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Just bought a TAG Series 3 volume 2 DVD because I need Virgil seductively sliding down a building in my life.

And the rest of this amazing episode. But especially this.

#thunderbirds are go #virgil tracy #thunderfam #inferno #uk problems #yes that's the right dvd #it's a bonus feature #as it was never broadcast in the uk #and i agree with that #but i really love this episode

i think it's bizarre that people do not understand how class division/classism works within the england, and the uk as a whole.

the popularity of far-right and right-wing parties is fueled by the class division and billionaires claiming they work for the working people. the resurgence of racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, ableism etc. is also to do with classism. punching down because the government doesn't care about ANY of us and the ultra-rich use that to turn attention away from them: it's class division.

south london boroughs (think croydon, sutton) are considered 'shitholes' because they're full of the disadvantaged working class, where the crime rates are higher, the houses are cheaper, the council tax is higher because the problems that the working class face aren't solved by shelving it and avoiding the area, they're solved by investing time and energy into the problems in our communities (like kids being groomed into gangs because they don't have anyone to help them out of it, security chasing loiterers—kids!— out of shopping centres because all the youth centres have been underfunded for years). this happens all across the country, in major cities that get treated as dangerous shitholes because they are inhabited by the disadvantaged.

and not only that

our accents are so fucking intertwined with class, not only do they locate you on the island but they also tell others what class you are from. we see people switching between their normal accent and a more 'refined' posh accent because they get treated differently depending on which they use. i have about three different accents i use, my normal, slightly more refined, and then the toned down RP. all of which i will use in different situations and i have done so since i was very little. growing up on a council estate taught me that people treat you like shite on the bottom of their shoes if they even perceive you as council estate trash, but if you can mask that and sound less working class, they actually look at you with more respect. people on the streets, in schools, in the workplace, all fall into this trap. this class division is fucking everywhere.

when USamericans (in specific because i see this a lot) make fun of 'british accents', which are usually ones associated with the working class, they do so without the knowledge of how that exact thing has shaped our country. classism is rampant everywhere, but people tend to underestimate the amount that it has affected how our country works to this day.

#classism #class divide #class issues #modern issues #cosmiccrambles #rant post #rant #societal issues #societal commentary #uk #england #uk problems #social justice

Guess who’s finally catching up

Let’s see how many episodes I can watch tonight 😂

#the pitt #finally one of my apps has it #uk problems

Getting prison time for protesting against an important environmental issue is entirely unacceptable regardless of your view on how to go about addressing climate change. Getting the HIGHEST PRISON SENTENCE ever recorded for NONVIOLENT PROTEST is entirely unacceptable. They held a ZOOM CALL to call to action others to raise the alarm on climate change. If you want to read the full details, I linked it here.

Please sign the open letter and the petition to appeal the decision and protect our right to free speech

#climate change #climate action #protect our rights #uk problems #from the uk #uk rant #uk

the problem is the like, debate around lawns and whether they Should exist and how they should be maintained etc is so regional

but anti-lawn memes are so funny

#when they have a save the bees bumper sticker but their garden looks like this #lawns #environmentalism #wildlife #uk problems #grass #there we go obligatory five tags out of the way so the thing is #in some places (where i live included) grass just looks like that #like if you dont currently have trees on an open expanse of non-concrete then you get lawn #i mean you do get people who manicure and pesticide and overcurate their lawns #but they arent the majority #so like a lot of the images of lawns which are attached to lawn memes are just what an average garden in much of europe is gonna look like #people should stop mowing if possible though i dont even know why they mow its barely visible #but #crucially #seeinga picture of a lawn with captions like #well #yard probably #is god tier #theyre always such vintage aesthetic memes too with the black-outlined letters and all

It's raining.

BLESS.

I've been working all day in a building hotter than Satan's ballsack and this rain is needed.

#uk problems

lol it’s snowing

#its almost april and it's snowing wtf #uk problems

Because the U.K. government can handle this messy land mass about as well as I can handle peanut butter we now have to wear masks like 90% of the time we’re at school (we don’t have to wear them at lessons or at lunch) and when I’ve been home I’ve been having the feeling of a mask on my face it’s like phantom mask feels

#meme #text post #shit post #face mask #school #uk problems