UK road trip commences

[User]

london, cambridge, sussex, hampshire, somerset, wales, cork, limerick, county clare, galway, dublin

i will count how many pints i have in 16th century alehouses on this journey

[Ryeknow]

Luke has already seen way more of the world than I will ever think to see, and continues to do so

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

He's been in more countries than I have states.

[User]

[shadowalk]

that's not in the UK

[jawn galliano]

nor is it a road! this hard-on bearer's a fraud!

[zim]

someone wake me up when the USA road trip commences

[jawn galliano]

it's time to get up, the year is 2015

[Mesarthim]

He's been in more countries than I have states.

he's probably been in more states than you have as well.

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

He's been in more countries than I have states.

he's probably been in more states than you have as well.

It's possible! I've probably got around 18 or 20 that I've spent proper time in. If we're talking I drove through it to get somewhere else I can probably add a handful more.

[User]

i have been to 15 states so nick has me thoroughly walloped

i watched LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL on the plane, that was a fun time. made in my home town. love seeing names i recognise in the credits. keen for the first london pub tonight

[droidspawn]

I live vicariously through Lucas. The view from my balcony is decent right now.

[jawn galliano]

please subject your friends to a revolutionary tribunal as i am not able to do so myself this time around

it's actually just about five years to the day since that, come to think of it

[User]

ah yes! that was solid. solid drunk times. i am staying with both minn and mark, so you will be familiar with the territory!

[User]

i witnessed the aftermath of a gypsy stabbing in cambridge, very cool

[User]

it continues in cambridge

[slugbait]

Baron of beef

[User]

the baron of beef was an OK pub but honestly preferred the ones around it. it has gone down the pokies and sport route.

this is how you punt under bridges

[Ryeknow]

When I seen where you were going, I was gonna ask if you were going to go punting, luke has delivered

[User]

the punting odyssey is over, now it's back to the pub, several sessions at the leyton star, including watching british people watch soccer, which is definitely funner than watching soccer itself. england-slovenia 0-0

[User]

finishing work at another ye olde pub, only 160 years old tho

[jawn galliano]

hello minn it is good to see you again !

[User]

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[bills bro]

what happened here :|

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

It was obviously satan

[User]

can't you see him there? satan staring at you?

[User]

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[Ninny]

Lots of beer

[User]

much beer

[User]

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[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

I am also drinking beer. But I am not in the UK place.

[User]

i know where your feet are, but is your beer british beer or is your ale american ale

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

Twas baltimore's finest.

[User]

fair cop mate

[User]

[User]

did stonehenge and the roman baths, pretty good i guess

[deckard]

you missed out most of england it seems

[User]

i spent one week with friends in london

now two weeks with my dad doing family stuff, so hampshire, sussex, somerset. then over to ireland via wales. right now we're close to cork

[Verbal]

go to the raj gaylord indian restaurant in cork. onion bhajee starter. then lots of naan. and the best part is the murg makhani, which is my favorite food. ive never even found another indian restaurant that i think is good.

[Verbal]

london, cambridge, sussex, hampshire, somerset, wales, cork, limerick, county clare, galway, dublin

i will count how many pints i have in 16th century alehouses on this journey

ive only lived in 4 of these places

[User]

ireland was 100 times better than the UK and i am sad i never made the trip over before

we did have one indian meal but it was in oranmore, galway. good feed, they gave me a free shot of sambuca.

[zim]

but did you meet gleeso

[Grudge]

ireland was 100 times better than the UK

In what way?

[jawn galliano]

did you visit herr hugo and dine in his restaurant

[User]

ireland was 100 times better than the UK

In what way?

people have a much more revolutionary, positive, principled mindset in ireland. there's no imperial hangover, no delusions of grandeur. a lot of pro-ukraine and pro-palestine sentiment. i didn't see any xenophobia at all in ireland, though i am sure it exists in its most basic form (i.e. the kind of racism based on difference and misunderstanding that is found in all nation states). people in ireland are looking forward to the future rather than the past. england meanwhile is jacking off on itself in a wheelchair after shooting itself in the foot with austerity and brexit, and constantly complaining at the price of lube for their self-pity fap. the UK has declined badly since 2010, in all areas. i have only visited four times in that period, but i have seen it in those moments. and this last trip in particular, talking for hours with each of my individual friends in london, the conversations were all the same RE the decline in social cohesion, basic services, and the economy. the only differences depended no their position—a recent refugee, a global elite NGO worker, a mental heath community support worker, etc. the trajectory is grim

basically in my adult lifetime i have seen major decline in both the UK and the US but it took longer for the UK to really show its idiocy. i think i am particularly sensitive to this because i travel a lot in asia and have lived in several countries in asia and the economic trends have been so different here

now i will rank the five-eyes country by livability, in an unbiased manner

1. australia
2. new zealand
3. canada
4. united states
5. united kingdom

[User]

did you visit herr hugo and dine in his restaurant

no hugo dining or gleesoing eventuated

[Grudge]

The decline of great britain has been a fascinating topic that I must admit I have googled many times to try to understand. Many people look at Brexit for the answer, but I believe the journey began much longer ago when the country's leadership made a choice to be more involved in Finance - a non-productive sector, rather than manufacturing which originally made UK the workshop of the world, and Margaret Thatcher's reforms.

One of the more useful articles I have read on this subject is shared below.

https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weeken ... al-decline