Anybody here from UK or Ireland ?

[Glenferd666]

I would like to start a community for UK/Irish based people, and maybe make some more friendships before I eventually CTB.

 

[pain6batch9]

London, UK here. I know there's a few more of us limeys knocking around.

 

[soonatpeace777888]

I'm not from the UK but I've noticed a ton of people from here are. I guess the stereotype of the depressed Brit must have something to it.

 

[Glenferd666]

I'm not from the UK but I've noticed a ton of people from here are. I guess the stereotype of the depressed Brit must have something to it.

Yeah, well UK is very depressing FML. If you would like to be friends DMS are always open

 

[QteStimBnnuy]

Scotland, uk in general is just shit. Feelsbad

 

[Glenferd666]

Scotland, uk in general is just shit. Feelsbad

Tell me about it wish I could leave this country altogether

 

[Ferdinand Bardamu]

Sadly I live in England. God, get me out of here.

 

[AnxiousLlama]

yeah, UK here. The UK has a weird thing where it keeps you alive, but in misery. Suicide rates are low, depression is high. The weather is enough to make one rope, but we are too tame to ctb.

 

[Ironborn]

Yeah, Yorkshire resident here.

 

[ForgottenAgain]

Yes, Warwickshire here

 

[pain6batch9]

This will become the UK thread right here. I'll bump it up now and then with a random comment, moaning about the weather maybe, or the railway unions. Or the fact that TfL has been attacked by hackers, bearing in mind they have financial data on everyone in the bloody city and beyond. Or maybe lament the closure of a local boozer.

 

[Dot]

Thnk slf am only persn wh/ gts xcitd abt weathr rport whn rainng bcse cn collct watr fr orchds

 

[pain6batch9]

Here's a story. There is an old pub opposite me, right across the road. I saw some people working on it. Fixing the roof and putting in new windows. This was a couple of months ago. I thought, how great it was that they were re-using an old building, rather than letting it go to waist.

Anyway it went on fire last month. I think it was a Wednesday. I vaguely remember seeing blue lights outside my window and thought nothing of it. Main road you see. But I had the earphones in so I didn't hear the fire engines or the raging inferno across the street. I was completely oblivious to it.

That's the second one that went on fire around here. They want to build flats on the other one.

 

[Glenferd666]

If any of y'all would like to join a group of mine DM me. ( It's mainly for Irish, or UK people though)

 

[carac]

I live on the edge on London and kent

 

[pain6batch9]

 

[vanillamilkshakes]

London, UK here

 

[pain6batch9]

 

[stayedtoolong]

Yes. Surprisingly other brits has given me a sense of comfort.

If any of y'all would like to join a group of mine DM me. ( It's mainly for Irish, or UK people though)

Hello where is this group held and what is the age range?

 

[pain6batch9]

Random London street names: (All real.)

Friday Street.
Turnagain Lane.
Knightrider Street.
Cock Lane.
Mincing Lane.
Ha-Ha Road.
Cumming Street.
Swallow Street.
Back Passage.

 

[pain6batch9]

 

[Ol Messier 87]

Not from the UK, more like your historical enemy from the south

 

[pain6batch9]

Not from the UK, more like your historical enemy from the south

I don't have any enemies.

 

[Ol Messier 87]

I don't have any enemies.

Not personally of course, but our countries have been at war for centuries, and there remains a natural and totally unjustified animosity between our people (The average french will always have a mean word to say about a brit, and i know the reverse is also true), even if it doesn't go very far. That been said, I've always really liked the UK, and particularly Scotland, despite what some people seem to say here

 

[pain6batch9]

How do you know the reverse is true?

The last battle our two countries engaged in against each other was the battle of Waterloo. We haven't fought since. (Apart from Vichy of course.)

 

[Ol Messier 87]

I know this because in two trips there, I was teased about being French I don't even know how many times, not in a mean way though. Don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about. And yes, I think there's a historical reason behind this sort of love/hate relationship; it is the collective memory of peoples, and it's not erased so easily, even in the case of two peoples who have not been at war for a long time.

 

[pain6batch9]

I know this because in two trips there, I was teased about being French I don't even know how many times, not in a mean way though. Don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about. And yes, I think there's a historical reason behind this sort of love/hate relationship; it is the collective memory of peoples, and it's not erased so easily, even in the case of two peoples who have not been at war for a long time.

I think national collective memory is thing. As long as history is well taught in the countries concerned.

Teasing someone doesn't make them your enemy. Friends tease each other. The British take the piss out everyone, including ourselves.

I would also disagree there is anything natural about countries having animosity between each other. I would say it was irrational.

I'd love it if Britain could shake off this reputation for being xenophobic arseholes. Most of us actually aren't like that at all. Especially in London, that has a large French community by the way.

 

[Ol Messier 87]

I think national collective memory is thing. As long as history is well taught in the countries concerned.

Teasing someone doesn't make them your enemy. Friends tease each other. The British take the piss out everyone, including ourselves.

I would also disagree there is anything natural about countries having animosity between each other. I would say it was irrational.

I'd love it if Britain could shake off this reputation for being xenophobic arseholes. Most of us actually aren't like that at all. Especially in London, that has a large French community by the way.

I probably expressed myself badly, because I didn't mean that English were xenophobic and hated the French even today for some obscure historical reasons. I just noticed that there was a kind of a special treatment in the teasing way when it came to the French, it goes the same towards you guys in France, and I can only explain it by considering the fact that we were enemies for so long. But I didn't mean any real hatred or xenophobia, most of the English I met were actually very friendly (despite the teasing), probably even more than most French people are.

 

[pain6batch9]

 

[WavesNeverStop]

I'm in the UK. Slightly jealous and frustrated reading through method and quantities needed for some as trying to access some of the things needed here seems near impossible. Any thoughts/suggestions?