Is There Literally Anything Left of Value in the UK?

[ProgKing of the North]

Mostly what we have left in the UK are museums full of relics of a grander past. You can go the the rail museum in York and see a steam locomotive (SNG A4 Pacific "Mallard") that to this day holds the land speed record for a steam train. She now sits dead and unsteamed because the museum know that if she is damaged too badly there's little hope anybody exists anymore with the skill to repair her.

Wonderful song about the Mallard

 

[millais]

No, Airstrip One doubleplus ungood

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

@ProgKing of the North I was watching a documentary recently that talked about the time she was running heritage daytrippers on the Settle and Carlisle. The BBC wanted to film her and they brought a helicopter so they could get some lovely sweeping shots of her going through the highlands, a helicopter which they had to give up on because despite being you know, a fucking helicopter the thing couldn't keep up with her.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

BBC Radio 4 (the rest of the corp can get fucked)
The Ulster fry
Tayto cheese and onion crisps.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Black Books.

 

[I Love Beef]

Punk rock? Go Go Dancers and the kinky boots industry? Doctor Who? Scotland tourism?

Then again I might be behind the times.... The only thing I can think of worth are old Commodore systems. As James Rolfe showed, they're great to set on fire and make comedy videos about.

 

[User names must be unique]

Punk rock? Go Go Dancers and the kinky boots industry? Doctor Who? Scotland tourism?

Then again I might be behind the times.... The only thing I can think of worth are old Commodore systems. As James Rolfe showed, they're great to set on fire and make comedy videos about.

Commodore were american, you might be thinking Acorn but they're kinda still relevant as the main designers behind ARM processors though it'd be dishonest to say ARM is still British.

 

[TowinKarz]

Anything of value you say?

How about the SS Richard Montgomery?

 

[byuu]

you might be thinking Acorn but they're kinda still relevant as the main designers behind ARM processors

Which includes a tranny. It doesn't get more British than that.

 

[Elysian]

This is probably gonna be a huge fucking blogpost but I’m just about drunk enough not to care so fuck it. I’m at least self aware enough not to give away my irl location.

My hometown makes nice chip shop chips different from how everyone else does it, but alternatively there’s an ugly industrial estate that thinks way too highly of itself every other block and I fucking hate it. Anything fun is in the big city and you have to get a train but I have no friends there so I can’t stay out late since there ain’t no late train back and I’d rather claw out my own eyes than be drunk around my parents.

Nothing fucking happens in my boring ass hometown so when I finish uni and inevitably have to move back in with my parents I’m gonna be 200 miles away from everyone I actually care about and my life is gonna become a monotonous nightmare of a dead end minimum wage retail job and eating at the same 10 chain restaurants with my family over and over again until I actually have money. Highlights include visiting my grandma (she makes nice Sunday roasts tbh no hate tho) and occasionally hanging out with the one weeb neck beard from high school I haven’t grown apart from. At least he’s shaved the actual IRL neck beard off and makes an effort to hide his waifu body pillow when I visit. But I’m a girl and it feels awkward when I drag him around the local shopping my centre to go clothes/makeup shopping even though it’s kinda equal since he drags me to GAME to talk about PS Vita weeb games with the cashier. And we both like going to CeX and Waterstones even though he looks at the manga and I look at the normie shit. Still, female socialisation is a bitch and still makes me feel bad for hanging out with him unless ya boi Marvel Studios come out with a new movie and give me an excuse.

The highlight of the place is a festival on my grandma’s street once a year but the only part worth caring about is the fairground and I can only go if I have money to pay for the rides. That is not a common occurance.

My cousin works in the city and has friends there so she manages to live here and not completely hate it, and my younger sister is still in school and besotted enough with her boyfriend to not give a fuck about staying in this garbage neighbourhood but I’m just not about that life fam. Moving back home is gonna be real awkward because I just fucking know in the depths of my soul that everyone’s gonna get offended when I wanna move back to the city I’m currently at uni in again because here I have friends and a boyfriend and things actually happen.

Kill me now, I’d honestly prefer it.

