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In my experience of mixing with both Americans and Brits, I've seen far more casual wittiness and better use of language in general from the Brits than the former.
As ESL, I'm trying to pin point the reason for this (in order to better my own English).
Why do you think this is the case?

>> No.15583872

America doesn’t value non-pragmatic studies as much as england. non-pragmatic pursuits are seen as pointless due to supposedly being unprofitable, whereas Europeans in general aren’t so focused on career and wealth
T. US UK dual citizen

>> No.15583904

>it's a statue
Where the fuck does this "tactic" of stating the obvious as if it's a rebutal come from? It was the same with
>they're just stores
when Minneapolis was burning

>> No.15583948

>>15583904
Shut up retard

>> No.15583953

>>15583948
"No!"

>> No.15583967
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>>15583904
>>15583867

>> No.15583979
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>>15583967
They even called themselves "blue collar" in the photo op piece.

>> No.15584001

>>15583867
Oh, we just like banter. Joking and humour are a massive deal here. Americans are a little autistic.

>> No.15584025

>>15583967
>>15583979
yes, he's just a black man. not a man whose job it is to remove graffiti.

>> No.15584041

>>15583867
You're picking up on class markers, in the US there are not really the same upper class dialects apart from some minuscule minority of decrepit wasps somewhere. The lower class British sound highly retarded as well, but their middle classes affect upper class speech a bit.

>> No.15584060

>>15584025
It's not like those kinds of jobs have a disproportionate representation of black people in them and it's certainly not why black people are being disproportionately affected by covid in the UK. Certainly no irony, either, in the upper class, white politicians ordering the working class, black man to clean a statue of the message about racism while they take all the glory and pretend to do all the work. Just another day, nothing to see here, support r Borises on the front lines!

>> No.15584075

>>15584060
>those kinds of jobs have a disproportionate representation of black people in them a
source?

>> No.15584078

>>15584060
those guys are based. fuck black people

>> No.15584081

>>15584041
We are all witty bro, I dunno who you've been talking to. The working class if anything is funnier than the toffs.

>> No.15584094

>>15584060
observe the mental gymnastics you have to perform whenever you're confronted by reason.

>> No.15584101

>>15584075
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/work-pay-and-benefits/employment/employment-by-occupation/latest

It comes under caring, leisure and other services.

>> No.15584108

>>15584094
>observe the mental gymnastics
Is this you saying "brain hurt"? It's not complicated. Those politicians are heroes, and there is no irony in that sentiment.

>> No.15584123

>>15583867
what a gorgeous bong

>> No.15584125

>>15584108
yes, most of what you're saying is unintelligible to a normal person because it is ideological rhetoric received third hand from god knows who.

>> No.15584136

>>15584125
If you hate the hard work the blue collar Tories did, that's up to you. You people are always crying racist everywhere.

>>15584123
She's Deano's side piece.

>> No.15584179

Were these statues originally erected to dab on niggers and that was the peoples intent in the past to put them up?

>> No.15584192
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>>15583867
Brits are not actually smarter than (white) Americans, they're just whiter. I spent five years in West Virginia talking to actual living stereotype of dumb rednecks, the sort who wear overalls without shirts, and they were absolutely hilarious and had very large vocabularies. You go to the British countryside and suddenly everyone starts sounding like a pirate and can't do long division.

It's a meme. The actual character of the Brits these days is Doctor Who, a show which has become so unfunny and cringe that it's more entertaining to read threads on /tv/ or /pol/ about it than to watch the actual show. There's nothing funny about that shit. In fact, from the beginning 90% of British "humor" is just white people making funny faces and reacting to absurd situations. How is that funny exactly?

You know who's actually funny? Andrew Anglin. American Neo-Nazi. This one shitpost is funnier than anything to come out of England since the 16th century.

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>>15584179
Yes. This statue in particular.

>> No.15584197

>>15584179
They were initially put up to suck off rich white people and pretend they hadn't already dabbed on blacks and most other minorities or people with less power throughout their lifetimes.

>> No.15584206

>>15584060
Blacks are disproportionately unemployed.
They're also disproportionately affected by COVID because they cannot social distance because their average IQ is 83.

>> No.15584212

>>15584192
>You know who's actually funny? Andrew Anglin. American Neo-Nazi.

>> No.15584217

>>15584194
Did he died?

>> No.15584223

>>15584192
cringe

>> No.15584228

>>15584194
Americans...

>> No.15584229

>>15584197
In normal countries, the actual people of said countries build monuments to their ancestors.

In countries where you let retarded mud people in, those monuments become symbols of oppression because they remind shitskins tha they're inferior.

The Mongols still put statues of Ghengis Khan, a guy who killed 300 million people, on every fucking street corner. This is because they don't have liberals.

>> No.15584231

>>15584217
Critical condition at the moment

>> No.15584234

>>15584217
Yes, fortunately. He ran up a six figure hospital bil

>> No.15584240

>>15584197
Oh sorry we need more mlk statues my bad

>> No.15584242

>>15584229
>In normal countries, the actual people of said countries build monuments to their ancestors.
Statues have always largely been built of contemporary people, aside from myths and legends and what not. Who is Churchill meant to be the ancestor of anyway you mong?

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>>15584240
>Oh sorry we need more mlk statues my bad
Fuck off.

>> No.15584266

>>15584060
wouldn't have to clean it up if leftist subhumans didn't vandalize it in the first place.

>> No.15584276

>>15584266
"vandalise".

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Guys, look on the bright side. Millions of pounds are spent every year to clean the pigeon shit from those statues, now you won't have to pay taxes to keep them clean anymore

>> No.15584294

>>15584242
the absolute mental gymnastics... leftists truly are lying vermin.

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>> No.15584338

>>15584294
>the absolute mental gymnastics...
Then who was Churchill the ancestor of when the statue was built? Do you understand what mental gymnastics is?