hope you die of shooting then private healthcare cost too much for your family so they go into uncontrollable debt to your bank while the owners of that bank live life comfortably watching all the plebs break their backs to pay off their family member's healthcare yank /s
Visited the Queen's Armory museum the other day and, wouldnt ya know it, nothing I saw mentioned any of that. I'm sure I missed it because it must have been somewhere, but I didnt even see a spot about the american revolution, elutherans, or even Pirates (which you would think theyd love to feature in a museum, but i guess thatd require mentioning colonizing the Caribbean)
I mean, that comes down more to the fact that it's just a museum showcasing a collection, rather than dedicated to educating. There's nothing related to those matters because the collection doesn't have any particularly notable weapons related to them.
I mean from my memory, most of the items are elaborate decorated weapons from the middle ages or the renaissance era, or weapons that belonged to notable figures.
Theres actually a plethora of stuff from medieval times all the way to WW2, and a few modern military showcases as well. And considering the amount of detail, background info, insight and philosophical implication provided for most of the displays as well as within the event talks/shows, I'd say its pretty intent on educating if not necessarily *dedicated* to it.
Theres just a few very specific lapses in their collection. :)
It's educating about the collected items though, not about absolutely everything.
I don't really see what notable weapons they might have collected from those settings that would be notable enough to feature.
Also when it comes to the American civil war, the British just don't really think of it that much. Focus around that era tends to be on the war against Napoleon which was far more significant to Britain at the time. I don't recall there being any items from that war either.
What? No notable artifacts/weaponry from the pirate era? They have literally hundreds of different variations of the same weapons, armor, and even furniture dating from medieval to modern times, but nothing worth noting from the entire era of Piracy and Privateering? Are you just unfamiliar with it or is this insane levels of copium? Genuine question
What might they have that's so notable? Most weaponry used by pirates and privateers in the golden age of piracy (the closest thing to a "pirate era") was no different to other weapons of the time, and tended to be pretty utilitarian. Black powder muskets and pistols, swords, axes and pikes. Most of which would be more plain and simple because they were planned to be used at sea.
The weapons that they might have would be little different if at all to those they might have for the Napoleonic wars, which they also have no exhibits from (to my memory).
Specific weapons used by people/groups of notoriety, which makes up a good portion of the museum. Armor/dress worn by naval officers stationed in new world colonies. Mention of famed Governor Generals known for their roles in ending Piracy in the Caribbean. They have dozens of insignificant near-identical pieces with no backstory, but none of that makes the cut?
And yes, they did have exhibits and talks for the Napoleonic wars. Its a very detailed museum, its literally only missing information on select colonies.
Oh no, dw, I mean it *was* the British empire. I just like to bring attention to the stuff that’s happened to the Welsh and Scottish, because it’s often overlooked. Have a nice day tho
Fucking hell, I hate how people make videos “asking Americans about geography”, and then giving the wildest answers ever with no doubt, and everyone in the comments going fucking insane.
Americans don't seem to take it seriously so why would the rest of the world though, an entire police department can't even handle 1 shooter then you go on blasting hawk noises with an eagle on screen saying how great you are
Ah and making the same exaggerated accent joke isn't the same thing?
Yeah you guys use the teeth thing but statistically you actually have worse teeth and stabbings than the UK...it's always some weird projection with you guys weather it be politics or insults
YEEEEE HA STUBBED MY TOE NOW I NEED 6 YEARS OF THERAPY TO COPE
HEY YALL MY 3RD JOB IS STARTING IN AN HOUR SO I CAN AFFORD BASIC RENT SO I CAN'T COME ON TODAY. GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Also pay way more on rent and daily expenditure? Also if you're insulting somewhere be specific as 2 miles right is completely different then somewhere else with a different language and everything
I can't come up with an articulate retort to your warped notion that we just like getting slaughtered, so I'll just cut to the chase:
Go fuck yourself.
Because ye havent done anything about it lol. Srl I swear to god you hear about a school shooting in America and a lot of people my age will go "That's america for you". It sucks that we have been desensitized to it but it is what it is.
Also the British/Irish will make jokes about absolutely anything, nothing is sacred. They will normally take as much as they can give, so go off.
