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Superterranean posted:England is covered - covered - in litter. Show us on the doll where the Englishman touched you.
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Superterranean posted:England is covered - covered - in litter. Nice meltdown yank
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dustin.h posted:Like low-voltage shaver sockets, why can't you simply have high-voltage kettle sockets? Much like we have high-voltage oven sockets? You'd be duplicating the entire wiring system - in Britain there's a kettle in every room, and usually two in a master bedroom.
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The first time I visited the UK I was astounded by how little people resemble British celebrities. It’s like if you’re moderately good looking you are promoted internationally as a celeb, and everyone else looks like the orc siege general from the Return of the King or the goblin king from The Hobbit. Except all the Eastern European babes, who only make the contrast more obvious.
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Dec 28, 2021 13:50
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Jakabite posted:Nice meltdown yank It's not inaccurate
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if you had to be british in britain you'd be blackout drunk all the time too
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steinrokkan posted:It's not inaccurate gimme the GOD drat candy posted:if you had to be british in britain you'd be blackout drunk all the time too These guys get it
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Dec 28, 2021 14:33
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There will never be a rapper whiter than vanilla i- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHs2sQOHX-0
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i dont wanna be a punk no more i wanna be a rude boy like my dad
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Britain is an aging forma giant with bad breath and arthritis, who refuses to admit no cares what he thinks anymore and his best years are in the past. America is his stuck up spoilt child, obsessed with his father but instead of trying to be a better person seems determined to make all the same mistakes and end up the same. Smeef posted:The first time I visited the UK I was astounded by how little people resemble British celebrities. It’s like if you’re moderately good looking you are promoted internationally as a celeb, and everyone else looks like the orc siege general from the Return of the King or the goblin king from The Hobbit. Except all the Eastern European babes, who only make the contrast more obvious. Post a selfie then gorgeous. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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Dec 28, 2021 15:23
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lol "Normal people aren't as attractive as celebrities" is a thing in most countries I would imagine
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:lol "Normal people aren't as attractive as celebrities" is a thing in most countries I would imagine Yeah, these days pretty much every place is gonna have (mingling among the majority of "strictly average" folks like yours truly) a mix of gorgeous non-celeb people who look like they came straight out of a fancy clothes catalog, and horrifying mutant uggos shambling around. In that regard I didn't find Britain to be any more or less different than any of the other places I've lived in. Yes, there were people whose teeth looked like they'd been chewing on rocks and twigs for fun, and who had ears large enough to give Prince Charles pause for thought. But there were also average everyday people who still somehow managed to look like they came off the set of 90210 or some other glamorous 1990s TV drama.
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:lol "Normal people aren't as attractive as celebrities" is a thing in most countries I would imagine I honestly appreciate the Brits having odd-looking actors as I'm poo poo at telling the difference between our generically beautiful American actors. Cloverfield was a nightmare for me.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:if you had to be british in britain you'd be blackout drunk all the time too 
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Lurk Ethic posted:There will never be a rapper whiter than vanilla i- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYgE7O0OLyw&t=26s
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steinrokkan posted:Fun fact, queen Victoria was raised in Hanover speaking German and had to be taught English later in childhood. She still preferred speaking German in private throughout life and struggled with a German accent when speaking English. I looked this up quickly and it appears that while she did have a German accent from her mother she was raised in Blighty. You may be thinking of her mother, also named Victoria, who was from Hanover. kecske posted:the rule is no 230v outlet can be within 3metres of the surface of a basin (inc. bath or shower tray) and because our bathrooms are tiny this means you just don't see any. If you somehow had a massive bathroom there's nothing stopping you having outlets. All domestic socket outlets do have to be RCD protected though, the bathroom laws are a post 1940s hangover and will probably get repealed when the IET decide they need to make some more money revising the regulations. I've been reading a bit of plumbing theory recently and apparently it is very common in Britain for the overflow of low pressure hot water cylinders to go straight into the cold water header tank which seems dumb. Rev. Melchisedech Howler posted:Some things can't be explained and should never have happened. Brexit, Ant & Dec and, yes, EastEnders among them. It's one of the few socially acceptable outlets for American racism.
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Weka posted:I'm pretty sure 220v isn't significantly more dangerous. All the higher voltage will do is make it theoretically easier to get electrocuted but in practice I doubt you'd see many extra cases. It's the amps that will kill you. i mean im pretty sure that US mains are like 230-240 as well but its alternating and the other end is tied to ground.... we don't do live to live like in the UK i think? so the standard outlet is 1 live to ground instead of 2 lives, hence 120 v.... the only time it really matters is when you're trying to boil water off a regular US outlet. I found a picture.. we ground in between the 240 volt circuit instead of at the end so we do indeed split it into 2 phase 120 volts:  We make 240v outlets as well for washing machines, electric stoves, etc... you just increase the size of the circuit breaker to cover both live mains. We just don't put them in every outlet in the house because... well... i was gonna say safer but out plugs are so poo poo that they are live when partially plugged in so we have to do elaborate poo poo to keep the metal from EVER sticking out of the outlet. This is for things like wall chargers, toasters, lower power devices. Higher powered devices will have a third grounding prong extra. I probably hosed that up here is a nerd explaining it all in extreme detail if you care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmUoZh3Hq4 [edit] we use three phase for transferring power over power lines.... some businesses that need a shitload of power will maintain the 3 phase to their factory but no... 3 phase is generally for transmission of electricity and is not used in a typical home [edit2] i also think we use a lot more natural gas for stoves and furnaces and water heaters than england? not sure about that, but yeah... natural gas is very cheap here and more efficient than electricity for heating poo poo per penny Wendigee fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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You know, for as crappy as our plugs are and how we can touch the contacts when partially unplugged, I've never done that in 40 years, and I asked my father if he'd ever done it, and he hadn't in 70 years. I did accidentally nail into a wire once when doing some renovating, but nothing happened at all. No shock, no breaker thrown, nothing. Just pulled the nail out and carried on. The only appliance I have that runs at 240v is the clothes washer. Everything else is gas or oil.
