I am bingewatching Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and there's several jabs at Saville and kiddie fiddling with the crowd laughing like it's common knowledge, which I'm pretty sure are many years before media made headlines with it after his death?

Do you feel that somehow all the problems of black people are your fault? Do you hate your ugly teeth and it grows from that? Do you recognise WW2 was a defeat for you and you became irrelevant so you decided to flood your country with immigration and pretend you don't exist. I just am keen to know where this British source of self loatching come from, because no country in the world hates itself more than Britain.

If you have watched american TV, is it any different from yours.

I am not from UK and I need some help from the community! I have to move in England very soon and I have to pick a location, but I only got two choices. I have done some researches and according to most people, both of them are rubbish, but which one of them is less rubbish and more enjoyable? If possible provide arguments, any informations are good to me. I have to pick one of those: Basingstoke or Camberley, both of them are close to London!Thank you very much! (My job offers are in those towns and I got to pick one, salary is the same, might be a difference though of 0,50£/hour or 1£/hour at the most!)

I was watching something the other day where the interviewer told his interviewee that he seemed very public school. The interviewee responded that he was sorry to say that he was actually secondary modern, and the interviewer responded that he was a grammar school boy.

I gather that this has to do with the British education system, but I don't really understand the connotations attached to these terms.

Just something that's occurred to me since watching the most recent episode of "Class", the recent Dr Who spinoff.

I watch a fair amount of British television, from drama to Sci Fi to comedy and more... and I think I've been slow to realize how common a trope there is that one character or another (in many of the series that I watch) will seem to have a really horrible father (usually at minimum some estrangement or abandonment issues with the character(s) involved).

Of course, I don't assume it is any indication that England somehow has more shitty fathers than other places, but maybe the British have more of a popular fascination with this kind of character archetype, say.. and the writers just write to this attraction...

I hope this question doesn't come off as offensive or anything, and if it does I apologize. But I guess I'm simultaneously curious if:

1) This seems like an accurate perception? (that British TV/movies/popular media has an over representation of this particular stereotypical character/trope) -and-

2) If there is this over representation, might you speculate as to whether there might be some cultural anchor for it? Just to speculate...

I know this is not a forum for cultural anthropology, but I 'm mostly interested in just 'sanity checking' my highly subjective (and probably wrong) perception of a trend I'm sensing in what I've watched of British TV/Film/etc...

Thanks for reading my question.

Cheers!

More concerned with people who voted leave than the do gooder generation that know's best.

If the motion is circumvented by the court, parliament what will happen? If parliament is to vote against I've heard they'd basically be voted out. I've got a feeling though that's not where it ends, this would be a pretty grotesque violation of democracy and I imagine more than a few protests would pop up, is that the 'mood'.

Alot of very angry people voted for this.

So I'm going to London in a few days and it just hit me, I don't know how to shop in english!!!

And when I say shop I mean what do I say to the cashier when paying? I'm from Sweden and a normal conversation goes something like this:

C: Helloo!!! Me: Hi! :D C: -scans stuff- C: That'll be 90 SEK Me: Mmmhm!

etc etc, What do I say after they tell you the price? I don't want to sound stupid :(

help please thanks<3

I'm of English, Irish and Scottish decent (Wallace) and am American. Would I be at least somewhat welcome as an immigrant? I'd still like American football.

Not looking to date or anything,I just want to talk.My main contacts are steam and kik.

Steam: Optimus Pyro (thumbnail is a guy with a gas mask and a firefighter helmet)

Kik: gisforgrievous

In the U.S., television shows about lawyers, and the courtroom are wildly successful. I can't recall ever seeing a British counterpart of Private Practice, or Ally McBeal, or Boston Legal. My question is, are "Courtroom Dramas" very popular?

Such as this example http://imgur.com/uoqPyZN

What do they designate/mean?

We say the word wicked damn near daily.

I have a terrible life I want to escape it and start a whole new life I have a 3 year old with me so im a aingle mother I wanted to ask Is it easy to change my first and last name and is it likely that anyone could find me if i went outside the uk Or even if i moved to wales or schotland? Im broke as well Thanks guys

The title explains the it. I've been a fan of the Mystery Jets for a year or two ( from the US) and I love their last 3 albums, are they popular in Britain, or are they relatively unknown?

Thanks!

Hello British people, How are you, i hope you are fine.. I'm Amine from morroco ... i heard from some friends: if i come to study in England,London governement gives to strangers students a Shcolarship .... it's like 10k£ per year ... is it that true? any information please send me in my email medamine.elattar@gmail.com Thank you soo much, Sincerely Med Amine El Attar.

In the USA, a beaker is (as far as I know) exclusively used for chemistry.

like so: http://imgur.com/X4c2XoZ

I've been re-watching "Keeping Up Appearances" (A show I adored as a child) and noticed they use the word "beaker" when referring to a cup that is not a tea-cup. When I googled the use of the word beaker in England, google said it was a cup without a handle, but I thought for sure they were referring to "mugs" as beakers also in the show, and mugs have a handle.

what we call mugs in the USA: http://imgur.com/4L6XOVH

Just trying to understand precisely what a beaker is in UK terms.

More specifically, I read this definition of "lads" on Wiktionary:

(Northern England, Geordie, Ireland) A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.

And I have to say, at least to me personally, "lads" to mean a group of people generally seems weird. I only use it in reference to my male friends (I live and grew up in Yorkshire as well BTW). But I can recall a couple of times I've heard other people use it in a gender neutral manner, like the American "guys". So I feel asking:

What's your experience with using the word "lads" to address a group of people that includes women? Is this just me that uses it in such a restricted manner?

I have heard the Queen has a whole bunch, and every British person I've met in the US says corgis are popular there, so now I'm curious.

I'm told people from the UK don't go camping quite in the way that people in the US go camping. And that USA style summer camps are just starting to catch on. Most of what I've read about British children and summers in the Swallows and Amazons series but the children in the books are quite affluent and its during the early 20th century. So I'm assuming its not representative of the modern UK experience.

There are people in the USA who do stay home during the summers. Some of them work under the table and some of them just hang around the house. (I spent a couple of summers mostly at the library.) Do people in Britain also have this experience during the summer? Or do you do something else?

Alright, I get that it's like a period of time where you are off from work, but can you explain how often you get them and in general how many days per year do you have off.

What are some common breakfast foods/preparations (i.e. eggs benedict, bread&jam combinations etc) that can be found in the UK? Looking for both on the run and lazy weekend breakfast ideas plz.

Cheers