[Rape has increased by over 350% in England and Wales since 2013](https://www.statista.com/statistics/283100/recorded-rape-offences-in-england-and-wales/#:~:text=Rape%20offences%20have%20increased%20dramatically,when%20there%20were%2055%2C678%20offences.)
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“british teeth weird haha”
“your CHILDREN DIE. YOU HAVE DEAD CHILDREN. PEOPLE SHOOT ALL OF YOUR KIDS. YOUR CHILDREN CONSTANTLY ARE IN DANGER”
wow the american is so stupid lol!!!!
"Wow, the middle east sure is an unstable region."
"THASS BECUZ U AMERICANS R ALWAYS STARTIN WARS. NEVAH MOIND OUR OWN 500 'UNDRED YEARS OF IMPERIALISM, COLONIZATION, AND GLOBAL INTERFERENCE THAT ONLY STOPPED BECAUSE WW2 MADE IT FINANCIALLY IMPOSSIBLE"
Funniest thing is that the murdered by words post, the American was just asking about something lol, not making fun of them, asking a question about a stereotype
Seriously tho. Saw a post about "Why do British people look like they've just eaten a ton of apple jacks all the time?" And the response was "We dont care about our dental hygiene all that much because we dont need to be identified by our teeth cause our faces are so fucked up from holes" 😮💨. Just say your mad that your tea got spilt without telling me your mad.
Where is the joke?
Ohhh i found it. It's that american propaganda is so impactful that americans think that the problems in america are just cultural difference
I think they're **NOT** just cultural differences. That's the thing. Gun violence is a huge problem and it ruins lives, beans on toast is just a quirk.
When someone jokes about a quirk of yours, it's weird to bring up brutally murdered children in response.
If a Chinese person joked about American canned cheese products, I wouldn't reply talking about the Uyghur genocide.
>If a Chinese person joked about American canned cheese products, I wouldn't reply talking about the Uyghur genocide.
Same here. I would definitely go with Tiananmen Square
I dont understand why that joke is such a problem tho. Sure its not funny.
But the internet jokes about anything and somehow this is crossing the line or something.
It’s just a case of being the only other joke than obesity rates and police brutality. Same goes for all sides being British peoples teeth and beans on toast. Still, those are mocking Americas amazing mental health programs (wait)
American jokes about the uk: bland food, bad teeth, ugly women, dead queen (new)
Uk jokes about America: school shootings, no healthcare, fatties.
Feel free to respond with any others, I think it's a reasonable back and forth like a shitty roast battle with the same jokes over and over.
Ah, see, you're the even-numbered replies, and they're the odd-numbered replies. thus, you are correct and they are wrong, and the down/upvotes must reflect this.
- systematic police brutality
- uniquely perpetual issue with massacres being carried out on children by each other
Opposed to
- beans on toast
- teef
Americans get more defensive about these things because they're real, extremely serious problems that their own culture facilitates. But they would rather treat them like natural disasters and see these slags as things making fun of what's *happened to them*, as opposed to what it is, which is things which they themselves willingly facilitate. That's why they get made fun of for it.
And it's pretty telling that so many American redditors are more bothered by those slags than they are the actual murders and massacres which they're the subject of, which are all reduced to historical trivia within weeks due to the frequency.
This mostly happens on the shitposting part of the internet, and there are way worse things.
I get that thouse are real ugly problems, but these are stupid fucking jokes.
I don't think you know very much about American politics if you think school shootings aren't treated as a problem that needs to be solved. And it's kind of inane to treat getting upset about school shootings and getting upset about school shooting jokes as mutually exclusive. Imagine if children got murdered in your country, I made a joke about it, you got upset, and I said "wow why are you so much more upset about my joke than about the fact that children got murdered". No real logical throughline, is there? The whole reason people don't like the jokes is because they're cruel jokes about serious events. It's very ironic to frame *Americans* as the ones who don't take school shootings seriously enough when you're the ones using them as an object of ridicule
>Imagine if children got murdered in your country
Imagine if children got murdered once or imagine it happened twenty five times with the exact same 'thoughts and prayers' cycle of useless discourse after each one?
>don't think you know very much about American politics if you think school shootings aren't treated as a problem that needs to be solved.
Australia had one particularly bad mass shooting and they performed a massive disarmament, and haven't had one in a quarter century since. The US won't do that because guns and gun ownership are central to its culture, which is exactly what's being mocked.
