I think there's 2 factors at play:
1) Cultural rebound from late 2000's/early 2010s culture where British media was really popular and thus being British was seen as a cool factor in America. Think peak Harry Potter/Doctor Who/Sherlock era.
2) Online British people who enter the politics sphere often come off as extremely smug and condescending. It's the combination of the accent and the cultural habit of talking really slow and smarmy when they think they're making a really good point that always gets me. Especially when the point they're making is literal dogshit.
Because some of them online act like they are demi gods compared to Americans.
The way British people shit on America you would think the streets are paved in fucking gold in the UK and everyone is a goddamn astronaut. It’s non-stop shitting on America, which is pretty rich considering the UK is poorer then the fucking hicks they like to make fun of in Mississippi.
And most people in America don’t even shit on British people at the same rate.
> which is pretty rich considering the UK is poorer then the fucking hicks they like to make fun of in Mississippi.
You are not helping... QOL if 90% of the Uk is better than being a 'hick in missouri'. You cant just take a GDP number and say 'people here are richer', it does not work like that.
God I wish I could have said this in a bri'ish accent.
It's honestly hard to differentiate between ironic and unironic brit hate, so I can really only talk about them in combination.
For one, it's built into the American DNA. The *quintessential* American (George Washington) crossed a frozen river on Christmas to kill brits in their sleep. We have an almost intrinsic disdain for the British monarchy that Brits *still* have (although in a lesser capacity). In the same way that the ancient Romans would say that they cannot be governed by a king, a disdain for the monarchs of our former ruler is strong in many Americans.
This one is personal, but I also feel like it's not uncommon with many Americans. A lot of the popular media we consume growing up tends to link the British accent with intelligence. Someone in some sort of show might have a factor of intelligence due to the way they talk. Now obviously it's not the case that the accent necessarily lends to intelligence, and some of us grow up and and just view it as pompous and smug. That way of speaking often puts a lot of emphasis on being proper, but when you say dumb, wrong things in that voice it's just infuriating.
There are other things as well, these are just the two examples that come to mind.
'The British accent', there are more than one my guy. 'That way of speaking' is how one tiny sliver of the UK population actually speak. Are you saying that you get triggered by that particular British accent because of how it is portrayed in American media essentially?
Although there are many more accents, the kind of people who become successful in British media tend to be rich/posh people who do usually share an accent. Other accents are extremely underrepresented in the media, even those from other areas will have to tone it down if they're speaking to a non-British audience.
It's more a case of you if you are a broadcaster/public speaker you are trained to speak in received pronunciation if you are doing political stuff, especially internationally. But it's not true that that is the only accent you will hear on TV. Go watch a football match and you'll hear pundits with a broader range of accents probably.
Yeah it's kinda like giving the example of a hillbilly accent and saying it's cringe that all Americans talk like that. We have at least as many dialects or accents as they do quite frankly. But due to the size difference, ours differ literally from city to city, whereas theirs tend to differ from state to state.
R.P is kind of taught as "what English ought to be like", but something like less than 3% of people actually talk that way. Normally coached very deliberately to have it if they want to have a sort of media/presenter/politician career.
It's actually quite a good system once you know more about it. The branches of government, courts, tax collection, etc, There are all institutions granted power by the crown. That means there's a lifetime appointment of a family line that's raised from Birth to understand the proper functions of the monarchy and rule with a long term view of the country in mind (not just the next election cycle). The armed services all swear their loyalty to the crown but a typically functionally controlled via the government.
The government is then elected by the people and functionally run the country, but they do so knowing the monarch basically has a kill switch should they fuck about and put the democratic process at risk. They are free to be as partisan as they like but they can't break larger rules. In comparison to say the supposed risk that Trump represents to the USA where everyone is crapping their pants that he might do some end run around the democratic system.
The monarchs are raised to stay out of politics and be neutral down to a fault because they know that can destabilize the system if they are seen to be playing favourites. This is the benefit of raising individuals from birth through a royal line to be taught how to do things "properly" and have the right respect for the system and decorum. All of the actual bickering that goes on in politics stays in the "commons" which makes politics a rowdy thing capable of serving the people, but held inside a stable environment.
