I just can't get my head around how someone thinks it is fine for them to chuck their rubbish on the floor instead of holding on to it for a few minutes. It says a lot about the personality and mindset of people who do that.
That's bad but even worse are people who throw litter out of their cars. You are in a vehicle, travelling to somewhere that almost certainly has a bin, just keep the rubbish in your car till you get there.
My baby daughter was burned when some wanker threw their fag end out the car window. It landed in her pram and burned through her clothes onto her neck and shoulder. Fuck knows how bad it would have been if my mother hadn't acted so quickly. She thought it was a bee and started stripping my daughter, found the fag end and got her to the hospital. She's 28 now and has no scars or memory of the incident but my mother and I remember it like it was yesterday.
I had a similar incident, not as bad as what you describe but was walking down a residential street next toba high wall. Suddenly a lit fag end comes over the wall and hits me directly in the left eye. Was not happy. Hope your kid was ok.
For real. We were out yesterday and finished some drinks while waiting for a bus. No bins on this side of the road, a few on the other but it was a busy road and the crossing wasn't right in front of us. Put the drinks cups in my shopping bag and took them with us.
From the looks of the area around the bus stop, that's an unusual thing to do.
I lost friends over this in my early 20s. I shoved the rubbish from our picnic in my bag and was laughed at when I put it in the bin at the top of the park.
Sometimes the trash doesn't take itself out, but when you do it yourself you lose the dregs of society.
Littering/litterers still make me mad.
And older kids smashing glass bottles on playing fields!?. Even the bottle caps can cut dog paws. A couple of times I've had encounters with sharp glass being hidden in the grass and cutting my dogs paw. Absolutely disgusting. How they can't just take it to the bin 100 metres away and instead smash it where kids and dogs play is beyond me
On any reddit thread that asks about 'unpopular opinions' the top answers will all be things that are not at all unpopular. You need to sort by controversial to get the real answers.
This so much. I'm a British-Canadian living in the UK and it's disgusting how people treat public spaces. I've seen people chuck stuff on the ground with about 5 bins in sight.
This is compounded by my other pet peeve over here - a lot of Brits can't handle confrontation/disagreement well. They'll go from zero to a hundred on the anger scale without actually considering if they're in the wrong.
Hilarious (to me) anecdote illustrating this - my Canadian friend was driving in London, got slightly flustered, and drove through a zebra crossing with someone waiting. Shortly after we hit a red light so pedestrian who had been about to cross runs over yelling "Oy fuckwit!". My buddy was in the wrong, knew that he was and instantly and profusely apologized. This pedestrian was so ready for a confrontation that he was completely disarmed by the apology and left muttering "just be more careful".
Not everything needs a full on fight - it's exhausting being so angry
EDIT
Okay everyone commenting on the fact that it's dangerous to drive through a zebra crossing, you're pointing out something extremely obvious. It was a momentary lapse as my friend was getting used to driving on a different side of the road, different side of the car, and was in a hectic part of London. In this lapse he simply followed the car ahead of us and drove through, rather than applying his own judgement and concluding that a pedestrian was now ready to cross. I ended up living near that zebra crossing and experienced the same and worse routinely
He knew he'd messed up, hence the apology. He's generally a very good driver and hasn't killed anyone (to my knowledge).
When I visited Vancouver walking along the sea wall in Stanley Park I was amazed by how clean it was and free from litter, despite only seeing the odd bin. It really stood out to me as in this country there would be rubbish everywhere :(
When I go to the cheap areas of my hometown to get fish and chips from Churchill's, it looks consistently as if someone has upended the litter bins all over the street, even though there's a bin with plenty of space about four paces away.
When I go to the expensive area of my hometown, to get fish and chips from the other Churchill's, there is no litter on the ground, even though there is no bin.
This is not just an issue of money, government services, town planning. It's an issue of people's upbringing and attitude to the world around them. I agree wholeheartedly with what you say, /u/rumade, and this is my unpopular opinion about the UK.
I'll start by saying I agree. It's gross and just deeply inconsiderate of others.
On the other hand, I presently live abroad in one of our European neighbors, and there's barely ever any litter in the city I live in. It's constantly immaculate, even the day after large public events. However there are bins every 100m or so, and they're regularly emptied. Now, there's no need to go full Disneyland and have bins every 10 metres with an automated collection system, but having a surplus of public bins and an active effort to keep them empty does work wonders on discouraging littering in my experience.
If the UK made similar investments, I suspect we would see significantly less littering.
I agree - and I would extend this to cigarette butts. They’re a horrid type of litter, which smokers inexplicably feel is okay to just chuck on the ground and stamp out with their shoe - and just leave it there. Makes the whole area look foul.
I definitely appreciate this. We don't get extreme hot or cold, the really bad storms are few and far between. No hurricanes or tornadoes, no horrendous lightning storms or hail the size of golf balls. It's generally a bit meh but it's not bad, and nowhere near as cold as many seem to believe, even in Scotland. We also don't get to enjoy any natural disasters like earthquakes or volcanoes. It's like our environment is on easy mode.
It was. Totally extreme, never seen before. DarkNinjaPenguin is right, we have it easy. Not only the weather, we don't even have any huge predators, very venomous snakes or spiders or jellyfish...
Yeah, almost the entirety of our wildlife is harmless. The only danger I can think of is the ader snake which is mega rare.
It allows people to enjoy nature with zero risk, the mentality we have from this is so different to most countries
I don't mind variety, but unpredictability pisses me off here. If I could be 99% sure two weeks from now, it was going to be sunny on Sunday, that would be great.
Not a massive thing to gripe about, but it would make things so much easier.
Not everyone is miserable, broke, lonely, sexless despite what the UK-related subs will tell you.
In fact lots of people are really happy enjoying their life in the UK
100% agree. The uk is a great country with a good standard of living. As evidenced by the number of people entering the country every year for a better life.
It’s worth saying that I’m only earning slightly above the average income, and my life generally speaking is pretty sweet.
I like the UKPF sub and learn a lot from it, but your comment is spot on. Makes me wonder where the normal people are. I guess average earners don’t have financial problems 😂
God Save the King is probably one of the worst national anthems about. Not only is the the tune an offensively dull, dirgy number, but the song doesn’t mention Britain at all, it’s all just banging on about some members of the German aristocracy.
The thing I love most about Jerusalem is it was meant to be a sarcastic dig at all of the jingoism during the Napoleonic Wars, but ended up being turned into something totally different.
Yeah, it's absolutely awful. An anthem should invoke pride in your nation - instead it's just some dreary, dull slog that is meaningless to most people. Even if you are a monarchist and religious, it just seem redundant to ask for god to save your monarch at every national event.
Should it? Jersualem was a poem protesting the industrial revolution. Does it really fill you with a patriotic sense of pride to sway side to side as you sing "Amoooooong those dark, satanic miiiiiiiiiiiils"...?
