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Is anyone worried about the future of Britain's culture?

Boo Radley75 said:
British culture is still alive and well...
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Love the Gregg's in the background, too - watching on. needs a kebab somewhere though
 
Pickman's model said:
if you watch eg the sweeney you sometimes see regan and carter singing with a small band backing. i saw something similar once, a three piece backing band for people at the fox, now closed, on kingsland road where a lady in her sixties or seventies was singing hey big spender. must be 30+ years ago now
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And the rozzers can’t even say to a blagger. “Get your trousers on you slag, you’re nicked’ anymore. It’s woke gone mad.
 
OliveGreen said:
I have just returned to Britain after several years living abroad. Grew up here all my life and kind of ignored this, but coming back I can't help wondering... is it just me worried about Britain losing it's culture? Is everyone really cool with it or are people just numb to it now?

Living in places in East Asia and Africa, many people expressed to me an admiration for 'British' culture. British gentlemen, afternoon tea, the Oxford-Cambridge education system, etc etc. You know the stuff. After years abroad I kind of played up to it. I was proud to tell people about little quirks of our culture, our history, our religion and how it branched off from the rest of Christianity. How monarchy became the Magna Carta became the parliament became what we have today. All that proper 'British' stuff.

Coming back, it... seems like none of that really exists anymore? Seems like most areas I go to Brits aren't even a majority. And what's worse, most countries in Asia have better customer service, transport and atittudes than we do here.

Is anyone else worried about this? Are people just apathetic? Do they not realise because it's been a slow creep? Or do people really not mind all the things we've lost?
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Anyway, for one post I'm going to forget the OP is trolling and address them sensibly -

It's a mystery what the OP thinks we have lost in our culture, especially in the 3-4 years they have been away? British gentlemen? What exactly is that? Wearing a suit and tie on their morning commute to work? While fashion changes over the years, you still have plenty of white collar workers going to their place of work like that. Afternoon tea? Still easy enough to find somewhere for that. The Oxford - Cambridge university system - still going strong. Christianity? Yep, still easy to go to church in one of our many and beautiful churches, if that's your thing. If the OP doesn't see any of that anymore, they should probably leave their house once in a while.

I guess the pub culture has been dropping off a lot but that's more to do with the pandemic hitting it hard, along with the cost of living. Even so, it's still easy enough to find a cosy country pub for a Sunday roast.

Transport? You think public transport is bad here, try getting a bus or train in the USA or Australia and you'll realise how brilliant we have it. Customer service and attitudes? It's hit and miss... just like pretty much anywhere else.

Then we get to our festivals - Easter, Bonfire night, Halloween, Christmas, New Year - all going stronger than ever. My missus is Canadian and she was blown away at just how huge Christmas is compared to what she was used to back home. St George's Day - not ever been a big deal so hard to see how it's disappearing. In fact I probably see more stuff for it than I did years ago. Burns night - even in England it's relatively easy to find a nice pub doing a proper, traditional night for it.

Of course, the country has modernised, just like anywhere else. Just because we're not all cosplaying as Victorians and more concerned with getting on with the important things in life, doesn't mean we've lost our culture, in the same way as the USA doesn't have everyone sitting around in log cabins on the prairie with ma and pa, anymore.
 
brogdale said:
Seems quite appropriate that song composed to advertise (and sell) shite beer should become the nation's anthem.
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Which beer was it? As a rule, any beer, lager, ale etc that features in an advert tends to be shite.

"For great lager follow the bear" - on yer bike, follow the canting bear? Hofmeister? More like Hofscheisser. And he was a farking cockney an all, looked and talked like Pete Beale off of EastEnders.

"They sought the lager of Lamot" - sword & sorcery bollocks.

"Oh an something for the ladies - ah yeh mate, two bottles of sweet sherry" - can't remember if that ad was for Fosters or Castlemaine 4X, doesn't matter either way - both tasteless, bland, chemical toilet lager.

"Brewed like a normal lager - but they take all the alcohol out!" - yes and Barbican was piss an all, Lawrie McMenemy. So was Kaliber.

The only decent beer I can recall being advertised was Guinness - rubbish song ("he's in the bottle of Guinness supporters club") but a fine pint, if drawn and left to settle properly.
 
Pickman's model said:
if you watch eg the sweeney you sometimes see regan and carter singing with a small band backing. i saw something similar once, a three piece backing band for people at the fox, now closed, on kingsland road where a lady in her sixties or seventies was singing hey big spender. must be 30+ years ago now
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I met my ex-wife in the Fox on Kingsland Road :eek:
 
Setting aside the dated and sexist nature of the ad, Courage "Best" was not entirely shite but, in all honesty, if I ever had the misfortune to find myself in a Courage pub, I'd plump for the Directors.
 
scalyboy said:
Apparently, a Department for Culture, Media & Sport think-tank is toying with the idea of rejuvenating British culture and national pride by making it mandatory for cinemas in England and Wales to play a Chas & Dave song at the end of the programme. This, they believe, would replace the outmoded tradition of piping the national anthem over the tannoy with something more up-to-date and meaningful.
Instead of standing to attention when the music begins, patrons will be encouraged to have a right old knees-up - and therein, I feel, lies the problem. Cinema-goers up north, in Wales, or indeed anywhere other than parts of Essex and Kent will not, I fear, respond favourably to compulsory cockanee singalongs.

That's the trouble with a lot of modern British people today - they ain't got no Cockney pride. Gertcha!
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Chas and Dave seemed to be under the impression that Spurs is a "cockney" team.
 
Talking of Cockneys (as no-one except me was doing), one of my best pals is from Liverpool and a few years ago was having a particularly difficult time at work, such that he was having sleep problems and was caning the valerian tea. What made it all the worse, he told me, was the repeated appearance of a Cockney squirrel in his dreams, perched on his left shoulder and slagging him off, telling him he wasn't up to the job, no backbone, should give it up etc. "You can't hack it can yer Scouse! Yer no bleedin good! tch-tch-tch"
 
scalyboy said:
Talking of Cockneys (as no-one except me was doing), one of my best pals is from Liverpool and a few years ago was having a particularly difficult time at work, such that he was having sleep problems and was caning the valerian tea. What made it all the worse, he told me, was the repeated appearance of a Cockney squirrel in his dreams, perched on his left shoulder and slagging him off, telling him he wasn't up to the job, no backbone, should give it up etc. "You can't hack it can yer Scouse! Yer no bleedin good! tch-tch-tch"
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Was he called Keith? I knew a squirrel who ran an illigal minicab firm out of Deptford in the late 90s. might be the same one.
 
OliveGreen said:
Race and culture are heavily intertwined. I dare say they're practically indistinguishable.
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:facepalm:

btw, at my school we give "chapel talks", 5 or 10 minute improving lectures to start the day. around st patrick's day i have a stock one. i ask the studes to imagine a atereotypical irish meal ("of the sort that my family had"): corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, tea, whiskey, cigarettes. tobacco is from the americas, tea is from south-east asia, potatoes are from south america. whiskey (and guinness) are native irish, but there was a time when whiskey didn't exist in ireland (nor guinness), and in fact when christianity didn't either. and it's all talked about in a language which migated from the european mainland and written about in a script borrowed from italy and which they borrowed from greece and they from the levant.

so what's "irish"? i grant that your national culture is a combination of things at a given moment, but that combination changes as the moments change.

nobody here needs to be told this except the OP i guess.
 
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