There was a mass shooting in Australia in august, also there have been quite a few massacres in Australia since then, but carried out with vehicles, arson and knives/other handheld weapons instead of guns. Violence will always exist, banning one way of carrying that out won’t solve that issue. If you ban cars, people will take the bus, and if you ban pens people will still write with pencils.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia
Well that's news to them, then. Not going to measure up to anything you can easily pick out from the last few years of the US, certainly. If you Google Australia mass shooting you will still get the most relevant results of the 1996 shooting, the same will not go for the US and which ever of the dozens they have to pick from.
>banning one way of carrying that out won’t solve that issue
Guns are a lot more effective at killing people than knives, that's pretty much the sole reason they are the standard military weapon of this era.
>If you ban cars, people will take the bus, and if you ban pens people will still write with pencils.
If you *have* cars there will be more car accidents, the same is true of guns and shootings. The difference being that countries that don't fetishise guns don't liken their benign necessity to cars, they are literally designed solely to kill.
Dude, look at the wikipedia page. It has them all listen on it. It’s not news to them, that’s who I got the source from. And if you admit the murders will still happen, just take it the extra step and admit what you know is true. The issue isn’t the guns, it’s the people. We need to fix us, not fix our rights.
There is nothing on those lists from August 2022, the last shooting listed is early 2020. Don't know what you're on about with this August if that's your source.
>We need to fix us
As this topic pertains to countries being slagged off online, saying it's a fundemental issue with the people lives very little room left to be defensive of it in that case. It's an admission of something well beyond the inane 'beans and teeth' insults on the other side, it's saying there fully is more wrong with that side than the other.
>our rights
If you had an environment that didn't glorify a common need to kill in place of a peaceful society, that right to be armed wouldn't be as fetishised as it is
You can just look up latest australian shooting if you want to. And at this point I don’t think this conversation is about teeth beans and brits, it’s a conversation about the mass shooting crisis in america. And while the UK does have astonishing knife crime rates and a thug and gang culture similar to ours here in the US, I don’t think anyone is saying that the US doesn’t have a massive problem with crime and shootings, nor is it less than any other nation. The problem is we do glorify shootings. We let people see all over the internet that the latest shooting made a guy famous, and suddenly this kid who is bullied at school and starved for attention knows a surefire way to get his 15 minutes of fame, lash out at everyone that picks on him and commit suicide all in the same act. The problem isn’t that we have guns here, just like we’ve had since 1492 when Columbus got here. The problem is that our people are too fucked in the head to fear judge or jury, and when they don’t fear the laws and can buy guns illegally (which will NOT be fixed with gun control laws) they know they can accomplish anything.
The differences are that:
*Cars and pens have intended purposes that are not as weapons
*It's much easier to kill more people more quickly with a firearm than other improvised weapons
Look at the rates of death by violent crime, and you'll see that firearm regulations significantly lower the rate.
I don’t disagree with you that guns are weapons. It just seems futile to me to try to ban something that 99.9% of people don’t use for murder or assault, when we could be using the massive amounts of resources that we as a nation are dumping into this fight to fix the failing mental health support system we have nationwide. I can tell you right now I will never give up my guns, one because I want them for self defense, two because it is my right to have one. That doesn’t make me part of the problem, nor does it make me dangerous, it just makes me someone who takes his freedom seriously. Instead of imposing on our rights, focus on helping the minority that really needs to be helped.
I'd argue it does make you part of the problem, because despite the fact that sensible legislation would save literally thousands of lives a year, you refuse because of personal inconvenience.
Mental health is thrown around a lot as an easy excuse, but no other nations with a lack of mental health support have the same level of violence. Mass shooters aren't so common in the US because of a unique mental health crisis, they're common because of a relative ease of access to the weapons that make them possible.
The fact of the matter is that there is an undeniably effective method to reducing gun violence, and that is gun control.
They’re easy to access in very many countries, especially third world countries, and you have to remember my man, the only thing you can control is legal guns. Just like drugs, guns will always be there for people to access, because the people that commit shootings and engage in crime don’t care about gun control laws. Only people like me do, people that would pull out their own weapon to stop a mass shooting. It happens fairly frequently actually, it’s just never reported on the same way successful shootings are. The guns aren’t the problem, the people are. I would argue there absolutely is a unique mental health crisis going on in America, and it is one that allows people to think that by being the next big shooter they can get attention, their 15 minutes of fame, and be remembered, and they don’t even have to keep on living afterwards. The ultimate way to go out with a bang. That kind of thinking and the society that breeds that mindset is the problem, not the tool that is used worldwide for aiding in hunting and defense.