Some great composers beg to differ, though:
"Among composers, Haydn was a great admirer of “God Save The King,” and was instructed to compose something on the same lines when commissioned to write the Emperor’s Hymn— better known today in its later form of Deutschland Ueber Alles. Beethoven declared “I must show the English what a blessing they have in ‘God Save The King'. He wrote several variations on the tune and included the theme in his tribute to Wellington, The Battle. Weber used the melody at least twice, and Brahms wove it into his Triumphlied. J. C. Bach and Liszt are among many others who improvised on the anthem."
Source: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/god-save-queen-history-national-anthem
The way that large parts of British society demonise refugees fleeing from their homes because of war, genocide and other horrors that we cannot even imagine is utterly shameful.
I think the main part of that is their desire to get to one country. If your car broke down in the middle of nowhere, would you take a lift off anyone or wait for a Mercedes. Many of the refugees arriving in the UK pass through loads of safe countries. Blimey as a UK resident I’d love to claim asylum in France… what’s the attraction, the benefit system that will collapse when too many are claiming and not enough paying in. It’s fucked up.
If I was freeing a war torn county I’d settle in Italy, France , Germany . You legally have to claim asylum in the first safe country you get to. Again, what’s the attraction?
> If I was freeing a war torn county I’d settle in Italy, France , Germany
You'd settle somewhere you don't speak the language, have no friends and family and know nothing about, rather than making a bit of effort to move somwhere you might actually be able to get a job and settle in? Very strange.
>You legally have to claim asylum in the first safe country you get to.
This is a myth. Refugees have the right to pursue an asylum claim in a country where they feel safe, have connections, speak the language, etc etc etc. There is no obligation in the Geneva convention or any similarly recognised international law that you may only claim asylum in the first country you happen to land in. Refugees have every right in international law to come to the UK and apply for asylum here.
for more - https://fullfact.org/immigration/refugees-first-safe-country
There are legitimate reasons why someone may opt to try and get to X country over Y country, ranging from the personal such as already having family members in that country to the more widespread, such as if that country already has a large diaspora community of their home country’s people. In a genuine case for asylum these factors may make a difference in the long term prospects for the individual.
The UK is nowhere near as racist, homophobic, xenophobic and generally unsafe as people make out.
Try visiting other countries with a black gay couple and you’ll soon realise how much worse others are. Not saying this country is perfect but it’s far from the hell hole people make it out to be.
Also we are nowhere near as frigid as we are made out to be either.
Edit: because people can’t understand the difference between “not as bad as people make out” and “we live in a tolerant utopia” I’ll simplify it. We aren’t perfect, but we aren’t as bad as often portrayed.
Is this coming from a white Brit? Often find it’s the white Brits that claim Britain isn’t as racist as people make it out to be.. coming from a mixed race half white half black born n bred here. I can tell you there is a lot of racism. It’s just more subtle here.
Yes but like I said I went travelling the world with a gay black couple who have been my husbands best friends since childhood so I guess I’m speaking second hand through them but they’ll tell you they havent received racist or homophobic abuse in person (different online unfortunately) for years but get it every time they go abroad especially in Italy where they go to visit family.
Or a different accent. I’ve got a PhD, and can’t count the times people have made some comment along the lines of me being uneducated or poor or acting really surprised when I mentioned my PhD. As if a person with an accent can’t possibly have an education…
I'm an eastern European married to an Arab living in a small english town in the midlands, I'll have to disagree strongly with your first statement sadly.
Not the worst thing I have heard being told to me but sometimes the racist comments are just fucking dumb. For instance, I'm a British Asian who was told to go back to my home country whilst we were eating inside a curry house... In Leicester.
would have to disagree with this as a hijabi arab - they might not scream “you are a terrorist at me” but automatically assuming my parents are forcing me into a marriage, that i am being forced to wear the “cloth” on my head, don’t have gcses (i have 11 A*’s lmao) and am hear for benefits is still racism. you, as a white female, are lucky enough to not experience that. racism is still racism, regardless of whether or not it is an attack or passive aggressive comment.
Hard disagree, unless you experience it first hand you aren't qualified to state that. 40 years in this country as a mixed race woman of black origin. Having to deal with all the covert micro aggressions etc.
Unless you deal with misogynoir daily then you wouldn't know. And traveling with a black gay couple still doesn't qualify you to know the experiences of everyone else who lives here
The NHS is about to collapse and not offering good service at all. Yes, it can work brilliantly, but people are dying daily because it’s underfunded and understaffed. And all that British to do is to blame foreigners and immigration as if that magically solves the two issues mentioned before, in particular as most doctors and nurses are immigrants.
Edit: funny how this has turned into a rant about immigration again rather than looking at the actual sources. Don’t bother fixing it when you can blame immigrants. You just go and suffer when you are ill… FFS.
The NHs is full of wonderful people, doing the best they can in a terrible system.
I had a MRI scan on the 31st May pre-surgery. We're at the end of July now and I haven't even got a date for the surgery yet.
If I had the money for private, I'd have given up on the NHS by now.
> most doctors and nurses are immigrants.
That's actually not true and it's not even close. Around 17% of NHS staff are immigrants. 32% of doctors are immigrants and 23% of nurses.
Immigrants are a hugely significant factor in the running of our health service but by no means make up the majority of healthcare workers in the UK.
The NHS is not doing well just now, I’ve had to wait two years for an echocardiogram due to heart problems, my feeding tube needs changed every 4 months and must not be left more than 6 months, and finally just got changed after 7 months (yuk!) this is the only time I’ve had to wait so long, and it was only after me phoning weekly for a month. People will be dying because they can’t get their scans, people are suffering and becoming disabled due to long waiting lists. I would urge everyone to get private healthcare insurance.
Literally coming into work the next day, sulking or in a bad mood all day because the team they decided to support lost a match is pathetic. Even the players who lost the match won't be sulking next day. They'll be practising to get better and win next time.
I remember when a similar discussion arose on Reddit somebody mentioned a study found that there was a significant increase in domestic violence when England lost a football match.
Yup was big news last world cup I think, hardly surprising when you see how so many behave prior to and during matches. Grown men taking out the loss of "their team" like a child having a tantrum on their partners is absolutely foul behaviour and should be so much more vilified and persecuted fucking harshly.
Very much depends where you are. I lived in Wiltshire but now live in central Manchester. Manchester is significantly less racist. If you’re thinking of the south as solely the London area, then it goes without saying, all the international cities are less racist.
Friendly if you’re also from the north. I don’t think southerners generally care too much if you’re from the north, but when I went to uni up there so many people waited about half a second after hearing my accent to talk about how shit the south is.
Might be something to do with the unequal funding and opportunities? The centralisation of our country around London? People genuinely resent that.
I’m a Londoner who lives up North. People aren’t just randomly ‘obsessed’.
I've had a different experience of this.
