British Culture “Uncivilized Materialists Obsessed with a Culture of Alcohol”?

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The New York Times investigates what happens when some Brits go abroad. “They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.”

British Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver adds fuel to the fire. The 33-year-old describes his fellow countrymen’s materialistic attraction to widescreen TVs, cars, mobile phones, and – above all else – beer as being symptomatic of “the new poverty” blighting the UK.

Even The Chambers Dictionary has added the term “WAGs” to their latest edition. And there is even talk in the EPL of no relegation.

What is happening here, what does any of this mean…?

Added on Monday, August 25th, 2008 by FC Uptown

1 Comment

  1. Posted by: Paulie Walnuts on Aug 26, 2008 at 8:52 am

    We were ever that cultured to begin with,a proud national history of binge drinking starting usually around 12 ish…Plus its quite a skewed article really…any mashed up pishheads weather abroad or at home are generally the asbo, chavish,lager lout types no matter what country there are from . A dick by any other language is still a dick…every country has got its own brand of peeople that are generally thought of as that nation’s “anal leakage” look at the ones in the States …now we know there cool folks from all over the wolrd but look at the fucked up repuatation given by a few seeds that shouldnt grown…see Armenians,Persians,French,Israelis,Australians,Scots,Nigerians…all full of amazing people yet the few annoying countrymen can ruin a entire populace’s global rep…perhaps we should start registering and tattooing arseholes

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