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ITT we list things the British do better than us.
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Date: June 1st, 2013 10:57 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo 1. Talking (although Americans give better speeches)
2. Writing
3. Acting
4. Education
5. Espionage |
Date: June 1st, 2013 10:57 PM Author: cerise concupiscible lettuce rigor Indian food
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Date: June 1st, 2013 10:57 PM Author: hyperactive dilemma jap what (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314000) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 10:58 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo Atheism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314006) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:00 PM Author: titillating underhanded brunch jewess 1. Track their students. Less of the "everyone should go to college" mentality.
2. Football/soccer and rugby. |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:49 PM Author: Big-titted Wild Den Pretty sure we're 1-0-1 against them in soccer games that actually matter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314428) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:01 PM Author: umber pit sherlock (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314037) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:49 PM Author: odious rambunctious immigrant trust fund (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314430) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:02 PM Author: Orange dead space controlling their murder rate. if rahm were mayor of an english city and he let the local murder rate soar to chicago levels, there would be a national crisis and he'd be removed from office. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314045) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:06 PM Author: razzle-dazzle library I wonder how they control their murder rate.. hmmmmmm... lets blame nigga rahm though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314072) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:07 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo They juggle the figures. Crime was something the British used to control really well, but their police are getting more American (i.e., shittier) by the day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314086) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:11 PM Author: Orange dead space it's tough to manipulate the murder stats compared to other crimes, and england/wales hit a 30-year murder low in 2012. all of london only had 96 murders, compared to 417 in similarly-sized NYC. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314115) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:13 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo It's not hard at all. You re-charge as manslaughter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314132) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:17 PM Author: Orange dead space http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-december-2012/stb-crime-in-england-and-wales--year-ending-december-2012.html#tab-Violence
"Homicide includes the offences of murder, manslaughter and infanticide."
there really are fewer slayings in england than there were just a few years ago. even factoring out one-time anomalies like the london bombings or the shipman case. |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:19 PM Author: razzle-dazzle library Obviously its cause they confiscated firearms andits hard as fuck to get a gun.
AMERICANS ARE RETARDS |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:20 PM Author: Orange dead space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Guns,_Less_Crime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314194) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:22 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9679450/Five-detectives-arrested-for-manipulating-crime-statistics.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lies-damn-lies-and-tory-crime-statistics-1889927.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2324658/Police-secrecy-legacy-Leveson.html |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:25 PM Author: Orange dead space yeah, lots of places manipulate crime stats. that's expected. that's why murder is the "gold standard" statistically, since it is the toughest to hide. regardless, the city of detroit did get caught under-reporting their numbers to the FBI a few years ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314241) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:36 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo Just read through your link; you truly are an idiot. You neglected to mention that measures for homicide in this worthless link are based on different methodologies for 1985-1999 and 1999-2001. In the first case, they used reported crime figures. In the second case, they estimated it based on interviews. Gee, I wonder which places they decided to interview? Oh look, doesn't say. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314321) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:46 PM Author: Orange dead space the ONS statistics for homicide are not based on community surveys. that's a separate report.
look, if you want to get into individual numbers, the london met puts murders online:
http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/
there have been 107 in the 12 months from april 2012 to april 2013. there are lists, and you can cross-reference the names of victims with newspaper reports.
had you looked at the list from a few years ago, it would have had closer to 150 names than 107. and that's out of a total of 545 murders in england and wales, so you can see how london becoming safer brings down the rate by itself.
now, though, if you can find a discrepancy between reports of murder victims and the met list, that WOULD be something interesting. like if you can find a news story about a couple dudes getting stabbed to death in peckham back in august but can't find them anywhere on the met list, that would be a weird discrepancy.
but that does not appear to be happening. |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:17 PM Author: slippery cerebral foreskin police squad love this petro meme (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314166) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:03 PM Author: hyperactive dilemma jap black people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314050) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:39 PM Author: turquoise frozen gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314336) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:03 PM Author: Big light point Dad Rock. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314055) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:04 PM Author: green contagious athletic conference institution Getting bailed out of wars by the good ole U S of A. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314059) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:04 PM Author: aquamarine stead gaming laptop l-o-fucking-l at education.
I used to think British accents were cool. Some are, but after living there for a year and a half, a lot of British accents are awful. AWFUL. |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:11 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo My dad went to Harvard. He also spent about six years living in Oxford after university, and he said it was a complete shock how much more knowledgeable the elite there were compared to ours.
I didn't go to Harvard, but have friends at both Oxbridge and the Trinity. On average, the Oxbridge ones are smarter.
This may only apply to elite education. Since the British dismantled the grammar schools, their education standards may have fallen. I don't know, these are just my impressions. |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:12 PM Author: aquamarine stead gaming laptop anecdotes are useless.