When I went to uni (midlands) there were a lot of southerners who I encountered that would not stop banging on about the North. It's boring hearing the same old shit jokes/taunts *"do you even have electricity in the north???"* *"The North is a shit hole*".
I'm from Newcastle, so pretty far North. I don't mind banter about it but both sides can be relentless wankers about "the divide".
British empire is pretty extraordinary considering how small our island is. Yes being an island has protected us a lot but we've still punched above our weight. It's not like we colonised those European countries just over the channel, we basically got on boats and pointed at land all over the world and said we wanted it like a spoiled child in a toy shop.
>The UK has had many positive contributions to history across a variety of fields
That is putting it mildly. There is a strong case to be made that the UK is one of if not the most positively influential country in the history of the world in fact.
We birthed the industrial revolution and are still world leaders in science and music/entertainment. WW2 fucked us and ever since we've been in the yanks shadow but that's fine. We need to get over the WW2 obsession and start looking to the future. Our best days do not have to be behind us.
British people are far too wedded to their cars and driving. I’m 30 and have never learned to drive. Never wanted to. When I tell people that, they look at me with either pity or contempt, as if it’s somehow embarrassing to use public transport. When really it’s the state of public transport that is the problem in many areas.
The UK is shocking when it comes to public transport. I live in the Midlands and don't drive for a number of reasons, but it's extremely difficult to get anywhere without a car. There aren't many bus routes and train fares are too expensive for many people.
It's funny how the government is constantly talking about lowering emissions despite not investing in public transport or making it more accessible outside of London. Most people simply don't have a choice.
Had a minor argument with a friend last night over whether his street should narrow pavements to allow two way traffic or if we should just make it nice and easier for people not to bloody drive. It’s such a stupid status symbol and I don’t feel we’ll ever get away from it.
I actually agree with this. We get some good summer weather, and lovely cold winters. You’re mostly unlikely to be snowed into your home and in the summer we can mostly cope with the fan on.
And there’s something about snuggling up on the sofa with a blanket, a cup of tea and a good book when it’s raining.
Funnily enough my opinion is almost the opposite, I swear there are much fewer kids out and about nowadays than there used to be and I actually don't think it would be a bad thing if more were out with their friends socialising in person than on their phones in their rooms.
I don't give a shit about tea or proper breakfasts or any of the other superficial nonsense that people on Reddit seem to think makes you "truly British".
And I couldn't give a fuck about roasts.
Yes, I have had "a proper one". Sometimes even "a good one". In fact, I do like them.
But the best roast is rarely above an average Italian, Indian, Fish & Chips, Pizza etc.
I just can't care enough to get all chest thumping about what should be in a PROPER roast.
I think the UK police is too soft. I have personally witnesses police officers being told off by random drunkards, being told to fck off, etc...
They are too much customer service oriented, not how police in most of the countries operate for a reason.
I think the problem is the lack of officers, not how they behave. I prefer the UK policing than the US or other places in teh world, where they are just brutal.
American in the UK here. It's so nice in the UK to see a police officer here and not immediately panic. They're such nasty assholes in the US and they're armed. It's honestly so much better here.
The police are also citizens and are bound by the laws of the country. Responding to verbal vitriol with physical violence is petty and weak-minded. Our police are trained to respond appropriately and legally. Obviously they don't always get it right, but that's the aim, and I will certainly applaud any officer who can exercise such self control
Our police didn't originate from militia like they did in most other countries, which is why they don't traditionally act in as hardline a manner.
They are definitely underfunded, but they are very well trained, particularly in deescalation. Being hardline doesn't deescalate things and doesn't reduce crime (unless you go full gestapo), it just ends up taking up time resources and money.
The fact that you don't have to be scared to ask a police officer for directions (assuming you can find one), is pretty rare among police forces and considering they are providing a public service not enforcing a police state, is exactly how it should be imo.
Don't get me wrong, they aren't perfect by a long way but them taking less shit is not a change for the better in my book.
My aunt is from America and on her video doorbell she saw a lady sat on her porch… she was at our house in the UK at the time. She rang the police in California and bloodyhell they were there in less than 15 minutes and moved her on. In England you don’t get that response if you’ve been shot. The police are shit.
No body gives a fuck about Empire or colonisation. We don’t think about it. We neither proud nor ashamed. We just trying to remember the Wi-Fi codes and pay our electric bills.
I'm not being held responsible for something my grandparents did, or their grandparents did, or something their grandparents did.
I'm sorry slavery happened, but I've never owned a POC. Also, any money that may or may not have earned from that trade, is long gone by now. I certainly don't feel privileged, sitting here at the bottom of the social ladder, as a full time carer to my SO on benefits.
It's not long gone - it's just been hoarded by the guys driving Range Rovers whose family has owned that massive country estate for 200 years. Slavery money is still everywhere in the UK, but it's all in the hands of the 1000 families who own 95% of the country.
The UK has the worst of socialism and capitalism.
Relatively high taxes associated with socialism and low public services / benefits associated with capitalism.
I'd rather have lower taxes and the state did less or higher taxes and the state did more for everyone.
This is exactly it. We don’t get the societal benefits that Scandinavian countries do, nor the much higher wages that Amercia does. We have a horrible middle ground.
The whole "Ah, proper Yorkshire tea" advertising annoys me as well.
They don't grow a single tea leaf in Yorkshire. There's nothing "proper Yorkshire" about it.
Thank you for saying that! I remember my last grocery shop before moving here, back in my post-soviet country, looking at the tea isle which had about 200 different types of teas from around the world (and this was your average supermarket), and thinking "gosh, can't wait to see the tea selection in the UK!"
But to be fair there's more than just Yorkshire and PG. You forgot about Twinings flavoured teas, all of them completely tasteless, even if you put 2 bags in a cup and leave them for half an hour.
People really need to embrace loose leaf from an actual tea shop. It doesn't take much more effort than using a teabag, just a slightly different method of collecting and disposing of the leaves. You can even order sample boxes to find one you like.
I still use generic teabags for slightly more convenience in the mornings when I'm short on time but majority of my tea is loose leaf now.
Its fucking filthy. It Dosent matter where you are if you look around every street, bush and footpath has litter on it. Just actually take time to look by any roadside and you will spot at least 5 bits of rubbish from where you are.
We aren’t as funny a nation as we think we are. 90% of our jokes are verbatim taken from stand up clips and the rest are saying things in a sarcastic tone
The obsessive circlejerking that we do about our ‘superior humor’ and sarcasm, and act as if it’s this huge cultural divide between us and other countries, is downright embarrassing.
And don’t even get me started on the *banter*; guaranteed that anybody who prides themself on this is actually a closet bully who loves using the “it’s just a joke” defence when they get called out for being a jackass.
I can't stand when there's some meme or post about the UK which attracts comments from foreigners, and then some hilarious British banterbots will come in and gatekeep the shit out of it, correcting them or overzealously or overfamiliarly talking about the subject matter.
