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lenoon
Jan 7, 2010

we drink? That's about it really. Drink, occasionally think about a castle.

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Fluo
May 25, 2007

Its raining atm OP

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
this is actually what happens all day in da UK

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

wait i just remembered something

theatre in the round

that is something that happens there right

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

CabaretVoltaire posted:

i live in britain so i'll try to help.


because it's so miserable here and no one wants to go out we're the world leaders in e-commerce. there's still shops and supermarkets but they'll be gone soon.

so there's a lot of jobs in that. developers, designers, managers, management consultants, buzzword talkers. Also everything used to be delivered by "Royal Mail" but the e-commerce boom has boosted the private courier industry. A lot of people work as private couriers now. If you buy something from Amazon more than likely it'll be delivered by a car full of Asian Rude Boys who drive around in their boy racer car smoking weed. Or you might get a real old white guy or a very abrupt juiced up Polish guy.

other people work in call centres. these call centres buy your mobile (cell phone) number from e-commerce companies and then call you up asking about "your accident". If you're dumb enough to talk to them and you did actually have an accident they probably want to sue someone on your behalf and pocket a big chunk of the ££££. I'm not really sure tbh.

if you live in london you can be a banker and make billions a week doing gently caress all apparently but renting a room to live in costs trillions so you have to commute

a lot of people do legit get drunk in pubs all day, every day. no idea how they afford it

a lot of people work for the NHS (socialised healthcare) where they mainly have to patch up people who get drunk all day, every day. if you ever have to go to an emergency room you'll see they're full of drunk people who've managed to hurt themselves in stupid ways, drunk people fighting, drunk pregnant people fighting.

we have places called "Job Centre Plus" where unemployed people go to look for jobs and talk to advisors. These places have literal BOUNCERS and security guards like nightclubs as most of the unemployed people are drunk / high and fights break out constantly
this is the choice deets i was lookin for.

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

oh, and bear-baiting

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.
I've been to London about a million times and it's great but man that place is "20 years in the dystopian future" world


~the trash from discarded evening standards wafts gently in the tube air~

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Financial services motherfucker :britain::homebrew::capitalism::c00lbert:

Sulphuric Asshole
Apr 25, 2003
Every County in England has a name that sounds like the title of an infant's tv show. "I live in Dibbley Wibbley on Toppletops"

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Mr. Pumroy posted:

wait i just remembered something

theatre in the round

that is something that happens there right

Not any more than anywhere else? I mean when I walk to work I don't generally pass random theatres rounding or anything.

ChairmanMeow
Mar 1, 2008

Fire up the grill everyone eats tonight!
Lipstick Apathy
it's my understanding they play soccer then wreck up stuff.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Pablo Bluth posted:

Due to our lack of legal access to guns, all of our major cities are not unlike New York as portrayed in Escape from New York. Also the NHS Death Panels also ensure there are no old people (other than the royal family), as they track your down and put you to sleep a few days after your 59th birthday.

Yeha it's true. Without guns the strong bully the weak and between that and free healthcare from the nhs people arent afraid to start brawls over any little thing.

sout
Apr 24, 2014

ChairmanMeow posted:

it's my understanding they play footy then wreck up stuff.

ftfy :colbert:

lorn Wayne
Jan 7, 2006

:staredog::meowth::pipe:
Drinking, casual racism and disarming politeness in public places.

Noctis Horrendae
Nov 1, 2013

VendaGoat posted:

I also hear the Chimney Sweep business is BOOMING!

im a knocker-up

Indy
Mar 30, 2005

Hey guys, what's up?
I work as a purchaser for a big global company. Sometime we need to order poo poo from UK and I seriously wonder how the hell you guys had an empire.
EVERY TIME its the same story. Nothing gets delivered at the agreed upon date ever. Always some bullshit happening or some "bank day" which never could be anticipated.

Also the only suppliers who still use faxes are from england. gently caress you if you dont use email in 2016.

