danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Woldest þu cuman up and geseon mine ætscingas?
Is anyone worried about the future of Britain's culture?
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Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Ragazzi, non so di cosa state chiacchierando!!!
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Hwæt are you lot on about?
bcuster
Well-Known Member
How much does a bottle of British made kombucha cost?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
The real cost comes from having to drink it.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
I'll say this. We might not all get on with each other. We may have differences in opinion. We may have had to bung a handful of posters on ignore for the sake of good governance and all the rest of it. But good heavens we're a united forum when it comes to dealing with 'fly by night' racially prejudiced troll accounts. Good work everybody. Sorry OliveGreen .
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
I'd take urban transport in Australia over that of the UK (outside London) anyday of the week. Free public transport in the centre of Melbourne and Perth - you could just hop-on hop-off and with lots of buses/trains/trams. And even large towns/small cities had decent bus services within them considering their population.
Intercity public transport wasn't great. In WA you basically had to have a car or fly, in Victoria it was better but still not fantastic. But for commuting or sightseeing public transport in Australia cities IME is better than that of the UK.
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Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Three quid a litre bottle at Tesco's. Not my cup of tea though.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Barney Rubble post.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
That’s where you are going wrong, you aren’t supposed to put it in tea…
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
What a ridiculous thing to say. People can love a country and then live elsewhere for many reasons: for work, for love, for studying etc.
8ball
Merr xmas...
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
Actually, yes, I should have fact checked myself as[citation needed]
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The name is first recorded in the mid-15th century as Morisk dance, moreys daunce, morisse daunce, i.e. “Moorish dance”. The term entered English via Flemish mooriske danse Comparable terms in other languages are German Moriskentanz (also from the 15th century), French morisques, Croatian moreška, and moresco, moresca or morisca in Italy and Spain. The modern spelling Morris-dance first appears in the 17th century.
'It is unclear why the dance was so named, “unless in reference to fantastic dancing or costumes”, i.e. the deliberately “exotic” flavour of the performance. The English dance thus apparently arose as part of a wider 15th-century European fashion for supposedly “Moorish” spectacle, which also left traces in Spanish and Italian folk dance. The means and chronology of the transmission of this fashion is now difficult to trace; the Great London Chronicle records “spangled Spanish dancers” performing an energetic dance before Henry VII at Christmas of 1494, but Heron’s accounts also mention “pleying of the mourice dance” four days earlier, and the attestation of the English term from the mid-15th century establishes that there was a “Moorish dance” performed in England decades prior to 1494.
It is suggested that the tradition of rural English dancers blackening their faces may be a reference to the Moors, miners, or a disguise worn by dancing beggars.'
So it gets its name from Moors, but isn't related to the actual North African sword dances.
Although in double checking this, I have found out that Dutch hardcore Hakken dance is distantly related to flamenco, as it has a big zapeteo influence.
No shit.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
We say “no cap” around here, grandad.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Morning all, how's the culture doing today?
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
<Guardian woman voice>
The only culture I care about is my sourdough starter!
</Gwv>
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
No culture here. It’s all gone. Taken away in the recycling.
lazythursday
Averagely-Known Member
Not like in the old days with proper British binmen.
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Why specifically a woman?
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Cold outside, no kind of atmosphere. All alone, more or less.
8ball
Merr xmas...
They love a bit of sourdough, they do.
Guardian man is more into expensive coffee machines.
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Thanks for the clarification, it gets confusing as they both really like podcasts
8ball
Merr xmas...
Well, everyone loves a podcast.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
I know the OP appears to have been chased off, but as a British person who has spent my entire life on this island, I wanted to say something.
As others have pointed out, we still have our culture here in Britain. But the thing about culture is that it's not static, it evolves alongside the people who produce it in the first place. Many people think of tea drinking as quintessentially British, but when you consider just how long people have lived in Britain, it's a Johnny-come-lately practice, along with Christianity and eating fish and chips. Our ancient forebears might well have been scandalised if they had any inkling that we were going to cut down the sacred groves and pilfer construction materials from the stone circles.
That's the theme park version of British culture that gets marketed at tourists. The kind you find preserved in museums and tacky souvenir shops. It's not a reflection of the vast majority of the lives of British people who actually reside in Britain.
I was in Cork recently, and there were a few shops selling tat like that. I guarantee you that the impression of Ireland given by those places would have been very different to the impression of Ireland that would have been given to attendees of the Cork Jazz Festival that just happened (did you even know that Cork has a jazz scene? I didn't until then!), or the impression of Ireland that would have been given by the Cork International Film Festival that was due to happen when I was there.
Culture is what people make of it.
It still exists, but even during the heyday of bowler hats and high-falutin' expensive universities, that stuff was only ever a particularly curated slice of what British culture has to offer. It reflects the aesthetics and aspirations of specific regions and social classes within Britain, and was never indicative of the whole body of what it means to be British.
People who were born and raised in Britain (who are thus British and therefore produce British culture), remain very much the majority of people who live here. Even more so when you consider who is involved in the major cultural institutions of this island. So I can only conclude that you've been seeing people who are obviously not white and/or hearing people speaking languages other than English, and have come to the erroneous conclusion that non-British people are predominant in the areas you've been in. I suspect that you have been hanging around in major urban centres, which have always been ethnically diverse places, even during the times you look back upon as being the heyday of Britishness.
