I'm British AMA - Toodle-pip, let's do a flip

[Spunt]

What's it like driving by or seeing super old buildings and monuments? We have some stuff in the USA but it's not the same age usually. I'd imagine it's like any other scenery where it blends in after a while.

We don't pay all that much attention for the most part. Whatever you grow up next to seems normal I guess. Though watching Americans try to compute things like Stonehenge is quite entertaining.

What's the best fast food chain there, for a given value of "best" since it IS fast food, after all?

We have most of the same chains you do, even Taco Bell and Chipotle even though Mexican food is a niche thing here - Indian food fills the same slot in our culture. Fish and Chips is probably the best local fast food, there aren't many big chains, it's mostly independent outlets so the quality of the local "Chippy" can vary.

Sadly I don't live near BINLEY MEGA CHIPPY so I'm missing out on what is clearly the best food on Earth:

When are you going to continue your guide to Britain thread? Shit was great

I was struggling to think of more things to add to it but I've realised that the Royal Family is both interesting and something Americans seem very confused about so I'll write that up when I have time.

 

[TheRetardKing]

We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

 

[Crex Crex]

Guns are banned and the trains are always on strike so you can't throw yourself in front of one either.

Just drive to the cliffs at Dover and call it a day bruh.

 

[Spunt]

Just drive to the cliffs at Dover and call it a day bruh.

Nope, can't do that either because the M20 motorway to Dover now looks like this thanks to the government's superb Brexit planning:


I'm sorry man, but trust me we've tried everything. We're trapped here forever, with just BINLEY MEGA CHIPPY for sustenance.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Why do angloids pronounce the word "lieutenant" as "left-tenant", like it has a fucking F in it. Justify this shit now, OP

 

[starborn427614]

Do you also wake up screaming "GOD SAVE THE KING" or is that just a thing I should look into?

 

[AMHOLIO]

We don't pay all that much attention for the most part. Whatever you grow up next to seems normal I guess. Though watching Americans try to compute things like Stonehenge is quite entertaining.

I get in awe of skyscrapers sometimes even though they're not that old and big trees, but I think that's a me thing lol.

Where will the former 3 cheeked booty wonder go next after England? What country looks ripe for the picking?


Also you have one of my favorite paintings as your icon (in Kwiggle costume bless you), do you have any other paintings or drawings you like that are metal? Or just cool? It's not related to the UK I just like art sperging.

Do you also wake up screaming "GOD SAVE THE KING" or is that just a thing I should look into?

They're still caught on "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN" and hoping he'll troon out so they don't have to change that much.

 

[Spunt]

Why do angloids pronounce the word "lieutenant" as "left-tenant", like it has a fucking F in it. Justify this shit now, OP

We pronounce it correctly, as we do with words such as "aluminium". Actually most British people pronounce it the American way nowadays anyway.

Do you also wake up screaming "GOD SAVE THE KING" or is that just a thing I should look into?

We wake up screaming, that's for sure.

I get in awe of skyscrapers sometimes even though they're not that old and big trees, but I think that's a me thing lol.

Where will the former 3 cheeked booty wonder go next after England? What country looks ripe for the picking?

That would be excessive PL, sadly.

Also you have one of my favorite paintings as your icon (in Kwiggle costume bless you), do you have any other paintings or drawings you like that are metal? Or just cool? It's not related to the UK I just like art sperging.

I'm not a big art guy, but I do like Beksinski's work a great deal, H.R. Geiger too.

 

[WolfeTone]

Why do you get visibly upset when you see antisemitism?

 

[AMHOLIO]

That would be excessive PL, sadly.

That's all good, if you end up near Null make sure to say hi (or not he might shoot anyone who coles onto his lawn on sight), if you go to southeast asia to get asian slaveboys make sure to whip them properly. Wherever you go I hope the food, people, & scenery are nice.

I'm not a big art guy, but I do like Beksinski's work a great deal, H.R. Geiger too.

That's ok, you have good taste anyway. Excellent.

 

[Dude Snakes]

Im not exactly British but close enough, my mom is British and I was born and raised in Canada.

 

[Spunt]

Why do you get visibly upset when you see antisemitism?

We conquered half the world and put every race and creed under our cruel thumb, invented capitalism, built a banking system that oppresses all of humanity and you give the credit to the fucking JEWS. Of course we're fucking upset.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Weird question: where would you put the Brits on the individualism vs collectivism scale?

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

We pronounce it correctly, as we do with words such as "aluminium"

You didn't answer my question, fuckhead

 

[Quack_Quack]

Be glad you're in Scotland.

I'm just happy I'm not in the city and the chippy closest is quite nice.

 

[Spunt]

Weird question: where would you put the Brits on the individualism vs collectivism scale?

We're a very individualist lot by and large, at least in England, which is why we're not as interested in Socialism as most of continental Europe.

 

[Monkey Shoulder]

Where are you emigrating to?

 

[Spunt]

Where are you emigrating to?

As the great Wizzard Rincewind once said - when running away, it doesn't matter where you're running to. What matters is what you're running from.

Also, see above, would be powerlevelling.

Also, just to be clear, I don't live in Scotland. Thank fuck. Scotland is even more incompetently governed than even England is:

How it started:


How it's going:

 

[frap]

What's it like driving by or seeing super old buildings and monuments? We have some stuff in the USA but it's not the same age usually. I'd imagine it's like any other scenery where it blends in after a while.

Spunt answered already, but Todd in the Shadows did a review of Ed Sheeran’s song Castle on a Hill a little while back and Todd seemed to think it sounded like some made up fairytale place, but it’s quite normal in the UK (Europe in general really), especially in Wales which is fairly packed with both castles and hills. I’ve lived in several different towns and cities, always within short walking distance of either a castle or castle ruins.

 

[Spunt]

Bear in mind that while many of these castles are very old, many of them were in use for a very long time. At the time of the American revolution many still had up to a century of military use left in them, with others still in use today as homes for aristocrats or as hotels. Most if not all of them were extensively modified over their lives and for most there's not much of the original medieval fortification left.