The parts we need are always spares for some 60 year old machine so I hope they are beyond repair soon.

milkingmycow
Mar 28, 2008

by Cyrano4747
England was tits. Now it's just a cigarette scarred saggy pair of grey tits.

roymorrison
Jul 26, 2005
Lmao imagine if we invaded Britain Christ we could just take the most massive dump and just leave there isn't even oil there this is actually a good thread makes me wonder what is even the point of that country??

Mods?

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

what are the drugs like. whats your drug game. you take crazy things like laudanum right

ghlbtsk
Apr 19, 2005

these bath mats
are
GORGEOUS
I walk around all day yelling "OI!" at people.
This does not pay well.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

roymorrison posted:

Lmao imagine if we invaded Britain Christ we could just take the most massive dump and just leave there isn't even oil there this is actually a good thread makes me wonder what is even the point of that country??

Mods?

they actually have a modern military. not necessarily a good military, but the us just isnt equipped to fight anyone but dirt farmers with ak's.

Calbiyum
May 18, 2015
I picture them all talking like nigel thornberry

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Serious Frolicking posted:

they actually have a modern military. not necessarily a good military, but the us just isnt equipped to fight anyone but dirt farmers with ak's.

Also nukes. Invade us and we glass your rear end (then get burned to the ground, but still)

Also actually there is oil, though less and less of it by the day.

Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.
lots of chavs too no

Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.
wtf is a chav

Calbiyum
May 18, 2015

roymorrison posted:

Lmao imagine if we invaded Britain Christ we could just take the most massive dump and just leave there isn't even oil there this is actually a good thread makes me wonder what is even the point of that country??

Mods?

Lolllll he asked the mods

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Cry Havoc posted:

wtf is a chav

its like a lil onion plant but just the grass part?

Haptical Sales Slut
Mar 15, 2010

Age 18 to 49

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

its like a lil onion plant but just the grass part?

I like them on my baked potato

real_slime
Apr 21, 2015

by Lowtax

CabaretVoltaire posted:

we have places called "Job Centre Plus" where unemployed people go to look for jobs and talk to advisors. These places have literal BOUNCERS and security guards like nightclubs as most of the unemployed people are drunk / high and fights break out constantly

people also go there to collect unemployment and then go to the club where they also have bouncers. just gettin bounced all day long.

in the uk getting benefits is a bad thing.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

Drei Gläser
Everything north of the M25 (a large circular road around London) is basically menial jobs, fighting, and fast food. Everything south of the M25 is tea, scones and Volvos.

Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.
what about geordie shore

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Cry Havoc posted:

wtf is a chav

Proud blue collar working class people. The proletariat.

BobbyThompson
Mar 23, 2001

Cry Havoc posted:

what about geordie shore

Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.
is that the same as bangers and mash

George Zimmer
Jun 28, 2008
British goons: how often do you and your mates have a spot of jellied eel at the chippy

Creepy Goat
Sep 19, 2010
i work in ecommerce and commute and literally never go outside because the idea of being around other english people sickens me

also my entire commute is under a roof, there's like a 20 second dash in the outside air then quickly under a roof again

RobattoJesus
Aug 13, 2002

George Zimmer posted:

British goons: how often do you and your mates have a spot of jellied eel at the chippy

It's nothing on a bit of Lamprey Pie



Unless you're one of our Kings who died because he ate too many of them.

Trump.mp4
Feb 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
The main job for people in Britain is TV License Policeman. Here is a great documentary about it I saw on BBC America.

NSFW(if your boss can understand marblemouth)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfHRhXW1hno

Acid Haze
Feb 16, 2009

:parrot:
The British live on very large but terrible islands, and on many occasions seek out similarly big and equally miserable islands to live on. Every facet of their society is designed to facilitate this and it is their driving force in life.

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Willfrey
Jul 20, 2007

Why don't the poors simply buy more money?
Fun Shoe
My Argentinian friend says they are coasting on that Falkland Island money. Any other colony kickbacks i am forgetting?

Willfrey fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Jan 27, 2016

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