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Jean-Paul Surtr
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@MarmotRespecter in fact Brits often hardly know anything about other parts of Britain... or the next neighbourhood over. very parochial country.
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i've been hating the british for years so it's heartening that we're finally getting academic research on the delusional conceit of perfidious albion
Institute of Economic Affairs@iealondon
🇬🇧 We asked Brits where the UK ranks vs US states in income per person. Average answer: 7th. Wealthier than 43 states. The reality: 51st. Dead last. Below Mississippi. Below Arkansas. Below every single US state. 🧵
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Gross disposable income per person:
England $34,486
Scotland $31,072
Northern Ireland $27,674
Wales $27,317
UK overall $33,687
It doesn't change very much to break it down, because four fifths of the population of the UK is in England, and none of the other parts of the UK are richer than England.
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@iealondon To be fair, we should do UK as Wales, Scotland, etc.
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🇬🇧 We asked Brits where the UK ranks vs US states in income per person.
Average answer: 7th. Wealthier than 43 states.
The reality: 51st. Dead last. Below Mississippi. Below Arkansas. Below every single US state. 🧵
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@BigSnugALot @GrimnirsThegn @LanceVader @MorlockP Please keep your pervert fantasies out of this discussion thanks
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@GrimnirsThegn @LanceVader @MorlockP Yes. It’s her job to put children in their place, she’s the teacher.
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In 3rd grade I wanted to read Three Musketeers because it was worth an entire semester of “reading points” and I didn’t want to have to keep picking books off their dumb list of “approved books”. I wanted to read Redwall instead.
My teacher put up a huge fuss about how I was going to waste a bunch of time “reading” then fail the comprehension quiz because a 3rd grader could never understand a book that advanced.
I got 100% on the quiz so of course she raised my semester threshold of “reading points” to keep me picking books off the list.
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus
It’s true, every halfway intelligent right winger I know irl had a massive conflict with at least one elementary teacher over things like: reading ahead, reading too difficult books, not showing enough work, etc etc. it’s the first time we experience the uncaring tyranny of state bureaucracy and it sucks.
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@blucat2 I can't remember now exactly which ones, as they usually just add all of them. B5 and B6 were definitely on the list.
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About 10 years ago I got a weird never pain in my fingers and toes. like needle pricks, but nothing there. it wasn't really terrible, but disturbing, and I thought something isn't right.
It took a lot of searching around to figure out it was most likely a vit B overdose. after carefully checking the labels on some things I'd been eating and drinking, I realized I'd inadvertently taken like 30 times the recommended dose for months.
Vit Bs are added to like pretty much anything from drinks to yoghurt to energy bars and whatever, and mostly overdoses don't do much, but the stuff builds up over time and it can have side-effects.
I am telling you this because in the past year or so I have read a couple of articles about this which reminded me I had the same problem. It's real!
Incidentally, a lot of vitamin and mineral supplements are tough on the digestive system. If you have any sort of digestive troubles, avoid supplements. If you want to vomit, take iron on an empty stomach👌
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@WizardOfCryp @david_parker Ireland is in the EU and so is required to criminalise hate speech in order to comply with EU directives, lol
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@REPHVIM @david_parker The current dynamic in England is worse than Ireland IMO. I dont have a GREAT scope of things, but it seems as if Britian has allowed a slower spiral into anarchotyranny, and I don't know if they'll be able to pull themselves out of it.
There's hope for Ireland still.
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Ireland now has 23% of its population as foreign born. If they do not rise up now, they will be wiped off the face of the Earth.
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@REPHVIM @david_parker Yeah. Difference is, I'd hate to go to England. I'd love to go to Ireland.
Between Ireland and Russia (my two primary roots) I'd absolutely choose Ireland.
Between Russia and England? Russia for days.
England 20-30 years ago is a different story. I'd go there for sure.
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@LaprasIRL @Empty_America He was seen as a foreign ruler who claimed false religious authority and sided with England's enemies
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@REPHVIM @Empty_America That is more like the way you'd treat a distant boogeyman than a celebrity.
I guess I first remember observing this media interest in the conclave to replace JP2. There was a lot of emphasis on the global scale of the religion and symbolic importance of the pope.
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@GerardBelloso @lymanstoneky My experience working in admin is that we may address letters to "Mr/Mrs [Second Surname]" when it really ought to be "Mr/Mrs [First Surname]".
But having two surnames without a hyphen is not unheard of in Britain (David Lloyd George, Sasha Baron Cohen).