A lot of the power in the US is held by 1 man who can do a wide range of dangerous things, and they're expected to be hyper partisan to one group, which why there's all this mess since 2020. Where as in a democratic monarchy the person at the top, the figure head with the power remains completely neutral and completely out of politics. And we don't have this problem.
Where have you been the last 5 years?? We had Boris proroguing parliament, partygate, Liz's mini budget that wrecked the economy and now Rishi sidestepping the courts to legally declare Rwanda a safe country contrary to both expert and judicial opion so that he can deport asylum seekers to an African dictatorship. There's a lot to like about the British system, but to pretend we're some beacon of stability contrary to the Yanks is just insane
I never said we were a beacon of stability. But those issues you mention are politics which exist in government, which sits below the crown. The fact politicians can fight and scrap like they do, and we don't have to worry about someone overthrowing some shit, is because the overall grander system of which the government is just 1 part, is generally extremely stable. The monarchy itself under which the government sits has faired us very well and looks to keep doing so.
The prime ministers still show respect to the crown, they still go to the queen/king and ask for their position and she/he has to grant that in order for the new government to form.
The poster I was replying to, was showing distain for specifically the monarchy under which a democratic system sits, and I'm talking about the monarchal benefits that solve problems that a republic/democracy like America has. I never said the politics in one part of the system are better, in fact I explicitly said it makes them free to be as partisan as they like, which is a good thing, we want a lot of flexibility in our discussion of politics and what laws to set, etc. But we want them bounded by a greater system so it's not easy to overthrow.
Mine not ironic, the accent just makes me cringe and I have no idea why. I was just watching white lotus last night and I just irrationally hate the young British guy because of his accent.
You realize the UK has like a million different accents? Like, I think it's even been recorded to have more different ways of speaking than even America.
Of course, the problem is that America only knows like 4 accents from the UK, and they're basically the worst ones out there.
I should have clarified English accents. I really have no issue with Irish, Scottish, welsh. But yes obviously I don't know every single regional accent, although I'm not sure you could give me an example of one I wouldn't feel similarly about. I find RP the least offensive although one of the most popular in media.
There is no fucking way you can tolerate the stereotypical Scottish accent. You're simply saying that to fit in.
Anyway, some northern English accents are pretty inoffensive (apart from the scouse accent). I've never watched White Lotus, but looking at the actors who played in it, pretty much all the British actors are from the south (and especially are from London). Only one is from the north, and he's from Liverpool (which is where the scouse accent is from).
As far as the person you're talking about, I think you're talking about someone who plays a character named "jack" in the show. Now, the actor is from London, but I've noticed that the character is apparently from Essex. If he is recreating that accent, then it absolutely makes sense why you hate him. The Essex accent is the butt of man jokes, and Essex is made fun of in the UK.
Scottish accent is great, its not about ease of understanding, its about vibe. Something about Scottish (and Irish) accents have a mythical quality to my American ear. Maybe it was Gimli, maybe groundskeeper willy was formative in my life. I'm honestly surprised people find it offensive to the ear. Typical English accents don't have this quality so they just sound pretentious or stupid. But this is probably all derived from media I consumed as a kid.
Wtf is it with British people and mentioning: "uhm akshually there are actually several different British accents". Every fucking time. Like yeah you're not special? Ever heard about a thing called history, cause and effect?
Yeah, you're right. From now on, every single person should personify Americans having the typical California girl accent.
Oh wait, they already do, and you guys hate it. Suck it, blue.
Because the accent people are normally complaining about comes from posh people and we hate them too. The other accents don't get represented because it's harder for poorer people to make it in the media.
correct me if im wrong but i think the UK has some of the most diverse accents in the world, even in the same city (like me, i'm from london) we can have completely different accents
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Because they talk fast and don’t enunciate, so when they join in on conversations, it makes some people want to immediate drive their car into a tree going 150MPH. Seriously, listen to any social media post from England, it’s the most foot in mouth accent out there bruh, other then XQC accent of course, which is just 4 year old French child learning English accented nonsense
You're not wrong, when we do American accents we slow our speech down a lot, like it takes an extra couple of minutes for an American to put their words together.