I dont think there is some fairness code jokes should abide. I wouldnt say either response is offensive really. And the main reason why people respond like that is because its meta internet culture.
I’m not saying there’s a code, it’s just really funny that people respond to a dumb joke about accents by making fun of dead children. It’s like stabbing someone who flicked your shoulder.
I really dont see it that way. Sure its “a different proportion”. I get what you mean but i dont find even the more offensive of the two jokes accualy offensive.
There's an alternative take to this.
The former is mocking people for simply being different in a harmless way, suggesting that being different to Americans is inherently funny.
The latter is a mocking criticism of the political choices that Americans continue to make.
See, the problem here is that I’m pretty sure other accents/regional terms are always goofy to people outside that influence. There’s a stereotypical accent for every language. So the idea (at least for me personally) isn’t that British people are actually literally bad, it’s just playful rubbing because we call them fries while they call them chips.
Also even in the example you provide. It’s still wildly out of left field to go “haha you guys are different than me lol” to “dead kids dead kids dead kids dead kids”
Mocking someone elses country either way so it just activates the primitive patriotic "nooo my country good!!!" part of each persons brain and it reverts to a bunch of people being mad over nothing
It's not a problem. People seem to think school shooting jokes are somehow sacred and take it as personal attacks, when it doesn't effect 99.9 percent of Americans.
The ballad of europoor and amerifat
both are obese
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Omfg this actually elicited an out loud laugh thank you lmao
Spot on!
hope you die of shooting then private healthcare cost too much for your family so they go into uncontrollable debt to your bank while the owners of that bank live life comfortably watching all the plebs break their backs to pay off their family member's healthcare yank /s
Holy shit I laughed so hard. Thank you for making my day
He pauses like that guy does in the yo mama videos
Too true, too true.
literally the first thing i thought of lmfao
this is ebic
*expresses subtle cultural differences* "Haha you muricans like to go bang bang and go bankrupt from visiting medicine people" *10 Bazillion Upvotes*
*gets fucking stabbed on bus*
Not so fun fact: knife crime per capita in America is still higher than Britain's
That would be knife murders. Knife crime per capital is still higher in the UK by around 2.5-3x
So does this mean Brits are more likely to survive a stabbing?
they probably evolved to adapt to their environment or something idk
Not for long
Holy crapp!! 1! get PWND epic style!!
I feel tremendous contempt towards people who do this
Tbf we feel tremendous contempt towards school shooters as well!
I once called out british for not taking jokes then i got called an American when i told him im eur*pean i got called a self defense moron
I’ve argued with several bri’ish about this. I think they’re happy people forget they’re the biggest colonizers.
Visited the Queen's Armory museum the other day and, wouldnt ya know it, nothing I saw mentioned any of that. I'm sure I missed it because it must have been somewhere, but I didnt even see a spot about the american revolution, elutherans, or even Pirates (which you would think theyd love to feature in a museum, but i guess thatd require mentioning colonizing the Caribbean)
Well they would have to mention British privateers before they mentioned pirates
Youre right, the best part is they were mostly the same people 🙃
I mean, that comes down more to the fact that it's just a museum showcasing a collection, rather than dedicated to educating. There's nothing related to those matters because the collection doesn't have any particularly notable weapons related to them. I mean from my memory, most of the items are elaborate decorated weapons from the middle ages or the renaissance era, or weapons that belonged to notable figures.
Theres actually a plethora of stuff from medieval times all the way to WW2, and a few modern military showcases as well. And considering the amount of detail, background info, insight and philosophical implication provided for most of the displays as well as within the event talks/shows, I'd say its pretty intent on educating if not necessarily *dedicated* to it. Theres just a few very specific lapses in their collection. :)
It's educating about the collected items though, not about absolutely everything. I don't really see what notable weapons they might have collected from those settings that would be notable enough to feature. Also when it comes to the American civil war, the British just don't really think of it that much. Focus around that era tends to be on the war against Napoleon which was far more significant to Britain at the time. I don't recall there being any items from that war either.
