#and Brits obviously

[dadrockconfessions]

"Hall and oates is the most succesful musical duo in music history" my sweet ass. They can keep that title if they want, but the greatest duo in music history is by far tears for fears. H&O are mostly popular in america, tears for fears are known worldwide and that's all the evidence you need your honor! ✋

[weedle-testaburger]

one topic I find weirdly charming is stuff for kids that's basically specific to one place. when there's some obscure thing that pretty much everyone outside your country goes 'what?' and everyone in your country goes 'OH MY GOD THAT' when you mention it, that's the shit

[ineffablydelighted]

[My humble contribution to the meme mania surrounding @neil-gaiman having pyromaniac tendencies]

Featuring: the reference you SHOULD understand, it was not that long ago, folks 😂😂😂

Also featuring: me, late to the party but here I am with my zero to none Photoshop abilities

(Hi, by the way 👋)

Just came by to drop this and disappear as quickly as I popped.

[wingsofhcpe]

Just finishes Blood Over Bright Haven, went to check some goodreads reviews, and people are shitting on M. L. Wang and calling her work "white saviour complex" and "coloniser romance", also saying that her work is a copy of RFK.

And this is why I think reading comprehension is dead, because if you read BOBH and THAT was your take from it, I'm pretty sure you read it with your eyes closed.

Anyway, if yall actually want an amazing dark academia and steampunk-y book with nuanced discussion about societal issues, amazing writing, a morally grey female protag and unique kickass worldbuilding, you should read BOBH by M. L. Wang.

[batsplat]

Do you remember the first time that the taste was no longer the same even when you won? "Probably 2008 or 2009. We had worked so hard to get where we were that then the time to enjoy victories became very scarce. The constant compromises with the press, the fans and everyone, until I got to the point where I thought: yeah, it didn't have the same effect on me anymore. Then I started to find other reasons to win. I just wanted to beat everyone, just to annoy them. You spent two years in Britain before arriving at the World Championships, living almost like [g slur]. Any good memories of that time? "I made a lot of friends and spent a lot of time with them. Britain was the last time I lived in a civilisation where I could go wherever I wanted and talk to anyone in a shop and everyone spoke English. I felt at home in England, but after that we were not welcomed at the races, the British fans were never happy about my victory." Did that give you even more motivation to win? "Absolutely, when people want you not to win, it's much nicer to do that. But I still don't understand it because I think Britain helped me a lot to get to where I am now, but despite that they continue to hate me." And do you know why they hate you? "I have no idea" Maybe because you were the first to clearly beat Rossi? "Yes, but they hated me even when I ran there. When I was racing in the British 125cc championship, they called me a cheat and so on."

August 2012

[strifesolution]

<3

[akihikosanada]

the dutch are so annoying when it comes to football so i'm glad they aren't finalists 🙏 can't wait for the netherlands and france to bite each other's dicks off for 3rd and 4th place

[adam-scott]

What’s your British snack?

brits have food?

[cocolacola]

it's only a good headcanon if it makes zero sense.

mysterious parents and memory loss will do that i guess.

[yesterdayiwrote]

It’s really frustrating seeing Lando and Oscar do so much press for Silverstone, yet Mercedes have arranged nothing for Lewis and George. Say whatever about McLaren but clearly the PR strategy is working and sponsors are eager to work with them..

Yeah, I mean, does it matter in the grand scheme of things? No, obviously it doesn't change how the weekend is going to go down whether or not they've done some press/promo work before the race.

And sure, Lewis is doing Cbeebies, which is a relatively big deal, even if for a very specific audience...

But it's really annoying when teams seem to think fan engagement starts and stops at material products they can sell you. There's so much talk about how special a home race is and like... maybe I'm weird, but I'd kind of prefer to see drivers commemorating their home gp by doing some little interviews with some different outlets, maybe an appearance on a UK show that doesn't usually cover f1 (because a lot of them do better interviews or do silly fun things) idk just something a bit different and fun? Why does it start and end at them just throwing out a different colour hat that I've got to pay them £50 for the privilege of owning?