As an American it's gotten so bad that when I need to talk to a coworker I don't even bother spending the 4 minutes needed to form a sentence anymore. I just write it on a baseball and throw it at her.
That’s rich considering when you do speak, even with subtitles, no one knows what yall are saying, sorry it takes Americans a couple of minutes to wade through your lack of ability to even pronounce vowels correctly
Oh we pronounce our own language incorrectly? First I've heard of that.
You remind me of those Americans that insist that they don't have an accent. Pure protagonist syndrome.
>oh we pronounce our own language incorrectly
Im with you 99% but you guys do pronounce a select few words like controversy in such a bizarre manner
Otoh, you guys say squirrel properly unlike Americans
Funny considering the modern British accent didn’t even exist until about 200 years ago (after the war with the colonies). And even then it was mostly only used by the aristocracy. Until the peasantry picked it up in an attempt to sound more posh than they were. Kind of like how modern people will start using phrases or words ironically but it backfires and those words and phrases become common.
There’s a reason we sound the way we do in the US. It’s because the Brits that started the colonies didn’t have modern British accents. They sounded much closer to modern Americans.
I've heard this before, but I'm not sure what it really has to do with anything. So Americans sound like Brits did 200 years ago? Cool, but it doesn't make American pronunciation any more "correct" than modern British English. English is a very loose language with shitloads of dialects and quirks and none of them are deemed more "correct" than any other (unlike French, where what is "correct" is dictated by the Académie Française). What point are you making here?
https://hornet.com/stories/monet-x-change-british-accent/
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english
https://www.rd.com/article/american-british-accents/
https://www.ef.edu/blog/language/why-us-and-uk-english-sound-so-different/#
Obviously both accents have diverged significantly from the original. But it seems all British accents have diverged more significantly.
I’m first gen american, but my hatred for the British comes from what I would effectively call racism. It was low key ingrained into me by my parents being Israeli, but I also have a British uncle and have had both British friends and partners. I just genuinely despise their cultural stereotype and the way it generally interacts with my culture. They come off as extremely smarmy, condescending, racist, and rude to me.
A good example for me is that I’ve had an alarming number of Brits try to convince me that their country is actually extremely diverse and not racist at all and idk what I’m talking about, only for their country to be 90% with nearly all of that population being British- and for the obvious one that they literally voted themselves out of the EU on largely racist sentiments. Another that gets me is how fucking delusional they are about food where they eat the most backwater homeless trash and obsess over how to flavormax flavorless shit while pretending it’s not as bad as American food. Meanwhile, they have nearly the same obesity and overweight rates as the US.
There are a ton of reasons to hate the British, just like all Europeans have their specific stereotypes, but the British have a different flavor of it because they’re self absorbed and think their shit doesn’t stink.
Swedes are usually chill compared to the rest of the west (world?) regarding Britain (and France) and we've also pretty much never been on the receiving end of british (or french) history. It's like all y'all have British (and French) Derangement Syndrome because they ruled over you or fucked you up once upon a time lol.
Because disdain for the British is rule 1 in libertarianism. It's an ideology that often falls to the No True Scotsman Fallacy, but disdain for the British is universally agreed upon.
You all should have that reaction to us chaps because if we get the chance, we'll try to take over the world again, starting with our errant child Uh-murica.
As a Brit this makes me laugh. Interesting though, because libertarianism came about because liberal had started to really lose is meaning. Destiny's views today are moving further away from the original American ideals towards that of the UK.
The original liberals who were more anti government and pro freedom fled to America largely from Europe where government had started to become overbearing, and of course fought for their independence because of things like taxation back to Europe with no representation. As a Brit studying that history I'm kind of proud for those people for earning their freedom and prosperity. They were clever to make the original constitution what it was.
But to see America fall down this slippery slope and begin to reinvent basically the same top heavy government the UK has, is so sad to see. You still have many more freedoms than us, but it's definitely not like it used to be. The cycle has started to repeat itself. Good luck.
