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>go to England
>head to restaurant for food
>watch is set to timezone of hometown
>ask someone what time it is
>"TOYME? WOTS THAT?"
>notice he doesn't have a watch on
>no one in England has a watch
>Big Ben starts to chime
>everyone stops what they're doing to count the bongs on their fingers
>man swerves off road and crashes into grocery store and is still counting bongs after crashing
>waitress drops my order on the floor while counting bongs on her fingers
>man panting while running frantically down the street: "OI, EVERYWAN, IT'S 7 BONG"
>everyone inside the restaurant and on the streets start clapping and cheering

please refrain from using 4chan copypasta here.

I've lived in Britain for 22 years since I was a child and the only thing I like about it is the rain, I can think of much worse things than that list about it, actually I think I will write that list.


. Chavs ( Think rednecks but with knives instead of guns and British accents, they tend to wear sports clothing )

. Any girls where I live who you'd want to go date usually have about two guys following them already ( honestly, I'm not exaggerating, they hover around them ) or almost certainly have a boyfriend because of how small the damn island is

. London, perhaps in my view one of the most overrated cities in the world, maybe it was my visit, but I found very little to like about it there just didn't seem to be as much there as people said, I guess it may depend on what you want to do there but for me it was really dull

. The economy is really dead here, particularly in my town, thousands and I mean thousands of homes are up for sale or rent because of the hyper-inflated housing prices

. Schools seem to be nothing more than gang warfare zones, it's as bad if not worse than the U.S, the only thing schools care about are their statistics so that means everything else goes to shit

. Two party system of the Conservative and Labour party, yep, we have a seriously undemocratic democracy, these guys do everything to prevent anyone on the outside getting in, both parties want to build an empire through overspending and inflation, I also find both the leaders incredibly irritating and patronising

. State funded BBC ( British Broadcasting Corporation ) the news from this place is particularly stupid and patronising because they seem to have this obsession with political correctness and it just makes them look like jackasses who don't know the real world, they're often on the giving end of one parties propaganda, usually the side that's going to win, if you actually look at what they say and write properly you'll find they're like a more devious and better spoken version of Fox

. Charity muggers, don't know if you guys get them over where you live but these are people who have been nicknamed so because they basically infest town centres and sometimes supermarkets they often harass people for money constantly and they've become such an issue that the local councils have had to ban them if they get too aggressive etc. they claim to collect for charity but it's actually been pretty well documented they and their bosses get a pretty big percentage of what you give them

. I almost forgot about speed cameras! Yes, speed camera's everywhere, they have this absolute paranoia that speed kills and it's pretty funny that they rant on about it when they deliberately place the camera's at the bottom of a very steep hill ( just as you're about to slow down from a fast speed because of gravity ) and on top of a very steep hill ( the opposite of before ) so yeah I'm sure they care about us and pedestrians deeply.

+1 to Lethn's write-up, although that makes it sound even worse than it actually is, it's pretty much the truth. The EUSSR is obviously bad news, although being in it is arguably more of a symptom of Britain's sociopolitical malaise than the major cause.

The Britain a lot of people overseas admire is the place that existed 50+ years ago...

About the first and last thing overseas people want from UK is an education degree. I say it's overrated though...you wouldn't imagine how easy it was to get in an UK university apart from Oxbridge, LSE, and Imperial.

Living smack bang in the middle of the Irish/British debaccle for all my life.

Have very little to identify with on both sides.

Starting to see myself step away from both sides and both sets of people.

The latest is fighting over a flag, pronounced FLEG if your a local of belfast. Thanks for showing the rest of the world how ready we are for modern times again you drunk fucking farmers.

Rumor has it, in The Netherlands, they, too, count bongs.  ;D

Depends on Uni and the specific course but there's more than those three that are difficult to get in to. About top30 (depending on the course) may be difficult to get into.
For example in 2011 the acceptance rate for CompSci & Math related courses was 15% for Nottingham Uni (which scores around 20 in UK) and 21% for Cambridge Uni.

Well, based on my experience as a foreigner graduating from a college where students do their A-Levels and apply to UK en masse, the only requirement needed is the A-Level results. 3-4 A's including 1-2 A*'s will ensure your entrance to all universities in UK barring what I listed above. They don't really care about what you write in your personal statement, nor give a damn about your other abilities. Heck, even 1-2 B's coupled with other A's get you in pretty much easily. Compare this with the hassle and headache of applying to US universities, and you'll see the stark difference.

It's refreshing to hear others rant their own country. It makes me more satisfied about my own shitty currupt down spiralling nation.

Other countries always sound better because you don't read their news papers.

Points for having a PM that fights the insanity in Brussels.

Yeah, good point there. At least they have a standing PM against that dying monster of EU.
Other nations seem to be sitting and waiting for its collapse.

PS: You know what's on your personal text tab, right?  ;)

I know whats on my tab and I'm not chinese but an Ai WEIWEI fan.

I don't want to start a hunt down on chinese Bitcoin users because of it though. So if there is some meaning in my Pic text that eludes me, please corret me!

*tries to stay civil*

The text is a pun of a widely used swear sentence referring to the listener's mom.  
Now that you've added the BTC word either inadvertently or purposefully, the complete sentence refers to a female organ on the listener's mom. ;)

I did try my best, didn't I?