And I think McLaren are really good at getting this, kind of putting your drivers out in the wider public conscious humanises them, let's people get to know them, helps build up a support network... I know there's been people before complaining drivers shouldn't want to do stuff like that because they're there to be athletes not TV stars, but actually the line between the sport and media worlds is nearly non existent these days and it always feels like some teams really don't fully embrace utilising it still?

[advnterccs]

{ OOC } i have got to stop listening to this song on repeat and just go to sleep 😩

[swagging-back-to]

rewatching the oa so you know what that means!!!!

yep, im gonna be posting a bunch of rants about abuse in the adoption industry and how the oa is a perfect representation of abusive adopters and how society reacts to witnessing abusive adopters and treats to abused adoptees

[wild-at-mind]

I’ve been thinking about the reason I feel so weird about people on tumblr who aren’t living in the UK making jokes about how great it would be if the UK split up and abandoned England (where I live) and made the great Celtic aliance and whatnot....like, I acknowledge I really have no good social justice approved reasons for feeling weird about this. I’m English in England and I do understand the long history of England oppressing and colonising all the other nations. This isn’t in question. I’m sure it would be better for all the other nations if they left England, and if there was a way it could be done very easily and quickly for everyone, then I’d say do it in a heartbeat. It feels really daft of me to be like thinking about actual logistics because of a fucking joke post which no one really needs, but I always do for some reason and it’s just so stressful to think about. The UK is fucking falling apart right now, it can’t manage anything. Our last Prime Minister lasted 49 days. No one has been elected as PM for like a decade, they all just take over from the last failure in this fucking endless conservative government. It feels never ending. I feel like it was also really easy for people outside the UK to judge Brexit as a terrible idea, but from the inside it was never that simple. It was a really bad idea for sure, and it caused this massive influx of xenophobia, but while it was going on it was all so complicated and there was so much shit on both sides. You would think it would be easy to say like ‘I don’t want to be on the side of xenophobia so I’m anti-Brexit’, but then you would get accused of being in an ivory tower and not affected by the employment issues concerned caused by EU workers or w/e. Someone would write a thinkpiece calling you classist or something, using the exact same emotive language people deploy all the time on here for their good causes. It’s not so easy to be like ‘ok this is good emotive language making me think the right thing, and this is bad emotive language making me think the wrong thing’. In reality, of course, it was never a case of just working class people wanting Brexit and just middle class people wanting remain, that was more fucking propaganda and it was sooooo much more complicated than that. I hope this is starting to get across the problem a bit. A few people were even arguing that Brexit was good because more workers of colour could come into the country if we stopped having so many white EU workers so Brexit could actually be anti-racist. (As if the current government would willingly do anything like that...lol.) What I’m trying to say is it split the country in so many ways, it was a really ugly time. I have heard similar things from people living in Scotland about the last push for Scottish Independance. Whether you were pro or anti, it got ugly and caused massive painful rifts. Now, i do think at some point Scotland will gain independance and I will cheer them on. But it won’t be an easy split, because they never are. The other thing I think gets glossed over is that we aren’t a very big country, of course there’s a lot of movement, many people in England have very recent roots in Scotland, Wales and/or NI. When you make it more distant roots, then it’s a vast percentage. And it’s worth noting that identifying as English specifically, if you live in England, has some connotations of racism and xenophobia against immigrants. (England for the English, that kind of fucked up thing.) People who do not want those connotations who live in England will tend to use the term British to self describe. I don’t know what it means to be ‘English’, specifically, without racism coming into the frame pretty quickly. I think that’s why these posts also read a bit as if annexing England will free the other nations from racism, whether or not that was the intention.

[t4tbedehopmar]

OH COME ON BEEPERS BEDEHOP IS A FRENCH WORD

[summer-fruits-and-cream]

I mean, the guy in the screenshots was half-joking. Obviously being able to cook something well or better is not a guarantee that comes with genetics. But the comment above

As a Brit, I’d like to remind the world that we invented curry, it’s our unofficial national dish. We eat it more than anything else and you can go into any of our fish and chip shops and get curry all over your deep fat fried foods. That whole white people thing is just the USA. I think we exported all the people with no taste which might explain a lot.

isn't cool and I don't like how it was just talked around with "oh but British curry exists"