haha British rule
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Scottish people out here talking shit about British folks, yet in 2014 they voted against being an independent nation.
Y'all are Brits. Accept it.
One, they're talking about English "people," not British people.
Two, that still isn't how it works.
Three, that was before Brexit.
One, why did you quote people?
Because I'm being racist against English "people"
Genuinely curious about this, do northern English people from say York get the same shit from Scottish people that say a Londoner or someone from the south would?
Thanks :) Would've thought you'd quote "English people" but now that I think about it this also makes sense :p
Barely, and the referendum would've gone the other way any time after 2016.
Polls show independence was briefly in the lead for a few months of 2020, but has remained consistently behind otherwise since 2014
haha racism rule
"pretentious dick" isn't a race.
Love how they just call everything racism
Except actual racism, that's fine plus it happened so long ago stop bringing it up
This is literally about the nationality of a person (being British). Maybe racism isn't the best word, but it's certainly discrimination.
Lol, it's an individual in their field trying to give a friendly warning to a person who is too entitled to even try to understand the local dialect (not even different language!).
No one is being discriminated against, clown.
He is speaking Scots though. You can start arguments saying it isn't a language.
this isn't scots writing, this is someone who is probably not scottish trying to represent scottish english with text
Jfc with the semantics and completely missing of the point.. It's considered by many a dialect of English and should be understood by other English speakers without too much trouble. There, is that better? 🙄
the semantics
Ironically enough, you don't seem to know the meaning of the word.
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There are tons of German dialects I would have trouble understanding as a German. Saying it's entitled to not be able to understand something like that is just far from reality if not ableist.
The picture is just a joke about the cultural hate of Scottish people against British people due to the history of these nations. It's not made to be taken seriously, but if you do… of course it's discrimination. I mean not the joke itself but what happens to the character in the joke. Like lol, it's literally because they are British. Trying to deny that is just ridiculous.
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British people have such the thinnest of skin. Americans have been the center of European jokes for so long and most of us just nod and agree. But British? Like bro, you guys stopped Scottish independence and when they pass positive trans bills y'all get into a hissy fit and fucking step in and stop it. Maybe stop being such fucking dicks first about and maybe the jokes will stop.
English. Its the English. It's always the English. They ruined England!
Like bro, you guys stopped Scottish
They literally voted not to themselves.
Americans have been the center of European jokes for so long and most of us just nod and agree. But British?
yeah the British are famous for not going along with banter and you should definitely take this one dude on lemmy as a representative example of the entire country.
They kinda are tho. No way to piss off a br*t faster than saying anything critical of their empire
Your average Brit really does not give a shit
You're prob right I was just thinking of British r/196 users
I… am not British? Why would you think I am??? lmao
I don't even have anything against the joke; it's (kind of) funny and just a nod about the cultural hate of Scottish people against British people due to their nation's history. I was just telling that if you take it seriously (which it's not supposed to), it is discrimination. (I mean not the joke itself but what happens to the character in the joke.)
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Making fun of British people is the morally correct thing to do at all times.
More like haha hating privileged people rule
Yes indeed, and it's not like England has some history with Scotland or anything...
I wasn't aware that I'm somehow more privileged than Scottish people.
It could be true, but I was under the impression that privilege in the UK is more about your socioeconomic group than it is your physical location - except maybe London, London gets the best of everything, the fecks :-P
You'll sound *more authoritative on camera. Is that a privilege?
If you weren't aware that you're more privileged than the people your empire colonized that's impressive
has your language been all but wiped out?
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Im always amused watching British people online get pressed by some light banter after their nation spent centuries conquering and subjugating nations around the world. Like, there is no faster way to bunch up a British nationalist panties than by bringing up the falklands, a relatively small war that they ended up wining anyways.
I mean 255 Brits died in that war, that is still very much in living memory.
Like im the exact opposite of British nationalist, but of course if you're a dickhead about that people are going to get upset. Thats not a "british bad" moment, thats just you being a cunt.
racism is when Scots hate Brits
Scots are brits
Aye doesn’t mean you aren’t going to ruffle some feathers saying so
Damn Scots. They ruined Scotland!
You Scots sure are a contentious bunch.
I'm English. OP can have the E-word pass.
It's always fair to joke about the British.
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