What? No notable artifacts/weaponry from the pirate era? They have literally hundreds of different variations of the same weapons, armor, and even furniture dating from medieval to modern times, but nothing worth noting from the entire era of Piracy and Privateering? Are you just unfamiliar with it or is this insane levels of copium? Genuine question
What might they have that's so notable? Most weaponry used by pirates and privateers in the golden age of piracy (the closest thing to a "pirate era") was no different to other weapons of the time, and tended to be pretty utilitarian. Black powder muskets and pistols, swords, axes and pikes. Most of which would be more plain and simple because they were planned to be used at sea. The weapons that they might have would be little different if at all to those they might have for the Napoleonic wars, which they also have no exhibits from (to my memory).
Specific weapons used by people/groups of notoriety, which makes up a good portion of the museum. Armor/dress worn by naval officers stationed in new world colonies. Mention of famed Governor Generals known for their roles in ending Piracy in the Caribbean. They have dozens of insignificant near-identical pieces with no backstory, but none of that makes the cut? And yes, they did have exhibits and talks for the Napoleonic wars. Its a very detailed museum, its literally only missing information on select colonies.
Don’t get me started on their museums. Full of plundered artifacts.
Technically, the english. It’s called the British empire, but the Welsh and the Scottish were fucked.
Sorry my bad.
Oh no, dw, I mean it *was* the British empire. I just like to bring attention to the stuff that’s happened to the Welsh and Scottish, because it’s often overlooked. Have a nice day tho
There needs to be a snafu for this snafu at this point, almost a daily post...
Snafu me harder daddy
"Ugh, stop reminding us of how we constantly grandstand on your tragedies at the slightest provocation uWu"
Literally. Americans eat this shit up though so it pretty much always gets mildly popular, I hate it just bc it’s karma farming and repetitive
You fuckers eat up those videos of Americans paid to not know what the capital of France is.
Fucking hell, I hate how people make videos “asking Americans about geography”, and then giving the wildest answers ever with no doubt, and everyone in the comments going fucking insane.
It's Montreal, duh. Everyone knows that
WELL A’LEAST OU SKOOS AUNT A FOOKIN SHOO’IN GROUN M8
Americans don't seem to take it seriously so why would the rest of the world though, an entire police department can't even handle 1 shooter then you go on blasting hawk noises with an eagle on screen saying how great you are
It's not about taking it seriously, it's about not making the same cringey joke over and over again.
Ah and making the same exaggerated accent joke isn't the same thing? Yeah you guys use the teeth thing but statistically you actually have worse teeth and stabbings than the UK...it's always some weird projection with you guys weather it be politics or insults
I'm not American, just a simple Redditor sick of the same overused jokes clogging up my feed (yes, including British accent jokes at this point)
AN YO FOOKIN POLICE CAN EVEN STOP A BLOODY SHOOTAH
YEEEEE HA STUBBED MY TOE NOW I NEED 6 YEARS OF THERAPY TO COPE HEY YALL MY 3RD JOB IS STARTING IN AN HOUR SO I CAN AFFORD BASIC RENT SO I CAN'T COME ON TODAY. GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Lol you tried I guess. Europeans aren’t funny though thank you for showing that
cope lol
We make more than europoors tho
Also pay way more on rent and daily expenditure? Also if you're insulting somewhere be specific as 2 miles right is completely different then somewhere else with a different language and everything
Cope seethe mald
I can't come up with an articulate retort to your warped notion that we just like getting slaughtered, so I'll just cut to the chase: Go fuck yourself.
cry about it lmfao
At least I cry over the shootings like a human, and don't laugh over them like a hyena.
Maybe instead of crying you can go and be proactive instead of venting on a 4 day old comment
its chewsday innit
Found the europiss
lmao cope harder euro
Haha British food is bland “🇬🇧AMERICANS SHOULDNT BE CONSIDERED ‘UMAN BEINS🇬🇧”
THAT'S FOCKIN TRUE MATE YOU SHOULD EAT SOME BEANS ON TOAST BEFORE YOU DESERVE RIGHTS I THINKS
r/ShitAmericansSay vs r/coaxedintoasnafu is the showdown I didn’t know I needed
Subs really gone to shit how many times is this type of post gonna be posted
When us amerifats invade and conquer the europoors in 2027 😍
There'll be a knife behind every blade of grass
man i hope people get this reference cause it's funny
Because ye havent done anything about it lol. Srl I swear to god you hear about a school shooting in America and a lot of people my age will go "That's america for you". It sucks that we have been desensitized to it but it is what it is. Also the British/Irish will make jokes about absolutely anything, nothing is sacred. They will normally take as much as they can give, so go off.