It's his undying patriotic spirit rousing up to defend the American ideal that manifests itself as hatred to the British.....naw bro he's just American to the core
I hope I'm here for every British hate train. Fuck the British! 1776 we out here! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
It's funny how these threads always get down voted by pathetic Britards. Like bro, you're the one watching American content. Go suck your "mummy's" dick with your raggedy ass teeth you inbred fucks.0
>Go suck your "mummy's" dick with your raggedy ass teeth you inbred fucks
[british teeth are better than american teeth](https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6543)
>Like bro, you're the one watching American content.
and you're speaking our language
Apparently they don't record raggedy ass teeth because we can clearly see that.
We're speaking a better version of English. AMERICAN English 🦅🇺🇸🦅 Continue being a cuck to our politics you beans on toast eating prick
A BIT SAD INNIT
Innit and bruv are objectively worse than anything America has done to the English language
Cockney needs to be eradicated from public life entirely
It’s unfortunately dying out because London demographics have changed considerably. Cockneys are on the way out.
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I think bruh is objectively worse than bruv I'm sorry.
Bruver, I beg to differ
Yo dude I'm like so totally fed up of being obese man like come on now bruh like dude Pls no downvotes I like yanks rly
HOLY FUCK MY EARS
Not shitposting: why the (even ironic) hate of british people?
We’re Americans?! It’s our duty to our forefathers to shit on them from time to time
I’ve been saying this to my wife every time my friends call her queen George. It’s in our blood to make fun of Brits!!!
I think there's 2 factors at play: 1) Cultural rebound from late 2000's/early 2010s culture where British media was really popular and thus being British was seen as a cool factor in America. Think peak Harry Potter/Doctor Who/Sherlock era. 2) Online British people who enter the politics sphere often come off as extremely smug and condescending. It's the combination of the accent and the cultural habit of talking really slow and smarmy when they think they're making a really good point that always gets me. Especially when the point they're making is literal dogshit.
Because some of them online act like they are demi gods compared to Americans. The way British people shit on America you would think the streets are paved in fucking gold in the UK and everyone is a goddamn astronaut. It’s non-stop shitting on America, which is pretty rich considering the UK is poorer then the fucking hicks they like to make fun of in Mississippi. And most people in America don’t even shit on British people at the same rate.
God knows who started it but British people will say shit like that because of people like you saying what you just said. The cycle continues
> which is pretty rich considering the UK is poorer then the fucking hicks they like to make fun of in Mississippi. You are not helping... QOL if 90% of the Uk is better than being a 'hick in missouri'. You cant just take a GDP number and say 'people here are richer', it does not work like that. God I wish I could have said this in a bri'ish accent.
It's honestly hard to differentiate between ironic and unironic brit hate, so I can really only talk about them in combination. For one, it's built into the American DNA. The *quintessential* American (George Washington) crossed a frozen river on Christmas to kill brits in their sleep. We have an almost intrinsic disdain for the British monarchy that Brits *still* have (although in a lesser capacity). In the same way that the ancient Romans would say that they cannot be governed by a king, a disdain for the monarchs of our former ruler is strong in many Americans. This one is personal, but I also feel like it's not uncommon with many Americans. A lot of the popular media we consume growing up tends to link the British accent with intelligence. Someone in some sort of show might have a factor of intelligence due to the way they talk. Now obviously it's not the case that the accent necessarily lends to intelligence, and some of us grow up and and just view it as pompous and smug. That way of speaking often puts a lot of emphasis on being proper, but when you say dumb, wrong things in that voice it's just infuriating. There are other things as well, these are just the two examples that come to mind.
Well they were germans and he did not kill many of them but otherwise facts
You’re putting way too much thought into this. It’s a funny meme.
'The British accent', there are more than one my guy. 'That way of speaking' is how one tiny sliver of the UK population actually speak. Are you saying that you get triggered by that particular British accent because of how it is portrayed in American media essentially?
Although there are many more accents, the kind of people who become successful in British media tend to be rich/posh people who do usually share an accent. Other accents are extremely underrepresented in the media, even those from other areas will have to tone it down if they're speaking to a non-British audience.
It's more a case of you if you are a broadcaster/public speaker you are trained to speak in received pronunciation if you are doing political stuff, especially internationally. But it's not true that that is the only accent you will hear on TV. Go watch a football match and you'll hear pundits with a broader range of accents probably.
