• United Kingdom chat thread V3: We still miss our empire
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just curious, in the UK is the school you go after primary called secondary school or high school?
[QUOTE=spoder55;52028274]just curious, in the UK is the school you go after primary called secondary school or high school?[/QUOTE] Both
[QUOTE=PyroCF;52028286]Both[/QUOTE] thanks
[QUOTE=Reagy;52027798]Enjoy the shit air.[/QUOTE] [quote]Moving down from Glasgow[/quote] tbh at most you're exchanging one set of carcinogens for another
So I decided to bite the bullet and eat the plain-arse cheese cheap ASDA pizzas in the freezer and it turns out they have, like 30% of their top surface area covered in cheese. That should be illegal.
[QUOTE=AutismoPiggo;52027574]I don't understand why people, often nationalists for England, Scotland, Wales etc try to justify "I'N NOT BRITISH I'M X[/QUOTE] What exactly do people from Wales call themselves?
Welsh
And now I feel completely stupid.
[QUOTE=Xanadu;52029824]And now I feel completely stupid.[/QUOTE] I know someone who thought you called people from Germany 'Germanish', don't worry.
[QUOTE=Doozle;52029778]Welsh[/QUOTE]When i was at school someone said "It's Whalish" :tinfoil:
I used to say "Italish" instead of Italian.
French people were 'Franch' to younger me.
i call the English "Englanders"
My student union got some Amazon lockers. No more missing parcels. :fap:
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[QUOTE=colincooke;52031638]My student union got some Amazon lockers. No more missing parcels. :fap:[/QUOTE] As a person who is never home for anything, Amazon lockers are amazing
My point was meant to be about people who literally deny they are British which is impossible if they're in Britain
[QUOTE=AutismoPiggo;52040059]My point was meant to be about people who literally deny they are British which is impossible if they're in Britain[/QUOTE] I knew a guy back in Highschool who had a smattering of Autism and Aspergers who would deny that he was English (or related to English people), would tell us how he'd kill his parents because they were English and he also put on an extremely fake American accent and claimed he 'forgot' his English accent because, and I quote - "It's stupid and I hate it". Sure he was mentally distant (and incredibly annoying due to his behaviour), but it's still possible. You couldn't reason with him on the subject. He'd just start going bananas.
iunno if i really feel that much attached to this nation (i mean the language isn't unique to this country) it's the global tongue. most of my family either comes from ireland or poland, and my mother nor 3 of my grandparents were even born here i drink tea and i use "sorry" a lot, not sure what else there is
[QUOTE=Zenamez;52040423]I knew a guy back in Highschool who had a smattering of Autism and Aspergers who would deny that he was English (or related to English people), would tell us how he'd kill his parents because they were English and he also put on an extremely fake American accent and claimed he 'forgot' his English accent because, and I quote - "It's stupid and I hate it". Sure he was mentally distant (and incredibly annoying due to his behaviour), but it's still possible. You couldn't reason with him on the subject. He'd just start going bananas.[/QUOTE] Did you go to the same school as me because I know someone who fits this profile exactly [editline]1st April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Sobotnik;52042064]iunno if i really feel that much attached to this nation (i mean the language isn't unique to this country) it's the global tongue. most of my family either comes from ireland or poland, and my mother nor 3 of my grandparents were even born here i drink tea and i use "sorry" a lot, not sure what else there is[/QUOTE] My family are similar. None of my parents were born in the UK (Germany and Ireland) but they still consider themselves Scots nowadays even though only 1 grandparent is Scottish. I don't feel any strong attachment but whatever. I could just as easily identify as German imo but since I never lived there for any real amount of time I don't.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;52042064]iunno if i really feel that much attached to this nation (i mean the language isn't unique to this country) it's the global tongue. most of my family either comes from ireland or poland, and my mother nor 3 of my grandparents were even born here i drink tea and i use "sorry" a lot, not sure what else there is[/QUOTE] I get you, most of my family is from the UK, I've got family hailing from the west indies but they're British. I don't really feel any attachment to the country in general but when I go abroad for a while I feel I couldn't live anywhere else and its the little things; being called love by the lady in the shop, the smell emanating from the chicken shop, the architecture, the multiculture, chip shops, the weather for some reason, the local yutes, tea that doesn't taste like arse, the radio, broadcast news that isn't terrible Half the stuff I miss I don't think most people would consider good things, but it's what I know I guess. I've heard a lot of people talk about moving to Australia as a dream, I don't know why, I've been it's dull as dish water. I think patriotism is the dumbest shit ever and never banged that drum, I intensely dislike our government. I hate the bizarre exceptionalism of British people (which has lead to brexit), the fixation on empire and past glories. But for all that nonsense I don't really want to live elsewhere. If I was pushed for another country I'd want to move to, it'd be somewhere that in my own eyes isn't that different, the Netherlands or somewhere like that
If I disappear, remember me as a unfunny shitposter with delusions of grandure.
