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Fluo
May 25, 2007

Gilganixon posted:

the beaker folk predate the modern country of britain a little but I did like what they did with Stonehenge

lol yeah, was just doing a nod to Stewart Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HMhWB95ldQ

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jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Gilganixon posted:

the beaker folk predate the modern country of britain a little but I did like what they did with Stonehenge
Stonehenge is lame af compared to most other things made of rocks in the UK and has a pretty unfortunate view which is pretty much just a main road and some hills.

I mean Skara Brae was like years before Stonehenge and it's more impressive by a mile, even though it's pretty much just some houses made of rocks sunk into the ground. The Ring of Brodgar is also legit 100x better than Stonehenge if you like your rocks in a circle.

Basically visit Orkney if you like old stuff, gay ex-riggers, and travel by boat.

(Even Avebury is better than Stonehenge and isn't far from it, go see that instead!)

CabaretVoltaire
Jun 10, 2003
Better than Turin Brakes.
stonehenge is poo poo

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

op there's your anwer - british people argue all day about which county has the best neolithic rock circle

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer
1 Things Only Residents Of The UK Will Understand

Their response to an overhyped stone ring with a 20ft diameter is shocking!

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

and you people can suck my loving dick if you don't like old sarum


vvvv sweet sassy molassy, go dunk a dill pickle, reald-o.

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Gilganixon posted:

and you people can suck my loving dick if you don't like old sarum

i dont like anything

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

dad gay. so what posted:

i dont like anything
You'd fit in well in our dead gay islands.

CabaretVoltaire
Jun 10, 2003
Better than Turin Brakes.
stonehenge is getting redeveloped into student flats

www
Aug 4, 2010

Gilganixon posted:

op there's your anwer - british people argue all day about which county has the best neolithic rock circle

if you are wondering OP the answer is the ring of brodgar on orkney

CabaretVoltaire
Jun 10, 2003
Better than Turin Brakes.
oh yeah most people in Britain who aren't old or Polish are going to University.

there's too many people and not many jobs so the government encourage people to go to university (and pay the government £££££). it gives the government a few years to figure out how the gently caress they're gonna get these people jobs. 4 years later they live University, can't find a job and the government tell them it's because they took the wrong degree or whatever so they go back to university

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Alcoholism, really subpar fist fights, self dentistry, yowling

City of Tampa
May 6, 2007

by zen death robot
I discovered a show called "Time Team" on youtube and I can't stop watching it and now I find myself interested in English history so this thread is OK

Indy
Mar 30, 2005

Hey guys, what's up?

Yes I know but they never seem to plan for them.

the fart question
Mar 21, 2007

College Slice
I like stone henge. I like the other ones too. Is that OK?

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

gender illusionist posted:

I like stone henge. I like the other ones too. Is that OK?
I guess. But the others really are better.

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Indy posted:

Yes I know but they never seem to plan for them.
Well yeah they just sorta sneak up on you and then all of a sudden you get a free 3 day weekend out of nowhere. It's great, you guys should try it!

lenoon
Jan 7, 2010

there is no way the best stone circle isn't avebury. avebury is literally mind-blowing magic. orkney is cool as all hell, but man, avebury

CabaretVoltaire
Jun 10, 2003
Better than Turin Brakes.
yeah most of us dont know when bank holidays are until work is ending on friday and someone says "see you monday!" and some smart alec says "nope see you tuesday! it's bank holiday" and claps and cheers! surprise! woo! bank holiday!!

there's always that one guy in every office who knows and takes off the tuesday so they get an extra long weekend and everyone's confused about it "he's off at the weekend, comes in monday and then has tuesday off??"

CabaretVoltaire
Jun 10, 2003
Better than Turin Brakes.
all stone monuments are lame

lenoon
Jan 7, 2010

CabaretVoltaire posted:

all stone monuments are lame

get hosed

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

CabaretVoltaire posted:

there's always that one guy in every office who knows and takes off the tuesday so they get an extra long weekend and everyone's confused about it "he's off at the weekend, comes in monday and then has tuesday off??"
The worst for this are August Bank Holiday Weekend Bastards.

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

them shits are the reason i'm never going back to work in any UK office. That and i'm unemployable

CabaretVoltaire
Jun 10, 2003
Better than Turin Brakes.
other things britain has:

The BBC - we have to pay a "TV License" a few hundred £ a year to own a TV and all that ££ goes to the BBC. Even if you don't watch any BBC stuff. If you're blind you get a discount. BBC shows are basically complete poo poo like Doctor Who, shows about celebrities learning how to ice skate dance etc but there's no adverts?

a lot of people sit at home watching Eastenders on BBC which is basically a show where people sit in a pub being miserable and occasionally someone gets murdered. It's like Cheers only really bleak and is for people who are too lame to actually go to a pub and be miserable in real life ?