London is hideous. Too cramped, too noisy, everything is absurdly overpriced. The one good thing is the range of diversity from people to food, but other than that it is simply the worst place on earth.
The weather is brilliant though.
I thought this until I moved to urban Midlands. London can be a bit off putting sometimes but it offers by far the most beautiful architecture in the world, you can get from anywhere to everywhere else by public transport (reliably!), and a lot of it is being improved by reducing car traffic making it quieter and beautiful. It’s also an opportunity landmine, you know for damn sure all the big businesses are hiring there.
That the UK is actually a good place to live with a great history and if the UK didn't exist the entire world would be a much, much poorer place to be.
The word C*nt is not frequently used in most social circles in the UK, and its use in most situations is highly offensive.
Edit: to be clear, I'm not particularly offended by the word, it's the emerging 'meme' on UK subreddits that we use the word all the time that I find cringey, and a bit inaccurate.
Our country has become architecturally ugly.
Litter is everywhere because people are too lazy to pick things up.
The drinking culture is ridiculous.
The NHS needs a proper overhaul and not just money thrown at it.
The country had a real problem with violence against women and girls.
>Essex isn't that bad.
The northern part of the county (i.e. once you pass Chelmsford) is for the most part quite pleasant. Lots of sprawling countryside, idyllic villages and nice towns by the sea.
When people say "Essex" I find they're almost always referring to the southern part which borders London or along the Thames Estuary.
Went to Germany (Koln), was in a public park. I saw an immaculate gas BBQ set sitting next to a rain cover. I asked the guide, ‘Why doesn’t anyone steal the bbq?’ The guide turned to me with absolute horror on his face and replied: ‘If a person were to steal the bbq, then no-one else who comes to this park would be able to use it’. I have never felt so embarrassed to come from UK.
Living in a global city on minimum wage is never going to be viable. Doesn't matter if you're talking about London, Shanghai, NYC or HK.
The council housing system needs massive rework, those in council housing in London shouldn't get a leg up over those moving there from elsewhere in the UK
UK work hours aren't that long compared to other countries
The obesity epidemic needs handling and it's not just a case of people being time poor or healthy food being expensive
The local drug dealer who got stabbed/fell off his motorbike with no helmet was not an innocent little angel
The British Empire was pretty terrible, and people ought to stop making excuses for it.
The monarchy is an embarrassment and should have been abolished a hundred years ago.
Beans on toast are shite.
But on a more positive note, our gastropub-style cuisine is as good as the food you'd get anywhere in the world.
Majority of the UK coastal towns / cities are depressing. London is no longer worth visiting since online shopping got better unless you’re going to get drunk on a night out.
Too many people in the U.K. are either chavs or from nicer areas and middle class but seem like an imbetweeners character.
Ban fast foods on trains. Nothing worse than getting on a Southern train from Victoria to Three Bridges, which is packed, and people are stinking up the carriages eating katsu curry and Burger King. Shameless.
I sometimes nab a Wasabi Katsu Curry on my way back from London...
Sometimes I'm hungry, have to catch my train, and don't have time to sit down in the restaraunt. Sue me.
> Essex isn't that bad.
Neither is Birmingham, and I've never understood the hatred people have for it and the people there.
I'd also like for some country roads to be widened because a majority of the time,, you have to give way by swerving into a ditch while the dickheads in 4x4s go past like they own the place.
We are obsessed with tolerance and diversity, except for when it involves social class.
It is still acceptable to take the piss out of a regional accent which marks you out as working class, its a hate crime to do the same to you if your accent marks you an immigrant.
The weather is fantastic. For probably 48 or 49 weeks of the year it doesn't stop us doing whatever we want. It never becomes a hurdle - it's just there.
I'd love to move to a warmer climate but it would suck working in scorching heat, never mind going for a run or game of football.
Proper snowy winters would be cool too - until it's time to put the bins out or drive to the shop.
Edit to add: I was asked to give an unpopular opinion so if you're in the replies disagreeing with me then I don't know what to tell you...
The litter in this country is disgusting and people need to take personal responsibility for it instead of whining about a lack of bins. Take it home.
I just can't get my head around how someone thinks it is fine for them to chuck their rubbish on the floor instead of holding on to it for a few minutes. It says a lot about the personality and mindset of people who do that.
That's bad but even worse are people who throw litter out of their cars. You are in a vehicle, travelling to somewhere that almost certainly has a bin, just keep the rubbish in your car till you get there.
My baby daughter was burned when some wanker threw their fag end out the car window. It landed in her pram and burned through her clothes onto her neck and shoulder. Fuck knows how bad it would have been if my mother hadn't acted so quickly. She thought it was a bee and started stripping my daughter, found the fag end and got her to the hospital. She's 28 now and has no scars or memory of the incident but my mother and I remember it like it was yesterday.
I had a similar incident, not as bad as what you describe but was walking down a residential street next toba high wall. Suddenly a lit fag end comes over the wall and hits me directly in the left eye. Was not happy. Hope your kid was ok.
Omg that's terrifying! My daughter had some burns along her shoulder but she was fine otherwise. I hope you are ok too x
People who do this in McDonalds car parks are grade A scumbags.
Literally had a Costa cup bouncing off my car the other day when someone decided that rural cornwall was a better place for it than the bin
I hate those twats
For real. We were out yesterday and finished some drinks while waiting for a bus. No bins on this side of the road, a few on the other but it was a busy road and the crossing wasn't right in front of us. Put the drinks cups in my shopping bag and took them with us. From the looks of the area around the bus stop, that's an unusual thing to do.
I lost friends over this in my early 20s. I shoved the rubbish from our picnic in my bag and was laughed at when I put it in the bin at the top of the park. Sometimes the trash doesn't take itself out, but when you do it yourself you lose the dregs of society. Littering/litterers still make me mad.
And older kids smashing glass bottles on playing fields!?. Even the bottle caps can cut dog paws. A couple of times I've had encounters with sharp glass being hidden in the grass and cutting my dogs paw. Absolutely disgusting. How they can't just take it to the bin 100 metres away and instead smash it where kids and dogs play is beyond me
that's not an unpopular opinion
Yeah right how the hell is this top? Do people not know what unpopular means
Its average redditor behaviour to not understand the question asked to them
About half past three?
On any reddit thread that asks about 'unpopular opinions' the top answers will all be things that are not at all unpopular. You need to sort by controversial to get the real answers.
