Stiff upper lip, perhaps?

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Does kindness create an opium epidemic for economic dominance?

  No, the Hustle Grindset creates the opium epidemic for economic dominance. Lock in.

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  According DfE, ‘fundamental British values’ comprise:

  democracy
  the rule of law
  individual liberty
  mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs, and for those without faith.
  

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I lived in Britain for a decade.

    Amazingly, in my experience not a single one of those things is true in practice.

    • Britain has First Fast The Post, and unelected second house of Parliament and Head Of State. The current government has a parliamentary ABSOLUTE majority (in a country with no written Constitution, so the pretty much can enact whatever laws they want with it) when they only got 33.7% of votes cast.
    • To see Britain’s “Rule of Law” just look at how the one group of demonstrators against the Genocide in Gaza were deemed Terrorists because of nothing more than throwing paint at an airplane used for surveillance in Gaza.
    • Harder to explain: culturally Brits - especially middle class and above - see people as having a moral obligation to fit in, which is how you end up with things like demonstrators being arrested for “Disturbing the Public Order”.
    • Just read how Muslims are described in British newspapers. Also talk to any friend of yours in Britain who has an ethnicity other than white-Briton.

    British values are almost all of them related with “keeping up appearences” (hence the whole “stiff upper lip” thing), the inherent superiority of Britain and Britons and how “people should know their place”.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    where’s “taking the piss” on the multiple choice

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    • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They left out “dry humor.”

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• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What does this font remind me so strongly of? Habbo Hotel? Rollercoaster Tycoon? The Sims 1? It’s driving me crazy.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s the Sims/SimCity.

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Idk, British people seem pretty kind to me

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They sure are loudly “supportive” of “Charity”.

    You know, like people who do it to benefit socially projecting an image of being “a good person” towards others rather than people who genuinelly care about others (who are not in fact loud about it, because being seen as charitable is not the point of their actions).

    I lived for a decade in Britain and that society is all about “keeping up apperances” at any cost (maybe why their Performing Arts are some of, if not THE, best in the World) and not at all about empathy.

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  • MashedTech@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah? Are they kind to themselves at least?

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• SuluBeddu@feddit.it ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s right!

  Pizza is not a dish French people eat

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  • MashedTech@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And they never should. French people don’t deserve pizza.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fr🤮nch

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  U wot mate?

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