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

[danny la rouge]

Woldest þu cuman up and geseon mine ætscingas?

 

[Serge Forward]

Ragazzi, non so di cosa state chiacchierando!!!

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Hwæt are you lot on about?

 

[bcuster]

Britain has a thriving kombucha and macrobiotic industry so I think it has plenty of culture

How much does a bottle of British made kombucha cost?

 

[SpookyFrank]

How much does a bottle of British made kombucha cost?

The real cost comes from having to drink it.

 

[PR1Berske]

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]

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.

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.

 

[Serge Forward]

How much does a bottle of British made kombucha cost?

Three quid a litre bottle at Tesco's. Not my cup of tea though.

 

[Serge Forward]

Barney Rubble post.

 

[A380]

Three quid a litre bottle at Tesco's. Not my cup of tea though.

That’s where you are going wrong, you aren’t supposed to put it in tea…

 

[Maggot]

If you love it so much why did you fuck off in the first place?

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]

Morris Dancing had its origins in Moorish sword dances, ironically.

[citation needed]

 

[ohmyliver]

[citation needed]

Actually, yes, I should have fact checked myself as

'
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.

 

[CNT36]

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.

No shit.

 

[danny la rouge]

No shit.

We say “no cap” around here, grandad.

 

[krtek a houby]

Morning all, how's the culture doing today?

 

[PR1Berske]

Morning all, how's the culture doing today?

<Guardian woman voice>
The only culture I care about is my sourdough starter!
</Gwv>

 

[danny la rouge]

Morning all, how's the culture doing today?

No culture here. It’s all gone. Taken away in the recycling.

 

[lazythursday]

No culture here. It’s all gone. Taken away in the recycling.

Not like in the old days with proper British binmen.

 

[Elpenor]

<Guardian woman voice>
The only culture I care about is my sourdough starter!
</Gwv>

Why specifically a woman?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Cold outside, no kind of atmosphere. All alone, more or less.

 

[8ball]

Why specifically a woman?

They love a bit of sourdough, they do.

Guardian man is more into expensive coffee machines.

 

[Elpenor]

They love a bit of sourdough, they do.

Guardian man is more into expensive coffee machines.

Thanks for the clarification, it gets confusing as they both really like podcasts

 

[8ball]

Thanks for the clarification, it gets confusing as they both really like podcasts

Well, everyone loves a podcast.