List your most honest opinions about the British

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I was talking more about the hiding of pedophiles. It's not just Britain that does that.

I was actually talking about the original post in that threadlet, somehow I believed it would be understood. Story of my life.

I think the British used to uave the strongest economy in the world but for some reason they really let themselves go, economically speaking.

I like the show. It doesn’t mean I like the presenters.

yes Jimmy Savile but who were the other three?

there were also many other aspects to Savile's offending apart from with children, it was kind of across the board really including unproved but very credible suggestions of necrophilia

there seems to have been a culture of sexual abuse amongst celebrities but that doesn't really have anything to do with the use of the word 'Great' in the name of the country which is more of a quantitive thing rather than qualitative as historically it refers to the grouping of a number of islands as opposed to each of those islands individually

the derivation is a bit vague really but it doesn't mean great as in 'emphatically good'

I think we are living in a Post British Dark Age, already. It began in 1914, and the decline has increased over the decades. The Victorian Age, of course, was the High Point of British Civilization. That was precisely when they had the most vast Empire that ever existed.

It was the “Golden Age” only for the “well-connected.”

I don’t think I would have benefited from being in Victorian England.

I feel more fortunate to be in contemporary times.

Yeah, seeing as how I was born into a working class family that lacks any sense when it comes to money, I would’ve been slaving away in a factory under horrendous conditions or I’d be a “lost woman.”

(I’ve read too many Dickens’ novels...)

It’s a good thing I was born in the present time period.

Dickens’ novels reflected the true conditions of his time, even though he made copious use of caricatures.

That’s true.

He certainly helped balance out that image of the Victorian Golden Age.

It was a great time for art and literature, though.

Roundabouts are both logical and frustrating.

We're taught how to use them, but drivers still end up switching and cutting lanes.

There is also a clear division among angry, impatient drivers, and often the opposite. The former are most likely depending on where you go.

Good manners, totally amazing gardens, castles and pubs.
I would really love to visit.

'Castles and pubs' describes a really decent day out visiting Wales tbh.

I wouldn’t mind seeing the Chelsea flower show along with the rest.I’ve been binge watching Gardener’s World.Helps with the winter blues.

bloody yanks expressing opinion on such a topic , a bleedin heresy is what it is ...
Give them the whole Independence thing , self rule and whatnot .And see what we get from the colonists from across the pond .

Pardon the parody please. written purely tongue in cheek ... written by a rather cheeky Yank .
Whom very possibly , will not admit to association with those whom started the original revolutionary
War on this continent. (Any and all opinions maybe subject to alteration beyond recognition.
Without prior notification) .