This is like the Netflix “top 10 in your country right now” list.
Never have I felt more alienated from my fellow country people than by reading this list.
In the course of human history the creation of Britain and the concept of Britishness as it is today was a mistake. We shouldn’t have done it folks. It’s bad. This list shows a deeply sick society and culture. You’re right to be alienated, it’s deeply alienating.
I think most of the items on that list are more a result of societal changes more recent than the creation of Britain as an entity, and the concept of Britishness has changed much and continues to do so.
We cant’t blame everything on the far past, otherwise we’d be pointing the finger at the formation of the eukaryotes.
Ok. I did say “Britishness as it is today”, I never mentioned the far past.
To be clear, not that I think the past was good in Britain either, it sucked then too, just differently.
Ok. I did say “Britishness as it is today”, I never mentioned the far past.
You’re absolutely right, you did. Blame my dodgy eyesight!
I imagine that he was highlighting the fact that real men live on the Devensian British-Irish Ice Sheet, not this...turf. Now the whole thing's packed full of hedgehogs and badgers and Morrisonses and such.
At least it'll make it easier to identify the yanks larping as brits online (I think they call them "teaboos") when they try quoting this uncanny-valley list of not-quite authentic bants
- Being informed by your dad after five pints that if he “had to shag a bloke”, it would be Kevin McCloud from Grand Designs.
I'm American, so maybe I'm just speaking out of ignorance here, but this sounds sufficiently specific to be a list of Dylan B. Jones experiences rather than a list of experiences uniting modern Britons.
As a modern Brit, this list is just fucking weird. It's only a very specific type of middle class English that would relate to this.
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When I think of Britishcore I think of closet racism, pro-imperialism, an unearned sense of exceptionalism and general classism. But that's just me.
When I think of
Britishcoreanything European I think of closet racism, pro-imperialism, an unearned sense of exceptionalism and general classism. But that's just me.Fixed that for you.
All your points apply to the entire European continent. 😉
True. And the European settler states as well tbh. Though they're much less closeted in their racism.
I like to think a list like this is highlighting that you can enjoy being british without being one of the wankers you mentioned.
The less good ones of these are more wanker-lite.
Reminder: The Grauniad is just journalists expressing concern about things they know four-fifths of fuck all about, and upper-middle class columnists who think they're in touch with ordinary people because all their friends are also upper-middle class pretending to be in touch with ordinary people.
I mean, I agree with most of their biases, but the Grauniad is just so transparently shit at it all.
This is too generous honestly, they basically Blairites, ie the left wing of the right wing. Officially opposed corbyn and all
