Fake England

Because this abomination is not going in the Real England thread

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/sep/18/the-rise-of-britishcore-100-experiences-that-define-and-unite-modern-britons

article writer has seen the collected oeuvre of Sans Beanstalk and had a go of his own. cute

jesus that's bleak

https://archive.ph/rxuQN

Would rather eat the bin scraps outside a kebabarie than have microwave shepherd's pie. I'm teatotal at the moment but if I was after a cheaper kind of mediocrity it would be just about any supermarket brand Chilean red over that piss. Anybody who celebrates any of this shit as something distinctly british - I feel like a different species to them. But then again they are a lazy fake construct, so they don't count.

Do we really need two threads about this

we might up it to 4-5 if necessary but for now I think two will do

xp didn't know it was being discussed in the other one, sorry! but maybe useful for sharing fake English things

21. Joining a WhatsApp group called “Malvern Hills Massif”.

oh no I'm in a whatsapp group called the oxford massive. the name was coined 30 years ago though.

Malvern Hills is my backyard, but like everything else that doesn't make sense, nobody lives on the hills so it would have to be a hill-walking group so not from the hills and not in any way their "massif"

yeah he meant Great Malvern didn't he. a shame!

more likely malvern link