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The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is like the Netflix “top 10 in your country right now” list.
Never have I felt more alienated from my fellow country people than by reading this list.
Britain was a mistake.
Eh?
I imagine that he was highlighting the fact that real men live on the Devensian British-Irish Ice Sheet, not this...turf. Now the whole thing's packed full of hedgehogs and badgers and Morrisonses and such.
It is an insult to the proud Doggerlanders.
They are trying to do something about those badgers though.
In the course of human history the creation of Britain and the concept of Britishness as it is today was a mistake. We shouldn’t have done it folks. It’s bad. This list shows a deeply sick society and culture. You’re right to be alienated, it’s deeply alienating.
I think most of the items on that list are more a result of societal changes more recent than the creation of Britain as an entity, and the concept of Britishness has changed much and continues to do so.
We cant’t blame everything on the far past, otherwise we’d be pointing the finger at the formation of the eukaryotes.
Ok. I did say “Britishness as it is today”, I never mentioned the far past.
To be clear, not that I think the past was good in Britain either, it sucked then too, just differently.
You’re absolutely right, you did. Blame my dodgy eyesight!