (because 70 hospitalisations, a number which hasn't grown as the variant has spread due to our vaccine program, is putting so much pressure on the NHS) or be"
"Has any group been more thoroughly, systematically downtrodden and humiliated in the West than working class Brits. Just heartbreaking. Firstly most Americans don't realise how poor Brits are. A ride on the tube in London costs the equivalent of $4.50, whilst in Chicago and New York it's around $2.5"
"The bally as it's known has become a staple of the 'roadman' culture in the UK's urban areas. It is baffling to me how these haven't been banned yet given the country's penchant for making snap decisions... I appreciate that there is a racial factor here which may explain why police, regulators, min"
"I'm from the UK – I wouldn't even know where to begin with this procedure there. Just arranging the initial appointment with my doctor alone would take weeks after many phone calls. The whole thing would probably last months and cost the tax payer tens of thousands of pounds."
"The UK is the most American part of Europe, has nothing on us culturally and even consumes a lot of the same content as us due to a shared language. Their food isn't good, they're as large as we are, and it's the least interesting or beautiful European country. When Americans wax poetic about how mu"
"let me acknowledge that i'm an american who's never been to the UK, so i don't know anything other than what's reported on the news, but according to the guardian and the bbc ... the only thing i am highlighting is: how fucking insane is it to do some action, and four days later you've been investig"
"Israel was created by colonial powers. It would have never been created without direct sponsorship from the UK. The colonial powers saw it as killing two birds with one stone: controlling a strategic trade route and a good excuse to get the communists (A lot of Jews were communists) out of Europe."
"No ankle monitor, no nothing. Just a free man walking the streets of the UK same as you or I. Beyond fucked"
"I have one more tomorrow and then I'm done for the week. I didn't think this shit happened in the UK 😭 at least I get a 3 day weekend."
"I jokingly called myself a kid at 20 when I was in the UK and my British friends looked at me like I was stupid."
"This literally will not protect kids. It just means normal people who don't want the gov and private firms knowing they wank to milf midget porn have to download a fucking vpn like a criminal."
"My parents are middle class EE immigrants in the Yookay, my brother was born there. He just turned 19 and failed his A-levels, so he obviously can't go to university"
"I'm from the UK and I'm JUST 5'8 and yet I really don't see the whole 'must be 6ft+' on the apps."
"I'm from the north UK where people are usually friendly and outgoing. I've never experienced anything like Germany. It's a huge culture shock. The customers have better attitudes than the staff 😂 idk if it's cos my English accent or whatever but the shop workers here are unbelievably rude."
"Growing up in the UK my drunken shenanigans were always a hit, after a party or big night down the pub people would tell me how funny I was and what a riot I am when I'm drunk. Upon my return to the UK a year ago I've found that my drunken behaviour isn't seen as the loveable foolishness it used to "
"I met and befriended plenty of younger people from Aus/NZ, UK, Europe, and Asia, and across the board, most of them seemed to be pretty well-socialized and charismatic."
"I was thinking that something deeply unusual is happening when this has reached a sleepy village like the one where we live. I'm aware that there have been protests around the country concerning immigration. The UK is not *usually* this demonstrably patriotic or jingoistic."
"We're Euro poors in northern UK. How will we ever afford a mortgage plus nursery fees? But I cannot stay in this shitty rental by the time my daughter can remember things."
"Because I love Britain so much and wish for that classical image of it to endure, I have decided to repatriate myself back to my mother country, the United Arab Emirates. This has nothing to do with reports about the UK gov bringing in conscription"
"Polling from the UK is dismal for supporting conscription. European leaders are living in a dream world if they think this is going to fly."
"From a British perspective: The Thatcher government knew for a fact that Argentina was going to invade the Falkland islands, but let it happen so they could win the next election, drum up patriotism in a failing nation and demonstrate that the UK still had one of the most effective militaries in the"