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

[Saul Goodman]

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.

What's really strange is that Americans think corned beef and cabbage is an Irish meal
Bacon, cabbage and boiled spuds? Yes. Corned beef and cabbage? Nah. I've only ever heard of it from Americans.

 

[Wilf]

I remember when trolls were better than this. Sigh, the England /Urban of yesteryear…

Polish and Bulgarian trolls coming over here...

 

[scalyboy]

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.

Sounds like him. Didn’t he have a brother called Kenny - made a packet punting knock-off electric toothbrushes? Wooden leg?

 

[BigMoaner]

Sounds like him. Didn’t he have a brother called Kenny - made a packet punting knock-off electric toothbrushes? Wooden leg?

yes, that's him. small world. small world.

 

[scalyboy]

yes, that's him. small world. small world.

"You're nicked Tufty. Get in the car"

"Weren't me guv! It was me brother!
On my life, guv, I been keepin me tail clean like you told me to, I been working in the launderette all week"

 

[Sir Belchalot]

Should have just stayed in China

Did you know there’s an enormous pretend British town in China?

It features everything from pubs to fish-and-chip shops.

www.timeout.com

 

[danny la rouge]

is it just me worried about Britain losing it's culture?

Like the culture of knowing when to use apostrophes?

It’s impossible for humans to have no culture. So Britain isn’t losing its culture: that’s impossible.

 

[Serge Forward]

It closed some years ago and has been boarded up and mouldering ever since.

It was in the mid 90s... the Olden Days.

 

[planetgeli]

That’s outside Printworks in Manchester In think ? I’ve been in that Greggs

Isn't it in Cardiff?

Nope, Elpenor is right. It's about 100m from my nieces flat.

In fact she's just told me a story about it. My niece is mild-mannered, lovely person, absolutely does anything to avoid trouble. In Printworks a bloke asked her to dance, she said no, so he called her a lesbian. So she elbowed him in the face. The only time she's ever hit anyone.

True to form, it was her and her mates who got booted out. Straight into the arms of the police where she grabbed a copper's hat saying "Can I have this?". He let her off but told her mate to get her home before she gets arrested.

Her words "I don't know what that place (Printworks) does to people"

 

[Serge Forward]

It was in the mid 90s... the Olden Days.

Just to add, although we lived round the corner on the Holly Street estate, we rarely frequented the Fox (apart from "romantic" evenings in the sense that it was "where we met"). They had regular karaoke nights and there was lots of tinsel all year round.

 

[Idris2002]

His taste in music really changed after he left Oxford, wow.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

The best (and possibly the only) cockanee singalong I ever experienced was at a theatrical bar in the West End; a drag queen wearing a tight-fitting Gerri Halliwell-style union jack dress led the proceedings and trotted out all the old favourites, Knees Up Mother Brown, Any Old Iron etc. I was surprised that I knew the words (probably from a misspent youth having watched old Ealing films, or Steptoe & Son?)
Among the audience was a father and son celebrating the lad's bar mitzvah; the singer dedicated a song to him but I forget what it was, possibly My Old Man?

It was considered old hat when i first came to London in mid 80s. It was only ever something people did ironically or for tourists.

 

[surreybrowncap]

His taste in music really changed after he left Oxford, wow.

And he showed no reMorse....

 

[Sue]

In fact she's just told me a story about it. My niece is mild-mannered, lovely person, absolutely does anything to avoid trouble. In Printworks a bloke asked her to dance, she said no, so he called her a lesbian. So she elbowed him in the face. The only time she's ever hit anyone.

TBF, I wouldn't elbow a man in the face for calling me a lesbian because I don't see that as an insult, even if he clearly did. (In the last week I've been called 'a miserable fucking cunt' and 'a fucking cunt' by random men in the street who were hassling me so maybe I've just become inured to this shit or something.)

Just to add, although we lived round the corner on the Holly Street estate, we rarely frequented the Fox (apart from "romantic" evenings in the sense that it was "where we met"). They had regular karaoke nights and there was lots of tinsel all year round.

One of my friends used to drink there (he lived round the corner). It was really expensive.

 

[Epona]

TBF, I wouldn't elbow a man in the face for calling me a lesbian because I don't see that as an insult, even if he clearly did. (In the last week I've been called 'a miserable fucking cunt' and 'a fucking cunt' by random men in the street who were hassling me so maybe I've just become inured to this shit or something.)

The "you're not interested in me so you must be a lesbian" is a bit of old tired line and he might have been harassing her before then, if he turned to that justification of her not being interested in him?
I've had people use that line and get really quite arsey with me.

 

[ouirdeaux]

The recommended answer is, 'Are you the alternative?'

 

[planetgeli]

TBF, I wouldn't elbow a man in the face for calling me a lesbian because I don't see that as an insult, even if he clearly did.

She is a lesbian. He was harassing her.

 

[Sue]

She is a lesbian. He was harassing her.

Sure. But if women hit every man who harassed them, then we'd be hitting multiple men a week.

 

[planetgeli]

Sure. But if women hit every man who harassed them, then we'd be hitting multiple men a week.

Do it.

But like I said, she's as mild-mannered as you get. Would normally run away from trouble. Which was kind of the point of the story, linked to Printworks, linked to that photo.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

This Labour government is no help for this.

I bet Kier didn't even stick his cock in a pig's mouth.
Standards are failing.

 

[Sue]

Do it.

Of course i wouldn't do it.
.

 

[Serge Forward]

One of my friends used to drink there (he lived round the corner). It was really expensive.

It was okay when I went there .They did it up at some point in the late 90s, so maybe that's when the prices went up.

Besides, Dalston has been dear for a few years now, hasn't it?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Sure. But if women hit every man who harassed them, then we'd be hitting multiple men a week.

i'm surprised women don't hit multiple men a week...

 

[PTK]

Sounds like him. Didn’t he have a brother called Kenny - made a packet punting knock-off electric toothbrushes? Wooden leg?

Wooden leg? He shooden have to leg. We should not think less of a being that will not leg.

 

[PTK]

Like the culture of knowing when to use apostrophes?

It’s impossible for humans to have no culture. So Britain isn’t losing its culture: that’s impossible.

The state of the world is not too bad, but some people will keep apostrophising.

 

[Thora]

Could do with a bit more culture where I live

 

[klang]

It was okay when I went there .They did it up at some point in the late 90s, so maybe that's when the prices went up.

Besides, Dalston has been dear for a few years now, hasn't it?

What is wasted in the pubs is saved at Ridley road market. Balances itself out.

 

[ohmyliver]

yes, that's him. small world. small world.

I hope he didn't end up on the crack like some of the Brixton squirrels did in the '00s.

 

[MickiQ]

Should have just stayed in China

Did you know there’s an enormous pretend British town in China?

It features everything from pubs to fish-and-chip shops.

www.timeout.com

I watched a Chinese Drama series on Youtube and the hero and his mate supposedly visited the UK, I suspect it was filmed there since it the background looked like the UK but was clearly fake.

 

[Bobby Notches]

Why is it wrong to worry about losing white culture in Britain? Where else do we belong if not here?

Segge ic þe, frēond, Englisc hyht is forðgān swiþe læt.