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I'm moving, I think.
Inlander:
The main problem I find with the U.K. whenever I go there these days (I'm half English, so I've been going there every few years since I was a kid) is its trash celebrity culture. The British media is absolutely obsessed with z-grade nobodies, and this intellectual vacuum seems to have filtered through to other areas, too: the nightly news on T.V. is not informative in the slightest, regardless of which channel you watch, the newspapers are really badly edited and ill-informed about anything outside a very narrow field of vision, and football is ridiculously dominant of public life. Even in the arts the driving interest seems to be fame and image rather than ideas and intelligence. And worst of all, the media in the U.K. is unbelievably inward-looking: chances are the only news from outside the U.K. that you'll hear will be from the E.U., or from somewhere where there are British interests, such as Iraq. And even those stories will be pushed into the background by the tiniest minutiae about life in Britain. Basically intellectual curiosity seems to be a highly de-valued commodity in the U.K. at the moment. It's actually very depressing.
The countryside's pretty, though.
jhocking:
Wait, are you talking about the right country? I mean, whatever happened to the BBC?
--- Quote from: † on 03 Jan 2008, 14:50 ---Thatcher?
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Well damn, how old are your politicians?
Inlander:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 03 Jan 2008, 15:04 ---whatever happened to the BBC?
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Exactly.
Dissy:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 03 Jan 2008, 15:04 ---Well damn, how old are your politicians?
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Robert Byrd, Ted Stevens, Frank Lautenberg, Daniel Inouye, Daniel Akaka
C'mon Joe, you should know you senators.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 03 Jan 2008, 15:07 ---Exactly.
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Well okay but still, that isn't any different than around here.
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