#the only good brit

[gay-impressionist]

i wish I could explain the context of every single purchase because it's hilarious and cool af but it would take wayyy too long. don't hesitate to watch the videos (their titles are in brackets) or google the items or just ask me for details tho

oh and know that he always donates the objects and/or the money he makes from them

#for real #i wish tumblr talked more about him #his videos are always super informative and fun and interesting #i learnt so many things from this dude #and he's just genuinely a good man and a true leftist #people only see him as a the harmless white brit bc of his appearance #but he's super radical #kingshit truly #john oliver #last week tonight

[mwagneto]

okay I've been going crazy trying to find what the nazi calls aziraphale after he says sissy but i finally found itttt it's this

#i tried so many different spellings omg originally i thought he said vägeler and i only got to #feygele because i realised no brit would know to pronounce v as f and ä as é so it has to be smtg that starts with #''fe'' #top 10 rabbitholes fr i even tried hitting up one of our 40 year old dictionaries to no avail #good omens #gomens #aziraphale #2x04 the hitchhiker

[thisbluespirit]

I'm currently watching the 1971 Sense & Sensibility on YT and having issues that only the approx. 2 other Poldark 1975 fans on here will understand.

I knew Robin Ellis was in it (he and Joanna David being the two main reasons I was so keen to see it). I'd just assumed he was Willoughby - it's 1971, the year he played Essex in Elizabeth R and if you want dashing, handsome but definitely trouble in the early 70s he's yr man.

AND THEN HE TURNED UP AS EDWARD FERRARS.

Who, I asked, curious, could be Willoughby, then?

... and then Clive Francis walked in and my brain exploded.

#sense and sensibility #i mean #it's fine #i just am wondering how the director cast both of them that way round??? #they're both good they'll be fine #and joanna david/robin ellis is an amazingly attractive 1970s pairing #but still. clive francis would have had a field day with the geeky comic aspect of edward and willoughby is robin ellis's type #and yet this director looked at them both and somehow cast them and put them that way round? #(the only truly inexplicable casting tho is that baffling thing old tv does sometimes #where being at all plump apparently = 20 years older than you actually are. patricia routledge is amazing but she won't #be old enough for mrs jennings yet for at least 10 years. what. old tv. what.) #(i am enjoying it. they just imploded my 1970s poldark loving brain and i'm not sure i'm ok) #old brit tv problems... XD #1970s #poldark 1975 #robin ellis #clive francis

[purple--queen]

i just love peggy carter

#i love her... #& i dont care in how many projekts Marvel trys to get her in... #lately i see so much hate about her... #which is weird because their are other characters who are more annoying... #& more forced into our faces...but what ever... #everytime i see korg i just think: again :/ #but yeah hate on the women who helped creating shield..who is a fucking superhero...who is a good person #she also looks great in the suit... #thats britans ass.. #the only ass i want to see from the brits... #please stay away with the hate from here... #peggy carter #captain carter #marvel #what if season 2 #dsmom #doctor strange multiverse of madness #doctor strange mom

[jackgoodfellow]

Breaking News: Another horrible man is horrible to literally everybody and is then shocked when people are not nice to him. England once again totally fucked. But I hear the monarchy is good for tourism, so

"Doomed by the narrative? Too easy! No... it is the narrative that is doomed by US! (And also, we are so so horny for each other.)"

So it turns out The Lion in Winter (1968) slaps. Katherine Hepburn somehow manages to capture the feeling of watching someone tear out a person's jugular with smiling teeth. She and Peter O'Toole in this movie are basically performing the cinematic equivalent of the song "No Children" by The Mountain Goats and it is wild.

Tagging @thirdsisfics because I associate the term "doomed by the narrative" with the positive feelings I get from talking to you about the trope!

#it is unclear to me at what point in history people think the English monarchy stopped solely churning out deeply broken entitled people #brits have SUCH a weird reverence for their monarchy but if you're existing outside of that propaganda they all look insane for it #must be like Americans and our military. where it only looks good from the inside and once you figure out how bad it is you're like #oh no. almost everyone I know believes it is socially unacceptable to criticize this institution. oh my god WE are the evil horde. #Peter O'Toole #Katherine Hepburn #Anthony Hopkins #the lion in winter #The Lion in Winter 1968 #old hollywood #alt-text #image description #see Jack talk #King Henry II #King Richard I #King John #Magna Carta #that feeling when your favorite son goes on to permanently limit the powers of the monarchy by doing such a bad job #I think what works best about this movie is even though it's all kings and queens and monarchy and history they all feel horrifyingly human #Henry is not that different from every other patriarch who has worked to ruin everyone in his life only to grow old and find he is #surrounded by people and so so alone #americans and brits are like 'yes our country definitely did horrible things in the past. even in very recent past. but that's changed now' #'not sure exactly when or what the turning point was but it DEFINITELY happened for SURE.' #the movie starts with Henry saying he intentionally raised his sons to be like this and then the rest of the movie is him like wait what #i didn't think leopards would eat MY face. says man who spent his life raising face-eating leopards. #and yet they're all still so deeply deeply sad and sympathetic. which is some good fucking acting. #shitposting #king lear #I recognize that my tags are me bouncing back and forth between movie commentary and slagging off the American Military #and i am not sorry. thank you for coming the speech I am giving on the sidewalk in front of a ted talk