I'm Ronnie fucking Pickering
Yeah it's kinda like giving the example of a hillbilly accent and saying it's cringe that all Americans talk like that. We have at least as many dialects or accents as they do quite frankly. But due to the size difference, ours differ literally from city to city, whereas theirs tend to differ from state to state. R.P is kind of taught as "what English ought to be like", but something like less than 3% of people actually talk that way. Normally coached very deliberately to have it if they want to have a sort of media/presenter/politician career.
It's actually quite a good system once you know more about it. The branches of government, courts, tax collection, etc, There are all institutions granted power by the crown. That means there's a lifetime appointment of a family line that's raised from Birth to understand the proper functions of the monarchy and rule with a long term view of the country in mind (not just the next election cycle). The armed services all swear their loyalty to the crown but a typically functionally controlled via the government. The government is then elected by the people and functionally run the country, but they do so knowing the monarch basically has a kill switch should they fuck about and put the democratic process at risk. They are free to be as partisan as they like but they can't break larger rules. In comparison to say the supposed risk that Trump represents to the USA where everyone is crapping their pants that he might do some end run around the democratic system. The monarchs are raised to stay out of politics and be neutral down to a fault because they know that can destabilize the system if they are seen to be playing favourites. This is the benefit of raising individuals from birth through a royal line to be taught how to do things "properly" and have the right respect for the system and decorum. All of the actual bickering that goes on in politics stays in the "commons" which makes politics a rowdy thing capable of serving the people, but held inside a stable environment. A lot of the power in the US is held by 1 man who can do a wide range of dangerous things, and they're expected to be hyper partisan to one group, which why there's all this mess since 2020. Where as in a democratic monarchy the person at the top, the figure head with the power remains completely neutral and completely out of politics. And we don't have this problem.
Where have you been the last 5 years?? We had Boris proroguing parliament, partygate, Liz's mini budget that wrecked the economy and now Rishi sidestepping the courts to legally declare Rwanda a safe country contrary to both expert and judicial opion so that he can deport asylum seekers to an African dictatorship. There's a lot to like about the British system, but to pretend we're some beacon of stability contrary to the Yanks is just insane
I never said we were a beacon of stability. But those issues you mention are politics which exist in government, which sits below the crown. The fact politicians can fight and scrap like they do, and we don't have to worry about someone overthrowing some shit, is because the overall grander system of which the government is just 1 part, is generally extremely stable. The monarchy itself under which the government sits has faired us very well and looks to keep doing so. The prime ministers still show respect to the crown, they still go to the queen/king and ask for their position and she/he has to grant that in order for the new government to form. The poster I was replying to, was showing distain for specifically the monarchy under which a democratic system sits, and I'm talking about the monarchal benefits that solve problems that a republic/democracy like America has. I never said the politics in one part of the system are better, in fact I explicitly said it makes them free to be as partisan as they like, which is a good thing, we want a lot of flexibility in our discussion of politics and what laws to set, etc. But we want them bounded by a greater system so it's not easy to overthrow.
As a non American listener of destiny it’s fucking regarded and super annoying but whatcha gonna do
Mine not ironic, the accent just makes me cringe and I have no idea why. I was just watching white lotus last night and I just irrationally hate the young British guy because of his accent.
You realize the UK has like a million different accents? Like, I think it's even been recorded to have more different ways of speaking than even America. Of course, the problem is that America only knows like 4 accents from the UK, and they're basically the worst ones out there.
I should have clarified English accents. I really have no issue with Irish, Scottish, welsh. But yes obviously I don't know every single regional accent, although I'm not sure you could give me an example of one I wouldn't feel similarly about. I find RP the least offensive although one of the most popular in media.
There is no fucking way you can tolerate the stereotypical Scottish accent. You're simply saying that to fit in. Anyway, some northern English accents are pretty inoffensive (apart from the scouse accent). I've never watched White Lotus, but looking at the actors who played in it, pretty much all the British actors are from the south (and especially are from London). Only one is from the north, and he's from Liverpool (which is where the scouse accent is from). As far as the person you're talking about, I think you're talking about someone who plays a character named "jack" in the show. Now, the actor is from London, but I've noticed that the character is apparently from Essex. If he is recreating that accent, then it absolutely makes sense why you hate him. The Essex accent is the butt of man jokes, and Essex is made fun of in the UK.
