Skippy McPants posted:

So basically what you're saying is that Hot Fuzz was a documentary.

Outrail posted:

My impression of England was that over the years the empire had control of a staggering amount of the globe. And had to send it's best and brightest out to run this empire. Then they got married and had kids and realised they didn't want to live on a small damp island and stayed in the nicer, larger places they were sent to/went to.

Since Britain is a very small island the population experienced a large degree of brain/talent drain. This drain was hardest at the top of society, and since their society is fairly ridgid they continue to rule and be ruled by small minded, petty, useless chavs, inbred nobility, socially restrictives and boring people.

This is how brexit happened. Everyone who would like to be part of the outside world left to be part of the outside world.

Baron von Eevl posted:

In case the stories of Nauru weren't bad enough, their president is also basically a Captain America villain.

doverhog posted:

the poor, the old, the sad

Axeman Jim posted:

Because the planning system in England is ruled by Daily Mail reading NIMBY Nazis like the Campaign to Protect Rural England who think that the peasantry shouldn't be blocking their views of fields with their jumped-up mud huts, and that's more important than the UK's appalling housing shortage and subsequent insane property prices (from which these people benefit, fygm) and sky-high levels of homelessness. Besides, if we build enough houses, brown-skinned people might live in them and that would be so frightful our monocles might fall out.

Outrail posted:

My impression of England was that over the years the empire had control of a staggering amount of the globe. And had to send it's best and brightest out to run this empire. Then they got married and had kids and realised they didn't want to live on a small damp island and stayed in the nicer, larger places they were sent to/went to.

Since Britain is a very small island the population experienced a large degree of brain/talent drain. This drain was hardest at the top of society, and since their society is fairly ridgid they continue to rule and be ruled by small minded, petty, useless chavs, inbred nobility, socially restrictives and boring people.

This is how brexit happened. Everyone who would like to be part of the outside world left to be part of the outside world.

Somfin posted:

Hmm.

Seems to me like you're missing a couple key groups in this assessment.

Axeman Jim posted:

Because the planning system in England is ruled by Daily Mail reading NIMBY Nazis like the Campaign to Protect Rural England who think that the peasantry shouldn't be blocking their views of fields with their jumped-up mud huts, and that's more important than the UK's appalling housing shortage and subsequent insane property prices (from which these people benefit, fygm) and sky-high levels of homelessness. Besides, if we build enough houses, brown-skinned people might live in them and that would be so frightful our monocles might fall out.

Mr. Flunchy posted:

If you let this one guy build a house however he wants and without planning permission, some other guy is going to look at that and do the same. Why bother applying for planning permission if they'll let you build whatever if you just whine hard enough.

Sucks for the guy and it looks like a neat house, but building regs are a thing for a reason.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

All the money he spent on that, he could've just moved to a less lovely neighborhood.

hanales posted:

This is a weird story. Can someone explain what the actual problem is with the house? It looks like he made the whole area a bit nicer. I also find it hard to believe he had no permission, how would he get water and electric to the place?

Stex T posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS0MBaTEZ_Y

Outrail posted:

My impression of England was that over the years the empire had control of a staggering amount of the globe. And had to send it's best and brightest out to run this empire. Then they got married and had kids and realised they didn't want to live on a small damp island and stayed in the nicer, larger places they were sent to/went to.

Since Britain is a very small island the population experienced a large degree of brain/talent drain. This drain was hardest at the top of society, and since their society is fairly ridgid they continue to rule and be ruled by small minded, petty, useless chavs, inbred nobility, socially restrictives and boring people.

This is how brexit happened. Everyone who would like to be part of the outside world left to be part of the outside world.

Novum posted:

Motherfucker built a castle in secret. He deserved to keep it.

Flyball posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaHcJfol9nU

Moon Slayer posted:

The schadenfreude was on me for believing and loudly insisting up until the very end that normal rules and historical precedent applied to the 2016 election.

Josef bugman posted:

Boy do you have an overinflated view of the empire. It did not get the best and brightest, it got bastard sons, aristocratic by-blows and other people who wanted to feel important by "ruling" none white people whilst maintaining a level of casual corruption that would make a Trump presidency look like it was run by Jesus Christ.

your friend a dog posted:

They did, idiot

Outrail posted:

My view is probably wrong. I just don't like England.

So did they ever have anything but chavs and inbred bluebloods?

Zipperelli. posted:

In today's edition of "What the gently caress did you think was gonna happen?" We find a kid who showers with fireworks:

Mierenneuker posted:

I think media gaffes were somewhat of a thing during previous elections. Lots of Howard Dean schadenfreude was revisited in 2016.

I think previous US elections might also have had less hacking, maybe.

Moon Slayer posted:

The schadenfreude was on me for believing and loudly insisting up until the very end that normal rules and historical precedent applied to the 2016 election.

your friend a dog posted:

while hacking is unfortunate, theres some bizarre point of view how it's not fair that the leaks turned people away from the democratic party, as if voters should be forced to ignore blatant corruption simply because it came from a biased source

Jmcrofts posted:

He thought he would get internet fame, and it seems like that's working out pretty well

bobjr posted:

Takes No Damage posted:

I think his clever idea was to snatch the purse then jump across the train to mask his escape. Timing was a bit off though...

Skarsnik posted:

It is a bloody awful looking thing to be fair

Jippa posted:

Imagine 1/5 th of the population of the US living in a country 1/2 the landmass of california.

Platystemon posted:

So… BosWash.

bobjr posted:

Outrail posted:

My view is probably wrong. I just don't like England.

So did they ever have anything but chavs and inbred bluebloods?

Quantum Cat posted:

Your friend a dog, in the Nixon era: We should probably just let the whole watergate thing slide after all who cares how or where the information comes form.

Retro Access posted:

I don't like it either. It's why I left.

However, re. brexit. I'd like to know how the USA is any better seeing as now I'm stuck in a country that voted in Trump, which I don't see as any different of an outcome. Both results were due to xenophobia.

Nothing could make me return to the UK but this is just swapping poo poo for more poo poo really.

People suck everywhere.

For schadenfraude: consider this. A UK/US couple decide where they will live based on the outcomes of two elections. Once brings in the first black president, the second brings back a party that hosed everything over for everyone in the 80s - largely thanks to promises to make immigration harder.

Those promises mean we can't ever go back unless I personally get a UK job with a $35K salary then work at it for 6 months before even bringing my husband in. Which is literally impossible for me, a lifelong freelancer and small business owner. I knew this before leaving, and the changes to immigration rules would have hosed me over anyway if I stayed. However - I trusted the USA and Christ knows why.