What's Britian like?

[Kushin]

Britain? To quote Yahtzee, it's Branston Pickle. When it's good, it's REALLY good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good. Chav's and knife crime are so heavily publicized it will probably terrify you into agoraphobia. Easy cure is to just avoid the Daily Mail and all it's infected.

The weather is ok, stable but most overcast. Food is shockingly unhealthy but oh so nice, battered pizza or a Stonner comes to mind here. Culture, I didn't even know we had one. Religious nutjobs, they're like the AI director, there just when you dont want them. Roads, I hope you enjoy 70mph speed limits in cars that can do 110mph.

I love the country but I'm rather pessemistic and I can't see a future for myself or future family in the country. I'm going to Uni next year to study Physics, and once I have that degree, I'll be on my way to New Zealand or Canada.

 

[maninahat]

Everyone is being cynical about the UK, but that is because they are almost always referring to the cities. My advice? If you are visiting the UK, go to the country (the Lake Destrict, the Yorkshire Dales, Mountains of Scotland or Whales etc.). The places are picturesque, and spirits are higher. There, the village people will start conversations about the weather, with complete strangers. And the sun shines out of their arses. In the village I'm from, the entire top shelf is filled with tractor magasines. There are so many, the porn magasines have been shifted to lower shelves.

Most cities look the same, but there are a few popular ones with the tourists: York, or Bath are the quaint "ye olde medievalee" ones. They're nice. It's all a question of going when the weather is nice.

 

[Chubbfish]

it's really good, but we don't like to admit it because of our pessimism.

that's one of the great things about being a pessimistic country though; by taking the piss out of ourselves a lot, it makes us a thousand times better at taking the piss out of everyone else.

 

[Simalacrum]

Britain is the dullest country on the planet.

Don't ever come here.

You think people from Iraq or Vietnam or any non-descript Eastern Bloc country has that mentality?
Bugger me you're a miserable git.

ok, let me rephrase that:

don't ever come here, unless your desperate and in danger of losing your life.

I never said that Britain wasn't safe or whatever... its just REALLY dull, very boring place... safe, but boring.

What we need is some anarchy and instability to spice up our lives.

Those God damn Afghans just get all the fun!

Yeah I know right???

Tell you what... you know how the government have been wasting all our money on banks these days... Do you think thats a good enough excuse to cause a massive armed revolt to over throw the government?

edit: also... woop 3rd gonzo!

 

[Mr Wednesday]

"Ahhh, Britain, Britain, Britain. We've had running water for over three years and we invented the cat."

 

[Justice Shades]

Every winter it snows, every winter the authorities are underprepared. And then people go panic-buying food, worried the supermarkets will run out, thus causing the supermarkets to run out.

That's what it's like at this time of year, anyway.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

I hate Britain, it has a lot of football supporters, whose ignorance passes down to their kids. They also go to other countries in Europe and shit all over their country, showing them that Britain truly does raise some fucked up people who, upon criticising for being twats, will retort to shouting loudly "WHO ARE YA, WHO ARE YA" and, depending on where you're from in Britain or Europe, will shout "Northern/Southern/Pikey/Scottish/X SCUM". Many stereotypes will follow after these region specific insults, and some cock will throw over a table and shout "SAY IT TO MA FACE" repeatedly.

These fucked up council house kids look something like this:

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If you're not walking past something like this, then you're more than likely walking past some nob who, if asked about music, would try and name as many Beatles songs as he can, or name obscure bands he thinks you've never heard of so that he can cockslap you with his arrogance when you don't know one. His favourite film would probably be Anchorman or some shit too.

Fortunately, there are people who are actually alright. I do get sick of meeting and being forced to socialise with the same boring bastards though.

As for its environment, it's either buildings or miles of countryside.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Don't come to the Wirral its awful.

I live there! So do a few other Escapists.

We should organise a meet up, I'll bring my axe.

 

[ArtVSscience]

I went to southern England and found it excruciatingly boring.

I went to Scotland and Newcastle, and it was brilliant!

I'm Irish by the way.

True but south London have its fun spots. But i prefer the 75 degree SoCal weather.

 

[tricky_tree]

Britain is the dullest country on the planet.

Don't ever come here.

You think people from Iraq or Vietnam or any non-descript Eastern Bloc country has that mentality?
Bugger me you're a miserable git.

ok, let me rephrase that:

don't ever come here, unless your desperate and in danger of losing your life.

I never said that Britain wasn't safe or whatever... its just REALLY dull, very boring place... safe, but boring.

