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DeliciousPatriotism posted:So im an american and I peek in this thread from time to time for my Britain news because I'm half British (mom is Scots/English) but it only reinforces my massive stack of biases I've held since the late 90s that Britain (mostly because of England) is a depressing mess where labor is long crushed, the surveillance state is asbsolute and a mix of horrid transphobes, pedophiles, jingos, bankers and finance mooks have the wheels of power and would rather the ship sink than do anything to help normal people. As a gay dude with a Trans husband with a largely queer found family it is really hard to motivate myself to want to visit my blood relatives still living in Newcastle and Grimsby. It's an awful place.... there is no good in the England or welshland or scottishland or north Irishland... only hateful days and nights The british!!
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Jul 28, 2023 21:51
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Britain is pretty poo poo but I'd still rather live here on balance than the US. Give Sunak and Starver time, though.
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Jul 28, 2023 21:53
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Preferably in HMP Wakefield.
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Jul 28, 2023 21:56
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Always grinds my gears there's a prison called Wakefield and neither notable Andrew is in it.
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Jul 28, 2023 21:57
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The idea of paying for a transatlantic flight to come to visit Grimsby is quite amusing
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Jul 28, 2023 22:02
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wrexham will be in the same division as grimsby this season so there's every chance ryan reynolds and rob mcelhenny will do just that
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Jul 28, 2023 22:04
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DesperateDan posted:I know I said I was gonna do a positive post but what's in my heart is a [redacted] post 'you'll have seen and heard some of the abusive language from the trans community towards people like jk rowling and those they call terfs? would you like to take this opportunity to send a message to those people to back off?' not 'activists' or 'people online', but trans people in general, the whole community, being vile and nasty to poor angels who have done nothing wrong, it's loving piss-boiling
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Jul 28, 2023 22:07
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Britain is one of the best countries in the world.
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Jul 28, 2023 22:09
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Low bar though innit
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Jul 28, 2023 22:13
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DeliciousPatriotism posted:Is anything good going on out there in my partial homeland anymore? Silverdale is quite nice. It says something about the quality of other things going on that brits draw most of their pleasure from natural landscapes devoid of humans, especially our own kind. It's only a matter of time before we go full Highlander, just so the last Brit can enjoy the view without some other fucker ruining it. Also the music festival scene is pretty good. Possibly this is me myopically thinking the only US music festivals are SXSW, coachella and the one with the clowns. Are there others?
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Jul 28, 2023 22:17
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the bonzaroo or whatever
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Jul 28, 2023 22:19
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Lollapalooza, burning man, the new orleans jazz one, the warped tour, etc.
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Jul 28, 2023 22:20
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Britain is one of the best countries in the world. Low quality trolling
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Jul 28, 2023 22:42
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DeliciousPatriotism posted:Is anything good going on out there in my partial homeland anymore? Brexit has accelerated the possibility of Irish Reunification, still going to be a long time but every little helps and once the NHS is sold off there will be no point staying.  As for Scotland; If the SNP ever gets it's head together they might try to split off as well. 
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Jul 28, 2023 22:42
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Nuclear Spoon posted:wrexham will be in the same division as grimsby this season so there's every chance ryan reynolds and rob mcelhenny will do just that I don't think they go to away games. Although I'm sure Dale Vince is making some calls
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Jul 28, 2023 22:51
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smellmycheese posted:Low quality trolling
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Jul 28, 2023 22:51
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Miftan posted:That is pretty strange, but looking into it you can move away for up to 7 years easily. Past 7 years you just have to fill in a form annually otherwise the justice minister can, in theory, revoke your citizenship. I don't know how often that actually happens. I worked in a job for a few months where one of the most common tasks was helping people apply for Naturalisation. Yes the intention to remain in Ireland following getting citizenship is one of the questions they ask on the form. It's mostly a trap question in that if you say "No" they super scrutinies your application and/or refuse it. If you say yes and do leave it might have consequences, but even then getting stripped of your citizenship is a long way down the list. The anmount of times the Minster has done this is low. There is a legal challenge being taken over whether he can do it to someone who was extradited to the US and convicted of terrorism. I doubt they will bust it out for a guy who decides they'd rather live in Italy. That being said, I firmly believe it should be used on Jacobs Reese Mogg if the rumours about him getting an Irish passport are true. It can be justified on the basis that he took a Knighthood. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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Jul 28, 2023 23:06
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or just that hes a loving oval office
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Jul 28, 2023 23:09
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UK naturalisation asks the same thing, but they won't take it away from you if you change your mind after you get it, nor do you have to do anything if moving away (e: you do if you're on leave to remain or settled status though). I think that's more of a thing in Ireland because of ancestry/UK FOM making it lot more common for people to do that.
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Jul 28, 2023 23:09
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I’ve lived in America and the UK, and I’ve been hand-to-mouth just above poverty in both, and I can honestly say that for all it’s faults, I would still rather live in the UK. America is really scarily right wing, and while being poor here is loving awful, being poor in America is a terrifying experience. I remember when my son fell of a thing in the playground and was limping a bit, and both my wife and I had the same thought which we only guiltily confessed to each other years later: “I hope he’s not hurt, because we can’t afford to go to the doctor”. That’s just wrong.
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Jul 28, 2023 23:18
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I mean yeah US healthcare is completely stupid, good thing the Tories keep pushing to bring it here, with Labour just behind.
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Jul 28, 2023 23:20
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Even if you move away after a month you could say "Ah yeah at the time I was planning to continue living in Ireland but then [thing happened]. Same as how you get asked on your mortgage application (I think?) if you plan to make any changes to your finances in the next [time period] and you just say no, but if you then have a kid or change jobs or whatever there's bugger all they can do about it because you can just say "whelp, wasn't expecting to get pregnant!" or whatever.
