I'm seeing a lot of takes involving "Oh, I thought Britain was meant to be all about politeness and decorum!" post-stanstead penis and it's never been more clear to me that the vast majority of USAian's knowledge about the UK comes from downton fucking abbey
@Anke bloke wrote a message for trump on his lawn which is under the stanstead flightpath in preparation for trump's state visit
@troubleMoney It's at least consistent for while America may be a "leader" of the world it sure doesn't know fucking much about it.
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Have these people seen a British movie in the past 40 years?
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And by that I mean not stuffy period dramas.
@Jo I'm pretty sure these are the same people who'd need subtitles on them so probably not
PG - Mild bad language
A real anecdote from 2002:
A man from Glasgow successfully appealed against a "breach of the peace" conviction after he told an Edinburgh traffic policeman to "fuck off".
The case makes for rather amusing reading:
https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/search-judgments/judgment?id=f6858aa6-8980-69d2-b500-ff0000d74aa7
@troubleMoney Is this about milkshaking certain politicians, or something else?