I Hate England
Well, actually, I don't, but A.A. Gill does and he does a brilliant job writing about it in his upcoming book The Angry Island. The Sunday Times published an extracted essay which contains some very interesting insights into anger and the English. Here are a couple paragraphs from the Times piece:
Anger has made the English an ugly race. But then this anger is also the source of England’s most admirable achievement — their heroic self-control. It’s the daily struggle of not giving in to their natural inclination to run amok with a cricket bat, to spit and bite in a crowded tearoom, that I admire most in the English. It’s not what they are, but their ability to suppress what they are, that’s great about the English.
The English aren’t people who strive for greatness, they’re driven to it by a flaming irritation. It was anger that built the Industrial Age, which forged expeditions of discovery. It was the need for self-control that found an outlet in cataloguing, litigating and ordering the natural world. It was the blind fury with imprecise and stubborn inanimate objects that created generations of engineers and inventors. The anger at sin and unfairness that forged their particular earth-bound, pedantic spirituality and their puce-faced, finger-jabbing, spittle-flecked politics.
posted by angryman at 9:53 AM
22 Comments:
"It was anger that built the Industrial Age....It was the blind fury with imprecise and stubborn inanimate objects that created generations of engineers and inventors... puce-faced, finger-jabbing, spittle-flecked politics."
Sounds more like Scotland than England to me... Afterall we are the developed world's most violent society..
England would tear a hole through you lazy dirty scottish vagabonds and you know it. What? You think I'm kidding? WELL COME ON THEN SUNSHINE, LETS SEE WHAT YOU GOT!! COME N'AV A GO IF YOU THINIK YER ARD ENUFF!...
YOU STILL LOOKIN MAT ME?.....
ARRRRRRGH, I'M GONNA RIP YER [expletive deleted] HEAD OFF YOU SCOTTISH [expletive deleted]!
If you read the whole text, he meant that England as a governemt, england when drawn into a mob is just that - bunch of.... yobs! Individually, they are some of the best, warmest and friendliest people I can ever meet - collectively I am embarrassed to say that we really are. If you believe what you see and read abroad about us, we have now overtaken the Americans as the most hated. We are looked upon as an aggressor but also as weak backboned puppy of the US. We get no respect from either side and like the Americans, we are now in the position of being tolerated not for who we are as a person but what our money can buy.
how dare u fuckaz say u hate england. u gay fuckin dirty filthy german naziz u r dirty mugz. how do u ppl sleep at night. feel big do ya.
u ppl r fuckin racists. i am part english n u r mugz.
YOUR FUCKIN SITE SUCKS AND I HATE YOUR GUTS. WE ARE THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND YOU KNOW THAT YOU JEALOUS PRICK. BURN TO HELL BASTARD. IM GONNA FIND OUT WHERE YOU LIVE SLICE OFF YOUR HEAD AND MAKE YOU LICK YOUR OWN ASS. ENGLAND RULES AND YOU EAT FUCKING SHIT. GOD WILL PUNISH YOU. YOU LONLEY UGLY FRIENDLESS PATHETIC SHIT WHO HAS NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN TO HATE THE BEST COUNTRY OF ALL TIME. YOU SORRY PIECE OF SHIT! YOU WILL PAY!
i am english, scottish, welsh, manx, irish, and french and i think that you are just a fucking racist diot!
hi
England does suck, they have no culture, no honor and little honesty except for their hatred and disrespect of other countries.
Scotland kicked Englands ass the last time we were at war, so i find one previous comment which challeneged the Scots to a fight laughable. I think England cant bare the fact that they lost the wars with Scotland. 1314 was a good year, and will be remembered by every Scotsman till the end of time.
Most other countries have a little culture and something to identify themselves by, but England does not. For example, Scotland and Ireland have kilts, dancing, songs, pre-Christian mythology and landscapes which helped shape our culture. What does England have? What binds England as a nation except football hooliganism? What ancient traditions does England have, which have lasted through the ages?
England is not a popular country, and the English are not a popular people. Throughout history, England has come into conflict with just about every other nation they ecountered, and almost faced a heavy international invasion because they were a pest to European peace and harmony.
I dont hate England, my opinion of England is so low, that it cant warrent such an emotion. I pity England and their ignorance. I hope Scotland votes for independence because England will face economic crisis if it does. England will lose North sea oil, MOD lands, portions of the Army, Navy and Airforces, Nuclear weapon storage and all other multi-million pound Scottish industries.
The Barnett Formula pays Scotland £8 billion a year, Scotland pays the UK treasury £12 billion a year from North sea oil revenues alone. Now put that together with Scotch Whiskies, electronics and Science revenues. England will stand to lose nearly £billion a year, and recovery from the loss of armed forces and equpiment would cost them countless billions. This is something England may not recover from in our life time.
Englands crime rates are through the roof, they now have the highest rates of alcoholism in the whole of Europe and their country its self is massively over-crowded and has high rates of unemployment. What advantage would Scotland have staying in Union with a British government which taxes us to the hilt, steals Scottish wealth and resources to spend them in England, and in return they call us beggars and anti-Celt names.
When was the last time a Scottish business refused and English bank note? I have never seen it happen or even heard of this happening. Yet when i travel to England my money is regularly refused by English businesses, and i am subject to daily comments about being Scottish.