I'm sorry, how do you find a land full of history, sport, culture, art, etc boring? We have been behind some of the greatest cultural, artistic, military and scientific movements the world has ever seen.
You know what, fuck off, people like you honestly make me so angry I just might smash something. We don't need people like you polluting the gene-pool, with that oh so positive 'do or die' attitude you're obviously going to be a massive success in life.

 

[Claymorez]

We are EPIC.....

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HAY YOU! yes you know who I am talking to salute the Queen Mother now!

 

[farmerboy219]

right now very very very cold

 

[RyVal]

Tell you what... you know how the government have been wasting all our money on banks these days...

If by "wasting money on banks" you mean "propping up the institutions that are preventing this from escalating into another Great Depression", then yes, I do recall those actions.

Do you think thats a good enough excuse to cause a massive armed revolt to over throw the government?

Uzbekistan is ruled by the same dictator from when it was still a Soviet Socialist Republic, has an absolute crapshot of an economy dominated by the President's daughter and little-to-no political freedoms.

If they haven't risen up to overthrow the government, I don't think we are entitled to because some bankers gave themselves bonuses.

 

[RyVal]

Every winter it snows, every winter the authorities are underprepared. And then people go panic-buying food, worried the supermarkets will run out, thus causing the supermarkets to run out.

That's what it's like at this time of year, anyway.

You can hardly complain that the authorities were underprepared for the worst winter season since the 1980s.

That's akin to criticising the rulers of Pompei for not having adequate volcano protection.

 

[RyVal]

HAY YOU! yes you know who I am talking to salute the Queen Mother now!

Hate to be a downer, but word has it she's dead.

 

[plastic_window]

How can there be few fat people if you fry everything?

Actually we've got the highest percentage of obese people in Europe. I think we're maybe 3rd or 4th in the world for that stuff, too. Apologies if someone already brought this up.

I live near Glasgow in Scotland and I'm not terribly happy here. It's a bit boring and depressing. There's not a lot here that isn't grey or violent, as far as I can tell.

It's not a terribly awful place to live, it just ain't all that, in my opinion.

 

[Megacherv]

England has the best candy ever.

I once ate candy, that tasted exactly like cake.

Marvelous!

Erm...that was cake...

It's alright, we have Nectar Points...

 

[Misaek]

It's shit.

No, really terrible.

It's freezing in winter, boiling in summer, drizzles and is gray for as long as it wants. It is rude, expensive, imperialistic, racist, has a particularly fucked up legal system and the youth of modern Britain are the most horrible group of human beings since the fucking Nazis.

You'll be stabbed, mugged and arrested long before you'll ever reach anywhere safe, and any major city is accompanied by vast industrial complexes and ugly, gray blocks of structures. You can't buy anything without a year of forms and waiting, and nothing gets done until Thursday when it'll cost £Galore.

You can't drink, smoke, gamble or own a sharp bit of plastic unless you're 112 years old and have all the right forms, and even then you couldn't smoke, drink, gamble or own a sharp bit of plastic anywhere but in a sterile environment in your house, because God forbid you anger Health & Bloody Safety.

You can't get anything done because it'll disrupt the cosmic waves of the Earth and it'll annoy the hippies, you can't say anything at all without offending someone somewhere and nothing is allowed because it might hurt someone, possibly if they were in the right circumstances, which means you'll get sued.

And the fantastically shit government will charge you 40% of your money just to be here, before then wasting it on some spectacularly dim project despite the economic difficulties, which in turn will cause yet more taxes to help fund our fucking stupid government.

Don't come to the UK. When I'm done with High School the University it's straight off to USA for me.

Don't come here either, if stupid people and horrible governments aren't your strong point DO, NOT, COME, HERE, I plan to do the same thing except I want to move to Scotland.

 

[ryderawsome]

pretty decent economy. concencus politics. moderate socialists in charge but no overpowered unions. oh and fish and chips. also weed is legal to smoke. overall its kinda like purgatory, so so

 

[RyVal]

Don't come here either, if stupid people and horrible governments aren't your strong point DO, NOT, COME, HERE, I plan to do the same thing except I want to move to Scotland.

Again, I don't mean to be a downer, but word is that Scotland is still part of Great Britain.

pretty decent economy. concencus politics. moderate socialists in charge but no overpowered unions. oh and fish and chips. also weed is legal to smoke. overall its kinda like purgatory, so so

The emboldened lines lead to my suspicion that you are discussing a totally different country altogether.