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[–] mojofrododojo 5 points 23 hours ago

blighty has it's problems but they're resolvable. rejoin the EU. Support Ukraine. Restrict 5 eyes intel until the US get's it's shit together. Lead NATO.

problems, but feasibly resolveable problems.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It took me way to long to realise its Britain. My first thought was, that it would be the US and then got confused because this wasn't the US.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

It says garbage patch, not dumpster fire

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I mean, have you been to Birmingham?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I once had to stay in Birmingham after a cancelled train. On leaving the station I was accosted by a drunk demanding cigarettes, who started swearing at me after I admitted I didn’t smoke. That’s my only experience of Birmingham, I have to assume it’s typical.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I will always have a soft spot for Birmingham for giving us Black Sabbath. Luckily, I have never been there though, so the reality will not ruin it for me.

[–] stephan262 6 points 1 day ago

Yes I have, and I found it to be rather pleasant actually... But then I am from Wolverhampton so it could just be the comparison.

[–] [email protected] 168 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There's an even larger one between the atlantic and pacific ocean, just north of the gulf of mexico.

[–] Godofdirt 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gulf of Cuba USA and Mexico

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] bhamlin 14 points 2 days ago

OK, but for the record I didn't think you were that short.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know! The United States of North America!

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 7 points 2 days ago

These are the jokes, kid.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My brain worked so hard to make this look like America, even though now I know it isn't I'm pretty sure its still the USA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's North America from an upside down perspective.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Hey now, we just exonerated ourselves by being nice to Zelensky. For today and today only, you have to respect us!!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had a good, deep, cathartic laugh at this I didn't realize I was in need of. UK politics has been an interesting but unfun mess for a long while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They've just stated to unfuck themselves out of tgeir own neolib brainfuck. Guys like Garry and Giantsomething

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

New beavers just dropped in england, so give em a chance to clean the place up (the beavers I mean).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/28/beavers-released-english-waterways-government-licence

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

i thought this was making fun of ireland for a bit

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's so brutal, black metal fans burned a church in its honor

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Yo the church was burning when we got here we just didn’t wanna let it burn without a proper send off

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why are you being so cruel about Ireland?

[–] NocturnalMorning 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Ireland is barely in the picture.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I felt the joke would have had to be explained more if I’d said Alderney or Sark.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

As someone who lives slightly north of the island in the middle of the south coast of this particular garbage patch; yes.

[–] CelloMike 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey now, we've got some nice bits - they're all the bits with no people in

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I genuinely don't get why hating the UK has become so popular recently. Like, sure we have our problems, but it's not that bad...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Brexit, probably. That lost a lot of international respect.

[–] PunnyName 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And the US is on track to beat that record.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I think we already did reputation wise. Economically, give it a bit longer cause I think we're playing great depression 2: techie boogaloo.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Have you not lived through the political shit show we've had? Brexit, COVID scandals, Boris Johnson, Farage, stagnating wages, poor productivity, inflation, high energy prices, NHS in crisis, housing shit show.....and there's no end in sight. Think the UK hasn't been doing that badly is quite a willful refusal to see how we compare to the rest of the world and where we could have been if we functioned better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

UK export neoliberalisn,evagelicals and that traitor against all human Boris,UK will not be allowed to live that down for 100 year. UK stop having shit ideas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

randomly choosing a random outgroup to collectively hate must be ironically funny sometimes(see: jokes about the fr*nch) Genuinely there is no other reason. sometimes people will create justifications/other explanations for it but really its just absurdist humor with a pinch of tribalism. edit: i should add though, usually this type of humor is meant to be ironic by most of its participants. the more i think about it, the more it seems this is more rude than funny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Look we made a bunch of overblown jokes against the French for a while...

...then they got BASED organizing ferociously for their workers' rights...

...Then we stopped joking so much...

...and now they're not doing so hot again.

I think there's a causative effect here. Should the jokes continue in order to spur them to greatness once more, even if only out of spite?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it recently, though? As far as I can remember, specifically England has been the US of Europe. Or you mean the UK as a whole?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Economically it's definitely not doing well. Politically it's been a shitshow but many countries have. I definitely hate the situation but not the people/culture/(country) as such.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The lost continent had emerged! It's happening!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kinda unrelated but Garbology is a pretty great album imo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (11 children)

That's because all Aesop Rock albums are great.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

worldsfucked, m8

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
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