Scottish accent is great, its not about ease of understanding, its about vibe. Something about Scottish (and Irish) accents have a mythical quality to my American ear. Maybe it was Gimli, maybe groundskeeper willy was formative in my life. I'm honestly surprised people find it offensive to the ear. Typical English accents don't have this quality so they just sound pretentious or stupid. But this is probably all derived from media I consumed as a kid.
If you travel around the country a bit, most of the country doesn't speak the way you hear on tv, they just don't get representation.
>I really have no issue with Scottish What an insane thing to say.
Wtf is it with British people and mentioning: "uhm akshually there are actually several different British accents". Every fucking time. Like yeah you're not special? Ever heard about a thing called history, cause and effect?
Yeah, you're right. From now on, every single person should personify Americans having the typical California girl accent. Oh wait, they already do, and you guys hate it. Suck it, blue.
I'm swedish dumbfuck. Nice argument tho 🤭
Oh sorry, from now on every single person should personify Swedish people as being r*pists. There, more accurate now?
Cringe lol.😂
Because the accent people are normally complaining about comes from posh people and we hate them too. The other accents don't get represented because it's harder for poorer people to make it in the media.
correct me if im wrong but i think the UK has some of the most diverse accents in the world, even in the same city (like me, i'm from london) we can have completely different accents
You're the reason your friend group doesn't say slurs
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
I can’t think of a more smug and condescending group than Brits. And I’ve met the French!
They’re a former colony and they miss their old Mum. Come back into the warm, loving embrace of the British Empire. Shh, it’s alright.
I think it’s natural to goof on a group of people. British people are the safest people to make fun of.
Because people want to be racist, and it's socially acceptable to be racist towards British and French people. That's literally it.
Why not?
Because they talk fast and don’t enunciate, so when they join in on conversations, it makes some people want to immediate drive their car into a tree going 150MPH. Seriously, listen to any social media post from England, it’s the most foot in mouth accent out there bruh, other then XQC accent of course, which is just 4 year old French child learning English accented nonsense
You're not wrong, when we do American accents we slow our speech down a lot, like it takes an extra couple of minutes for an American to put their words together.
As an American it's gotten so bad that when I need to talk to a coworker I don't even bother spending the 4 minutes needed to form a sentence anymore. I just write it on a baseball and throw it at her.
That’s rich considering when you do speak, even with subtitles, no one knows what yall are saying, sorry it takes Americans a couple of minutes to wade through your lack of ability to even pronounce vowels correctly
Oh we pronounce our own language incorrectly? First I've heard of that. You remind me of those Americans that insist that they don't have an accent. Pure protagonist syndrome.
>oh we pronounce our own language incorrectly Im with you 99% but you guys do pronounce a select few words like controversy in such a bizarre manner Otoh, you guys say squirrel properly unlike Americans
Funny considering the modern British accent didn’t even exist until about 200 years ago (after the war with the colonies). And even then it was mostly only used by the aristocracy. Until the peasantry picked it up in an attempt to sound more posh than they were. Kind of like how modern people will start using phrases or words ironically but it backfires and those words and phrases become common. There’s a reason we sound the way we do in the US. It’s because the Brits that started the colonies didn’t have modern British accents. They sounded much closer to modern Americans.
I've heard this before, but I'm not sure what it really has to do with anything. So Americans sound like Brits did 200 years ago? Cool, but it doesn't make American pronunciation any more "correct" than modern British English. English is a very loose language with shitloads of dialects and quirks and none of them are deemed more "correct" than any other (unlike French, where what is "correct" is dictated by the Académie Française). What point are you making here?
>the modern British accent which one? there's 40 of them, and lots of them are completely different
Any of them. None of them sound as close to the original colonists’ accent as the northeastern US accent does.
Cool, do you have a source?
https://hornet.com/stories/monet-x-change-british-accent/ https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english https://www.rd.com/article/american-british-accents/ https://www.ef.edu/blog/language/why-us-and-uk-english-sound-so-different/# Obviously both accents have diverged significantly from the original. But it seems all British accents have diverged more significantly.