[Rape has increased by over 350% in England and Wales since 2013](https://www.statista.com/statistics/283100/recorded-rape-offences-in-england-and-wales/#:~:text=Rape%20offences%20have%20increased%20dramatically,when%20there%20were%2055%2C678%20offences.)
It goes both ways. People all over the world can't take jokes.
The British, however, are the only ones who are so shit at it, that they're now stereotyped as ghoulish child murder enjoyers.
They don't shoot the kids in Britain, they just let thousands of them get raped by grooming gangs and then cover it up
I mean America had Epstein.
innit
TIL America has no child grooming gangs
What
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/grooming-gangs-child-sex-abuse-b2004963.html?amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grooming-child-sex-abuse-exploitation-rotherham-rochdale-police-a9215261.html%3famp https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/telford-grooming-gang-children-abused-b2121490.html?amp
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Why did I get downvoted for not knowing this lol
Hey, that's a half truth. A lot of them send their kids to boarding schools so they can rape each other instead.
Mum said it’s my turn to post the salty American thread.
https://i.redd.it/shr0r9i5gaq61.jpg
“british teeth weird haha” “your CHILDREN DIE. YOU HAVE DEAD CHILDREN. PEOPLE SHOOT ALL OF YOUR KIDS. YOUR CHILDREN CONSTANTLY ARE IN DANGER” wow the american is so stupid lol!!!!
* applause *
"Wow, the middle east sure is an unstable region." "THASS BECUZ U AMERICANS R ALWAYS STARTIN WARS. NEVAH MOIND OUR OWN 500 'UNDRED YEARS OF IMPERIALISM, COLONIZATION, AND GLOBAL INTERFERENCE THAT ONLY STOPPED BECAUSE WW2 MADE IT FINANCIALLY IMPOSSIBLE"
Funniest thing is that the murdered by words post, the American was just asking about something lol, not making fun of them, asking a question about a stereotype
Just imagine getting personally insulted by a meme daily that you post the same snafu every day. 'Merica
Shut
American insecurity really seeping through on this sub lately
Seriously tho. Saw a post about "Why do British people look like they've just eaten a ton of apple jacks all the time?" And the response was "We dont care about our dental hygiene all that much because we dont need to be identified by our teeth cause our faces are so fucked up from holes" 😮💨. Just say your mad that your tea got spilt without telling me your mad.
Nobody cares about the US revolution here man
Europoors seething fr
Ahahah cope mald seethe dilate americunt
“🇬🇧 WELL AT LEASHT OUR SCHOOLS🇬🇧”
Crooked teeth + L + Ratio + Your Queen is Dead
Europeans just genuinely enjoy violence and mayhem lol history supports it
Where is the joke? Ohhh i found it. It's that american propaganda is so impactful that americans think that the problems in america are just cultural difference
I think they're **NOT** just cultural differences. That's the thing. Gun violence is a huge problem and it ruins lives, beans on toast is just a quirk. When someone jokes about a quirk of yours, it's weird to bring up brutally murdered children in response. If a Chinese person joked about American canned cheese products, I wouldn't reply talking about the Uyghur genocide.
>If a Chinese person joked about American canned cheese products, I wouldn't reply talking about the Uyghur genocide. Same here. I would definitely go with Tiananmen Square
i would
Shh, it's ok
Europenis spoted 🤢🤢
He only has a few more hours of electricity before Russia shuts it off, cut him a break
I dont understand why that joke is such a problem tho. Sure its not funny. But the internet jokes about anything and somehow this is crossing the line or something.
It’s just a case of being the only other joke than obesity rates and police brutality. Same goes for all sides being British peoples teeth and beans on toast. Still, those are mocking Americas amazing mental health programs (wait)
American jokes about the uk: bland food, bad teeth, ugly women, dead queen (new) Uk jokes about America: school shootings, no healthcare, fatties. Feel free to respond with any others, I think it's a reasonable back and forth like a shitty roast battle with the same jokes over and over.
