Here’s another one: In the last 10 years the UK has made the largest change in time freight waits to enter the nation.
It almost became (I’m guessing) the first country to give up socialized medicine. So it could be worse.
Has almost become. But over my literal dead body, I will take to the streets of Central London and so would millions of others. Take the NHS away and there will be genuine riots from real people with nothing to lose.
It’s really sweet how they add unnecessary letters to feel all fancy about their little words.
“Colour”
“Humour”
Aww, so cute.
It gets worse- “foetus,” “aeroplane.”
They also think “er” is pronounced “re” like in the words “centre” and “theatre” and “s” is pronounced like “z” like in words like “apologise” and “realise.”
Get it together guys. We know you came up with the language, but that’s no excuse not to keep up.
Speaking of aviation, I have no idea why Americans use such a boring term as “airport”. I mean, the guys invented half of the aviation technology and then they just use the term “airport”. Such a waste of potential.
The international standard term is “aerodrome”. Say it like you mean it. It’s a term with gravitas.
Foetus is a weird one, I’ve never heard that before. I keep trying to pronounce it in my head but the closest I get is sounding like fajitas.
It comes from the german Fötus
oe is ö
and english is a germanic language
Is that right? So it’s not the same as the oe in phoenix? I know in old books they used to fuse the letters.
This is the first I’m hearing about these And they bug me
“Aluminium” anyone?
But they’re almost all ‘iums’, changing just one is like finding a fly in a bowl of cereal
Totally normal if you ask me.
Thats certainly one possible explanation for why Americans chose to simplify the spelling of the words they use.
It has one of the best gender neutral bathrooms on the planet.
I went to the tate modern and their bathrooms were progressive as fuck. I’d never been in a mixed toilet just surrounded by women, but it was an experience I’d quite like to repeat again. I got some strange looks after, but hey that’s London for you
They lose points for not fully adopting mixer tap technology.
Created Lord of the Rings, and metal. And made very important contributions to psychedelic rock and blues rock.
I wonder if there’s a travel itinerary for a year long journey to as many independence days as possible. How many are there? How many could a person attend within a year?
Edit: Found a list on wiki and could sort by calendar day. By my count you could attend a maximum of 119 independence days; that is to say somewhere in the world there is an independence day on 119 different days. Many days of course have two or more countries celebrating so you’d have to pick one. Maybe I’ll print the list and think about the geography a bit and see how many a person could reasonably attend; 119 is the maximum if you own a private plane and could land and takeout from the correct countries in order.
Conceivably, one person couldn’t possibly line up the entry visas to get anywhere close to 119. They’d need a small team of immigration lawyers working for months ahead of and during each leg; some chronological legs might be impossible due to entry restrictions on country of entry or country of origin. Visa requirements would get more complicated as time went on and less likely to be granted, although to the extent border controls are discretionary, with the right letters and proof, the durations of stay will be so short, how many border guard supervisors are going to turn you down for a one or two day entry visa when you have photos of you partying it up on Independence days around the world, celebrating the prideful achievements of the cultures of the world, and asking “won’t you let a kind traveler share your day of national pride with you, so that I may share it with others?”
And this is all flying privately with your own jet and unlimited money to keep it going on demand. Many legs would be interrupted by flight delays and travel bullshit. Flying commercially, even with unlimited plane fair money and very good luck in finding/planning accomodations (not living out of your private jet). This assumes the flight durations and time zones line up that you could make it in time from one to the next.
I would find it an amazing achievement if a regular person managed to get to like 25 of the these things in a year, and a lifetime achievement award to do anyone that hit 50. Maybe a very seriously dedicated individual could hit ~75. That last stretch from 100 to 119 I think would be insurmountable. With all the resources in the world I bet a few would still fall through for one reason or another.
If anyone finds some travel nerd somewhere that has really thought this out please share.
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Britain has its faults, but look at how former British colonies are doing today as compared to former French colonies, and other European countries.
I think you should read up on which countries are former British colonies, because there are definitely a lot of them not doing so well either.
Not sure that the comparison is all that favorable with France. You check Algeria and Egypt, or Uganda and Niger, and it’s not exactly a massive spread. The most positive comparison would be with Italian and Belgian colonialism, which managed to be incompetent and (even by colonial standards) gruesome, respectively.
Adding my two cents, major curses to humanity today…
- Britain always followed the divide and rule on it’s colonies and it still curses them and beyond.
- Most of the border disputes today can be lead back to british decisions.
There are million more reasons, but it’s just not worth arguing with UK now.
The clock is fancy.
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I think I have a nice thing to say: It’s not gonna last much longer.
The UK is not anywhere close to collapse?
Scottish independence?
That was a passing fancy, a dream of good government.
Reality has hit hard and they’ve moved on
Many Scottish people were convinced to stay in the UK so they would have access to Europe (an independent Scotland wouldn’t automatically get that).
Now that argument has vanished there is much less holding Scotland in the UK.
The UK is not just England and Scotland.
Not going to happen for a long time
Ireland reunification first, then Scottish independence.
Can’t see the Welsh going it alone.
Maybe a few villages in Cornwall will try something.
I don’t think Wales has the economy to survive as an independent nation as much as some of the Welsh love the idea.
I give it 50 years
