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But to be serious, do people actually think 'Britishness' is defined by leering tabloid gutter press headlines, football and fucking Wetherspoons? We're better than that.

Some people like football and Wetherspoons. It doesn't make them bad people.
I'm struggling a bit more with newspapers, but I'm sure there are some good reasons for reading them.

Who said it made them bad people?

Russ, Curio, you. That's kind of the impression that's given out when you add words like "leering gutter" and "fucking" to a list of things some people enjoy.

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Grim... wrote:
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But to be serious, do people actually think 'Britishness' is defined by leering tabloid gutter press headlines, football and fucking Wetherspoons? We're better than that.

Some people like football and Wetherspoons. It doesn't make them bad people.
I'm struggling a bit more with newspapers, but I'm sure there are some good reasons for reading them.

Who said it made them bad people?

Russ, Curio, you. That's kind of the impression that's given out when you add words like "leering gutter" and "fucking" to a list of things some people enjoy.


I said fuck The Sun and football hooligans. I stand by this and will die on this hill.

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And I said the combination of those things that kern had listed for comic effect were jingoistic in combination when applied to the specific image of British Values*.

A little bit like a Frenchman wearing a beret, a stripy jumper and a string of onions round his neck would be needlessly offensive, but nobody would say that people who like onions are bad.

*And I actually said they were far from British, partially because they represent mostly English rather than British in that combination.

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But to be serious, do people actually think 'Britishness' is defined by leering tabloid gutter press headlines, football and fucking Wetherspoons? We're better than that.

Some people like football and Wetherspoons. It doesn't make them bad people.
I'm struggling a bit more with newspapers, but I'm sure there are some good reasons for reading them.

Who said it made them bad people?

Russ, Curio, you. That's kind of the impression that's given out when you add words like "leering gutter" and "fucking" to a list of things some people enjoy.

And I definitely didn't say that someone liking these things made them bad people. I assume you have skim-read a tad.

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But to be serious, do people actually think 'Britishness' is defined by leering tabloid gutter press headlines, football and fucking Wetherspoons? We're better than that.

Some people like football and Wetherspoons. It doesn't make them bad people.
I'm struggling a bit more with newspapers, but I'm sure there are some good reasons for reading them.

Who said it made them bad people?

Russ, Curio, you. That's kind of the impression that's given out when you add words like "leering gutter" and "fucking" to a list of things some people enjoy.


I said fuck The Sun and football hooligans. I stand by this and will die on this hill.


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Dare we not scoff at the notion that 'Britishness' is better than tabloids, football or chavvy pubs? Bollocks to that, sorry. If this makes me a snob, so be it.

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I'm just about to have my lunch, should I make it popcorn and stay in this thread?


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I'm just about to have my lunch, should I make it popcorn and stay in this thread?


I shouldn't bother, I'm busy. :)

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Cavey wrote:
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But to be serious, do people actually think 'Britishness' is defined by leering tabloid gutter press headlines, football and fucking Wetherspoons? We're better than that.

Some people like football and Wetherspoons. It doesn't make them bad people.
I'm struggling a bit more with newspapers, but I'm sure there are some good reasons for reading them.

Who said it made them bad people?

Russ, Curio, you. That's kind of the impression that's given out when you add words like "leering gutter" and "fucking" to a list of things some people enjoy.


I said fuck The Sun and football hooligans. I stand by this and will die on this hill.


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Dare we not scoff at the notion that 'Britishness' is better than tabloids, football or chavvy pubs? Bollocks to that, sorry. If this makes me a snob, so be it.

Curio isn't being a snob. The Sun is just awful for lots of reasons - not because poor people read it. Same with football. Football is good and the majority of fans are fine - hooligans are not because violence

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I'm very much in two minds about our local 'spoons. Cheap beer, HUGE range and cheap ( but pretty ordinary food ). However, they do seem to be constantly, chronically understaffed, which is partly why they can be so cheap, I guess.


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chavvy pubs

It would appear you can't help yourself.

The rest of you know exactly what you were saying, but if you want to backpedal and pretend it was something else, so be it.

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The band called Beatles was popular and some alteration to social laws occured during which period?
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I'm very much in two minds about our local 'spoons. Cheap beer, HUGE range and cheap ( but pretty ordinary food ). However, they do seem to be constantly, chronically understaffed, which is partly why they can be so cheap, I guess.