LOL, I thought that it was a Chinese anti government joke. I don't want to offend anybodys mum.

It became an anti government joke when Ai Wei Wei recorded some stuff using this sentence if I'm not wrong. The phase you have literally means :'Fxxx your mom's XXXXXX'.   :-X

edit: now it means the same sentence above minus the last XXXXXX.  :P

The worst thing for me about being British is when I go abroad everyone blames me for colonialism. I can't argue with that, since since we're in Libya, Afghanistan, Mali, Iraq... and so it goes on...

I'm ashamed of my nationality and trade it for something else... if the trade-off wasn't too extreme of course (i.e. not penniless and destitute...)

Tsk tsk, you hapless colonial! Yes, you have valid points, but the order is all wrong!

1) Yes the BBC is awful with it's mindless Orwellian PC propaganda and social engineering.
2) Yes speed camera are fucking *everywhere* in fact cameras are everywhere, its pretty much an open prison.  
3) Yes, the women are *howlers* and they behave even worse than they look.
4) London is indeed a grey shithole. It's on my doorstep and I never bother to travel in.
5) Yes we do still run the world. Americans didn't win the war of independence, we just let them think we did. After all, the best slave is the one that thinks he's free.
6) Yes we did invent all sport. We don't mind losing the game so long as you all play by our rules.
7) Never heard of a "Charity Mugger"
8) Two party system? Ha ha ha!

British humour rocks!

The UK also has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, so the population would be essentially defenseless if, for example, the government decided to engage in genocide. This is one area where I'm definitely thankful to be in the US.

Fuck England, but let's not say anything bad about Scotland.   ;)

https://i.imgur.com/dlcNMza.png

Um sorry theymos. Little guns wont stop military from killing you... Just let me remind you of Soviets. Ukranians even had well armed militia, which got wiped out pretty quickly by NKVD. And that's back when the military didn't have the toys they have now.

You understand that #1 You didn't choose your nationality and that #2 you're not personally responsible for what your government did all those decades ago, right?

Don't feelbad for being born, white/celt/british w/e it's sad when I hear or read people saying those things like "I'm ashamed having been born X". You didn't choose to be born, count yourself lucky you where born in a great civilized country!

Ah yes, the old "civilians can't beat the army!" nonesense. Then why haven't the U.S. military forces and company not been able to declare an outright victory in Afghanistan and Iraq in decades? More so, Why couldn't the Russians outright defeat the chechen nationalists? And a more recent example, why is Assad having trouble with the rebels in his own home turf when he is deplying his airforce and mortars/missiles into civilian areas?

Civilians can defeat armies and have been doing so since 1776 and much much earlier. Even the Romans couldn't defeat the celts!

History proves you wrong, dead wrong.

Yeah, that happens sometimes, but having guns definitely makes it more difficult. The US's opposition in the middle east don't have modern weapons, but they've held on for years and cost the US a ridiculous amount of money and lives.

Civilians? Uh they weren't civilians. UPA were very well organized

So russian didn't defeat cechens? I wonder where da fuck they are now? Mostly in Moscow? Since they got wiped out pretty much.
Assad has an army? Wow comparing soviets and Assad... Really?
Romans pwneds celts.. Ceasar conquered them. Celts were speaking latin afterwards..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaulish_language#Language_death

Bam.


Make an intelligent statement, not a bunch of idiocy.

The next companion is hotter.

I don't know. Unless you can take a modern tank down, insurgence would be futile to a lot of people. How many tanks US lost in Iraq. Probably less than a dozen. US lost what ~4k? While everyone else in hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dead?

When a normal american fattie on these forums would be faced with death, he would just piss in his own pants.

That's a bit of generalization because they do care about the personal statement and references, especially if there's many candidates per place but it might not be applicable to some of the lower ranked universities. Sometimes they will require taking additional tests related to the studies, e.g. LNAT for Law, BMAT for Medicine, STEP for Maths in Bristol, Bath, UCL, Warwick + the ones mentioned by you. If there isn't many applicants per place obviously they won't be so picky about their candidates. From what I saw, top US universities will generally care more about the extracurriculars than their UK counterparts, and getting in will also be harder (more applicants per place).
What is also worth noting is the fact that international students (ie. not only outside the UK but ouside the EU/EEA) get preferential treatment during admissions because the school charges them a hell of a lot higher tuition fees.


Yup, that's true. It doesn't stop people from killing with screwdrivers even though carrying almost any sharp or bladed instrument without a good reason  in public (should be job-related, and in a car also counts as in public lol) can mean up to 4 years in jail.


The Russians allied with one group of Chechens (Akhmad Kadyrov), who abandoned the insurgency and joined the Russian forces. Chechnya today is still not a safe place where Kadyrov's reign of tortures, murders and Sharia law resembles the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

Which is why I argue the Chechens where not defeated, but appeased.


Sadly the Russian taxpayer foots the bill that they may live in luxury.

Wow. You wouldn't *want* to be a checnen in Russia now.

* fix

That is quite understandable. "Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history ..."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html

Fee-fi-fo-fum,
I hear the bleating of a sheeple man,
Be he live, or be he dead
Kings grind his bones to make their bread

WHAT GOOD IS A HANDGUN AGAINST AN ARMY?
http://www.jeffhead.com/liberty/handgun.htm