Old one here but i'll mention it anyway . there is a food called Faggots. You can go into a big supermarket and buy Mr Brains Faggots. I think only old people eat Faggots or maybe students eat them ironically.

We don't have Taco Bell (or do we?) but supermarkets stock a lot of sorta mexican food you can buy in a box called "Old El Paso". It's a popular thing in Britain for houses to have a "Spick Week" where they all live on nothing but Old El Paso for a week.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



99% of the BBCs output is garbage, but thank god for the occasional gem. Their news department is nowhere near as good as the ROW thinks it is either, and it's always sad to see them quoted as some kind of bastion of journalism.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Thanks for making this thread, OP. It truly is shameful that the British are so loving worthless and honestly I'm embarrassed on behalf of them. As much as I hate them no one should have to wake up every morning in that shithole and flap their mouths with that retarded accent and it's just a global disgrace.

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

u wot m8

lenoon
Jan 7, 2010

Areet oval office al fookin ave ya ya bastud

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

TEAYCHES posted:

Thanks for making this thread, OP. It truly is shameful that the British are so loving worthless and honestly I'm embarrassed on behalf of them. As much as I hate them no one should have to wake up every morning in that shithole and flap their mouths with that retarded accent and it's just a global disgrace.

Your womenfolk don't think that accent is retarded :smuggo:

(ask yer mam)

Edit: we have like 2 or 3 Taco Bells in the country, there's one in the Manchester Arndale food court. UK Old El Paso is somehow weirdly even less like actual Mexican food than US Old El Paso, though.

Retarded_Clown_
Feb 18, 2012

Wow that's hilarious

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

CabaretVoltaire posted:

We don't have Taco Bell (or do we?) but supermarkets stock a lot of sorta mexican food you can buy in a box called "Old El Paso". It's a popular thing in Britain for houses to have a "Spick Week" where they all live on nothing but Old El Paso for a week.

makes sense

old el paso is total white trash stuff right up there with hamburger helper

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

comes along bort posted:

makes sense

old el paso is total white trash stuff right up there with hamburger helper

Like, this is a thing -

https://oldelpaso.co.uk/products/crispy-chicken-fajita-kit

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
Britain has the best weather, but other than that the people are poo poo , the government is poo poo and the girls are fat and ugly, but have way too high an opinion of themselves.

Fortunately I was intelligent enough to escape that hellhole and get to a real country - MURRICA :patriot:

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

The Saurus posted:

Britain has the best weather, but other than that the people are poo poo , the government is poo poo and the girls are fat and ugly, but have way too high an opinion of themselves.

Fortunately I was intelligent enough to escape that hellhole and get to a real country - MURRICA :patriot:

Where the government is a platonic model of perfection and the girls are all incredibly skinny? :confuoot:

Cos I lived there myself and that wasn't my experience.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Bozza posted:

The NHS means that getting drunk as gently caress, fighting and possibly having to go to the hospital is not a serious thing compared to fail nations that don't have socialised medicine. A pint and a fight, a great British night.

Actually its because an armed society is a polite society

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

CabaretVoltaire posted:

years ago my pal went out in the midnight hours to buy rizla (rolling paper for spliffs) and was attacked by a couple of drunk youths.

a polish guy saw what was going on, got in the middle of it and got my pal to safety in the polish guys house.

the chavs were outside the house shouting the usual nonsense about coming out and fighting etc. The polish guy says to my friend "Don't worry, I call the Party Boys"

then a couple of HUGE polish juicers come out of nowhere and absolutely kick the poo poo out of chavs, and then run off into the night.

The police came around to talk to him about it and he told them the story.. they were all "hmmm so the Party Boys strike again eh"


poles are definitely the best thing about britain

Lol

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

how about we remove the redeeming taste feature of this food:

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002


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The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe

feedmegin posted:

Where the government is a platonic model of perfection and the girls are all incredibly skinny? :confuoot:

Cos I lived there myself and that wasn't my experience.

Did you live in the South?

USGOVT is far superior to pigfucker cameron and his brigade of tory twats, girls are def. more attractive here but there's prob a lot of garbage states out there that break the CURVES

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TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Who the gently caress could possibly buy that and have any remaining self-respect?

Or does that answer the question of why the British are so self-loathing? At this point we have to anthrax their water supply - it's the only humane way to finally end a pathetic two century decline - like smothering your grandfather after the dementia has taken hold.

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