/lit/ - Literature

>>13433485
True, but there's something very comforting about the place being as depressing as it is. Admittedly the north tends to be more depressing than the south, with greyer skies and more rain and poverty, but there's a certain bleakness which you can't help but confront as a British person. I think it's what gives us our understated sense of humour, love of grim self-effacement, air of casual post-ironic superiority, and so on. Nowhere else in the world, as far as I can tell, will you find 400 men standing soaking wet under the sheet-metal roof of a fourth division football stadium on the other side of the country on a wet Tuesday night chanting about how shit their home town is, how shit their team is, and how shit they themselves are. As thick as these blokes tend to make themselves seem, there's a sense of self-awareness in the British people that you won't find many other places.