#i hate the British version

[micechicken]

The "brostep enjoyers report to head banging cause they can't dance to the music" is 1000x funnier when you remember those videos in the 2010s of people dancing to dubstep music.

[leonisandmurex]

Her wedding may of taken place on dreary November's day but Queen Elizabeth's bridal gown, designed by Norman Hartnell, was inspired by the famous Botticelli Primavera painting; ⚘ Primavera the personification of Spring ⚘

[momo-de-avis]

Do you guys remember the british tv show Misfits that truly introduced the insane acting range of the guy who in Game of Thrones cut Theon Greyjoys's dick off and just how insanely good that show was

[breitzbachbea]

I think my friends tend to forget that my Sophie lass is not a Human OC, but was originally conceptualized as Northern Ireland. And I think as I have been writing IP again, I actually inadvertently slip more and more into an overlap between her Hetaverse Nation counterpart and the LFLS AU character.

Not only is she plagued by always only ever being seen like an extension of her brother, unable to escape his shadow and be her own person (either because people expect her to be like him or see her only through the lense of the relationship they have with her brother), but godfuckingdamnit, is she ANGRY. And don't tell me an Northern Ireland that you don't believe to be Ulster (I don't) wouldn't be ANGRY. Whether you believe them to be born at the time of the Plantation in the 1600s or at the time of Partition in 1921, they're born out of violence and conflict. Search for the Steelboys and the Oakboys, not to mention the Defenders if you want something Catholic. Belfast was a hotbed of protest and dissent to the British government, for various different reasons throughout the centuries.

In LFLS, Soph is 17 and lonely and so fucking angry underneath all the hopelessness. Angry at how her family burdened her with this bullshit, angry that it is her cross to bear to worry for them, angry that she has no fucking agency. Angry to always be the little sister, the little O'Connel, never her own person because the entire past looms so large over her future. She was born into violence and no one ever let her have her own hand in it.

[wise-lizard-wizard]

So...I, um. In my country, we celebrate Guy Fawkes day, and I was told that Guy Fawkes was some guy who tried to blow up the British Parliament/Place with important politicians and failed.

And I always thought that the reason we celebrated Guy Fawkes day was because we hated the british and we were commemorating the tragedy of the guy not succeeding or something.

(I mean, we shoot fireworks, that feels like a very "he didn't succeed, so we shoot fireworks in his honor" kind of thing)

But then I just decided to google it and apparently its a commemoration/celebration by the british that the guy and his gang didn't succeed is assassinating the british king (they wanted to kill the king because they were catholic and he was protestant and they wanted to replace him with a catholic king).

And then the day later evolved into a "we hate the pope" thing??? Unclear. Definitely anti-catholic.

Anyway, I've talked to quite a few people and none of us know wtf this day is actually about, we just know it as "day we do fireworks".

All in all, could not care less about the british version of Guy Fawkes, in South Africa its "Chance to set off pretty explosives day"

[bibleofficial]

amazon is off their shit w the way they put ads in everything i HATE how the new ‘premium model’ is just … without ads. like buy an amazon fire tv & have ads built into ur television. a billboard in ur living room

[goldenfire357]

[anislandofmyown]

the recent boom in the popularity of video essays is very vindicating as a former child who said "this is like ..." a lot in reference to some piece of media being consumed by a group and everyone else in the group turning slowly to look at you in mystified confusion

[snekdood]

finding a way to put your hair up Without it pulling in anyway is hard. i look like a victorian mother who lost a child and looks somberly out the window while it rains and im wearing a emerald green dress and my house is unusually dark and everything looks like it has a washed out filter on it

[talentforlying]

that good omens scene in 1941 will never not make me think of constantine since, on account of the demon blood, canonically he can't spend too long on hallowed ground or he'll start to boil inside. damned inconvenient when your whole thing is, y'know, exorcising demons and handling holy shit.

he has definitely tried to pass it off as poorly-timed white dad dancing before.

[thebendsbyradiohead]

ugh so u know how my swedish coworker stayed with me for the weekend? so it all went fine tbh we had fun & she even got me this goodie bag in thanks with earl gray tea, lingonberry jam, pistachio cream & a new claw clip since my old one broke at work which was really sweet of her considering the shithole she was staying in lol

anw today at the marketing meeting with the ppl from other markets we were talking abt it and the dude from the UK goes "oh [coworker's name] you stayed at lina's? did you see the fog and beautiful trees from her background? does her place really look like that?" like motherfucker there's probably a very good reason why i keep my background on all the time & even if i didn't have one you're not entitled to know what my house looks like tf??? how are we 4 years into this and this is STILL an issue? you should be so lucky to even see my face let alone my house

& ofc then the convo got awkward bc she couldn't outright say "well it's a hundred year old dilapidated hovel" so she had to go "it has a very interesting layout, let's just say that" & then i had to go and for some reason explain the history of my house even tho this man has never seen it nor needs to know anything about it because there was simply nothing else to talk about in the meeting bc none of the other fuckers from other markets joined like they don't every week :) rant over

[lesbiten]

mark of cain plot DOES start in season 9. i thought so but 11 episodes in i was starting to be like wow i was really off huh

[ghostingcrows]

You know the more I think about it

As much as a trash british people

The british fucks are always my favorite characters 

[fujikoi]

the best cooking show on netflix is back 🔥

cookers have to cook in a sensible time, most of them took part in multiple competitions but they´re not professional (and there´s a chef in the mix this year) and the challenge is in the ingredients and method

they don´t compete serving crudo...