So what brought you back here? Speaking as someone who has spent his entire life on this island, I'm proud that we don't have the same nauseatingly obsequious approach to customer service such as what might be found in Asia or even in other Anglophone nations such as the United States. Here's a brief clip in which some British people discuss this:
The poor state of transport in Britain is a result of public policy rather than culture. The Germans have a reputation for Teutonic efficiency, but you wouldn't know that if you travelled by Deutsche Bahn, a passenger rail transport provider which is the butt of many jokes in Germany about trains being late.
People have just moved on. This happens in every culture.
As others have pointed out, we still have our culture here in Britain. But the thing about culture is that it's not static, it evolves alongside the people who produce it in the first place. Many people think of tea drinking as quintessentially British, but when you consider just how long people have lived in Britain, it's a Johnny-come-lately practice, along with Christianity and eating fish and chips. Our ancient forebears might well have been scandalised if they had any inkling that we were going to cut down the sacred groves and pilfer construction materials from the stone circles.
That's the theme park version of British culture that gets marketed at tourists. The kind you find preserved in museums and tacky souvenir shops. It's not a reflection of the vast majority of the lives of British people who actually reside in Britain.
I was in Cork recently, and there were a few shops selling tat like that. I guarantee you that the impression of Ireland given by those places would have been very different to the impression of Ireland that would have been given to attendees of the Cork Jazz Festival that just happened (did you even know that Cork has a jazz scene? I didn't until then!), or the impression of Ireland that would have been given by the Cork International Film Festival that was due to happen when I was there.
Culture is what people make of it.
It still exists, but even during the heyday of bowler hats and high-falutin' expensive universities, that stuff was only ever a particularly curated slice of what British culture has to offer. It reflects the aesthetics and aspirations of specific regions and social classes within Britain, and was never indicative of the whole body of what it means to be British.
People who were born and raised in Britain (who are thus British and therefore produce British culture), remain very much the majority of people who live here. Even more so when you consider who is involved in the major cultural institutions of this island. So I can only conclude that you've been seeing people who are obviously not white and/or hearing people speaking languages other than English, and have come to the erroneous conclusion that non-British people are predominant in the areas you've been in. I suspect that you have been hanging around in major urban centres, which have always been ethnically diverse places, even during the times you look back upon as being the heyday of Britishness.
So what brought you back here? Speaking as someone who has spent his entire life on this island, I'm proud that we don't have the same nauseatingly obsequious approach to customer service such as what might be found in Asia or even in other Anglophone nations such as the United States. Here's a brief clip in which some British people discuss this:
The poor state of transport in Britain is a result of public policy rather than culture. The Germans have a reputation for Teutonic efficiency, but you wouldn't know that if you travelled by Deutsche Bahn, a passenger rail transport provider which is the butt of many jokes in Germany about trains being late.
People have just moved on. This happens in every culture.
furluxor
snake with a claw
If you ignore the actual racist post, the question in the heading is an interesting one.
I miss British culture when I'm abroad, but find it exhausting the rest of the time. The self-deprecation translates into the love of all things "a bit shit". There's a glorification of unappealing food combinations (gravy sandwich etc.), bad jokes (most of classic British comedy), substandard products and services (Celebrations), etc. It's like one big meme, and often feels infantile. Is it a counter to the "British culture" as it's seen by the older people abroad, which is essentially some imaginary version of upper-class lifestyle (afternoon tea and Hugh Grant, if you ask my mum)?
Idk, maybe I'm off-course here but I just can't bring to mind an appealing image. I'm thinking of drivers blocking others from merging in turn because of a British sense "fair play". There surely is something better out there. Also, Sunday Roast is a beige pile of carbs that is dismal even in its most laboured version.
I guess I like the BBC (esp The Shipping Forecast) when it's factual and not entertaining (never succeeds in the latter undertaking). Also pubs (unless they do food). What else is good and not shit and not inaccessible to 99% of the society?
I miss British culture when I'm abroad, but find it exhausting the rest of the time. The self-deprecation translates into the love of all things "a bit shit". There's a glorification of unappealing food combinations (gravy sandwich etc.), bad jokes (most of classic British comedy), substandard products and services (Celebrations), etc. It's like one big meme, and often feels infantile. Is it a counter to the "British culture" as it's seen by the older people abroad, which is essentially some imaginary version of upper-class lifestyle (afternoon tea and Hugh Grant, if you ask my mum)?
Idk, maybe I'm off-course here but I just can't bring to mind an appealing image. I'm thinking of drivers blocking others from merging in turn because of a British sense "fair play". There surely is something better out there. Also, Sunday Roast is a beige pile of carbs that is dismal even in its most laboured version.
I guess I like the BBC (esp The Shipping Forecast) when it's factual and not entertaining (never succeeds in the latter undertaking). Also pubs (unless they do food). What else is good and not shit and not inaccessible to 99% of the society?
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
The real british culture was the freinds* we made along the way.
*colonies
*colonies
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Haven't followed the thread but I for one am somewhat worried about loss of English culture, my favourite Indian restaurant in Redruth closed down 
Have discovered another that serves even tastier food though
Eta: it's the Amity really worth trying for those regular visitors to Redruth, the lamb pasanda is just lovely
Have discovered another that serves even tastier food though
Eta: it's the Amity really worth trying for those regular visitors to Redruth, the lamb pasanda is just lovely
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