[QUOTE=Mr Kotov;52042304]Did you go to the same school as me because I know someone who fits this profile exactly[/QUOTE] If you went to school in Edinburgh, maybe. [QUOTE=UberMunchkin;52043607]Was he called Adam? I knew a guy exactly like that back in college and he was just an experience.[/QUOTE] Nah, Ruaridh. He was quite the "special boy" especially seeing as how he was openly racist (telling an asian guy to "go back to the cotton fields") and was ALWAYS sheltered by the school. If any of us tried that - we'd get lines to write out or a detention but not him. He was told off and that was it (which never worked).
[QUOTE=Zenamez;52045617]Nah, Ruaridh. He was quite the "special boy" especially seeing as how he was openly racist (telling an asian guy to "go back to the cotton fields") and was ALWAYS sheltered by the school. If any of us tried that - we'd get lines to write out or a detention but not him. He was told off and that was it (which never worked).[/QUOTE] oh my god did he speak in a weird accent (i remember it as almost psuedo-posh or something) and have ginger hair (i think it was ginger) and shit. he talked down to everyone a lot did you go to gracemount at all?
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;52046008]oh my god did he speak in a weird accent (i remember it as almost psuedo-posh or something) and have ginger hair (i think it was ginger) and shit. he talked down to everyone a lot did you go to gracemount at all?[/QUOTE] I remember he was slightly nasally (well, the accent was something you'd never forget) and Ginger so we may know the same person... Nah, I want to St. Serfs before they were bought by Clifton Hall (I moved schools during that time but Ruaridh went to Clifton hall with the move where my best friend had to suffer him for a year or 2 before he left). He could have come from Gracement though. He joined St. Serfs in S2 and we didn't know where he came from before that. Don't know where he went to either. He just faded into obscurity. If your guy [B][I]LOVED [/I][/B]the Simpsons we have a 99% match.
[QUOTE=Zenamez;52046122]I remember he was slightly nasally (well, the accent was something you'd never forget) and Ginger so we may know the same person... Nah, I want to St. Serfs before they were bought by Clifton Hall (I moved schools during that time but Ruaridh went to Clifton hall with the move where my best friend had to suffer him for a year or 2 before leaving). He could have come from Gracement though. He joined St. Serfs in S2 and we didn't know where he came from before that.[/QUOTE] does kaimes school, or st cuthberts ring a bell at all either? but yeah he was very distinctive. i remember he got a shitload of acne too at some point also he did move around from school to school, so it's possible he went to your school then [quote]If your guy LOVED the Simpsons we have a 99% match.[/quote] i do remember a guy at kaimes really loving the simpsons, but i can't remember if it was him or not. it's likely
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[QUOTE=Sobotnik;52046157]does kaimes school, or st cuthberts ring a bell at all either? but yeah he was very distinctive. i remember he got a shitload of acne too at some point also he did move around from school to school, so it's possible he went to your school then i do remember a guy at kaimes really loving the simpsons, but i can't remember if it was him or not. it's likely[/QUOTE] St. Cuthberts rings a bell (I think that was the school he was at before) though (although I never went to it). I actually think we've had the misfortune of meeting the same person. He had a shitload of Acne (which he used to eat...) as well. I think we could make a fucking Wiki on the shit he got up to. I'm not surprised he moved around. He was a nuisance.
The Plymouth locals are out in full force today Vile.
[QUOTE=Zenamez;52048287]St. Cuthberts rings a bell (I think that was the school he was at before) though (although I never went to it). I actually think we've had the misfortune of meeting the same person. He had a shitload of Acne (which he used to eat...) as well. I think we could make a fucking Wiki on the shit he got up to. I'm not surprised he moved around. He was a nuisance.[/QUOTE] yep, that is him alright he often jumped from some other school (we didnt know which) to ours, and he was quite a character here too. generally he was just a huge wanker
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