How Can April Fools' Day Be Real If Newspapers Aren't Real
Posted Apr 1, 2015, 1:15 PM UTC
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I hate r/britishproblems. Its like a community dedicated to "Bah humbug, weather. Ech."
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I love it and you're talking about a fraction of the sub content. It's a great way to tap into the misanthropy at the heart of the British experience.
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Our complaining makes up at least 50% of our britishness.
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It's a great way to tap into the misanthropy at the heart of the British experience.
There's the problem. Why on earth would i want to place myself in a community that celebrated a general distain towards people and life in general?
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I wouldn't say it was all that disdainful. It's just fun to have a place where the neuroses of our country are discussed. It's all pretty light-hearted for the most part in my experience. You're taking it way now seriously than most people on that sub are.
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Well it's just like the idea of first world problems but for a specific culture. No one is asking you to sub...
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That and what self-respecting Englishman, Scotsman (or to a lesser extent Welshman) doesn't specify where they're from over being "British"?
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We do, that's what flair is for on the sub.
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Got me there!
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All these Americans up voting. Piss off.
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Are you British?
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Yeah.
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Never mind then.
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To be fair, Britain is the home of some of the most toxic tabloids in the world. The Daily Mail is notorious for it's complete lack of journalistic integrity, so this sentiment isn't the result of youthful edginess so much as the actual situation on the ground.
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The Daily Mail isn't a newspaper. It's just Fox news and right-wing circlejerking compiled into a handy wad of toilet paper
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Agreed completely
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I think this is misinterpreting the deliberate self-deprecating nature of r/britishproblems. It's a very British thing to do, complain about stuff endlessly.
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I know what it is to be British. I'm English, after all. It was just a bit 'Im14' because everyone knows newspapers tell lies - they're acting as if no one knows that.
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Because Living.
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As if it's not common knowledge that newspapers have their biases and leanings. Still, gotta grab that sweet, sweet karma.