By all significant measures (quality of students, faculty, research, etc.) Harvard and other elite American universities blow away Oxbridge. |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:21 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo Anecdotes aren't useless. This is a typically glib commandment that comes out of your Yankee ass like it's a divine commandment. Observations are the first step to any thoughtful inquiry, because if your data doesn't square up with your observations, you still need to account for the discrepancy. I've observed that your average Oxbridge is more articulate and knowledgeable than their American counterpart. Now you can try to refute that impression, or explain why it doesn't matter, or tackle it in any number of ways, but avoiding it entirely is just boring.
You can manipulate statistics to draw any conclusion you like, and many of the most valuable aspects of an education aren't conducive to simple measurement.
But your categories are laughable, because they're subjective preferences disguised as objective criteria. Quality of students? By what measure? Faculty? That's a collection of people, not a measurement. What about the faculty are you trying to measure? Research? Again, an activity, not a measurement.
American universities are richer. No one disputes that. Are they better? Well, that's a different question. |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:43 PM Author: aquamarine stead gaming laptop It's meaningless. It's statistically insignificant. It means nothing, as you haven't spent time around a statistically relevant number of people to be able offer anything that sheds any light on the quality of students.
The second paragraph is similarly worthless. What aspects of education do you think are not conducive to measurement? What do you think is a more effective way of comparing the universities? What criteria do you think demonstrates your opinion that British universities are 'better'? "Welp, my dad said they're smarter!!!"
Its asinine that you call my categories 'laughable' after offering nothing but worthless anecdotes. These are the categories that people use to rank Universities. Research, citations, selectivity, admissions to elite grad programs, etc.
At the end of the day, the American universities *are* better because they're richer (especially when they are so much richer, like the elite American universities are). There is even a stark difference between, say, Harvard and Yale. They've got so much more money that they can just do things other Universities can't. |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:05 AM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo I wasn't offering my impressions as scientific fact, which is why your petulant overreaction is so comical. I was opening the discussion, not closing it.
I merely disputed the idea that anecdotes are worthless. They're not. Reality, or one's impression of it, is always the best basis for inquiry.
But you *are* claiming analytical rigor, and that's what is laughable. You cite categories that assume their conclusion. "American universities are better at producing American university products, like 'research' and 'faculty'." Well, no shit. This gets us nowhere in the discussion. You're ignoring that Oxbridge and Harvard-Yale exist for different purposes. Oxbridge prides itself on the tutorial method. For them, a university is a place chiefly for teaching. Research is significant, but less important. So while American universities hold large lecture courses, Oxbridge focuses on one-on-one tutoring. British students are also required to specialize from their first year. There's more time for independent study, because you spend less of it in class.
So it's pointless to argue about which educational system is better by objective measures until we decide what our educational goals are. |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 8:22 PM Author: Curious Set Place Of Business tutorial groups are normally 2-4 students bro. and you are talking rubbish. normal oxford students are not amazingly impressive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23319447) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:16 PM Author: Milky Stimulating Faggotry (american faggot referring to finishing college as "after university") (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314163) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:17 PM Author: slippery cerebral foreskin police squad pip pip cheerio (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314172) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:19 PM Author: razzle-dazzle library In general Americans are pretty dumb conversation wise. They have no real interests other than being trolls for corporations and making money and buying shit they dont need. They have little idea of the outside world and absolutely no culture. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314193) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:05 PM Author: hot internal respiration generalized bond Spying on own citizens. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314066) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:06 PM Author: razzle-dazzle library Actually caring abut their own citizens i.e. cheaper universities, national healthcare, nice welfare, paid vacation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314077) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:07 PM Author: hot internal respiration generalized bond Not caring about tax payers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314082) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:06 PM Author: Bespoke cracking theatre Having uncut cocks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314078) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:19 PM Author: Boyish telephone Comedy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314191) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:26 PM Author: Orchid Pistol Native yeah somehow their comedians are all smart (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314252) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:27 PM Author: Boyish telephone The difference between the UK and US Offices is just astounding. There is actually some subtlety to the UK version. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314263) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:27 PM Author: Big light point Defend this, please. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314258) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:28 PM Author: Boyish telephone Watch the IT Crowd or UK The Office to begin with. Also, lots of random little BBC series are money. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314268) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:30 PM Author: Orchid Pistol Native At the risk of sounding like a faggot Would I Lie to You makes me chuckle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314282) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:39 PM Author: Big light point I've seen these things. I admit finding Gervais, Merchant, and other Brits (especially the Wright/Pegg/Frost stuff) quite funny. Still, I'd have a hard time giving them the edge over Americans. Even if I admit that it's an open question for television and film, I would still maintain that it's incontrovertible that Americans have better historical and current stand-up comedians. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314343) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:44 PM Author: Boyish telephone So much American comedy is SPS like 2 and Half Men (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314382) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:45 PM Author: Big light point I'm guessing we're not exposed to the similarly broad, shitty British programs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314390) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:46 PM Author: Boyish telephone Probably true to an extent (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314402) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:45 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo It depends a lot on taste. British comics excel at dry, deadpan humor. Very casual, but also cutting. Americans prefer loud niggers shouting about "IN BLACK AMERICA, POH-LICE SHOOT YOU DEAD FOR SMOKING WEED (Amen!) (Preach brother!)." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314392) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:47 PM Author: peach theater yeah it does depend on taste, people with shit taste like the latter while people with good taste like the former. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314409) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:51 PM Author: Big light point Even among Black comics that touch on race (admittedly most of them), the best are subtler than that. Historically, there are very few, if any, Brit comics who are on the same level as Cosby, Pryor, and Rock. When you expand it to White Americans from past and present like Bruce, Carlin, Dangerfield, Martin, Kinison, Hicks, Louis C.K., Burr, et al., I think the Brits are overwhelmed on sheer numbers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314438) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:52 PM Author: peach theater Yeah no shit Black American comedians are better. There's at least 100x more of them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314442) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:06 AM Author: Big light point Even if we did this pound-for-pound, I think the Americans win out, brah. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314525) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:06 AM Author: peach theater could be, could be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314529) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:09 AM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo Humor really is subjective. To me, you didn't name a single funny person on that list. I think Seven Dirty Words is the most overrated shtick in human history.
And is Martin supposed to be Steve Martin? Really? |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:16 AM Author: Big light point Steve Martin is a very historically important comedian. Watch some of his stand-up from the '70s. I won't say that it holds up flawlessly, but it was innovative for the time, for sure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314596) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:20 AM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo "Historically important comedian"? What is this pretentious shit? He told some jokes about fucking a cat. Big deal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314616) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 7:48 PM Author: Aggressive Fragrant Resort Friendly Grandma lol no. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23319228) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 8:23 PM Author: Curious Set Place Of Business http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqL4pMu1cBw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23319454) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:19 PM Author: heady crystalline partner scourge upon the earth music indian food |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:38 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo Homosexuality. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314332) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:38 PM Author: turquoise frozen gas station it's amazing how britain seems to have punched above their weight in music in pretty much every decade (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314334) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:39 PM Author: Boyish telephone except for hip hop! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314337) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:23 AM Author: Ruby trailer park lulz. that's true.
MIA is the one exception, but she's not really hip hop. who knows what she is. |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 7:49 PM Author: Aggressive Fragrant Resort Friendly Grandma MIA is the best hip hop artist of all time, behind Kayne West of course. But beyond that the Brits have no one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23319233) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 8:25 PM Author: Curious Set Place Of Business u jokin blud (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23319467) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:40 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo Pretty sure British music throughout the entire 19th century. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314347) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:39 PM Author: Orchid Pistol Native Breeding and nurturing loose women. Doesn't get easier than a British girl. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314344) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:40 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo God bless slags. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314350) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:40 PM Author: multi-colored seedy range reading party Voluntarily suppressing masculinity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314351) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:41 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo Documentaries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU1H4Vrafws |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:48 PM Author: Boyish telephone Fuck yes on documentaries.
Nobody does documentaries better than BBC.
go to this site and torrent BBC docs: mvgroup.org |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:51 PM Author: Orange dead space http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uP-kOPirdg
in this documentary, they discovered a new species of rat. there's another scene where a dude sets up a mesh screen to catch insects, and it just gets coated in them. |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:42 PM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo Insults (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314366) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:42 PM Author: Big light point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314368) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:45 PM Author: peach theater comedy, music, soccer, cricket (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314391) |
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Date: June 1st, 2013 11:48 PM Author: peach theater Average British dude is also more stylish and better looking than his American counterpart.
This is reversed for women to a certain extent. |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:18 AM Author: Big light point I don't know, man. There's a certain look that many prole Brit males have. It's like this, but generally bald:
http://conheroes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Mark_Addy_headshot1.jpg
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:18 AM Author: peach theater average british dude (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314611) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:18 AM Author: peach theater literature (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314606) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:20 AM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo They rape us in that category. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314623) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:32 AM Author: Ruby trailer park the problem with this thread is that those (many) who haven't been to the UK will think of brits in terms of those they've met here in the US. brits who come to the US and do well here are exceptional, like anyone from anywhere who does the same. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314704) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2013 12:35 AM Author: irradiated cream water buffalo LOL @ pleading American provincialism and ignorance of other countries ITT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2271261&forum_id=2#23314725) |