Current Events > Are British people as depressed and apathetic as media makes them out to be?

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what are your thoughts

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The British are a disgrace, and I say this as a British man.

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kinda

but americans are overhappy and loud, so i think the comparison makes it seem stronger

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British people need war to be happy. It's in their blood

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you'd be depressed too if you were british

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AlephZero posted...

you'd be depressed too if you were british

For all our faults, at least we don't have Kanye West.

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Bad_Mojo posted...

British people need war to be happy. It's in their blood

Only when we're spectators at a comfortably safe distance, then war's a voyeuristic bloodsport. People who think it's fun just haven't suffered enough from it.

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Yes

Except they are more angry

In American TV they are quiet and polite.

In reality they are loud, xenophobic and shouty. At least in the cities.

The UK is a broken place. It reeks of the decayed remains of a once mighty empire whose citizens feel humiliated and emasculated. That's why there's so much 'pride' there to do nonsensical things that hurt the country all the time.
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https://youtu.be/xUNqsfFUwhY

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Have you seen their skies and general climate? I'm not surprised.

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Firewerx posted...

Only when we're spectators at a comfortably safe distance, then war's a voyeuristic bloodsport. People who think it's fun just haven't suffered enough from it.

My friend, they were in a war for like 700 years strait. They are a war country

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I think they have rain and cloud cover for like 11 months of the year

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UnfairRepresent posted...

It reeks of the decayed remains of a once mighty empire whose citizens feel humiliated and emasculated.

Bloody hell, I can't stand the stupid, misty-eyed nostalgia for an empire that most Brits have never known (and to be honest, most don't particularly care about).

It's not as if living in today's more "mediocre" world of shrivelled empires and shrunken reputations is actually somehow worse than living in the glory days of epic imperial adventure. I have a far more comfortable standard of living in my downsized Little Britain of today than my great-grandparents did when they were busy slaving for a shilling a day and a shit sandwich while the mighty Empire celebrated Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

We have a skewed index of a country's "greatness", and maybe it should be linked to the comparative well-being of its people -- instead of judging it on how many stickpin flags it has dotted across the atlas in its name.

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Their only redeeming quality is that their women sound vaguely Australian, and Australian women are sexy af.

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Bad_Mojo posted...

My friend, they were in a war for like 700 years strait. They are a war country

Yeah, but that was a war they were in from a comfortable distance, across the channel.

UnfairRepresent posted...

The UK is a broken place.

Yes it is, but if you're from the US you have no right to judge.

UnfairRepresent posted...

whose citizens feel humiliated and emasculated.

Um, no.

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Even when it is sunny it still looks overcast.

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Bad_Mojo posted...

My friend, they were in a war for like 700 years strait. They are a war country

Not really. We were very rarely a nation in arms -- for over a century after the Napoleonic Wars, most of the fighting the country was involved in was done by a small, professional army in distant places. We were one of the few European nations on the eve of the First World War that didn't have military conscription as a state institution.

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REMercsChamp posted...

I think they have rain and cloud cover for like 11 months of the year

It's only about 10 months, actually.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

In reality they are loud, xenophobic and shouty. At least in the cities.

I spent five days in London in 2018 and didn't notice this at all.

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CommonJoe posted...

Their only redeeming quality is that their women sound vaguely Australian, and Australian women are sexy af.

What British women have you been listening to? I can't think of any UK accent that sounds Australian

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We're quite happy being miserable thank you very much

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