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apparently Gordon Brown wants to establish more of a national identity and single culture, and create a national day to celebrate britishness. so, brits (english, scottish, welsh, ulsterish), what is "britishness"? |
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urgh group identity |
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its weird. i dont think there is such a thing as "britishness" personally, but it looks like we will be encouraged to become "british" in the near future. |
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bowler hats |
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my scottish genes says that this is impossible its easier if you exclude the english part of the "britishness" ;) |
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Britishness: Some of the best academics and inventors of all time, let down by the cowardice/lack of vision from companies and investors, so they end up not being developed, then the Americans buy the rights for a pittance, actually make their idea and coin it it. The Brain drain; Intelligent, hard working, useful people often emigrate, because the quality of life here isn't very good compared to what they could have in other developed countries. A 1984 style government; taking our money isn't enough, they want to control every facet of our lives and infringe on our freedoms constantly too. High taxes coupled with abysmal public services. Shit transport infrastructure (rubbish public transport, congested poorly maintained roads, obscene fuel costs). Overcrowded and hence stupid house prices. Ineffective companies staffed with unreliable, dishonest, inefficient retards. |
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sounds like a weird plot to increase the popularity of something. who is gordon brown? |
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Tony Blair's puppet master. Lurks in the shadows controlling the country, whilst letting Blair take the flack for his poor decisions. Allegedly. |
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australia |
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i was thinking more along the lines of the slave trade, and massacring various tribes during the empire. |
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ah, right. |
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he's the chancellor, he wants to be prime minister. according to 2DTV, he gives his kids lumps of scottish highland granite for christmas |
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he's probably going to try and boost his popularity by creating an identity he thinks will make it more likely for him to be elected prime minister. |
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apparently some guy did a poll to choose a day to celebrate "britishness" and the most common suggestion was the day the magna carta was signed! i mean, isnt that an english thing? i would have said the act of union in 1707 (whatever day that was) would be the best day to celebrate britishness, since britain was built on that day. or 5th november? we already celebrate that |
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fuck all to do with his personality. more to do with a long-term war plan that will need unity. it's all group psychology, same way bush gets creationism taught in schools and the faux debate of intelligent design and darwinism. splits and divides people broadly. especialy so with religion, the cognitive leap between putting faith in a proofless deity and putting faith in a proofless government isn't a big one. once britishness becomes loosely defined then you can have anti-britishness. what is it anyway.....pissing around on a penny tharthing wearing a bowler hat and massacring little brown nations so you can bring a minor bird back for the queen? FUCK OFF! |
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being british means your women are skanky |
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we already have anti-britishness, its called the IRA, and 7/7 |
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see you've fallen for it already. twit. |
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there isnt really such a thing as britishness , in my opinion it is going to be imposed on us, i reckin, as a way of creating a single culture. the "multicultural britain" thing is blamed by some of creating islamic terrorism here - since different migrant cultures collect together in distinct areas within cities. and apparently making a british culture will fix this. its a bit shaky, but this seems to be whats going on. theyve already introduced a "britishness" test which immigrants must take |
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brit = covenant/contract brit-ish = people of the covenant that covenant you know. the one. |
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So it's not only Polish politics getting all nationalistic all of a sudden. No need for this shit, it's evil. |
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Re; that Britishness test. Yes, a mate of mine just took that. He reckoned it was like the American equivalent. IE a load of useless stuff about the inner workings of government, the monarchy, etc. that aside from being of no use to normal people, were not things the indiginous population would know anyway. |
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Martin Amis |
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being uptight, have an elegant accent and don't understand funny. |
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We invented "funny". We're shit at a lot of things, but "funny" is not one of them. |
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british funny stuff is da best. thats why you can go all across HMVs in canada and find "british humor" aisles. |
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I think this is a silly idea, the rest of the UK hate England. English people (of which I must include myself) seem to think that they invented everything and that the rest of the UK is somewhat backwards. |
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I've been under the impression lately that the Brits are in love with themselves and have a superiority complex. They only seem to like British things, too, and won't hesitate to say something of theirs (coming from Britiain) is better. . There is plenty of natianlism in England Id say. Maybe its just me. |
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we like to think we still rule the world |
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ok get this you don't understand FUNNY, you have excellent humour, things like monty python and full monty, and mr bean. but that's not funny funny. you just don't get it. jee |
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OK |
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But we love the crazy frog, that proves we get "funny". |
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do you like stand up? |
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