Dont even get me started on the patch northeast the Indian Ocean. That thing must have the highest peaks on earth, and it reaches all the way to Mongolia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe this is the remnant of the last technological civilization that collapsed and disappeared, leaving behind a super massive floating wastepile in the Atlantic Ocean and eventually settled into where it is today. Along with all the survivors that have long since forgotten where they came from.