#America vs England

[shadowdemon-gd]

This felt less like the American Revolution and more like the War of 1812. It just ended in a stalemate with no one getting anything done

[nationmckinleyscorset]

I actually dated someone American and we exchanged info on school systems lol

Accidental info dump below the cut (sorry loves)

Over here college is 16-18 (or whatever age you apply, anyone can go to college. For example my friend is 20 and there's some 19 year old in our class who took a level 2 course before getting progressed onto level 3 so they're doing an extra year) after that you can do university or higher education in general. Our uni is your "college".

My ex actually told me they don't have apprenticeships over there either, that's an alternative to college where you get paid to do on the job training.

Hope this helps!

Oh yeah also we have year groups rather than grades

Infant school:

Reception = 4-5 (yrs old)

Year 1 = 5-6

Year 2 = 6-7

Junior school:

Year 3 = 7-8

Year 4 = 8-9

Year 5 = 9-10

Year 6 = 10-11

High/secondary school:

Year 7 = 11-12

Year 8 = 12-13

Year 9 = 13-14

Year 10 = 14-15

Year 11 = 15-16

Then you can choose college or sixth form - sixth form is 2 years where you stay at secondary school but with perks like not having to wear uniform and taking only the subject you want to do rather than being forced to do 3+core subjects

Core subjects are maths, English and science, these are non optional

You choose 3 others in I think year 10 (I think this has changed now and you have to pick 4) so you get classes for that as well as the core subjects. You have to study those for GCSE which is our equivalent of your SATs.

You also have to do PE (physical education aka gym class), that's non optional but you don't get assessed or have an exam on it

We take SATs in year 6 and a mock version in year 2

Some schools are called primary schools which means it's infants and junior mushed together.

Jeeeeeeez that's a lot of writing. Sorry I know you asked a simple question but I'm oddly interested in this shit.

At college you take 1 subject, that's seperate to school and it's a different building, different set up etc. We don't have dorms and we don't stay on campus it's like school but with no uniform, no detention, no petty punishments and more relaxed teachers. There also tends to be less bullying since it's optional. You also go in for less days most of the time unless it's a prestigious college like the one I initially applied for with runs 9-5 5 days a week.

Even though college is optional you have to do college or an apprenticeship, you can't just immediately find a job or drop out because it's illegal.

@1-800-ishi

[the-last-hipopotamovolador]

Man i hate how many gringos are in this site. I cant open this site without seeing shit about what a gringo political did, or some scandald about a gringo celebrity who i dont even know the name but all the people in here are acting like it was the bigest news of the decade, i dont give a fuck about the try guys, taylor swift, the idontknowthename podcasts or whatever other stuff you guys obsess about. Now with the world cup the only thing you people talk about is the usa- england match, being so many other matches and shit to talk about. And then you always act so woke saying that you hate the usa, and that usa is hell but all you do is talk and talk about "AMERICA". If you hate and question usa so much then stop fucking talking about it all the time and acting like we all care???? Also stop saying america when talking about usa, thats fucking basic knowledge. And then you say that you are critical about USA? My bro, your critical thinking about usa is as deep as a puddle.

Stop being so annoying.

[dannydevitosthiccdog]

More people should think about objective and subjective sizes in relation to countries.

The only example I can give (because it's all I have personal experience in) is Americans saying England is small when English try to say their country is big.

We know objectively that America is bigger, but we may only have experience of a few places.

Subjectivly, England IS big to someone who doesn't leave their hometown, to someone who hasnt left England.

[toasterghostie]

Imagine American Zelda fans slamming Brits over transphobia but they're shit talking the train service and incorrectly tagging their posts

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[milaisreading]

Another day, another bladder sacrifice

[thirdlotusprince3]

America: If me and France were drowning, who would you save?

Britain: You two can’t swim?

America: Its a hypothetical question, who would you save?

Britain: Probably my time and effort.

[aurabora]

who would win in a fight 2014 spamano and usuk cosplayers with their livejournal accounts or the 2024 tiktok anti-proshipper with DNI and ‘07 in their bio?

[jinxedshapeshifter]

I kinda love that even in the non voice acted dialogue, Ryunosuke still speaks with an obvious English accent/dialect, and he seems to be kinda just picking it up from the English people around him as a way of fitting in better. Just got him thinking "It was bothering me before, this was" which isn't phrasing I've ever heard from an American. It's very distinctly English phrasing to me.

This also actually implies a bit about his education, because it would indicate that his English teacher in Japan was from England.

[shadowdemon-gd]

YOU KNOW WHAT? FUCK IT! AMERICA WON 0-0 BITCH! IT’S FUCKING CALLED SOCCER! SUCK MY DICK YOU BRI’ISH BITCHES! SUCK MY FAT FUCKING DICK

[micpanda]

#literally if you ever need to kill a british person just say aluminum #and the next five minutes they’ll be so focused on mocking you they won’t even notice you stabbing them [tags via @girl4pay]

When people make fun of briticisms it's always things like colour shouldn't have a u in. Who cares. Criticise stuff we should actually be embarrassed about.

[overclockedopossum]

I did a tumblr search for 'british miku' since @thanook has been spamming my dash with brazilian mikus and found the following:

A handful of poorly-drawn but sincere efforts

An absolute torrent of jingoistic anglophobia from people with no self-awareness

Two weird tradposts that reflect zero understanding of actual british history

Exactly one (1) good post

[godofstory]

🕯🕯🕯🕯manifesting Spain and Argentina's win tonight🕯🕯🕯🕯

🕯🕯🕯🕯manifesting my boys scoring🕯🕯🕯🕯

🕯🕯dear higher force, you put us Barcelona fans through it all this season, please let us have this win so we can be happy for atleast 2 weeks before Barcelona matches start again and we suffer for a whole year all over again🕯🕯

[death-by-mercury]

There HAS to be cheating in this euro cup, the biased goalie giving England that penalty kick for what??? I swear the goalies are always biased and it’s so unfair! It’s always who the goalies want to win that get the advantage. Even those commentators make the most biased and obnoxious comments that always raise the team they like best up and the team they don’t like down. It’s the same with Copa America.

[frukmerunning]

2022 Art vs Artist! This was so hard to fill out because i’ve drawn basically nothing lmaoo 😭😭

Here’s some previous years for comparison!

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