What's Britian like?
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That's odd. I came from Cork in Ireland originally, and I've enjoyed living down south (just outside Bristol, the bizarre and wonderful weed-den that it is) far more than when I lived in Durham for a bit.Trivun said:
Wow, Britian's a lot different than its depicted in Children's literature.President Moocow said:
Well, the south hate the north, the north hate the south, we all hate the scottish, and we're good at making fun of ourselves.
Good old English self-deprication. Too many Daily Mail readers perhaps. End of the day Britain isn't it that bad, yes we've seen better days, chavs seem to be out of control etc but it could be worse.
I have lived in North Wales, Huddersfield, York and Nottingham. Like everwhere in the world there are bad patches but Jesus Christ brighten up, out of all the places in the world Britain is still up there with the best places to live. Anyone saying they found it boring is a bit of a moron, an interesting person will find something interesting to do.
I have lived in North Wales, Huddersfield, York and Nottingham. Like everwhere in the world there are bad patches but Jesus Christ brighten up, out of all the places in the world Britain is still up there with the best places to live. Anyone saying they found it boring is a bit of a moron, an interesting person will find something interesting to do.
Im from the North of England myself, born and raised in one of Englands premiere steel manufacturing epicentres.
Although we're going through a bit of a slump at the momment, with horrendous goverment (that hardly ever changes) bad weather (snow is the apocolypse in England) filthy towns and a lack of moral fibre in a minority of youth, I still love my country. If you've ever been rambling in the countryside of England in the summer you know true beauty. Wales and Scotland are beutiful places as well, especially when you get out of the city or on to the coast.
We also have the best comedy in the world, atleast in my opnion, no other country can top our sense of humour. We make great film, used to make great tellie and have produced some of the sharpest minds the world has ever known.
So come on down to blighty, it's bloody marvellous it is!
Although we're going through a bit of a slump at the momment, with horrendous goverment (that hardly ever changes) bad weather (snow is the apocolypse in England) filthy towns and a lack of moral fibre in a minority of youth, I still love my country. If you've ever been rambling in the countryside of England in the summer you know true beauty. Wales and Scotland are beutiful places as well, especially when you get out of the city or on to the coast.
We also have the best comedy in the world, atleast in my opnion, no other country can top our sense of humour. We make great film, used to make great tellie and have produced some of the sharpest minds the world has ever known.
So come on down to blighty, it's bloody marvellous it is!
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.
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.
'It's not that bad'
That's the one phrase that sums this place up for me. There's plenty of worse places to be. Probably a couple of better places too.
Bit too close to France though for my liking. Mind you, it's nice to have a couple of countries between yourself and Germany I suppose. You never know with them lot.
That's the one phrase that sums this place up for me. There's plenty of worse places to be. Probably a couple of better places too.
Bit too close to France though for my liking. Mind you, it's nice to have a couple of countries between yourself and Germany I suppose. You never know with them lot.
see you then, the US cities have higher crime rates, you whinge about legal ages but in the US you can't drink untill 21 and that's IF you get in the country, which with your negative attitude and just leaving high school with GCSEs, it's doubtful.
No! You'll find the North-EAST is a scumhole. I'm allowed to say that because I live there.Wasder said:
But anyway, to be honest, where I live is decent enough, there are a lot less chavs than there were say, 2 years ago. The night life is amazing, the weather is terrible, there are so many different accents it's actually ridiculous and we have a sense of humour that the most other nations don't seem to understand. Hope that helped.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot about our amazing government. Everytime a single particle of snow hits the floor, every school, shop and workplace in the entire country is closed. Don't you just love a good old over-reaction.
very pretty, very intresting, the people are a charming mix of lovely and xenophobic (leaning to the latter the closer you get to the urban areas) the culture is non-existant to a dweller, but very prominant and different to visitors, I'm told
Accents are bizarre, comedy is the most witty, cynical and brilliant stuff this side of the sun.
Very good to live here, because it's enjoyable, comfertable and dull. I love living in middle england because, though crap, EVERYWHERE else is exotic and intresting. Grimsby seems far-out to me, let alone Edinburgh
But don't go to Blackpool, you'll only regret it
Accents are bizarre, comedy is the most witty, cynical and brilliant stuff this side of the sun.
Very good to live here, because it's enjoyable, comfertable and dull. I love living in middle england because, though crap, EVERYWHERE else is exotic and intresting. Grimsby seems far-out to me, let alone Edinburgh
But don't go to Blackpool, you'll only regret it
All valid points, which is slightly depressing. But I still belive the majority of us, including our youth, are decent human beings.Octorok said:
As a Midlander, I seem to find myself fitting in wherever. (To the southerners, we're the north and vice versa)
But yes, Britain is a fairly friendly country - we enjoy a good laugh, usually at ourselves, the french or the yanks. And a good drink in any local pub.
Nice country, nice people, but as others have said, the weather's usually abysmal and there's actually a fairly large amount of fascists these days, as well as Chavs. They ruin it.
But yes, Britain is a fairly friendly country - we enjoy a good laugh, usually at ourselves, the french or the yanks. And a good drink in any local pub.
Nice country, nice people, but as others have said, the weather's usually abysmal and there's actually a fairly large amount of fascists these days, as well as Chavs. They ruin it.
Ah, well, Durham... (waves hand flippantly)Wasder said:
Yeah, I don't like Durham much. They rejected me when I was applying to the university. Apparently I'm not good enough for them... incidentally Bristol rejected me too :s. Small world, eh?