[sophfandoms53]

Taylor, Joseph, Turner and Indy being the only ones from this season giving us any post-season content is so funny, thats literally 1/4th of the whole cast, where did the rest of them go

#they talked so big on the feeds and in the DR #but the utter silence is hysterical #Taylor and Joseph are all over my Twitter and its great #and occasionally Turner and Indy pop up #it seems Taylor and Indy are good and I believe Indy is like the only person who has directly apologized to Taylor #correct me if that’s wrong #Michael and Brit have been here and there tbh #but I’ve mainly seen these 4 #bb24

[mazojo]

The flopping tho

#damn I was all Pre bb Indy team and she is just….. the same as the others ig :/// this is so childish and kindergarten behavior #The only gaslight I will tolerate is the leftovers against the non-leftovers #they are eating them uppppp I didn’t wanna say it but damn kyle is good at this he is delivering all the right lines #brit also doing damage control with Jasmine too #like they probs will figure it out eventually but they are good #i love choosing the path of exellency destroy them !!!! #also Jasmine KEEPS talking about Taylor like omg shut uppp !!! jealousy is an ugly look #Indy #bb24 #big brother

[threefuckencrowsinatrenchcoat]

I’m a Neil Gaiman fan In Theory bc I will do anything except read his books. Like his ideas are so cool and I’ve seen the shows and stuff but every time I pick up one of his books my brain overloads from the sheer amount of British

#and listen I’m not American ok #but Brits just write in the most pretentious convoluted way and I can’t decipher it #it’s like trying to read Spanish but you’ve only taken high school level classes #like u can get the gist and pick out words but it just #does not compute :/ #neil gaiman #American gods #good omens #good omens 2 #Anansi boys #I Forget what else he wrote but that prob covers it

[oflgtfol]

i hate the english

#sorry its so petty but i hate when brits act so superior to americans #for literally any reason #brot posts #SORRY a bad post is reminding me of something . #reminds me of this fucker guy who told me that all american art. all american art. is inherently derivative to english art #because 'the english language originated in england so they already did Everything. americans can only copy it' #its like motherfucker what the hell are you saying #ARE YOU BLOODY SCHTEWPIT MATE? #he sat there for over a fucking hour lecturing me about how amazing and wonderful england is #and i already had a distaste for england but that set me over the edge i literally never wanna hear a good word about england ever again #do not sit there insulting me to my face and not seeing anything wrong with that because oh england is just so amazing #and now seeing that same attitude on tumblr that american art is inherently meaningless in the face of England's Greatness #idk it just makes me see red i hate your asses #or rather any english people who have this fucking elitist classist racist outlook on global politics in the god damn 21st century #if you live in england and you're normal then fine i guess whatever

[akajustmerry]

wait wait you know who should've played (young) billy in daisy jones? dacre montgomery

#djats #sorry but sam claflin is only good for cute brit rom coms!! I've seen enough of him being miscast in shit i like to last a lifetime #riley grew on me by the end but sam did whatever the opposite of that was sorry #like him n riley had hot chem but he still wasn't right

[mariocki]

Patrick Magee works to apprehend the villains as Parsons, the head of airport security in Dial 999: The Great Gold Robbery (1.4, ABC, 1958)

#patrick magee #fave spotting #dial 999 #the great gold robbery #1958 #classic tv #abc #ok my fave spottings may be wandering away from stars of old brit tv who i know mutuals will get a kick from #but Pat has long been a favourite of mine #this was first ever screen credit (he'd had an uncredited appearance as a police officer in 1956 film The Green Man) but he was already an #experienced stage actor‚ had worked with Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett‚ and was beginning to be noticed for his work on stage and #radio (that incredible voice would serve him well throughout his career; a few months after this aired he'd be performing in the original #production of Krapp's Last Tape‚ written specifically for him by Beckett because of his voice) #he doesn't have much to do here except provide a little exposition and help to round up the baddies but it's fun to see him so #comparatively young and energetic. the airport in question is presumably Heathrow; it isn't stated in dialogue (and Heathrow was just #London Airport until 1966) but as Gatwick had only just opened when this aired‚ and as it is clearly set in London's inner city‚ it seems #the logical candidate. this ep has good horror pedigree‚ with Magee guesting and being directed by Hammer's Terence Fisher #Fisher made 8 episodes of Dial 999‚ his last work for television (the huge commercial success of the same year's Dracula would #keep him in cinemas for the rest of his life). this episode is also the second in a row (on network's weirdly ordered set anyway; there #this is something like ep 8 or 9 not 4) to feature an uncredited Edwin Apps as a forensic technician who appears to specialise entirely in #hats. like his whole part in both episodes is to examine a hat and provide enough clues to solve the case #hat squad! #that should have been a spin off

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

The official book list from The Great American Read, 2018. PBS held a vote to find out what America's favorite books were. And this was the top 100. I voted for Wuthering Heights several times (we were allowed to vote several times over a certain time period).

