Quote: (05-12-2019 03:40 AM)seaofp Wrote:
Quote: (05-11-2019 05:27 PM)Elmore Wrote:
Been back in Britain for last week. Bristol to be precise. There's a friction to UK that i dont quite experience elsewhere. Where i'm staying isnt far from the University here (the good one), and is a relatively nice area. The students seem kinda cold though, not to me as such, just in how they seem around each other. They dont look like they're having much of a good time, quite frankly. I dunno, its weird i cant put my finger on it, but there seems something just 'off' about UK that i dont get in EE or in Spain.
I think the lack of homogenity is to do with that. There seems very little trust, which is not to say people are wandering around in fear for their safety, just that people seem to be wary of each other. It feels unhealthy and not a little sad, as coming of age in the 90s, it didnt seem this way at all. Frankly, even though i love this land more than any other, for the countryside, history, traditions etc, it just feels somehow rotten socially right now. Maybe i'm reading too much into this, or even projecting on some level, i dont know but place seems out of whack, and in a bad way...
I thought it changed after that Brexit referendum (I don't care about the result) but the vibe definitely seemed to sour.
The students took it harder than others, so that might explain their despondent demeanour.
I think the
Uk is shit now. The Liberal demands that you-talk-about-approved-political-opinions all the time is fucking so claustrophobic.
The weathers shit, everybody has turned into pussies staring at plasma screens all day, you can't have a conversation without condemning Trump/ Brexit AGAIN .. for the nth time.
Its like they had nothing else to talk about before. I think its hard for those who live outside liberal UK to really take in just how much has changed in terms of friendships and being able to shoot the shit with friends and strangers.
London has gone to shit. I grew up just outside the city. There are hardly any 'Londoners' any more. Places I lived, pubs I drank in ... are either full of poisonous hipsters or involve running the gauntlet of cultural enrichment.
I lived in a flat opposite a big park. When people who couldn't speak any English were coming up to my ground floor window and staring in and trying to pick fights with me I knew something was wrong.
I was medically vulnerable homeless in London once, have lived and worked in may different capacities all over it. I knew that city.
It has gone down the toilet in a mere number of years. Tragic and shocking.
Bristol Ive lived in on and off.
Bear in mind that it has luckily escaped most of the vibrant enrichment that has affected most of England in recent years.
the rich Clifton set are >to me< insufferable: all fur coats and no knickers, so fucking full of themselves. But then.. they've always been like that.
I know a student who came to Vietnam from the Uk recently saying that the political/media climate was doing her head in.. and she wasn't political at all.
My Ex- 2 years ago was complaining how claustrophobic and invasive all the politics had become.
She's not political.
The red pilled working classes are alright, but if you're middle class like I am then that is a prickly crowd to associate with. In my experience they tend to be hostile to middle and upper class incomers to their actual friendship groups. Not without reason.
The liberal right-on populace has ballooned.
Bristol has been twinned with Berlin now in the SJW mental atlas as "the graveyard of ambition". Move there, stop working, get high.. cling to the psychological warmth of the hipster crowd.
In right on Easton one park was surrounded by 'live-in' vans of the tie dyed and the dread-locked. It was becoming a health hazard etc.
So all the well intentioned working middle class householders and fairly-well-intentioned middle class drop-outs with vans attended a community meeting about it.
The reportage was gold.
Apparently "a lady identifying herself as Hermione complained about the value of her house plummeting" Then "a man identifying himself as Zog (*probably went to private school) said "yeah but that's just all Babylon and that, man.."
Then "a lady identifying herself as Francesca said that when she walked her 7year old daughter to school a man in his 40s wandered out from behind a van, intoxicated, holding his penis and still urinating"
"lady identifying herself as Angel Witch complained that in these grim dystopian financial times its just so hard to find anywhere to live.."
Brief summary:
So the entire meeting went silent as the working home-owners felt like they were in danger of not being virtuous enough.. so instead everyone blamed the local council for not doing enough.
But then the council representative in attendance said don't blame us.. we cant change anything because it's all the fault of the Evil Right Wing Government!!
...and everybody nodded and found something to agree on..
Then Francesca said "but that still doesn't explain what I'm supposed to do about the man waving his penis in my 7 year old's face.." and everyone went silent again.
Its just my opinion but the
Uk has gone down the drain in a short number of years. It actually pains me.