Post-Brexit fallout - we can't have our cake or eat it

[Zetetic]

Part of the problem is that people treat "England" as describing a place or a country rather than an ideology married to a state.

You can't make "England" better. If it was better, than the term wouldn't apply any more.

[jobotic]

I'm hand gesturing something flying closely over your head right now.

A spitfire? A bluebird?

[Buelligan]

Churchill, naked and flaming, farting flame as his marbled grey-white marble streaks across the greasy sky, launched from a trebuchet towards the giant laughing mouth of Jezzerby Crobulak, I'm guessing.

[Bazooka]

The 'sneering' was at the fact that clapping does absolutely fuck all for the NHS, that people who didn't clap were shamed for it in some areas (like Facebook groups making a point of calling out people who didn't show up on their doorstep), and the fact twats like Johnson were doing it despite their history of undermining the NHS. It was a nice idea that got stale quickly when it became this weekly thing and people were shamed into doing it.

It soon morphed into viewing those that did it as ignorant, that because maybe just maybe they wanted to show some gratitude (however meaningless it is to you) they had had the wool pulled over their eyes. Perhaps they could show support to a local hospital without chanting "bring on the cuts!". I don't think most people stopped doing because they were shamed into doing it, at least that certainty wasn't for anyone I knew. I didn't do it personally, was never shamed for it, and respected others if they wanted to.

[Cuellar]

I thought everyone who clapped for the NHS was a pathetic fucking cuck idiot. Without exception. Including my family and close personal friends.

I don't think any less of them for doing it, necessarily, but they were pathetic fucking cuck idiots all the same.

[bakabaka]

I'm hand gesturing something flying closely over your head right now.

By which I assume you mean that I am too ignorant to realise that your use of a phrase to undermine your own post was done in irony, implying that we should take nothing from your views but a claim of a superior sense of humour.

Fed now?

[jobotic]

I thought everyone who clapped for the NHS was a pathetic fucking cuck idiot. Without exception. Including my family and close personal friends.

I don't think any less of them for doing it, necessarily, but they were pathetic fucking cuck idiots all the same.

I did it for the first few weeks (when it was cool. I think i was the first one), but I definitely am a pathetic fucking cuck idiot.

[Bernice]

Part of the problem is that people treat "England" as describing a place or a country rather than an ideology married to a state.

You can't make "England" better. If it was better, than the term wouldn't apply any more.

I think this is far more true of "Britain" than "England"- the latter being a millennium-old nation long preceding anything recognizable as a modern ideology.

[Bazooka]

Except, of course, being sensational devalues a point rather than proving it.

Depends on context, so no.

[Buelligan]

I did it for the first few weeks (when it was cool. I think i was the first one), but I definitely am a pathetic fucking cuck idiot.

Arse-clap the Met then.  Do it for Churchill and that drummer.

[jobotic]

That's it, sneer at my arse.

[Zetetic]

I think this is far more true of "Britain" than "England"- the latter being a millennium-old nation long preceding anything recognizable as a modern ideology.

Britain is a big island, mostly.

[Kankurette]

I thought everyone who clapped for the NHS was a pathetic fucking cuck idiot. Without exception. Including my family and close personal friends.

I don't think any less of them for doing it, necessarily, but they were pathetic fucking cuck idiots all the same.

Can you please explain why clapping for the NHS means someone is fucking your partner with your consent? What has clapping for the NHS got to do with sexual fetishes?

[Kankurette]

It soon morphed into viewing those that did it as ignorant, that because maybe just maybe they wanted to show some gratitude (however meaningless it is to you) they had had the wool pulled over their eyes. Perhaps they could show support to a local hospital without chanting "bring on the cuts!". I don't think most people stopped doing because they were shamed into doing it, at least that certainty wasn't for anyone I knew. I didn't do it personally, was never shamed for it, and respected others if they wanted to.

Yeah, that's why members of my family and friends clapped, to show gratitude. And I didn't have a go at them because I get why they were doing it. I chose not to, for various reasons.

I could have done without people on my street setting off fireworks tbh.

[chveik]

Can you please explain why clapping for the NHS means someone is fucking your partner with your consent?

something about letting the government fuck you over i guess

[Kankurette]

It touched a nerve. No, I haven't watched another man fuck my partner but I really hate the whole cuck thing.

[jamiefairlie]

It touched a nerve. No, I haven't watched another man fuck my partner but I really hate the whole cuck thing.

That's not what cuckold means.

[Kankurette]

It does if you're talking about fetishes. There's a whole market out there for cuck porn, where a guy watches another man bang his girlfriend.

[Zetetic]

And that's "England" is it?

That and the fug of the Class 220, I shouldn't wonder.

[Buelligan]

Yup.

[evilcommiedictator]

UK getting positive sausage signals from EU, minister says
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/uk-getting-positive-sausage-signals-eu-minister-says-2021-06-24/

[Cuellar]

Can you please explain why clapping for the NHS means someone is fucking your partner with your consent? What has clapping for the NHS got to do with sexual fetishes?

I don't really think that. I don't really think anything. I was just putting words together.

[Buelligan]

Yes, I think we all knew that.  Very amusing words there were too.

[Gurke and Hare]

That and the fug of the Class 220, I shouldn't wonder.

That's Belgium, surely?

[Zetetic]

Built by Belgians to the standard they knew the "Englishman" would accept.

[Buelligan]

Or woman.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Some good news for Britain which I'm sure the government will be all over, a resident of the Isle of Wight has become the youngest ever winner of Best in Show at the Homemade Marmalade Awards, which attracts entries from around the world

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-57581729

Take that EU! In all seriousness, congratulations to Flora

[Endicott]

Flora? I thought you said marmalade!

[beanheadmcginty]

Wasn't she the Maltese entry to Eurovision this year?

[bomb_dog]

Nice little story, possibly made up, from twitter: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1408347854830252032.html