And the lamb burgers got smaller.

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The UK has its fair share of faults and wrongs (eg the legacy of slavery and colonialism; still large divisions between rich and poor; pacers), but we've got a lot going for us. I witnessed an excellent example of British values and what we have got right in this country when I was in Brighton on Saturday. In no other country would you see a couple of drag queens laughing and joking with a pair of armed policemen.


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I'm very much in two minds about our local 'spoons. Cheap beer, HUGE range and cheap ( but pretty ordinary food ). However, they do seem to be constantly, chronically understaffed, which is partly why they can be so cheap, I guess.


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chavvy pubs

It would appear you can't help yourself.

The rest of you know exactly what you were saying, but if you want to backpedal and pretend it was something else, so be it.


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That is about as far from British values as I can imagine.

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These are things which seem specifically Englishly jingoistic.


No backpedalling here.

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Perhaps this lack of pride is part of our problem as a nation; I don't see the French, Italians or Germans having such a downer about themselves.
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chavvy pubs

It would appear you can't help yourself.

The rest of you know exactly what you were saying, but if you want to backpedal and pretend it was something else, so be it.


Who's pulled your chain?
I'm not back pedalling in the least. To be completely clear: I personally cannot stand the tabloid press, your average football supporting mob and/or Wetherspoons pubs in specific regard to what someone may consider 'Britishness'. You disagree and/or think I'm being a snob and/or think I should feel bad about this? Could not give a damn, sorry. That's my opinion and I'm entitled to it.

That clear enough for you? Good-o.

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Perhaps this lack of pride is part of our problem as a nation; I don't see the French, Italians or Germans having such a downer about themselves.
That's the one after queueing.


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There's also not actually anything wrong with being a snob, per se. Some things are just objectively rubbish and not to be encouraged.

Like football.

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There's also not actually anything wrong with being a snob, per se. Some things are just objectively rubbish and not to be encouraged.

Like football.


:this: Could not agree more, mate, it's one of the key drivers to make us better and to strive for better, as individuals and as a collective.

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I honestly couldn't give a fuck about "British values". If we're having to screen people coming into the country then if we could just check that they aren't a selfish fucking prick who has no regard for others then that would do for me.


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There's also not actually anything wrong with being a snob, per se. Some things are just objectively rubbish and not to be encouraged.

Like football.


:this: Could not agree more, mate, it's one of the key drivers to make us better and to strive for better, as individuals and as a collective.

Sometimes perhaps but mostly it's completely arbitrary and just leads people to place value on things that are actually every bit as shit and pathetic as the things they're being snobbish about.


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There's also not actually anything wrong with being a snob, per se. Some things are just objectively rubbish and not to be encouraged.

Like football.


:this: Could not agree more, mate, it's one of the key drivers to make us better and to strive for better, as individuals and as a collective.

Sometimes perhaps but mostly it's completely arbitrary and just leads people to place value on things that are actually every bit as shit and pathetic as the things they're being snobbish about.

But that's something I'm very happy to be snobby about as well. Snobbery snobbery if you will.

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Just to make it clear, I am totally a snob, but also love Wetherspoons and football.

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There's also not actually anything wrong with being a snob, per se. Some things are just objectively rubbish and not to be encouraged.

Like football.


:this: Could not agree more, mate, it's one of the key drivers to make us better and to strive for better, as individuals and as a collective.

Sometimes perhaps but mostly it's completely arbitrary and just leads people to place value on things that are actually every bit as shit and pathetic as the things they're being snobbish about.

But that's something I'm very happy to be snobby about as well. Snobbery snobbery if you will.


Indeed; it's called 'discernment' whereby simplistic, tiresome, black-and white, tar-everyone-with-the-same-brush grievance bullshit need not apply. Hence, I believe, your use of the specific term "some things" which appears to have been missed. :)

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Just to make it clear, I am totally a snob, but also love Wetherspoons and football.


How very dare you have your own mind you backpedaling snob, Curio. You just can't help yourself can you? :D

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I am totally a snob.


I'm not a snob. I like Wetherspoons too. Ah, if you can walk with kings but not lose the common touch. Sometimes I even listen to Classic FM.


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It annoys me when people think i am a snob because I have never told anyone I think Curio's beneath me.