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Jul 28, 2023 23:21
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smellmycheese posted:Low quality trolling nah they're right, we've got to be top 200 or so, easy
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Jul 28, 2023 23:39
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Britain is one of the best countries in the world. I was gonna just respond with the picture of the Keith Chegwin guy naked crowdsurfing in the pub with the guy screaming into his arsehole BUT I figured that would get me a probation so you'll just have to imagine it instead
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Jul 28, 2023 23:50
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I'm an American who moved to the UK and did the whole citizenship thing and as terrible as the UK is (it's pretty great tbh) I'd never move back to the US. If you're pulling down six figgies in the US, fair enough I guess, you won't really make that money here touching computer, but if you're an average idiot, or worse, self employed, you're pretty hosed in the US if literally anything bad happens. The social safety net is a bear trap. That said, the Tories sure are trying their damnedest to import the specific brand of terrible American Exceptionalism that is "American ""Health Care""", so I worry about the future, but there's also a lot of neat old stuff here, so who can say on balance if the UK is good or bad.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I was gonna just respond with the picture of the Keith Chegwin guy naked crowdsurfing in the pub with the guy screaming into his arsehole BUT I figured that would get me a probation so you'll just have to imagine it instead At least we agree
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Jul 29, 2023 00:36
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Scientastic posted:I’ve lived in America and the UK, and I’ve been hand-to-mouth just above poverty in both, and I can honestly say that for all it’s faults, I would still rather live in the UK. America is really scarily right wing, and while being poor here is loving awful, being poor in America is a terrifying experience. Honestly I don't think you should feel guilty to think it; it's not that you don't want your son to be treated, it's that you don't want any of you to suffer poverty or starvation over something so trivially treatable in a humane society. Not to say you won't feel guilty, but honestly society making people feel like that is one of the reasons I wish God were real so that those who profit from making that a fact of life will experience eternal damnation. Or at least adequate punishment in an afterlife.
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Jul 29, 2023 00:38
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Increasingly I think of 'best place to live' in terms of which region is gonna be the least hosed by climate change. I don't know if this even slightly possible to calculate yet, but I guess I assume closer to the north or south pole = better?
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Jul 29, 2023 00:51
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The Perfect Element posted:Increasingly I think of 'best place to live' in terms of which region is gonna be the least hosed by climate change. I don't know if this even slightly possible to calculate yet, but I guess I assume closer to the north or south pole = better? You can move to Svalbard tomorrow if you like, no visa or citizenship needed. I'm not convinced it's the best place to ride out the next decades but at worst you'll help keep the polar bears from starving.
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Jul 29, 2023 01:07
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big scary monsters posted:You can move to Svalbard tomorrow if you like, no visa or citizenship needed. I'm not convinced it's the best place to ride out the next decades but at worst you'll help keep the polar bears from starving. starlink makes this viable
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Jul 29, 2023 01:13
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Starlink sucks and there's better, cheaper, options available. Just Google search satellite internet and don't click on the results run by the pedo guy.
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Jul 29, 2023 01:18
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Shocking. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/28/serious-failings-contributed-to-babys-death-in-12-hour-lone-prison-birth quote:Rianna Cleary, who was 18 at the time, gave birth to Aisha alone in Surrey prison cell after officers ignored calls for help [/quote]
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big scary monsters posted:You can move to Svalbard tomorrow if you like, no visa or citizenship needed. I'm not convinced it's the best place to ride out the next decades but at worst you'll help keep the polar bears from starving. Some of my colleagues doing the experimental side got to go there to the EISCAT, sadly I was a theoretical modeller so jolly old London for me. Even the one international conference during a PhD-ship which the department would fork out for happened to be in Birmingham in my year. The year before me got Vietnam - I missed out on all the jollies.  Moving to Svalbard: https://www.norden.org/en/info-norden/moving-or-travelling-svalbard
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Some of my colleagues doing the experimental side got to go there to the EISCAT, sadly I was a theoretical modeller so jolly old London for me. Even the one international conference during a PhD-ship which the department would fork out for happened to be in Birmingham in my year. The year before me got Vietnam - I missed out on all the jollies. Love those sunsets! You don't get that there except around the equinoxes. Also plants.
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Jul 29, 2023 03:07
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cat botherer posted:Quebecois French is closer to the French spoken back in the 18th century than that spoken in France. It's the French who are wrong The same can be said of American English vs British English.
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Jul 29, 2023 05:30
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DeliciousPatriotism posted:(mostly because of England) This is reductive, and playing into the narrative of the real problem, The Establishment. There is very little difference, perhaps the width of a page, between the different peoples of the nation. The vast majority of us have ancestors from more than one nation, like your mother. The differences of the lower orders are played up by the Establishment to keep us from fighting them. Nationalism, racism, historical grievances, you name it. Amply blown out of a trumpet my the media and repeated by a captive audience.
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Jul 29, 2023 08:46
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Tesseraction posted:Starlink sucks and there's better, cheaper, options available. Just Google search satellite internet and don't click on the results run by the pedo guy. I don't think you know what you're talking about. I've set my parents up with a starlink dish and its brilliant, absolutely revolutionised their internet from the 4g they were stuck with before. There was no better deal for comparable speed satellite internet available.
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Jul 29, 2023 09:28
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https://twitter.com/elsieblundell/status/1685030645339185153?t=NEbQbQV96ZKtuP74GdHqaQ&s=19 The message is poo poo as ever and he's getting worse at standing and smiling somehow
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I miss Kier's 'pointing at things off shot' and 'holding a pint' phase.
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