Ask a 29 Year Old Brit.

[Exiled Martian]

Born and raised in Cardiff.

Wales eyyyyyyy? So whats the sketch with the Sheep shagging scene? Did you get down with Mary's has beens i.e. are you about DAT Wooly wetness fam

 

[Formerly known as...]

Hope to go soon, whats a 30 year old to do and see?

London, expensive but a lot to do. It also depends on what you're into?

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

How big is your brick?

 

[mbewane]

Why is it you guys hate the EU so much, yet won't get out of it?

 

[Formerly known as...]

Why is it you guys hate the EU so much, yet won't get out of it?

I personally don't hate the EU, but we wont get out of it because being in the EU offers security in many ways......I'd rather stick with the £ than have the Euro currency though

 

[mbewane]

I personally don't hate the EU, but we wont get out of it because being in the EU offers security in many ways......I'd rather stick with the £ than have the Euro currency though

Thanks for the honest answer, but why is it that political leaders from Thatcher to Cameron go from "I want my money back" to "If you don't change this, we'll have a referendum to step out of the EU" when it's the the UK that asked -twice- to get in? They must represent a sizable part of the population to hold those opinions?

Do you consider yourself "European" (as in, member of the EU) or not? I ask because I've done a lot of youth exchanges, travelled around Europe and most young Brits told me they didn't feel european nor cared about it, and felt closer to the US than to the EU.

And why don't a lot of you guys learn any languages?

 

[IAmGettingAMailOrderBride]

What would be a good European food to increase the size of my genetals

 

[Formerly known as...]

Thanks for the honest answer, but why is it that political leaders from Thatcher to Cameron go from "I want my money back" to "If you don't change this, we'll have a referendum to step out of the EU" when it's the the UK that asked -twice- to get in? They must represent a sizable part of the population to hold those opinions?

Do you consider yourself "European" (as in, member of the EU) or not? I ask because I've done a lot of youth exchanges, travelled around Europe and most young Brits told me they didn't feel european nor cared about it, and felt closer to the US than to the EU.

And why don't you guys learn any languages?

Yeah it's funny because although we're in the EU I don't feel like we fit the mold of typical European countries. We are just different! I think in many ways we lack some culture.

Would we be ok out of the EU? I'm not sure. We do hold a lot lf weight for a small country but I do feel we need to be in EU and cooperating with others.

We are like a little US in the sense that we will always stand side by side with USA no matter what.

As for languages you may find that in America many people can speak spanish simply because of the sheer amount of Mexicans etc you have about so it's sometimes beneficial to know the language. A lot different here, we don't feel the need to speak another language as much.

Although I myself can speak some Spanish.

 

[Formerly known as...]

What would be a good European food to increase the size of my genetals

I wouldn't know...but try eating genetals? You'll probably like it

 

[Tom Foolery]

What kind of music is popular there? Who's topping the charts?

 

[Formerly known as...]

What kind of music is popular there? Who's topping the charts?

Chart music here is wack beyond belief. I don't check for the charts so wouldn't really know. I rarely listen to the Radio.

 

[BobbyBooshay]

Great idea for a thread

 

[BobbyBooshay]

What kind of music is popular there? Who's topping the charts?

Meghan Trianor is number 1

 

[mbewane]

Yeah it's funny because although we're in the EU I don't feel like we fit the mold of typical European countries. We are just different! I think in many ways we lack some culture.

Would we be ok out of the EU? I'm not sure. We do hold a lot lf weight for a small country but I do feel we need to be in EU and cooperating with others.

We are like a little US in the sense that we will always stand side by side with USA no matter what.

As for languages you may find that in America many people can speak spanish simply because of the sheer amount of Mexicans etc you have about so it's sometimes beneficial to know the language. A lot different here, we don't feel the need to speak another language as much.

Although I myself can speak some Spanish.

Props...

That's the thing, is that it seems that when push comes to shove you guys will automatically stand with the US no matter what, despite the fact that you are part of the EU. That rubs a lots of Europeans the wrong way and makes us wonder why you're still in the EU tbh.

I'm very interested in language dynamics and actually there have been various reports over the last few years about the shortage of language skills in the UK (since the UK assumes "everybody" speaks english) which could become threatening because while the rest of the world is learning to speak english the english-speakers are not learning foreign languages, which gives the former a competitive advantage (especially when perfect english is not really required). Long story short, it's becoming more interesting for a firm to employ a Portuguese guy who speaks Portuguese and English than a Brit who only speaks English. But this only applies to international fields of work obviously.

 

[beanz]

do u enjoy a good faq now n then??