UK General Election

[Arakhor]

Putting ever-so-slight pauses between syllables is another dead give-away, yes.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

A moment to express my appreciation for this thread.

I am active on another forum, where I am not 'the token American', but it is pretty close. A thread started there recently, with what turns out to have been the code word 'nationalism' in the title, and forumites I have 'known' for years as calm and collected individuals have suddenly turned into two mobs of raging animals who I hardly even recognize. If that forum were a bar I'd be under a pool table with a cue and a supply of billiard balls preparing to hold the defensive position, because they are ready to kill each other.

Were it not for this thread I would be hard pressed to have figured out what they are talking about.

 

[sophie]

A moment to express my appreciation for this thread.

I am active on another forum, where I am not 'the token American', but it is pretty close. A thread started there recently, with what turns out to have been the code word 'nationalism' in the title, and forumites I have 'known' for years as calm and collected individuals have suddenly turned into two mobs of raging animals who I hardly even recognize. If that forum were a bar I'd be under a pool table with a cue and a supply of billiard balls preparing to hold the defensive position, because they are ready to kill each other.

Were it not for this thread I would be hard pressed to have figured out what they are talking about.

Just wait till next year. That doesn't happen here because you can count the number of Brits in here on two hands and most of them are vaguely pro-Labour/Soc. Dem. The UKIP/Tory/BNP supporters in here have mostly gone away. I don't think the presidential threads are going to get as bad as they were in 2012, or even 2008 because OT has become a bit of an echo chamber over the last few years, but prepare to be inundated with inane threads that all deal with the same topic as the national elections heat up.

 

[Traitorfish]

Were there a lot of right-wing Brits to begin with? I can only bring Quackers and "Ayn Rand" to mind.

Outside of the Scottish referendum, most of the debates re: British politics were just Quackers claiming that Muslim were stealing his socks and everybody else telling him not to be such a weirdo.

 

[Arakhor]

Isn't Oruc from somewhere right of centre of the Sceptred Isle?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Just wait till next year. That doesn't happen here because you can count the number of Brits in here on two hands and most of them are vaguely pro-Labour/Soc. Dem. The UKIP/Tory/BNP supporters in here have mostly gone away. I don't think the presidential threads are going to get as bad as they were in 2012, or even 2008 because OT has become a bit of an echo chamber over the last few years, but prepare to be inundated with inane threads that all deal with the same topic as the national elections heat up.

I pretty much got that our limited supply made this forum much different from my other one, which has a few Germans and a small handful of Americans among a Brit majority.

 

[Kyriakos]

Were there a lot of right-wing Brits to begin with? I can only bring Quackers and "Ayn Rand" to mind.

Outside of the Scottish referendum, most of the debates re: British politics were just Quackers claiming that Muslim were stealing his socks and everybody else telling him not to be such a weirdo.

 

[CommonKnowledge]

73% of people in Wales report having no Welsh language skills.

I went to university in Wales and still remember one of the options listed for third year projects under 'linguistic programming' which included the phrase; 'we are interested in hearing from students who are multi-lingual and, in particular, speak obscure languages such as Welsh.'

Also I find it funny how in Wales they do public announcements at train stations in Welsh and then English a few moments later. When the Welsh comes on everyone looks up trying to work out what's being said so it's hard to understand why they bother considering the language is so tricky they even have a 'special' Welsh announcer to pronounce the Welsh stations.

 

[Traitorfish]

They do it to annoy the English, the truest and most noble motive a man can have for anything.

 

[Arakhor]

Keep on saying that and maybe you'll convince your friends that you're not half-English.

 

[Traitorfish]

Oh, if but I was half-English! That would at least be straightforward. I'm entirely English and entirely not, depending on what you count and how.

 

[gay_Aleks]

There are no true Scotsmen, anyway.

 

[really]

So were people watching the leaders debate last night?

I watched masterchef and then went to bed.

 

[Arakhor]

I didn't, but I caught Nick Robinson's review after it finished.

 

[Kyriakos]

Was the Ukiper at least funny?

 

[Arakhor]

Unfortunately, I don't find his populist intolerance at all funny, so I try to avoid listening to him speak wherever possible. He's one of the three people I'd be prepared to punch in the face on meeting.

 

[bathsheba666]

He managed to clearly state that 61% of people with AIDS are immigrants, thus entitling our noble lowbrows to luxuriate in the idea that no true Brit ever got AIDS without being contaminated by Johnny Foreigner.

 

[Arakhor]

Really? As much as I despise the man, he does get misquoted (or selectively quoted) sometimes.

 

[Traitorfish]

You're right: he actually said "HIV", but he didn't specify whether they had AIDs or not.

 

[Arakhor]

So it's still terrible, but not quite as bad as the alternative.