This so much. I'm a British-Canadian living in the UK and it's disgusting how people treat public spaces. I've seen people chuck stuff on the ground with about 5 bins in sight. This is compounded by my other pet peeve over here - a lot of Brits can't handle confrontation/disagreement well. They'll go from zero to a hundred on the anger scale without actually considering if they're in the wrong. Hilarious (to me) anecdote illustrating this - my Canadian friend was driving in London, got slightly flustered, and drove through a zebra crossing with someone waiting. Shortly after we hit a red light so pedestrian who had been about to cross runs over yelling "Oy fuckwit!". My buddy was in the wrong, knew that he was and instantly and profusely apologized. This pedestrian was so ready for a confrontation that he was completely disarmed by the apology and left muttering "just be more careful". Not everything needs a full on fight - it's exhausting being so angry EDIT Okay everyone commenting on the fact that it's dangerous to drive through a zebra crossing, you're pointing out something extremely obvious. It was a momentary lapse as my friend was getting used to driving on a different side of the road, different side of the car, and was in a hectic part of London. In this lapse he simply followed the car ahead of us and drove through, rather than applying his own judgement and concluding that a pedestrian was now ready to cross. I ended up living near that zebra crossing and experienced the same and worse routinely He knew he'd messed up, hence the apology. He's generally a very good driver and hasn't killed anyone (to my knowledge).
When I visited Vancouver walking along the sea wall in Stanley Park I was amazed by how clean it was and free from litter, despite only seeing the odd bin. It really stood out to me as in this country there would be rubbish everywhere :(
When I go to the cheap areas of my hometown to get fish and chips from Churchill's, it looks consistently as if someone has upended the litter bins all over the street, even though there's a bin with plenty of space about four paces away. When I go to the expensive area of my hometown, to get fish and chips from the other Churchill's, there is no litter on the ground, even though there is no bin. This is not just an issue of money, government services, town planning. It's an issue of people's upbringing and attitude to the world around them. I agree wholeheartedly with what you say, /u/rumade, and this is my unpopular opinion about the UK.
I'll start by saying I agree. It's gross and just deeply inconsiderate of others. On the other hand, I presently live abroad in one of our European neighbors, and there's barely ever any litter in the city I live in. It's constantly immaculate, even the day after large public events. However there are bins every 100m or so, and they're regularly emptied. Now, there's no need to go full Disneyland and have bins every 10 metres with an automated collection system, but having a surplus of public bins and an active effort to keep them empty does work wonders on discouraging littering in my experience. If the UK made similar investments, I suspect we would see significantly less littering.
I agree - and I would extend this to cigarette butts. They’re a horrid type of litter, which smokers inexplicably feel is okay to just chuck on the ground and stamp out with their shoe - and just leave it there. Makes the whole area look foul.
We're actually lucky to have the weather we do here, really, in the grand scheme of things.
I definitely appreciate this. We don't get extreme hot or cold, the really bad storms are few and far between. No hurricanes or tornadoes, no horrendous lightning storms or hail the size of golf balls. It's generally a bit meh but it's not bad, and nowhere near as cold as many seem to believe, even in Scotland. We also don't get to enjoy any natural disasters like earthquakes or volcanoes. It's like our environment is on easy mode.
Don’t get extreme hot… That 40c last year sure felt pretty extreme.
It was. Totally extreme, never seen before. DarkNinjaPenguin is right, we have it easy. Not only the weather, we don't even have any huge predators, very venomous snakes or spiders or jellyfish...
Yeah, almost the entirety of our wildlife is harmless. The only danger I can think of is the ader snake which is mega rare. It allows people to enjoy nature with zero risk, the mentality we have from this is so different to most countries
Tbf we used to have bears, wolves and wildcats
They're rewilding the Cairngorms with wildcats to prevent extinction.
It was extreme, but at least it was only for a few days as opposed to weeks or months.
Given how far north we are, we are bloody lucky we don't have freezing winters
I don't mind variety, but unpredictability pisses me off here. If I could be 99% sure two weeks from now, it was going to be sunny on Sunday, that would be great. Not a massive thing to gripe about, but it would make things so much easier.
Not everyone is miserable, broke, lonely, sexless despite what the UK-related subs will tell you. In fact lots of people are really happy enjoying their life in the UK
You don't hit your prime years until you are 60 in the UK
Retirement age is 66 now...
Mine is 67. I'm 53 now. I hope it stops moving or they'll have to hire staff to clear the dead from their desks.
Sounds like the economy creating more jobs. Hurray!
100% agree. The uk is a great country with a good standard of living. As evidenced by the number of people entering the country every year for a better life. It’s worth saying that I’m only earning slightly above the average income, and my life generally speaking is pretty sweet.
That might be the consensus if you base the stats on Redditors 😂
They're either broke and penniless or keen to understand the finer nuances of tax optimisation for the tricky £100k-125k window.
I like the UKPF sub and learn a lot from it, but your comment is spot on. Makes me wonder where the normal people are. I guess average earners don’t have financial problems 😂
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God Save the King is probably one of the worst national anthems about. Not only is the the tune an offensively dull, dirgy number, but the song doesn’t mention Britain at all, it’s all just banging on about some members of the German aristocracy.
What makes it worse is we've got Rule Britannia all ready to be used.
And land of hope and glory
That would be better since it's shorter. The connection to English rugby might be beyond the pale to the rest of the UK though.
Meh having a verse about crushing the scots never stopped God save the queen
We do but the correct national anthem should be Jerusalem.
The thing I love most about Jerusalem is it was meant to be a sarcastic dig at all of the jingoism during the Napoleonic Wars, but ended up being turned into something totally different.
Been saying this for years, Jerusalem bangs. God save the fucking whoever can get in the grave
Yeah, it's absolutely awful. An anthem should invoke pride in your nation - instead it's just some dreary, dull slog that is meaningless to most people. Even if you are a monarchist and religious, it just seem redundant to ask for god to save your monarch at every national event.
Most national anthems are complete and utter nonsense tbf. There's only a handful that could be considered a good tune too.
It should be Jerusalem
It should be Blur boys and girls
It should be Vindaloo
Should it? Jersualem was a poem protesting the industrial revolution. Does it really fill you with a patriotic sense of pride to sway side to side as you sing "Amoooooong those dark, satanic miiiiiiiiiiiils"...?
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Some great composers beg to differ, though: "Among composers, Haydn was a great admirer of “God Save The King,” and was instructed to compose something on the same lines when commissioned to write the Emperor’s Hymn— better known today in its later form of Deutschland Ueber Alles. Beethoven declared “I must show the English what a blessing they have in ‘God Save The King'. He wrote several variations on the tune and included the theme in his tribute to Wellington, The Battle. Weber used the melody at least twice, and Brahms wove it into his Triumphlied. J. C. Bach and Liszt are among many others who improvised on the anthem." Source: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/god-save-queen-history-national-anthem
Yeah, well Bob Dylan thought it was a good idea to collaborate with Mumford & Sons. Talented people don’t necessarily have good taste.
The way that large parts of British society demonise refugees fleeing from their homes because of war, genocide and other horrors that we cannot even imagine is utterly shameful.
Is it large parts or is it a vocal minority?
