WTF is going on in UK anyway? People really that big mad over not electing fascists?!
Decades of economic stagnation and eroded public services have exacerbated long running discontent among less well off people mainly in the north and Midlands who feel left behind by "metropolitan elites" in London and the south.
Populist figures like Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson have landed on the traditional scapegoat of foreigners and whipped up tensions for years.
A brown person with obvious mental health issues has committed a horrendous act and these same people have used it as an excuse to loot shops, throw bricks at police and spray paint "p**is go home". Abetted by news that the prison system is full and they're releasing prisoners early to help deal with the overcrowding.
Anti racism protesters then showed up last night in huge numbers and along with a clear police presence and evidence of swift and strict sentences for the few people who have been identified meant that the latest round of pro fascist marches were abandoned and the nazis have gone back to hiding in their caves.
Damn that's really terrible. Glad you guys kicked some nazis asses though. We got a fairly big problem with them on our side of the pond too.
I knew about the economic and public services issues, but wasn't that a major campaigning point for Labour? Even as an American I heard about them running on rebuilding your public services like the NHS. They've been in power for like 20 minutes lol?
I'm guessing it's like our politics, the current administration gets blamed for all the failings of the previous one because economics have built in lag time.
So basically, a few kids got stabbed while attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance lesson (IIRC) and people started spreading rumors in Twitter that the attacker was Muslim. Nazis started rioting about it and kept doing it even after it was revealed that the attacker was not even a Muslim.
Apparently the police and anti-racist protestors have managed to calm the riots down now.
I thought the rumor was he was a refugee, and the true part is that he was Muslim?
If you pay attention to the footage, the riots are tiny. I think the biggest was around 100 people.
We finally managed to kick the right wing theives out, and some people are less than happy. They managed to rial a few idiots up, and the media have lapped it up.
Burger people throwing shade at our Tea people. Ts ts.
Bratwurst and Baguette people have had their own share of tantrums, but we get along now.
No excuse for recent BS of some Tea people though.
The actions of my fellow countrymen do not represent us as a whole. Instead of Tea people, please refer to them as Lager and Betting Shop people. Thank you 🙏
Lager people and Betting Shop people are not necessarily bad, refer to the racists currently rioting as Fascists.
Said like a true "never had good tea in their life" individual.
Ok I’ll bite, I’ve had Brit coworkers try to draw me into their tea cult with Yorkshire tea which they “promised” me was like crack in a cup.
Note before you say I didn’t make it right I have an electric tea kettle with options for all tea types and I steep things like black tea for 4 minutes as is recommended.
It was… ok, not worth the bother if I’m honest. I’ll stick to matcha or Japanese green tea personally.
But I will yeet any British tea into the nearest harbor out of spite to being told tea is the best beverage ever.
I am sorry... They gave you Yorkshire tea and expected you to be impressed? Please tell me you are joking.
In Canadian equivalent it's like trying to take a foreigner to Tim Hortons. Just because it's the historical cheap swill choice of the masses one participates in out of habit doesn't mean it is objectively good.
I think people are overselling it. Typical British tea isn't amazing and it isn't trying to be. It's more like a simple slice of bread and butter when you're feeling peckish but there's nothing else to eat. It just hits the spot. Once you've acquired the taste, you experience it differently. Spend an hour walking home in the rain, get home and change into your jammies, then curl up on the sofa with a nice cuppa. Then it's amazing.
I prefer loose-leaf tea as well. I can't tell whether I prefer a sweet and relaxing cup of silver needle or a whiskey-strength brew of gyokuro. Genmaicha with matcha dust during a work day is a great little escape, and you can't go wrong with a big-leaf Chinese black tea.
Ironically, the Brits conquered the world only to shut themselves out of every culture they could have learned from.
My fav is sweetened fruit tea or sweetened masala tea, tho at that point I'm just drinking hot fruit juice and a fancy sweet dairy drink.
That's cuz tea is shit.
