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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Could you imagine the teeth of an English methhead?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 49 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Don't the British have better teeth than the US Americans?

[–] enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've not researched this, but I've heard it's because mouth health is prioritised over aesthetics.

That basically means: no whitening.

Teeth are naturally yellowish

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

also, dentistry is more accessible in the UK; free treatment is available to a bigger chunk of the population, and private dental care is cheaper as well.

So, in terms of severe complications stemming from lack of dental care, the US is worse, but the obsession with straightening & whitening means that people who have got it together enough to appear in the media generally have superficially nicer teeth.

It's like most things in America - if you're doing ok then it's great, and if you're not then the rest of the country just pretends you don't exist.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's like most things in America - if you're doing ok then it's great, and if you're not then the rest of the country just pretends you don't exist.

That truly is the US in a nutshell. The US is fantastic if you are in the top 20% (and you have zero empathy for people you don't know), otherwise this country sucks.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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"Say, how is it that we got socialized medicine but me teeth still look like this?"

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

Socialised healthcare means they work and you aren't left in pain. If you want them to look pretty go and fork out for private treatment.

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[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's also because Americans will spend thousands of dollars on cosmetic procedures for their preteens. Braces are not as common elsewhere. Europeans think a lot of Americans look like they have dentures because of this and veneers.

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[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m so glad England isn’t real.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Oh it’s real and no matter where you live the English have probably pillaged it for spices they never use.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Spices were too expensive for most of the population. Except for the likes of the powdered, wigged gents above.

My ancestors only had beans on toast to look forward to when they got back from working in the mines.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You had beans on toast?! We had to wake up an hour before we went to bed and all we had to eat was cold poison! Times were tough in Yorkshire

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You had a bed? Such luxuries, we had to sleep in the turnip fields while they were being ploughed.

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Nah, my ancestors pillaged the fuck out of the English 💪😁

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

OTOH there won’t be half as many independence days

Counterpoint: Americans would have a higher average numbers of fingers.

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[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The UK has free Healthcare and better quality of life so I'm pretty sure their teeth are better than most americans

Logically when you think of it this way that bullshit excuse of a derogatory assumption made by anericans goes out the window

americans lack education about the world outside of america and are so narcissistic and think they're better than everyone else that they don't even bother to try and learn about the outside world and when they do learn of the outside world and other countries having better quality of life than them they make up bullshit mental gymnastics and deny reality because they can't accept that

So no your bullshit derogatory misinformed opinion is simply not true and is just a stereotype because you americans like to bully other countries like the schoolyard bully that likes to pick on others

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[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Jokes aside, as an American, I wish the US had lost the revolutionary war. Commonwealth territories ended up with socialized healthcare, a far better democracy, and far better labor rights, while the US ended up with fascist oligarchy. No thanks. I'd gladly trade my coffee for tea if it means I get a real democracy instead of a fascist oligarchy

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Tbf some of those former territories aren’t in very good socioeconomic shape. If we’d ended up like Canada that would have been winning the lottery, but plenty of those other former colonies have plenty of problems like classist India.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Africa (and the various tribes and countries) has been fucked over by various European countries for centuries. Can’t lay this one solely on the English.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

hey, you broke it, you bought it. Now, maybe they should be doing something to fix this whole problem in the ex-British Mandate of Palestine they cause

UK man arrested for wearing plasticine t shirt

... Maybe not

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

TBF we didn’t even do that to India; just exploited it. The East India Company turned up and were like “ah, we see you already know how things are supposed to work!”.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Canadians are nice, so they are rewarded with a nice country.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Don't quote me on this but America winning the war played a big part in the spread of democracy around the globe. If they hadn't, its not clear the monarchy would have ever fallen.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Southern cuisine would be salt beef, white bread and Yorkshire tea.

Nah, that would be the northeast AKA New England. Southern Cuisine would probably be French and Mexican/Spanish food, the Louisiana purchase and a few American wars never happening.

Then again who the fuck knows what the colonial powers would have gotten up to without the US zealots taking over? 🤷

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

I read somewhere that British people eat like they're still living through the Blitz

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Ok so here's the thing: If America lost the war, America would likely be akin to Australia. The UK used it's North American colonies like they did Australia (that is, a place to transport convicts) so you'd basically be like Australia in that regard. You'd likely be like...cold weather Aussies.

Also:

  • Australia would be...different? Maybe Dutch?
  • We might not have had a French Revolution, or it may have been different, because a lot of the ideas from the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.
  • Since the French Revolution have rise to the idea of the modern nation state and Napoleon, we'd not have a lot of countries.
[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

cold weather Aussies.

looks at Canadians

Huh.

looks at Canadians

you mean i could have socialized healthcare, weed, and california weather? FUCK YOU BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH YOU SHOULD HAVE TRAITORED HARDER

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[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm black and most British territories didn't outlaw slavery until the next centruy so no thanks...

[–] Moxie_empathizer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Agreed, it wasn't soon enough, but they did abolish it thirty years before the US fought a war to get it done.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 points 1 day ago

Looks more like the French to me, mate.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish the British won the revolutionary war

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish I remembered which episode that Dennis and Mac were dressed like this.

[–] Ihnivid@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Watched it recently, S04E11

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

damn he would hard R wouldn't he

[–] Part4@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was one lot of Brits against another lot of Brits anyway. Basically one lot looked like the picture above and the other dressed like cowboys. Not during the war obviously. Afterwards when they went West and hammered the native people.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These days, as a British subject, you’d be smoking crack in a hoody and knockoff Burberry cap, bruv.

laaaame. you used to be a real country. bring back the leaded face paint

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sorry, if im smoking crack I strip down to my undies and cover my self in butter. That's just the way it is.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With the price of butter these days I think I would use rapeseed oil instead. Much cheaper to cover myself in.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

That might be ok for you but I have standards.

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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As an American, I wish they won.

They outlawed slavery looong before we did.

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Because they were ahead on industry and slavery was less profitable. Don't think England was going around thinking it was wrong.

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