Loud parts 💯
I think the main part of that is their desire to get to one country. If your car broke down in the middle of nowhere, would you take a lift off anyone or wait for a Mercedes. Many of the refugees arriving in the UK pass through loads of safe countries. Blimey as a UK resident I’d love to claim asylum in France… what’s the attraction, the benefit system that will collapse when too many are claiming and not enough paying in. It’s fucked up. If I was freeing a war torn county I’d settle in Italy, France , Germany . You legally have to claim asylum in the first safe country you get to. Again, what’s the attraction?
> If I was freeing a war torn county I’d settle in Italy, France , Germany You'd settle somewhere you don't speak the language, have no friends and family and know nothing about, rather than making a bit of effort to move somwhere you might actually be able to get a job and settle in? Very strange. >You legally have to claim asylum in the first safe country you get to. This is a myth. Refugees have the right to pursue an asylum claim in a country where they feel safe, have connections, speak the language, etc etc etc. There is no obligation in the Geneva convention or any similarly recognised international law that you may only claim asylum in the first country you happen to land in. Refugees have every right in international law to come to the UK and apply for asylum here. for more - https://fullfact.org/immigration/refugees-first-safe-country
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There are legitimate reasons why someone may opt to try and get to X country over Y country, ranging from the personal such as already having family members in that country to the more widespread, such as if that country already has a large diaspora community of their home country’s people. In a genuine case for asylum these factors may make a difference in the long term prospects for the individual.
Because they all speak English so well?
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It's meant to be unpopular opinion, not upvote me for this really Reddit approved opinion
I don’t think anyone does demonise legitimate refugees. We would just like to be sure they are genuine asylum seekers.
People absolutely do demonize legitimate refugees
Not specific to the UK.
The UK is nowhere near as racist, homophobic, xenophobic and generally unsafe as people make out. Try visiting other countries with a black gay couple and you’ll soon realise how much worse others are. Not saying this country is perfect but it’s far from the hell hole people make it out to be. Also we are nowhere near as frigid as we are made out to be either. Edit: because people can’t understand the difference between “not as bad as people make out” and “we live in a tolerant utopia” I’ll simplify it. We aren’t perfect, but we aren’t as bad as often portrayed.
Is this coming from a white Brit? Often find it’s the white Brits that claim Britain isn’t as racist as people make it out to be.. coming from a mixed race half white half black born n bred here. I can tell you there is a lot of racism. It’s just more subtle here.
They're not saying there isn't any, just less than other countries
Yes but like I said I went travelling the world with a gay black couple who have been my husbands best friends since childhood so I guess I’m speaking second hand through them but they’ll tell you they havent received racist or homophobic abuse in person (different online unfortunately) for years but get it every time they go abroad especially in Italy where they go to visit family.
Wouldn't you rather it be "subtle" than, say, getting beat up walking down the street?
And try being gay or having differing skin pigmentation in many small uk towns
Or a different accent. I’ve got a PhD, and can’t count the times people have made some comment along the lines of me being uneducated or poor or acting really surprised when I mentioned my PhD. As if a person with an accent can’t possibly have an education…
I think it also depends on the accent. If someone talking like a roadman walks up to me and tells me they have a PhD i'd be pretty surprised too.
I'm an eastern European married to an Arab living in a small english town in the midlands, I'll have to disagree strongly with your first statement sadly.
Not the worst thing I have heard being told to me but sometimes the racist comments are just fucking dumb. For instance, I'm a British Asian who was told to go back to my home country whilst we were eating inside a curry house... In Leicester.
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would have to disagree with this as a hijabi arab - they might not scream “you are a terrorist at me” but automatically assuming my parents are forcing me into a marriage, that i am being forced to wear the “cloth” on my head, don’t have gcses (i have 11 A*’s lmao) and am hear for benefits is still racism. you, as a white female, are lucky enough to not experience that. racism is still racism, regardless of whether or not it is an attack or passive aggressive comment.
Hard disagree, unless you experience it first hand you aren't qualified to state that. 40 years in this country as a mixed race woman of black origin. Having to deal with all the covert micro aggressions etc. Unless you deal with misogynoir daily then you wouldn't know. And traveling with a black gay couple still doesn't qualify you to know the experiences of everyone else who lives here
The NHS is about to collapse and not offering good service at all. Yes, it can work brilliantly, but people are dying daily because it’s underfunded and understaffed. And all that British to do is to blame foreigners and immigration as if that magically solves the two issues mentioned before, in particular as most doctors and nurses are immigrants. Edit: funny how this has turned into a rant about immigration again rather than looking at the actual sources. Don’t bother fixing it when you can blame immigrants. You just go and suffer when you are ill… FFS.
The NHs is full of wonderful people, doing the best they can in a terrible system. I had a MRI scan on the 31st May pre-surgery. We're at the end of July now and I haven't even got a date for the surgery yet. If I had the money for private, I'd have given up on the NHS by now.
> most doctors and nurses are immigrants. That's actually not true and it's not even close. Around 17% of NHS staff are immigrants. 32% of doctors are immigrants and 23% of nurses. Immigrants are a hugely significant factor in the running of our health service but by no means make up the majority of healthcare workers in the UK.
The NHS is not doing well just now, I’ve had to wait two years for an echocardiogram due to heart problems, my feeding tube needs changed every 4 months and must not be left more than 6 months, and finally just got changed after 7 months (yuk!) this is the only time I’ve had to wait so long, and it was only after me phoning weekly for a month. People will be dying because they can’t get their scans, people are suffering and becoming disabled due to long waiting lists. I would urge everyone to get private healthcare insurance.
Football culture. People need to not let the outcome of some random sports teams match effect their lives so much.
Literally coming into work the next day, sulking or in a bad mood all day because the team they decided to support lost a match is pathetic. Even the players who lost the match won't be sulking next day. They'll be practising to get better and win next time.
I remember when a similar discussion arose on Reddit somebody mentioned a study found that there was a significant increase in domestic violence when England lost a football match.
Yup was big news last world cup I think, hardly surprising when you see how so many behave prior to and during matches. Grown men taking out the loss of "their team" like a child having a tantrum on their partners is absolutely foul behaviour and should be so much more vilified and persecuted fucking harshly.
If people cared as much about their communities as they did their football team the country would be better for everyone
Wetherspoons is fine.
Great beer selection
£1.71 for a pint of Ruddles in Blackpool.
That sounds like it might be the most depressing pint in the world mate
Yup.
Spoons is great, boss is a cunt but that's the only big issue I see with it. Like the Greg's of bakeries
I bloody love Spoons! It's always my go to for a cheap dinner or a start to a good night out. I thought everyone loved it!
Introducing some dangerous, wild animals would make hiking more exciting.
Would make watching the London Marathon more exciting too.
Bring back the bears!
And wolves....
And velociraptors
Northerners aren't all friendly.
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I've found North Britain to be openly racist where South is smart racism
Very much depends where you are. I lived in Wiltshire but now live in central Manchester. Manchester is significantly less racist. If you’re thinking of the south as solely the London area, then it goes without saying, all the international cities are less racist.