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Your three phase is only like 240v or something almost pointless unlike the superior 400v. Anyway I'll shut up about America's wiring and uh, um England doesn't even have a single hill taller than a kilometer and it thinks that's a mountain lol. If you GIS UK national park it just looks like a bunch of sheep paddocks.
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In the US there are buildings that are 100's of years old. In the UK there are buildings that are up to 1000 years old, or more.
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Bula Vinaka posted:In the US there are buildings that are 100's of years old. 
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dustin.h posted:You know, for as crappy as our plugs are and how we can touch the contacts when partially unplugged, I've never done that in 40 years, and I asked my father if he'd ever done it, and he hadn't in 70 years. I've been shocked by a 120v many times but never from a plug. It was because we had an ungrounded ancient chest freezer on our concrete garage floor and it would give you a bit of a shock whenever you touched it with out wearing shoes lol. Oh also that one time my uncle had me rewire a light switch without turning off the power and he did it as a joke then grabbed the wires to shock himself too and we had a laugh
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It's the same land, sure, but what makes it the same country? How exactly is France founded in 843 and not 1958? Or Britain in 927 and not 1707? How exactly is America's pre-Revolution history not identical with England's? I suppose I don't see eye to eye with the idea that states remain the same after fundamental changes in their governance. If they did, well then, the whole thing becomes absurd. America was founded in 927. Earlier than that, even, 27 BC. Maybe earlier than that, It's crazy to conflate modern states with historic ones.
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Bula Vinaka posted:In the US there are buildings that are 100's of years old. So lovely even weather doesn't visit
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Bula Vinaka posted:In the US there are buildings that are 100's of years old. You can see my posts in this thread, I have plenty to criticize about britain, but i really like old buildings and no matter how you slice it (e.g. that it's a tragedy more relics of indigenous american life have not been preserved to the same standards) that is one thing that is pretty cool. The national trust is kind of the ideal situation for the many relics of feudal exploitation - making what were once private homes of landed gentry into parks/historical attractions open to everyone and using the profits to preserve them as works of artisanry. I'm with all that.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:You can see my posts in this thread, I have plenty to criticize about britain, but i really like old buildings and no matter how you slice it (e.g. that it's a tragedy more relics of indigenous american life have not been preserved to the same standards) that is one thing that is pretty cool. There is a really nice one in London but it's currently got some squatters in it.
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Mega Comrade posted:There is a really nice one in London but it's currently got some squatters in it. Hell yeah. And in Windsor. And "Sandringham" whatever that is. And more poo poo I don't know about. Also the houses of Parliament are dumb as hell to use as real offices. Insanely uneconomic. They should be retired and opened to the public and parliament should meet in ethelm house: https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/imageuploads/1251126932_80.177.117.97.jpg
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They should move parliament to the North of England. Then maybe public funds would go somewhere other than London when MPs are stuck on a replacement bus service.
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dustin.h posted:It's the same land, sure, but what makes it the same country? How exactly is France founded in 843 and not 1958? Or Britain in 927 and not 1707? How exactly is America's pre-Revolution history not identical with England's? Generally the change is pretty gradual. Even with a revolution life goes on in much the same way for most people more often than not. Sometimes a social revolution happens where there is a fundamental change in governance and you would probably want to say the state itself has stayed the same, for instance the massive expansion of suffrage. The English example is good in that theoretically the same monarchy rules it that did at it's founding. I'm sure you could draw parallels between the thing, the Anglo-Saxon council, and parliament in all it's manifestations. Of course the kingdom of England kinda ended with the union with Scotland.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Hell yeah. And in Windsor. And "Sandringham" whatever that is. And more poo poo I don't know about. Also the houses of Parliament are dumb as hell to use as real offices. Insanely uneconomic. They should be retired and opened to the public and parliament should meet in ethelm house: https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/imageuploads/1251126932_80.177.117.97.jpg I remember reading about how insanely bad Westminster is to operate a parliament from - like, it's constantly on the brink of burning down or falling apart and the basement is riddled with water and gas pipes and bad wiring that dates back from like, ww2 and no-one knows where most it is.  fake edit: found a thing https://www.ft.com/content/31890558-55f7-11e9-a3db-1fe89bedc16e
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On the plus side, if it does burn down nobody will be suspicious.
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Bula Vinaka posted:In the US there are buildings that are 100's of years old. Quite the genius observation here
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Bula Vinaka posted:In the US there are buildings that are 100's of years old. In antarctic there is buildings 1,000,000,000 of years old. 
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Big Beef City posted:Quite the genius observation here Thank you 
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Americans are just jealous of our superior cheeses. To quote Brian "Blessed are the cheese makers"
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Baconroll posted:Americans are just jealous of our superior cheeses. To quote Brian "Blessed are the cheese makers" I'll grant you that small pittance that Britain does have some very good cheeses Also didn't you misspell "superiour?" I think we found someone who WANTS to roleplay a Brit online!!
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Also congrats to your soldiers for stepping on a kid!! https://twitter.com/scobie/status/1476262109134606342?s=20
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