Already Read:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Sun also Rises by Earnest Hemmingway

The Lion, Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (only read the first book in this series)

Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (unfortunately I read all 4 of the original books from the mid 2000s)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gone with The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Harry Potter (books 1 and 6- I did not read the whole series) by J.K. Rowling

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (I have read the first 3 books)

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Memoirs of a Geisha by William Golden

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

1984 by George Orwell

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Call of The Wild by Jack London

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

Want to Read This Year:

Tales of The City by Armistead Maupin (currently reading)

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The remaining books on the list that I have not read yet, some of which I doubt I will ever read for a variety of reasons. But I figured I'd share this list because I mentioned it on an earlier post.

#I've read 28 of them and 4 of them are on my TBR shelf for this year #I already know I'm only going to read maybe half of these #I forgot how bad some of these were #and that includes many of the ones I read already #popular does not necessarily mean good #books #bookblr #classic lit #american lit #brit lit #19th century lit #20th century lit #21st century lit #literature #The Great American Read #I own copies of all the want to reads for this year above #my tbr is like 1350 books or something but most of the books I want to read are not on this list

[xaallo]

John: *British*

Xaallo: Hilarious and disgusting

#dash commentary #ic/ooc #Xaa vc: theres only two good brits: my brother and my therapist the rest of you are sus

[dizzybevvie]

My mum abt to slag off the family members Im closest too for no reason

#for non brits to slag off is to talk bejins their back #I understand theyve done bad things but can i have one good relationship with an adult man in my life #like. please 💀 #me and my uncle played silent hill 2 today. it was very well done and i really enjoyed it #i love horror games that dont have much gore #esp bc it was genuinely scary at parts without needing to resort to jumpscares or guts #Hes been a fan of silent hill for like 15 years but Ive only played 2 and downpour #and downpour sucked ASS #no soul or thought put into it at all #silent hill 2 wasnt that scary after a bit but i was playing it with someone else and also on easy mode bc im a wimp #were planning on playing 3 next so we'll bump the difficulty up then! #Really reallt enjoyed it #finished it in one night lmao (11ish hours?) and got the Leave ending #I will say that maria was the most annoying NPC to ever exist but like. her role in the story is super super interesting #like the weird sexualisation of the trisngle guy (name escapes me atm) and all the creatures in the game??? how that relatws to mary? MWAH #My uncle says all the time that Silent Hill fans want a remake of the second game and i totally get why tbh #anyway. rsnt over #apollo says stuff

[petalsandpurity]

I GOT 80 ON MY DISSERTATION IM SITTING IN MY LIVING ROOM SOBBING RN

#(for non brits an 80 is a high first!! so a v good grade that i was not expecting and now im shaking screaming crying all that stuff) #I've only ever gotten 3 other grades that were an 80. its the highest grade i've gotten so uhhhhh yeah currently screaming #i've just done my makeup as well bc im going out to my graduate show so i've gotta go redo that when i calm down lmaooo

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

What would you think of a proposal that anyone under the age of 26 could only legally touch a specially made kiddie gun (caution tape orange, one cartage capacity) unless they are on a firing range. Adults 26+ wouldn't have any restrictions. Would people go for it?

I'm getting echoes of "the 2nd amendment protects your right to eighteenth century muskets."

Honestly, it seems overly complicated. How would you enforce it? Who's going to make the single-shot firearms? It would be simpler just to raise the legal age for acquiring a firearm to 26.

But no, I don't think it would be popular, because every step in that direction is going to be seen as stepping on a lubricated slide into door to door gun confiscation. And it's not like your average anti-gun person doesn't want most firearms to be gone. They zero in on scary looking / sounding ones like the AR-15 and the AK-47 until invariably it comes out that "semi-automatic firearm" describes almost everything designed in the last century or so.

"Nobody needs more than a bolt action rifle or shotgun" well many (most?) gun owners have more than that, bolt action rifle and shotgun are sort of niche firearms.

Actually now that I type this I'm sort of curious to know how many gun owners own a semi-automatic firearm of some description.

#kind of went on a tangent there but I don't think targeting specific guns is really a good idea #if I could attempt to read between the lines I think what people actually want is to make sure only responsible people have guns #but I honestly don't know how you would enforce that #warning signals have little predictive value #and it could easily be weaponized #the mental illness is one of these #who decides? #at what point does wanting a gun itself become a kind of mental illness? #in places where guns aren't popular they kind of have this reputation #the average brit is going to think you're a bit off if you want a gun