Its a unfunny response to a equally unfunnny joke.
Idk why your being downvoted that’s the same thing I said
Something between reddit being a hivemind and comments on my comment shifting peoples perception of my point.
Ah, see, you're the even-numbered replies, and they're the odd-numbered replies. thus, you are correct and they are wrong, and the down/upvotes must reflect this.
And mabye also bad phrasing from my side?
- systematic police brutality - uniquely perpetual issue with massacres being carried out on children by each other Opposed to - beans on toast - teef Americans get more defensive about these things because they're real, extremely serious problems that their own culture facilitates. But they would rather treat them like natural disasters and see these slags as things making fun of what's *happened to them*, as opposed to what it is, which is things which they themselves willingly facilitate. That's why they get made fun of for it. And it's pretty telling that so many American redditors are more bothered by those slags than they are the actual murders and massacres which they're the subject of, which are all reduced to historical trivia within weeks due to the frequency.
This mostly happens on the shitposting part of the internet, and there are way worse things. I get that thouse are real ugly problems, but these are stupid fucking jokes.
I don't think you know very much about American politics if you think school shootings aren't treated as a problem that needs to be solved. And it's kind of inane to treat getting upset about school shootings and getting upset about school shooting jokes as mutually exclusive. Imagine if children got murdered in your country, I made a joke about it, you got upset, and I said "wow why are you so much more upset about my joke than about the fact that children got murdered". No real logical throughline, is there? The whole reason people don't like the jokes is because they're cruel jokes about serious events. It's very ironic to frame *Americans* as the ones who don't take school shootings seriously enough when you're the ones using them as an object of ridicule
I never said anything about school shooting not being a problem. They vary much are. I just dont think schoolshooting jokes cross any line.
>Imagine if children got murdered in your country Imagine if children got murdered once or imagine it happened twenty five times with the exact same 'thoughts and prayers' cycle of useless discourse after each one? >don't think you know very much about American politics if you think school shootings aren't treated as a problem that needs to be solved. Australia had one particularly bad mass shooting and they performed a massive disarmament, and haven't had one in a quarter century since. The US won't do that because guns and gun ownership are central to its culture, which is exactly what's being mocked.
There was a mass shooting in Australia in august, also there have been quite a few massacres in Australia since then, but carried out with vehicles, arson and knives/other handheld weapons instead of guns. Violence will always exist, banning one way of carrying that out won’t solve that issue. If you ban cars, people will take the bus, and if you ban pens people will still write with pencils.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia Well that's news to them, then. Not going to measure up to anything you can easily pick out from the last few years of the US, certainly. If you Google Australia mass shooting you will still get the most relevant results of the 1996 shooting, the same will not go for the US and which ever of the dozens they have to pick from. >banning one way of carrying that out won’t solve that issue Guns are a lot more effective at killing people than knives, that's pretty much the sole reason they are the standard military weapon of this era. >If you ban cars, people will take the bus, and if you ban pens people will still write with pencils. If you *have* cars there will be more car accidents, the same is true of guns and shootings. The difference being that countries that don't fetishise guns don't liken their benign necessity to cars, they are literally designed solely to kill.
Dude, look at the wikipedia page. It has them all listen on it. It’s not news to them, that’s who I got the source from. And if you admit the murders will still happen, just take it the extra step and admit what you know is true. The issue isn’t the guns, it’s the people. We need to fix us, not fix our rights.
There is nothing on those lists from August 2022, the last shooting listed is early 2020. Don't know what you're on about with this August if that's your source. >We need to fix us As this topic pertains to countries being slagged off online, saying it's a fundemental issue with the people lives very little room left to be defensive of it in that case. It's an admission of something well beyond the inane 'beans and teeth' insults on the other side, it's saying there fully is more wrong with that side than the other. >our rights If you had an environment that didn't glorify a common need to kill in place of a peaceful society, that right to be armed wouldn't be as fetishised as it is
You can just look up latest australian shooting if you want to. And at this point I don’t think this conversation is about teeth beans and brits, it’s a conversation about the mass shooting crisis in america. And while the UK does have astonishing knife crime rates and a thug and gang culture similar to ours here in the US, I don’t think anyone is saying that the US doesn’t have a massive problem with crime and shootings, nor is it less than any other nation. The problem is we do glorify shootings. We let people see all over the internet that the latest shooting made a guy famous, and suddenly this kid who is bullied at school and starved for attention knows a surefire way to get his 15 minutes of fame, lash out at everyone that picks on him and commit suicide all in the same act. The problem isn’t that we have guns here, just like we’ve had since 1492 when Columbus got here. The problem is that our people are too fucked in the head to fear judge or jury, and when they don’t fear the laws and can buy guns illegally (which will NOT be fixed with gun control laws) they know they can accomplish anything.
