I’ve got a friend trying to move from the United States to England to escape our current shit show, and I’ve been telling him that England tends to do what America does, just with a posh accent to give it an air of legitimacy.
You’re both selling them short. The UK is awful in ways that the Americans can only aspire to. They are each doing their own horrible things, just trading a bit of horrible culture now and then.
I think he is saying they are following the same path, just a few steps behind. So if the US is running over a cliff, the UK will probably consider that a blazed trail and head in that direction too.
So yeah, the US sped up. Doesn’t mean the UK isn’t trying to follow.
What Americans think of as a British accent is an accent that does in fact not exist. Literally no one speaks like that, it’s just playing into the stereotype at this point.
But we can’t make movies with genuine accents because Americans wouldn’t be able to understand it.
Nah. It’s not great here but that’s like leaving the frying pan and jumping into a volcano that’s actively erupting. ICE aren’t just racist, they get off on hurting people and they’re really not bothered who they are.
In some ways they’re very progressive. They abduct and abuse everyone equally.
I’ve got a friend trying to move from the United States to England to escape our current shit show, and I’ve been telling him that England tends to do what America does, just with a posh accent to give it an air of legitimacy.
Oh, as not great as they are, they aren’t even close to being as bad as US.
You’re both selling them short. The UK is awful in ways that the Americans can only aspire to. They are each doing their own horrible things, just trading a bit of horrible culture now and then.
I think he is saying they are following the same path, just a few steps behind. So if the US is running over a cliff, the UK will probably consider that a blazed trail and head in that direction too.
So yeah, the US sped up. Doesn’t mean the UK isn’t trying to follow.
Didn’t /u/flyingsquid move to England? He hasn’t posted in 6 months :o
Yeah, he moved into the badlands near Manchester. Ever seen the movie “The hills have eyes”? Its like that up there.
Oooh, like Hollywood?
If you think they do it with a posh accent you’ve not been to England lol
in US english posh is a synonym for british
/s (½)
That doesn’t scan. Posh Spice would by association be British Spice, and everyone knows that doesn’t exist
What Americans think of as a British accent is an accent that does in fact not exist. Literally no one speaks like that, it’s just playing into the stereotype at this point.
But we can’t make movies with genuine accents because Americans wouldn’t be able to understand it.
I’m mainly thinking of Tony Blair making the same case for invading Iraq that George W. Bush was, just with the accent.
I’m mainly thinking of marshmallows.
Nowhere is truly safe at this point. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.
I’m currently working out moving to Jamaica. Got a friend there to help, but he says it ain’t all sunshine and cheap pot like the movies.
I’m not LGBT but I usually use that as a guideline of “is this a good place to be?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Jamaica
And its not looking great.
Pick somewhere else.
At a certain time (around 2000) I’d count the number of women/men outside (like 20 to 40 year olds), very telling about the insecurity in a city.
Super simple and smart way to sort places that care about human rights. Thanks for sharing.
At this point, leaving England for America is the saner choice…
I mean unless you’re brown, then ICE will just lock you away if you try
Nah. It’s not great here but that’s like leaving the frying pan and jumping into a volcano that’s actively erupting. ICE aren’t just racist, they get off on hurting people and they’re really not bothered who they are.
In some ways they’re very progressive. They abduct and abuse everyone equally.
I don’t know, we locked up an extremely white new Zealander for 3 weeks at the border recently…
And several white Canadians. There are likely dozens more locked in captivity that the media hasn’t reported on.