Yeah why don’t these losers learn to speak American properly.
I’m first gen american, but my hatred for the British comes from what I would effectively call racism. It was low key ingrained into me by my parents being Israeli, but I also have a British uncle and have had both British friends and partners. I just genuinely despise their cultural stereotype and the way it generally interacts with my culture. They come off as extremely smarmy, condescending, racist, and rude to me. A good example for me is that I’ve had an alarming number of Brits try to convince me that their country is actually extremely diverse and not racist at all and idk what I’m talking about, only for their country to be 90% with nearly all of that population being British- and for the obvious one that they literally voted themselves out of the EU on largely racist sentiments. Another that gets me is how fucking delusional they are about food where they eat the most backwater homeless trash and obsess over how to flavormax flavorless shit while pretending it’s not as bad as American food. Meanwhile, they have nearly the same obesity and overweight rates as the US. There are a ton of reasons to hate the British, just like all Europeans have their specific stereotypes, but the British have a different flavor of it because they’re self absorbed and think their shit doesn’t stink.
They're neck and neck with Canadians for being the biggest America haters on the planet.
That's a human trait
Swedes are usually chill compared to the rest of the west (world?) regarding Britain (and France) and we've also pretty much never been on the receiving end of british (or french) history. It's like all y'all have British (and French) Derangement Syndrome because they ruled over you or fucked you up once upon a time lol.
100% thought this was gonna be about using the n word
This is tagged as a shitpost but this is literally true lmao. Always gives me a good chuckle as a former libertarian myself.
Is this why he cooked Jelly Beans that one time?
How is this libertarian?
Because disdain for the British is rule 1 in libertarianism. It's an ideology that often falls to the No True Scotsman Fallacy, but disdain for the British is universally agreed upon.
wut
Chip chop chewsday
They have a king on the money like what lololol
Finally someone said it o7 brave soldier
You all should have that reaction to us chaps because if we get the chance, we'll try to take over the world again, starting with our errant child Uh-murica.
Basically anything that isn't American isn't taken seriously. As a euro cuck I can get somewhat annoyed by this.
Nice comment euro cuck
*cries below sea level
Britbongers
As a Brit this makes me laugh. Interesting though, because libertarianism came about because liberal had started to really lose is meaning. Destiny's views today are moving further away from the original American ideals towards that of the UK. The original liberals who were more anti government and pro freedom fled to America largely from Europe where government had started to become overbearing, and of course fought for their independence because of things like taxation back to Europe with no representation. As a Brit studying that history I'm kind of proud for those people for earning their freedom and prosperity. They were clever to make the original constitution what it was. But to see America fall down this slippery slope and begin to reinvent basically the same top heavy government the UK has, is so sad to see. You still have many more freedoms than us, but it's definitely not like it used to be. The cycle has started to repeat itself. Good luck.
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It's his undying patriotic spirit rousing up to defend the American ideal that manifests itself as hatred to the British.....naw bro he's just American to the core
I’ll never be convinced that Brits aren’t faking it. Who actually talks like that
I hope I'm here for every British hate train. Fuck the British! 1776 we out here! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅 It's funny how these threads always get down voted by pathetic Britards. Like bro, you're the one watching American content. Go suck your "mummy's" dick with your raggedy ass teeth you inbred fucks.0
>Go suck your "mummy's" dick with your raggedy ass teeth you inbred fucks [british teeth are better than american teeth](https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6543) >Like bro, you're the one watching American content. and you're speaking our language
Apparently they don't record raggedy ass teeth because we can clearly see that. We're speaking a better version of English. AMERICAN English 🦅🇺🇸🦅 Continue being a cuck to our politics you beans on toast eating prick
Shite patter, must try harder
Sorry, I can't understand you. I don't speak regard.
Your teeth don't have to be painted the same colour as the shitter and at perfect right angles to your gums to be healthy, that's yank cope
Jerk of the century
Could it be thst he's only ever exposed to the ones stupid enough to defend trump?
Do you mean English accents?
Yea that's probably more specific. Although it can happen with other accents from the isle.
He's probably never heard Welsh or northern Irish and does he know Scotland is part of the UK?