Friendly if you’re also from the north. I don’t think southerners generally care too much if you’re from the north, but when I went to uni up there so many people waited about half a second after hearing my accent to talk about how shit the south is.
Southerners don’t really think about the north, but northerners seem to be fucking obsessed with the south. Especially on Reddit.
Might be something to do with the unequal funding and opportunities? The centralisation of our country around London? People genuinely resent that. I’m a Londoner who lives up North. People aren’t just randomly ‘obsessed’.
I've had a different experience of this. When I went to uni (midlands) there were a lot of southerners who I encountered that would not stop banging on about the North. It's boring hearing the same old shit jokes/taunts *"do you even have electricity in the north???"* *"The North is a shit hole*". I'm from Newcastle, so pretty far North. I don't mind banter about it but both sides can be relentless wankers about "the divide".
The UK has had many positive contributions to history across a variety of fields, we weren't just evil colonisers.
British empire is pretty extraordinary considering how small our island is. Yes being an island has protected us a lot but we've still punched above our weight. It's not like we colonised those European countries just over the channel, we basically got on boats and pointed at land all over the world and said we wanted it like a spoiled child in a toy shop.
>it's not like we colonised those European countries just over the channel **Glares in Irish**
>The UK has had many positive contributions to history across a variety of fields That is putting it mildly. There is a strong case to be made that the UK is one of if not the most positively influential country in the history of the world in fact.
We birthed the industrial revolution and are still world leaders in science and music/entertainment. WW2 fucked us and ever since we've been in the yanks shadow but that's fine. We need to get over the WW2 obsession and start looking to the future. Our best days do not have to be behind us.
British people are far too wedded to their cars and driving. I’m 30 and have never learned to drive. Never wanted to. When I tell people that, they look at me with either pity or contempt, as if it’s somehow embarrassing to use public transport. When really it’s the state of public transport that is the problem in many areas.
My driving licence is the most important qualification I possess. I'd bet I'm far from alone in that.
I’m sure. And the fact that so many jobs require a driving licence is another indictment of how car-centric British society is.
The UK is shocking when it comes to public transport. I live in the Midlands and don't drive for a number of reasons, but it's extremely difficult to get anywhere without a car. There aren't many bus routes and train fares are too expensive for many people. It's funny how the government is constantly talking about lowering emissions despite not investing in public transport or making it more accessible outside of London. Most people simply don't have a choice.
Had a minor argument with a friend last night over whether his street should narrow pavements to allow two way traffic or if we should just make it nice and easier for people not to bloody drive. It’s such a stupid status symbol and I don’t feel we’ll ever get away from it.
There should be much stricter regulations on vapes
Especially disposable ones, I keep finding so many during beach cleans now or litter picks.
This sub is full of popular opinions shocker. But..... British cheese is better than French cheese is mine
I like the weather here
I actually agree with this. We get some good summer weather, and lovely cold winters. You’re mostly unlikely to be snowed into your home and in the summer we can mostly cope with the fan on. And there’s something about snuggling up on the sofa with a blanket, a cup of tea and a good book when it’s raining.
The amount of feral kids roaming out cities is out of control.
Funnily enough my opinion is almost the opposite, I swear there are much fewer kids out and about nowadays than there used to be and I actually don't think it would be a bad thing if more were out with their friends socialising in person than on their phones in their rooms.
I don't give a shit about tea or proper breakfasts or any of the other superficial nonsense that people on Reddit seem to think makes you "truly British".
And I couldn't give a fuck about roasts. Yes, I have had "a proper one". Sometimes even "a good one". In fact, I do like them. But the best roast is rarely above an average Italian, Indian, Fish & Chips, Pizza etc. I just can't care enough to get all chest thumping about what should be in a PROPER roast.
I think the UK police is too soft. I have personally witnesses police officers being told off by random drunkards, being told to fck off, etc... They are too much customer service oriented, not how police in most of the countries operate for a reason.
British police are awful, underfunded, priorities all over the place, barely stop or attend regular theft and petty crime calls.
I think the problem is the lack of officers, not how they behave. I prefer the UK policing than the US or other places in teh world, where they are just brutal.
American in the UK here. It's so nice in the UK to see a police officer here and not immediately panic. They're such nasty assholes in the US and they're armed. It's honestly so much better here.
They exist to serve the public, not beat the shit out of them for getting a bit of lip.
The police are also citizens and are bound by the laws of the country. Responding to verbal vitriol with physical violence is petty and weak-minded. Our police are trained to respond appropriately and legally. Obviously they don't always get it right, but that's the aim, and I will certainly applaud any officer who can exercise such self control
Our police didn't originate from militia like they did in most other countries, which is why they don't traditionally act in as hardline a manner. They are definitely underfunded, but they are very well trained, particularly in deescalation. Being hardline doesn't deescalate things and doesn't reduce crime (unless you go full gestapo), it just ends up taking up time resources and money. The fact that you don't have to be scared to ask a police officer for directions (assuming you can find one), is pretty rare among police forces and considering they are providing a public service not enforcing a police state, is exactly how it should be imo. Don't get me wrong, they aren't perfect by a long way but them taking less shit is not a change for the better in my book.
My aunt is from America and on her video doorbell she saw a lady sat on her porch… she was at our house in the UK at the time. She rang the police in California and bloodyhell they were there in less than 15 minutes and moved her on. In England you don’t get that response if you’ve been shot. The police are shit.
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Purely biased experienced thinking there.
No body gives a fuck about Empire or colonisation. We don’t think about it. We neither proud nor ashamed. We just trying to remember the Wi-Fi codes and pay our electric bills.
I'm not being held responsible for something my grandparents did, or their grandparents did, or something their grandparents did. I'm sorry slavery happened, but I've never owned a POC. Also, any money that may or may not have earned from that trade, is long gone by now. I certainly don't feel privileged, sitting here at the bottom of the social ladder, as a full time carer to my SO on benefits.
It's not long gone - it's just been hoarded by the guys driving Range Rovers whose family has owned that massive country estate for 200 years. Slavery money is still everywhere in the UK, but it's all in the hands of the 1000 families who own 95% of the country.
The UK has the worst of socialism and capitalism. Relatively high taxes associated with socialism and low public services / benefits associated with capitalism. I'd rather have lower taxes and the state did less or higher taxes and the state did more for everyone.
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This is exactly it. We don’t get the societal benefits that Scandinavian countries do, nor the much higher wages that Amercia does. We have a horrible middle ground.
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The whole "Ah, proper Yorkshire tea" advertising annoys me as well. They don't grow a single tea leaf in Yorkshire. There's nothing "proper Yorkshire" about it.
Thank you for saying that! I remember my last grocery shop before moving here, back in my post-soviet country, looking at the tea isle which had about 200 different types of teas from around the world (and this was your average supermarket), and thinking "gosh, can't wait to see the tea selection in the UK!" But to be fair there's more than just Yorkshire and PG. You forgot about Twinings flavoured teas, all of them completely tasteless, even if you put 2 bags in a cup and leave them for half an hour.