Here's what I recommend: get some silver needle white tea - Yunnan Sourcing has good stuff - and a big tea strainer basket that goes in your mug. Boil the leaves for three minutes, but don't dump the basket, just put it aside. Drink the cup. Then boil them again for 3 minutes 30 seconds, drink, and boil for 4 minutes. See how that goes. If you get a big bag of tea, you'll be able to experiment.
I used to believe tea was trash too. That was because I was only drinking grocery store bags. Problem with those is the tea in them is stale, like breadcrumbs, and typically devoid of flavor. Broaden your horizons a bit.
We appreciate you baby USA. Making fun of european nations is the favorite passtime of europe :D
I just don't really understand the desire to drink bitter things in general. Alcohol, tea, and coffee all fall under this. "It's an acquired taste" is the same as "you just have to gaslight yourself into enjoying it."
“It’s an acquired taste” is the same as “you just have to gaslight yourself into enjoying it.”
I think there's some legitimacy to "You have to get over the shock of a very novel-tasting or feeling food before you can really figure out if you like it", but yeah, I suspect that about a lot of acquired tastes.
I've liked bitter tastes since a very young age. I think it may have started as a fascination. Like "Wow, nothing else tastes like this, this is crazy." But yeah, bitter good. Love it, always have. There are plenty of us that needed no gaslighting.
I've always liked tea and coffee, since I've first tried it as a kid. It was not an acquired taste for me at all. Without sugar or milk or anything else. I don't understand the opposite, why do people fill stuff with sugar.
Alcohol, however, has been more of an acquired taste and in my 40s I still don't enjoy it that much.
I was gonna say I really enjoy tea, but then realized that my fruit tea with plenty of sugar probably doesn't fit the description xD
Yea, bitterness it a weird taste, I don't mind a hint of it, that can be interesting, but straight up bitter drinks are yuk!
They are just so deserving of disdain. They are responsible for many of the world's problems, modern genocides, and they worship inbred assholes who steal from them. Then these chuckle fucks, in a classic Euro trash racist move, decide that all of their problems were the fault of "outsiders" and removed their island, devoid of resources and opportunity, from a larger economic block in an attempt to return to their inbreeding practice to its glory days. Really, what positive impact or contribution have they ever made? They should be roasted at every opportunity.
We pioneered the Industrial Revolution, invented pretty much all the best sports, and now we’re pioneering post-capitalist collapse too.
Like I said, responsible for many of the worlds problems.
Disdain for an entire country of diverse people based on the (stupid, bad) actions of the minority in power is a bit much...
Except they worship those "minority" of people. Look at how proud those morons were of standing in an hours long line to honor a piece of shit like queen Elizabeth dos.
Really, what positive impact or contribution have they ever made?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_innovations_and_discoveries
I don't how that demonstrates a positive impact or contribution to the world. Look at the state of most of people they plundered for centuries, they don't seem to be benefiting much from that list.
They are responsible for many of the world's problems, modern genocides, and they worship inbred assholes who steal from them.
But enough about Americans!
It really could apply to damn near any Western European country or country run by the descendants of its colonizers. Imagine that.
So many downvotes..I thought taking the piss was a British national sport? Or is that still just fox “hunting”…
Ha, downvotes are OK and, in some cases, arbitrary. I did come out the gate pretty hard in this case, but I stand on it. I've been downvoted for dumber shit like asking what people are doing about wrinkles if they aren't ironing their clothes, which I couldn't understand, but it's all meaningless.
No shade on tea drinkers; but I prefer coffee. Iced. With cream and sugar. Yum.
Tea; if that's what you prefer, should be iced and sweetened to taste; unless you live above a certain latitude or are experiencing weather that is no warmer than (10 Celsius/50 Fahrenheit/283.15 Kelvin/509.67 Rankine/8 Réaumur/12.75 Rømer) in an 8 to 24 hour period
I will stick to water and healthy food
