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Half of Britons wouldn't take a trip to the the moon, even in guaranteed safety (c.l3n.co)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Me: Happy to see a meme referencing a town 20 mins from me (Stockport)

This guy: Brings it back to America.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

In fairness, it's probably a psychological defence mechanism put in place to prevent the mention of St*ckport causing emotional damage.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

USA-Defaultism is one hell of a drug, very popular due to the opioid epidemic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I understand why they do it. After all, they do dominate western media and internet so to them it is the majority of content they see.

Edit: Although, this is feddit.uk, but again I often forget to check where I am.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can just ignore that bit and focus on the part that sticks it to those damn Stopfordians!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a Manc my major beef is with the Scouse.

Where you from for this Stockport hate?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where you from for this Stockport hate?

I don't hate Stockport except for comedy purposes. I had a nice day out there a month or two back and it's got a lot going for it.

As a Manc my major beef is with the Scouse.

Well you aren't going to like my answer then...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Haha what are the odds.

Much the same as you it’s only playful hate. We got love for any northern town.

Plus 0161 > 0151 😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

My Mum was from Manchester, so it makes things complicated. It's much easier to hate Southerners.

Plus 0161 > 0151

Wait until Preston hears about this kind of argument!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Well, amongst the English-speaking World the US does have more population than all of the others combined (even including South Africa's 60 million people) so it's kinda undertandable that in an English-language forum sooner or later an American will come and start talking about the stuff within their own life experience.

That said, having lived in Britain for over a decade, I for one loved the joke :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I did reference this in another comment further down.

I don’t blame Americans for it. It’s natural. Even though it’s a UK instance, we don’t always check where we are

Edit: Not sure why you being downvoted for this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well, this was funny enough to end up in the All feed of other instances, so I bet a lot of people didn't even notice it was posted in a UK instance (I certainly didn't).

As for the downvotes, it's probably due to pretty much the same reason as why as time goes by the probability of an American making a comment talking about America on a post in an English-language forum about a place other than America, becomes 100%, as I explained above: basically as the former probability becomes 100%, so does the probability that somebody by now well and trully fed up with such posts by Americans pops-up and starts downvoting anything in the least way seeming to justify it, since the two are correlated.

It's only natural ;)