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Kevin Marois wrote: What happens if you don't bow/curtsy?
This used to be considered High Treason. The statutory penalty was hanging, drawing, and quartering.
In these benighted times, even a dog (to say nothing of a cat) may look upon its Royal Lords and Masters without so much as a nod, let alone a bow or a curtsey.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You know the film 300, where the dude shouts "This is Sparta!"?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The Daily Mail go absolutely mental.
Nothing else happens though.
So - if you don't care what the Daily mail think of you, you can do as you please.
(This applies to many other aspects of Britishness too)
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Abusive note on ambulance[^]
Or is it just the cliche of a few bad apples spoiling the whole bunch?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Just a rude note? They're lucky - I lived for a while in the East End (of London) years back (amazing what we suckers do for women, eh?  ) and a favourite game of the local kids was to call 999 )that's 911 to your Americans) and report a fire... then when the fire crews turned up they'd be pelted with bricks. Literally, they'd have bricks thrown at them.
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Yeah... I think a law is in order allowing first responders to protect themselves; be that turning a hose on the ones attacking them or some well placed rubber bullets.
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A_Griffin wrote: Literally, they'd have bricks thrown at them.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Britain is a rough place. Seriously. The continent looks like a kinder garden in comparison.
It is possibly where you inherit your large number of psychologically unstable population from, and if Britain had as many guns as the US we would probably have the same high death toll. And as I said, Ireland is worse in some way. (Brits and Irish are very closely related as they are about 70% celtic DNA wise)
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That's nothing, in the Netherlands ambulance personnel is often molested. This happens mostly in the big cities. 
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Hmmm - what has changed in the big cities in the Netherlands over the last decades??? 
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Mostly, the weather.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Spot on, things are definitively heating up ! 
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By Dutch people? That I find hard to believe.
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Yes, that was my reaction too, what about those friendly, canal skating Dutch people, where did they go ?
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I spent a lot of time in Leuven, and had a mate in Maastricht so used to go visit him a lot. I always found the Dutch to be a great bunch of people, challenging, confident, outward looking yet civilised. And incredibly sociable and helpful.
So many examples of this, for a passer by guiding me into a parking space, an older woman on a bus who took our child off us while we farted around with the collapsible push chair, to young Dutch guys letting my wife and child in push chair on to the train first.
I find it hard to believe they would take part in this kind of mindless antisocial behaviour.
Had a Dutch brother in law too, he sadly passed away a few years ago, too young, far too young.
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Well, maybe those misbehaving hooligans were in fact Brits posing as Dutch people
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I suspect it's growing that way: the "Teenager mentality" (talking in grunts, acting like the world is out to get them, you know the things) does seem to be lasting until the late twenties these days. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Appears to be the new norm.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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To quote Jordan Peterson - there is more variation within groups than across them.
So proportionately, there are as many jerks in the UK as there are in the US, France, Spain etc.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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No, it's not common, just some trailer trash* wastrel who thinks she owns the whole town. And I am happy to report that she is being charged by the police for public order offences.
*Except that in the UK they tend to be given council houses.
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It is certainly not unique to the UK. I see it the USA all the time. Curiously, when I was France and Germany and I did not see it all. Admittedly, this is a very small sample set.
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In my 17 years on the continent of Europe I have not seen anywhere near (at all) the same level of violence as in Britain. The same level of scummynes, of vandalism.
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Care to take a trip in Turin? I don't say Naples beacuse I'd like to see you alive.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Never been there, but even in the south of france people are not as bad as in the UK, and they are a pretty raw bunch down here. A lot of gun crime, but not the kind of scummy behaviour you get in the UK.
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