 

[Konover]

Is this a discussion that needs to be had? I think the answer is fairly obvious.

jack shit

 

[Autisimodo]

Australia. (Technically not in the UK but we're in the Commonwealth so it still counts in a way)

 

[Yaito-Chan]

There's still those nice old buildings that gentlemen of the homosexual persuasion like to cruise in. Other than that, I don't think there is really anything of much value in the world at all.

 

[Jack Haywood]

Britain has lost it's enthusiasm and work ethic. ...all they (immigrants) do is fill a vacuum created by people too lazy and complacent to work.

Interesting perspective. Can you give any examples of this loss of work ethic that you've personally seen, or heard about from other people?

 

[Grotesque Bushes]

Interesting perspective. Can you give any examples of this loss of work ethic that you've personally seen, or heard about from other people?

One of the offices I work closely with is in the UK. The guys there are highly competent, but having them keep to project schedules and act on their own initiative is like wringing water from a stone. It's perfectly normal for an entire team supporting an important piece of the infrastructure to fuck off for a 1.5-2h lunch to grab chicken and beer at Weatherspoons every week.

 

[The best and greatest]

-if Kate bush is still in the UK, she definitely gets an evac
-save the members of my bloody valentine so they can make a 4th album
-tony iommi in honor of his years of heavy riffage
-nigel farage who tried to save them, but in the end the future refused to change
- Tommy Robinson for being one of the few Brits with a working sack
-all dozen or so of the hot british chicks
-border collies, because the beauty of the border collie breed must not perish from the earth
-any Welsh corgis on the god forsaken island
That's about it, nuke the rest to be sure

Nigel farage is a self-serving coward no different from any of his immediate peers.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

One of the offices I work closely with is in the UK. The guys there are highly competent, but having them keep to project schedules and act on their own initiative is like wringing water from a stone. It's perfectly normal for an entire team supporting an important piece of the infrastructure to fuck off for a 1.5-2h lunch to grab chicken and beer at Weatherspoons every week.

Are they hiring? Sounds like my kind of workplace

 

[NoFeline]

Britain has lost it's enthusiasm and work ethic. Nationalist idiots are quick to blame immigrants but all they do is fill a vacuum created by people too lazy and complacent to work.

Interesting perspective. Can you give any examples of this loss of work ethic that you've personally seen, or heard about from other people?

One of the offices I work closely with is in the UK. The guys there are highly competent, but having them keep to project schedules and act on their own initiative is like wringing water from a stone. It's perfectly normal for an entire team supporting an important piece of the infrastructure to fuck off for a 1.5-2h lunch to grab chicken and beer at Weatherspoons every week.

I have several friends in the UK and it's like pulling teeth getting them to work on anything in a meaningful way, even things that are supposed to be their passion. Then listening to them talk about their families and communities, seems like you're all depressed. It's that apathy that's allowed this to happen, I think.

 

[Grotesque Bushes]

I have several friends in the UK and it's like pulling teeth getting them to work on anything in a meaningful way, even things that are supposed to be their passion. Then listening to them talk about their families and communities, seems like you're all depressed. It's that apathy that's allowed this to happen, I think.

Most bongs I interact with are initially very, well, british, but when you get a couple of drinks in them the facade cracks and they seem really fed up and helpless when it comes to the state of their country and communities. They just seem broken.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

Interesting perspective. Can you give any examples of this loss of work ethic that you've personally seen, or heard about from other people?

During my late teenage years I worked more delivery jobs than you can count. I can't even put an estimate on the number of people who I delivered to that were sat at home drinking at 10AM. Benefits are no longer stigmatised, when I was young being 'on the dole' was a shameful thing. Somebody on benefits was looked at with a mixture of scorn and pity. Nowadays benefits are a lifestyle. In the company I used to work for, the average British person lasted under a week on the production floor, our staff was 92% eastern european because those guys can fucking work. Foreign workers pick our fruit and vegetables, they process out food, they repair our electronics and they build.our houses. They do these things because they aren't afraid of hard work. Finding work in England is piss easy. Twice in the last two years I've found a job within 48 hours of looking for one, and not a crummy minimum wage job either. I'm nothing special, I'm not a doctor or a teacher. I work security and I'm good at it. Even that is now dominated by foreign workers. Anybody in this country who bitches that they can't find a job, isn't fucking trying. They'd rather sit about watching state funded TV and complaining about "fucking immigrants".