By bike?
I propose you crawl 200km over broken glass you insufferable piece of shit
She's also so needlessly aggressive in the reply; it really adds to the notion of her being a massive asshole
lol I thought she was a comedian and this was a funny bit until I looked up her wiki.
:chefs-kiss: "'ow iz ze, erm, "brex-eet" zat you englishmen did, oui? I heer iz eet veerry bad for zee countree, yes? I heer iz eet almost az terrible az our l'impérialisme in ze afrikaa hon hon hon."
:british-maw: "Brexit is the best thing I've ever voted for."
followed by 2 hours and 29 minutes of awkward silence
Truly the brts and frnch deserve each other
the best part of the rivalry between britian and france is that they're exactly the same in every way that matters
The only reason the British are not insufferable about their wine and food is because they destroyed any biodiversity they had 200 years ago, and because their God-forsaken island can't grow a grapevine to save its life.
no both of those reasons are wrong
the wine thing is due to the norman conquest with the french nobility drinking wine and the germanic peasantry drinking beer and cider. In many ways the true insufferableness of wine snobs wouldn't be possible had this not resulted in the association between wine and aristocracy.
English food being poor was a consequence of enclosure and the industrial revolution with their sudden mass exodus from the countryside and new status as destitute refugees in the cities the former peasantry weren't able to pass on their traditional cooking, the new middle class hired servants from this generation disconnected from their traditional cooking knowledge as a status symbol and so also lost a lot of their recognition of what good food should taste like. Generations of gruel being the only to eat during the terrible poverty in industrial imperial Britain ruined British food essentially.
both of those things have origins deeply tied to the class history of the UK. Although the food thing was more true 50 years ago than it is now
Thanks for earnestly debunking my flippant comment on British stereotypes!
I was trying to make it so that if the British had had the historical, social and ecological means to produce quality food as they once did before partitioning the land, using it as pasture and food for cattle, and displacing the peasantry to cities to become industrial wage laborers, they would be indistinguishable from the French in their food snobbery.
The wine bit is pretty interesting, and makes sense when you think about it from a historical perspective. In my experience, the countries with the stronger opinions and sometimes asshole behavior wrt to wine are the ones who have it pretty easy to grow (except for Georgia, they're the real non-snob wine homies). AFAIK there are no regions in great Britain where the weather/soil/topography allow decent viticulture, so that may also be a reason why the British can't say "traditional British wine" (at least for now, I believe because of climate change I will taste a decent Pinot Noir from Wales in my lifetime, if the water wars or depression don't kill me first)
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I just went snowboarding, rent a cabin and drive your self omfg.
i will not state my opinion of this particular example of the british media class for legal reasons
How about you get inside this cartoon-style cannon. It'll launch you straight to the top of the mountain at an incredibly high velocity, you'll get there very quick, I promise :sicko-hexbear:
insane, they must've payed 3x the cost of a AT MOST 3h train ride
Involving a taxi ride to the train station, train trip, getting off at the right station (I've screwed this up in a foreign country before), finding another taxi that will take you where you want to go (not always the case in small towns) and getting up there. If you're already going to a ski resort in France you probably have the money to skip all of this, 3x isn't that much when you're an exploiter.
Taxis hang out outside train stations.
It is not that hard.
This is something you only do if you do not care about money.
When you're in a small town, and you want one to take you up a mountain, good luck with that. Hope you're arriving in the middle of the day. What if you get there at 10pm?
Legit question: how easy is it to get to french skiing resorts/parks via train? I know northern Italy and Austria are kind of a pain to get there without a car, I suspect because either only locals who own cars go (it's impossible to live in the alps without a car unless you live in like Switzerland or something), or rich-ass people who can afford to drive/hire a cab (trains are still the more affordable option to move around).
I went a couple times, there are discounts for students in my regions and you only pay 40€ for train+ski ticket+train back but it isn't a big bougie resort like in the alps idk about those
England is such a pretty country, definitely lives up to green and pleasant land!
Too bad it's full of Bri'ish people....