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@lymanstoneky As a Spaniard, I haven't had any administrative issues in Britain with my two surnames
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I think what this position misses is:
1) Kids are gonna have a surname
2) Having the whole household share a surname really is useful for a whole lot of purposes and parents who don't share surnames with their kids often face administrative challenges
3) Making up a new surname for the whole household breaks ties with *both* sides of the family and also most people see it as kinda cringe
4) So it's either his or hers or hyphens
5) Hyphens are fine, many countries do that, but they do make it literally impossible to write your full surname on many documents for many name combos, so you're back at having a name that creates recurrent administrative problems
6) So the lowest-friction solution really is his or hers
7) There's no fundamental reason it has to be his, but either way somebody is gonna give. You can argue it should be the man, but the only argument for that is matriarchy, which is no more compelling than patriarchy.
8) On the other hand the argument for "this is just the convention, don't sweat it too much" is fairly strong
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
I truly hate this argument, which assumes men simply have names but women’s are all somehow men’s. By this logic, it’s not your dad’s name either - it’s his dad’s. And not his either - his dad’s. Your name is actually your name. And yes of course women should have the legal right to change their names in marriage but let’s please not lie to ourselves that marital name-changing isn’t incredibly sexist and a very literal manifestation of patriarchal power. So is patrilineal naming for children, btw. One answer to “but it’s my dad’s name” might be to stop giving children dad’s name for a while.
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@WizardOfCryp @david_parker plenty of Brits have red hair, "a fiery spirit", Irish ancestors, it doesn't make them Irish lol
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@david_parker Would 30-40% Irish, reddish-blonde hair & a fiery spirit be enough to be accepted by the general public as "Irish?"
If I were to go back anywhere my roots are from, I think it'd be there.
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@Fromzionshill @bliss4kwp @uncle_deluge Africa and China are not Northern Europe.
I haven't had much success with making conversation about it in my own culture, and I get the impression it comes across a little odd.
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@REPHVIM @bliss4kwp @uncle_deluge Literally everywhere in th world I have gone including Africa and China this is considered pleasant small talk
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@APLeDeluge @uncle_deluge Ah, yes, Britain, notable for being mono-ethnic, and not the subject of any mass immigration or multiculturalist experiments, or ethnic separatist movements.
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@REPHVIM @uncle_deluge It isn’t remarkable to you because you get the privilege of having your own ethnic country
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@richnheartless @bliss4kwp @halogen1048576 @UnlmtdDreaming @uncle_deluge How do you think I know it rarely gets a positive response from British people?
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@REPHVIM @bliss4kwp @halogen1048576 @UnlmtdDreaming @uncle_deluge Oh wow look who likes talking about their ancestors and where they came from
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Listen to the recordings of Hannah Hauxwell (they are on YouTube), she was a farmer in the North Yorkshire Pennines. Her accent is unusual, not a conventional Yorkshire accent. The Northumbrian English some of my dad's relatives spoke featured a number of words derived from Norse not used in standard English. It was a strange and remote place, a lot of Catholic recusants and later nonconformist Protestants. And even without immigration from Scandinavia, the lifestyle of grazing very rugged, marginal land with cold, dark winters, selects for a certain kind of person...
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@REPHVIM @halogen1048576 @UnlmtdDreaming @uncle_deluge That is fascinating, was it just an isolated community?
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@MythoAndoryan @bliss4kwp @uncle_deluge you're saying there's something strange about people from this part of the world? they have a dour, dark-humoured, and pessimistic temperament? wow.
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@REPHVIM @bliss4kwp @uncle_deluge They do, though, at least historically. European pessimism is the aberration, not the norm. If you meet an Arab or an Asian or even an Eastern European, they're all more like Americans on this point
Europe has adopted an offputting antisocial temperament for every situation.
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I'm only telling it like it is. My personal experience as a British person telling other British people about my ancestral connection to places is they are at best indifferent or don't know what to say.
If you want to make a good impression, it's probably best to either avoid the topic, or at least keep it brief.
We can respect cultural differences without conceding that one must be "better" or "worse".
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@REPHVIM @bliss4kwp @uncle_deluge you're projecting because you come from a bitterer and worse culture bud
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@halogen1048576 @UnlmtdDreaming @bliss4kwp @uncle_deluge I'm from the part of England where some of the people up in the hills spoke with an almost Norwegian accent as late as the 1970s, I can be that autistic
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@REPHVIM @UnlmtdDreaming @bliss4kwp @uncle_deluge these are not literally conversations about genealogy but about kinship. they just want to hear that you have something in common. it could be as silly as "you look like so-and-so who lives in town". like this is not Scandinavia you can't be that autistic
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@UnlmtdDreaming @bliss4kwp @uncle_deluge Most Brits are middle or lower middle class, talking about the social class of our ancestors easily comes across weird. Pretty much everyone is descended from the upper class if you trace it back far enough.
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@REPHVIM @bliss4kwp @uncle_deluge Having social class and national identity as a taboo is TERRIBLE. It is like telling employees not to discuss wages as it isnt "polite." No, they just dont want you to know they are FUCKING you.
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