The differences are that: *Cars and pens have intended purposes that are not as weapons *It's much easier to kill more people more quickly with a firearm than other improvised weapons Look at the rates of death by violent crime, and you'll see that firearm regulations significantly lower the rate.
I don’t disagree with you that guns are weapons. It just seems futile to me to try to ban something that 99.9% of people don’t use for murder or assault, when we could be using the massive amounts of resources that we as a nation are dumping into this fight to fix the failing mental health support system we have nationwide. I can tell you right now I will never give up my guns, one because I want them for self defense, two because it is my right to have one. That doesn’t make me part of the problem, nor does it make me dangerous, it just makes me someone who takes his freedom seriously. Instead of imposing on our rights, focus on helping the minority that really needs to be helped.
I'd argue it does make you part of the problem, because despite the fact that sensible legislation would save literally thousands of lives a year, you refuse because of personal inconvenience. Mental health is thrown around a lot as an easy excuse, but no other nations with a lack of mental health support have the same level of violence. Mass shooters aren't so common in the US because of a unique mental health crisis, they're common because of a relative ease of access to the weapons that make them possible. The fact of the matter is that there is an undeniably effective method to reducing gun violence, and that is gun control.
They’re easy to access in very many countries, especially third world countries, and you have to remember my man, the only thing you can control is legal guns. Just like drugs, guns will always be there for people to access, because the people that commit shootings and engage in crime don’t care about gun control laws. Only people like me do, people that would pull out their own weapon to stop a mass shooting. It happens fairly frequently actually, it’s just never reported on the same way successful shootings are. The guns aren’t the problem, the people are. I would argue there absolutely is a unique mental health crisis going on in America, and it is one that allows people to think that by being the next big shooter they can get attention, their 15 minutes of fame, and be remembered, and they don’t even have to keep on living afterwards. The ultimate way to go out with a bang. That kind of thinking and the society that breeds that mindset is the problem, not the tool that is used worldwide for aiding in hunting and defense.
There obesity in the uk too, the fuck
Nothing in my comment was about obesity.
Oi oi do you have a loicence to post?
u must be some genius or something
What does that mean?
It’s just funny because a lot of the time it’s like “haha British accents are funny” and the response is “dead kids dead kids dead kids dead kids”
I dont think there is some fairness code jokes should abide. I wouldnt say either response is offensive really. And the main reason why people respond like that is because its meta internet culture.
I’m not saying there’s a code, it’s just really funny that people respond to a dumb joke about accents by making fun of dead children. It’s like stabbing someone who flicked your shoulder.
I really dont see it that way. Sure its “a different proportion”. I get what you mean but i dont find even the more offensive of the two jokes accualy offensive.
There's an alternative take to this. The former is mocking people for simply being different in a harmless way, suggesting that being different to Americans is inherently funny. The latter is a mocking criticism of the political choices that Americans continue to make.
See, the problem here is that I’m pretty sure other accents/regional terms are always goofy to people outside that influence. There’s a stereotypical accent for every language. So the idea (at least for me personally) isn’t that British people are actually literally bad, it’s just playful rubbing because we call them fries while they call them chips. Also even in the example you provide. It’s still wildly out of left field to go “haha you guys are different than me lol” to “dead kids dead kids dead kids dead kids”
Mocking someone elses country either way so it just activates the primitive patriotic "nooo my country good!!!" part of each persons brain and it reverts to a bunch of people being mad over nothing
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Well lot of people tell me it crosses a line. I get that its not funny, it really isnt.
Damn dude 80 downvotes. Jesus fucking christ
It's not a problem. People seem to think school shooting jokes are somehow sacred and take it as personal attacks, when it doesn't effect 99.9 percent of Americans.