[elodieunderglass]

Hey bestie whats a narrow boat? I saw you tag that on something you reblogged and I'm pretty curious now!

- Terry Darlington, Narrow Dog to Carcassone

A narrowboat (all one word) is a craft restricted to the British Isles, which are connected all over by a nerve-map of human-made canals. To go up and down hills, the canals are spangled with locks (chambers in which boats can be raised or lowered by filling or emptying them with water.) As Terry says above, the width of the locks was somewhat randomly determined, and as a result, the British Isles have a narrow design of lock - and a narrowboat to fit through them. A classic design was seventy feet long and six feet wide. Starting in the 18th century, and competing directly with trains, canal “barges” were an active means of transport and shipping. They were initially pulled along the towpaths by horses, and you can still see some today!

Later, engines were developed.

Even after the trains won the arms race, it was a fairly viable freight service right up until WW2. It’s slow travel, but uses few resources and requires little human power, with a fairly small crew (of women, in WW2) being capable of shifting two fully laden boats without consuming much fossil fuel.

In those times the barges were designed with small, cramped cabins in which the boaters and their families could live.

During its heyday the narrowboat community developed a style of folk art called “roses and castles” with clear links to fairground art as well as Romani caravan decor. They are historically decorated with different kinds of brass ornaments, and inside the cabins could also be distinctively painted and decorated.

Today, many narrowboats are distinctively decorated and colorful - even if not directly traditional with “roses and castles” they’ll still be bright and offbeat. A quirky name is necessary. All narrowboats, being boats, are female.

After a postwar decline, interest in the waterways was sparked by a leisure movement and collapsing canals were repaired. Today, the towpaths are a convenient walking/biking trail for people, as they connect up a lot of the mainland of the UK, hitting towns and cities. Although the restored canals are concrete-bottomed, they’re attractive to wildlife. Narrowboats from the 1970s onward started being designed for pleasure and long-term living. People enjoy vacationing by hiring a boat and visiting towns for a cuter, comfier, slower version of a campervan life. And a liveaboard community sprang up - people who live full-time on boats. Up until the very restrictive and nasty laws recently passed in the UK to make it harder for travelling peoples (these were aimed nastily at vanlivers and the Romani, and successfully hit everyone) this was one of the few legal ways remaining to be a total nomad in the UK.

Liveaboards can moor up anywhere along the canal for 28 days, but have to keep moving every 28 days. (Although sorting out the toilet and loading up with fresh water means that a lot of people move more frequently than that.) you can also live full-time in a marina if they allow it, or purchase your own mooring. In London, where canal boats are one of the few remaining cheapish ways to live, boats with moorings fetch the same prices as houses. It can be very very hard for families to balance school, parking, work, and all the difficulties of living off-grid- but many make it work. It remains a diverse community and is even growing, due to housing pressures in the UK. Boats can be very comfortable, even when only six feet wide. When faced with spending thousands of pounds on rent OR mooring up on a nice canal, you can see why it seems a romantic proposition for young people, and UK television channels always have slice-of-life documentaries about young folks fixing up their very own quirky solar-powered narrowboat. I don’t hate; I did it myself.

If you’re lucky, you might even meet some of the cool folks who run businesses from their narrowboats: canal-side walkers enjoy bookshops, vegan bakeries, ice-cream boats, restaurants, artists and crafters. There are Floating Markets and narrowboat festivals. It’s generally recognised that boaters contribute quite a lot to the canal - yet there are many tensions between different kinds of boaters (liveaboards vs leisure boaters vs tourists) as well as tensions with local settled people, towpath users like cyclists, and fishermen. I could go on and on explaining this rich culture and dramas, but I won’t.

Phillip Pullman’s Gyptians are a commonly cited example of liveaboards - although they were based on the narrowboat liveaboards that Pullman knew in Oxford, their boats are actually Dutch barges. Dutch barges make good homes but are too wide to access most of the midlands and northern canals, and are usually restricted to the south of the UK. So they’re accurate for Bristol/London/Oxford, and barges are definitely comfier to film on. (Being six feet wide is definitely super awkward for a boat.) but in general Dutch barges are less common, more expensive and can’t navigate the whole system.

However, apart from them, there are few examples of narrowboat depictions that escaped containment. So it’s quite interesting that there is an entire indigenous special class of boat, distinctive and highly specialised and very cute, with an associated culture and heritage and folk art type, known to all and widely celebrated, and ABSOLUTELY UNKNOWN outside of the UK - a nation largely known around the world for inflicting its culture on others. They’re a strange, sweet little secret - and nobody who has ever loved one can resist pointing them out for the rest of their lives, or talking about them when asked to. Thank you for asking me to.

[dreamerwriternstargazer]

TENDONNATENDONNATENDONNATENDONNA HELLL TO THE YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS *GOES INTO FULL PROUD BRIT MODE*

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