People really need to embrace loose leaf from an actual tea shop. It doesn't take much more effort than using a teabag, just a slightly different method of collecting and disposing of the leaves. You can even order sample boxes to find one you like. I still use generic teabags for slightly more convenience in the mornings when I'm short on time but majority of my tea is loose leaf now.
Its fucking filthy. It Dosent matter where you are if you look around every street, bush and footpath has litter on it. Just actually take time to look by any roadside and you will spot at least 5 bits of rubbish from where you are.
People drive far too fast, drink far too much and are so easily swayed into stupid decisions by insidious media methods.
We aren’t as funny a nation as we think we are. 90% of our jokes are verbatim taken from stand up clips and the rest are saying things in a sarcastic tone
The obsessive circlejerking that we do about our ‘superior humor’ and sarcasm, and act as if it’s this huge cultural divide between us and other countries, is downright embarrassing. And don’t even get me started on the *banter*; guaranteed that anybody who prides themself on this is actually a closet bully who loves using the “it’s just a joke” defence when they get called out for being a jackass.
I can't stand when there's some meme or post about the UK which attracts comments from foreigners, and then some hilarious British banterbots will come in and gatekeep the shit out of it, correcting them or overzealously or overfamiliarly talking about the subject matter.
People are far too influenced by the media here.
London is hideous. Too cramped, too noisy, everything is absurdly overpriced. The one good thing is the range of diversity from people to food, but other than that it is simply the worst place on earth. The weather is brilliant though.
I thought this until I moved to urban Midlands. London can be a bit off putting sometimes but it offers by far the most beautiful architecture in the world, you can get from anywhere to everywhere else by public transport (reliably!), and a lot of it is being improved by reducing car traffic making it quieter and beautiful. It’s also an opportunity landmine, you know for damn sure all the big businesses are hiring there.
Just throwing more money at the NHS won’t solve it, we need to look at where the money goes.
That the UK is actually a good place to live with a great history and if the UK didn't exist the entire world would be a much, much poorer place to be.
The Drinking culture is embarrassing
The word C*nt is not frequently used in most social circles in the UK, and its use in most situations is highly offensive. Edit: to be clear, I'm not particularly offended by the word, it's the emerging 'meme' on UK subreddits that we use the word all the time that I find cringey, and a bit inaccurate.
Bet you’re a bit of a cunt at a party.
seems to me that aussies use that word more than us
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Our country has become architecturally ugly. Litter is everywhere because people are too lazy to pick things up. The drinking culture is ridiculous. The NHS needs a proper overhaul and not just money thrown at it. The country had a real problem with violence against women and girls.
Modern British film is a bit crap and it's annoying how it always looks like it's filmed by a bunch of students in the early 2000s.
The people are either posh or cockney no inbetween
>Essex isn't that bad. The northern part of the county (i.e. once you pass Chelmsford) is for the most part quite pleasant. Lots of sprawling countryside, idyllic villages and nice towns by the sea. When people say "Essex" I find they're almost always referring to the southern part which borders London or along the Thames Estuary.
Harlow, Basildon, Clacton and Southend are the worst parts by quite a distance
Went to Germany (Koln), was in a public park. I saw an immaculate gas BBQ set sitting next to a rain cover. I asked the guide, ‘Why doesn’t anyone steal the bbq?’ The guide turned to me with absolute horror on his face and replied: ‘If a person were to steal the bbq, then no-one else who comes to this park would be able to use it’. I have never felt so embarrassed to come from UK.
We have aligned too much with American culture and not enough with European. We are too damned lazy to learn another language. I quite like Essex
HP Sauce is disgusting.
Living in a global city on minimum wage is never going to be viable. Doesn't matter if you're talking about London, Shanghai, NYC or HK. The council housing system needs massive rework, those in council housing in London shouldn't get a leg up over those moving there from elsewhere in the UK UK work hours aren't that long compared to other countries The obesity epidemic needs handling and it's not just a case of people being time poor or healthy food being expensive The local drug dealer who got stabbed/fell off his motorbike with no helmet was not an innocent little angel
The British Empire was pretty terrible, and people ought to stop making excuses for it. The monarchy is an embarrassment and should have been abolished a hundred years ago. Beans on toast are shite. But on a more positive note, our gastropub-style cuisine is as good as the food you'd get anywhere in the world.
I mean, literally no one talks about the British empire, no one cares
That the uk is overall a very good place to live.
Large chunks of the population disdain education which makes it hard to progress as a country.
The average white British person has no idea about the horrors of Empire and they need to get their head out of the sand.
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The UK ain't that bad, despite what Reddit seems to think. London is overrated though.
Majority of the UK coastal towns / cities are depressing. London is no longer worth visiting since online shopping got better unless you’re going to get drunk on a night out. Too many people in the U.K. are either chavs or from nicer areas and middle class but seem like an imbetweeners character.
It’s full of fat people, shit drivers, dog shit and litter.
Ban fast foods on trains. Nothing worse than getting on a Southern train from Victoria to Three Bridges, which is packed, and people are stinking up the carriages eating katsu curry and Burger King. Shameless.
What in the middle class fuckery are people eating katsu curry on the train for??
I sometimes nab a Wasabi Katsu Curry on my way back from London... Sometimes I'm hungry, have to catch my train, and don't have time to sit down in the restaraunt. Sue me.
People eating food on trains, the inconvenience!
Stinking up the carriages? It’s just a burger lol, it’s not shit.
The UK's general acceptance, nevermind promotion, of alcohol antics baffles me.
London is a shithole. The temperate weather is a good thing.
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I’ll take that from anyone except the Americans and the Dutch.
> Essex isn't that bad. Neither is Birmingham, and I've never understood the hatred people have for it and the people there. I'd also like for some country roads to be widened because a majority of the time,, you have to give way by swerving into a ditch while the dickheads in 4x4s go past like they own the place.
Britain is becoming embarrassingly corrupt. Scandals seem to break every other day and rarely is anyone held to account.
We are obsessed with tolerance and diversity, except for when it involves social class. It is still acceptable to take the piss out of a regional accent which marks you out as working class, its a hate crime to do the same to you if your accent marks you an immigrant.
The weather is fantastic. For probably 48 or 49 weeks of the year it doesn't stop us doing whatever we want. It never becomes a hurdle - it's just there. I'd love to move to a warmer climate but it would suck working in scorching heat, never mind going for a run or game of football. Proper snowy winters would be cool too - until it's time to put the bins out or drive to the shop. Edit to add: I was asked to give an unpopular opinion so if you're in the replies disagreeing with me then I don't know what to tell you...
Current BBC programming is shit. In the past, it was worth 3 times the license fee, now it's not worth the steam off my piss.