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There's also not actually anything wrong with being a snob, per se. Some things are just objectively rubbish and not to be encouraged.

Like football.


:this: Could not agree more, mate, it's one of the key drivers to make us better and to strive for better, as individuals and as a collective.

Sometimes perhaps but mostly it's completely arbitrary and just leads people to place value on things that are actually every bit as shit and pathetic as the things they're being snobbish about.

But that's something I'm very happy to be snobby about as well. Snobbery snobbery if you will.


Indeed; it's called 'discernment' whereby simplistic, tiresome, black-and white, tar-everyone-with-the-same-brush grievance bullshit need not apply. Hence, I believe, your use of the specific term "some things" which appears to have been missed. :)

No, discernment is just taking the time to appraise things until you find what you prefer just for your own satisfaction. Snobbery is when you judge other people. I tend to find people who are snobbish about things actually know relatively little about them, their opinions tend to be parroted rather than gleaned from experience and spouted mostly due to their own insecurities. People who are real experts tend to be enthusiastic about their passions and seek to help and inform rather than chastise others.

Don't get me wrong, everyone does it here and there but I just can't agree that, broadly speaking, it's a positive thing.


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There's also not actually anything wrong with being a snob, per se. Some things are just objectively rubbish and not to be encouraged.

Like football.


:this: Could not agree more, mate, it's one of the key drivers to make us better and to strive for better, as individuals and as a collective.

Sometimes perhaps but mostly it's completely arbitrary and just leads people to place value on things that are actually every bit as shit and pathetic as the things they're being snobbish about.

But that's something I'm very happy to be snobby about as well. Snobbery snobbery if you will.


Indeed; it's called 'discernment' whereby simplistic, tiresome, black-and white, tar-everyone-with-the-same-brush grievance bullshit need not apply. Hence, I believe, your use of the specific term "some things" which appears to have been missed. :)

No, discernment is just taking the time to appraise things until you find what you prefer just for your own satisfaction. Snobbery is when you judge other people. I tend to find people who are snobbish about things actually know relatively little about them, their opinions tend to be parroted rather than gleaned from experience and spouted mostly due to their own insecurities. People who are real experts tend to be enthusiastic about their passions and seek to help and inform rather than chastise others.

Don't get me wrong, everyone does it here and there but I just can't agree that, broadly speaking, it's a positive thing.


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I tend to find people who are snobbish about things actually know relatively little about them, their opinions tend to be parroted rather than gleaned from experience and spouted mostly due to their own insecurities.


You need to hang out with more intelligent, better people then.

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Well yes, agreed, but entirely moot and irrelevant: no-one is chastising anyone in this thread, merely expressing AN OPINION that the gutter press, football and Wetherspoons pubs sure have nothing to do with 'Britishness'.

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and there but I just can't agree that, broadly speaking, it's a positive thing.


It can be, sometimes, in some circumstances (but not in others). This is all people have said/argued? Again, you'll note the absence of sweeping generalisations, here, presumably to fit some narrative or other. ;)

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 14:11 
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 Post subject: Re: Life in the UK Test
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MrChris wrote:
MaliA wrote:
And pickled eggs.

what what what what what what what

I just had 5 with my salad. And some gherkins and pickled chillies. Well, I say salad, more "pile of stuff that had been living in vinegar".


Pickled everything is great. Especially picklebacks.

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 Post subject: Re: Life in the UK Test
PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 14:13 
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Cras wrote:
MrChris wrote:
MaliA wrote:
And pickled eggs.

what what what what what what what

I just had 5 with my salad. And some gherkins and pickled chillies. Well, I say salad, more "pile of stuff that had been living in vinegar".


Pickled everything is great. Especially picklebacks.

I hadn't heard of them, but now I want 10. Right now.


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 Post subject: Re: Life in the UK Test
PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 14:17 
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To be a bit clearer it's this:

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Could not agree more, mate, it's one of the key drivers to make us better and to strive for better, as individuals and as a collective.


That I think is absolute horseshit. Snobbery is generally held to be a a fairly ugly trait, it's just insecurity. Perhaps you're thinking about something other than actual snobbery because it's probably the first time I've really heard it described as a positive.


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 Post subject: Re: Life in the UK Test
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Glad I brought this popcorn, tbh.


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