Japanese attitudes towards immigration vs UK

[danny la rouge]

It's funny to me that apparently for some people, when the subject of "British culture" is mentioned, the hoary old examples of bowler hats, Morris dancing, pie & mash, etc tend to be brought up.

I was joking when I mentioned pie and mash, but it was because burtabraham was keen on saying his culture had been stolen but couldn’t give specifics so I fell back on facetiousness.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Ah yes pie and mash

Mashed potatoes

Classic British dish that

No cross cultural contamination there

 

[Saunders]

He's got no falurum he's lost his ding durum.

Maids when you’re young never wed an old man

 

[Saunders]

Maids when you’re young never wed an old man

I’ve just been looking this up and listening to various versions; I never realised it was so well known; used to sing it with a friend at school

 

[tonysingh]

To be honest I really don't care if British culture withers. Oh shit, no morris dancers, or fucking rank pie and mash. Pretty much everything I like about British culture has been imported from elsewhere.

Pie n mash rank?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Pie n mash rank?

I think I heard their sound system

 

[krtek a houby]

It’s got Minis and Noel Coward! How much more British do you want?

Noel Coward's prison scenes filmed in Kilmainham, Dublin

 

[danny la rouge]

I’ve just been looking this up and listening to various versions; I never realised it was so well known; used to sing it with a friend at school

The Corries, who were never off the telly in Scotland in the early 70s, used to do it. We had theirs and the Luke Kelly version in our house.

 

[Saunders]

The Corries, who were never off the telly in Scotland in the early 70s, used to do it. We had theirs and the Luke Kelly version in our house.

Yeah, I’ve only thought of it as a girls or women’s song rather than a man’s song, funny either way of course. I remember using it as the background song in Miss Julie in something at college, maybe not very well thought out
Lovely to be reminded of it thank you, I’ve been in a bit of a folk music bubble for the last hour

 

[mojo pixy]

I don't have time to check all the words but interestingly the the alphabet itself is of Roman origin and if you go to Rome you'll see it on some statues that were carved round about 2000 years ago.

Apparently it was an actual different language though called 'Latin' or something, so it seems they didnt use English at all believe it or not! All a bit above my head tbf

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

To be fair he did say the alphabet not the language.

Although (as you probably know) ours in not strictly the roman one and the Romans don't have ownership on the letter forms which are.... Phoenician I think?

 

[mojo pixy]

If we were really committed to the premise of cultural preservation we should be writing all this in oghams (though even that will have been a development from something before). Or to really keep it trad brit, not writing at all and just singing to each other through the mist.

Btw saké is nicer than mead. Just saying.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Use hieroglyphs it's ok Thoth said so. He's cool.

Sake and mead are both accuire tastes

 

[krtek a houby]

(checks to see what time it is over in the UK... Ah, ok...)

 

[InArduisFouette]

What the feck are you on about?

he's a great replacement theory fantasist and is bandying around the term Genocide without any reference to it's actual meaning

 

[krtek a houby]

he's a great replacement theory fantasist and is bandying around the term Genocide without any reference to it's actual meaning

It's true, burtabraham is a wrong un.

Unfortunately, and ironically, we have a fair few far right migrants over here. Not that he's left the UK, he's never set foot in the country.

 

[burtabraham]

It's true, burtabraham is a wrong un.

Unfortunately, and ironically, we have a fair few far right migrants over here. Not that he's left the UK, he's never set foot in the country.

Well at least you tagged me whilst speaking about me. I won’t take the bait though. Have a nice evening.

 

[krtek a houby]

Well at least you tagged me whilst speaking about me. I won’t take the bait though. Have a nice evening.

It's morning. Which you'd know, if you were actually in Japan.