Now i admit, the Scots can be down right nasty about England, especially during football. But Scottish people do not subject Englishmen in Scotland to daily comments about being English, nor do we insult them or call them racist and disrespectful names like they call us. England has been slating Scotland for years by calling us Jocks, drunks, gingers, skirt wearers and haggises.
Now i can take these names in good humour when they are ment that way, but if you look through most of the posts regarding this subject on other internet websites, im sure you will see the hatred and disrespect the English show us.
Whether England likes it or not, Scotland is a different country, with different laws, values and education. Laws and education, which i might add are of a better quality than England has.
England has alot to learn, and alot of apologising to do. I dont hate England, because it is impossible to hate an entire country and people. Im am just sick to death of your ignorance, bad attitudes and disrespect for other countries. England sucks up to America so much, it is actually embarrassing especially as America is not particularly fond of England either.
England is a dump, it is over-crowded and has very little natural beauty. The English people can be such a pain on the ass, but they dont even realise it. England is disliked all over Europe and much of America. All through its history England has come into conflict with nearly ever other country they have met.
What angers me the most is that English people are far more disrespectful to Scotland than vice versa. England owes alot to Scotland, both economicaly and culturaly but instead they just insult us.
England is a land of football hooligans, alcoholism, knife crime and arrogant/ignorant SOB's
England, stop brown nosing America because they dislike you as much as the rest of us. Stop disrespecting other countries. Stop drinking and smashing towns and cities to pieces. Stop being so damn ignorant and pick up a book on other countries, especialy the other countries of the UK so you can learn you would be nowhere without them.
I learn more about England each day and from your site. I am not British myself but have lived there for over 10 yrs. I agree with the English and their dominant, snobby attitude towards former colonies. I wonder is it true that England is also so wealthy, the Bank of England from all of its taxes imposed on former colonies and use of colonies natural resources? I know the govt earns a lot from VAT and tax wages but the taxes applied on people's wages is not that much greater than the US yet the pound sterling is much stronger than the dollar. Can anyone enlighten me on why the sterling is so strong and why the UK govt is so wealthy? The thing I most dislike is the way people are so influenced by the british press tabloid style of writing which creates a xenophobic culture. But then I've also heard that in Scotland they have less tolerance than the English for other cultures. Another weakness of the English is their binge drinking and violence in sports. Why do British people drink so much? How do English people feel about bottling up their feelings? I think in the long-term bottling up thing is not healthy. What do your readers think? I will check back for answers. Thank you. BTW I also like some things about England but that is another story.
Hello everyone. I'm what some of you might call an english bastard. Thats mainly directed at the dirty fukin scottish wankers who think there so fukin hard because they've seen braveheart. Woopty do i hate the scottish so fukin much! and any other country that takes the piss out of the mighty st georges cross. ENGLAND TILL I DIE!
Who are all these dirty, filthy scottish cunts who think they can bad mouth the english! you may say we're hated by everyone and we're scum. You know what i think fuk all you! we dont need anyone one! as long as we stand tall to our englishness we can never be beaten and never be put down! especially by the fukin scottish cunts! ENGLAND TILL I DIE. THE 3 LIONS ARE ENGRAVED ON MY HEART THEREFORE I AM FOREVER ENGLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what the fuck is all this scottish hatrid about ..scotland is the greaist country in the world we invented the tv the toilet the bike and a lot more so who the fuck is better the creative strong scots or all of u filthy chavvy english freedom haters..u may think i am a prick but i find my self as a patriot i hope scotland becomes independant and we dont have to share the same policy as red flagged scum bags!
Football, cricket, rugby ever herd of them? might have done. Well let me refresh your memory they are the top 3 most well known sports in the world and who created them...... ENGLAND! what the fuk have scotland ever done except start rebeloions and b complete cunts! I fukin cant wait till woteva wanker hu decided he would want to control a shit whole like scotland declares scotland independant so that we dont have to have there pussy soildiers and there shitty dirty culture! you think scotland is hard dont make me fukin laugh! bunch of fukin benifit consuming wankers! i would happily go to war with scotland! just so i could drain a scotsmans blood smear it in a cross shape on a white flag and call it the st georges cross. Then i'll stick it in the centre of Edinburgh and watch all u pathetic scottish fuks hail the mighty st georges cross!
Im english and im ready to leave this country tommorow. This country has done me no favorers apart from make my life hell
i am welsh and i admit i do shag sheep. I own my own farm and sometimes it gets a bit lonely so i bring in my sheep and take them up the dirt track :)
Id kill all englishmen if i could
long live the true nations scotland,wales and Ireland.
Englishmen are the ugliest race ever
try keeping your teeth in yer mouth instead of in a glass
WANKERS
I was so thrilled to see so many genuinly mature and thoughtful responses. It's so good to read intelligent argument that doesn't consist of insults or bad language propping up a complete lack of respect for others. It's so good to know that we can put down the mistakes of our forfathers to embrace other cultures and customs and celebrate our differences. We truly do live in one global community, how lucky we are.
I don't think it was just anger that made the English ugly. In my experience, they were just born that way.
Most of what is claimed to be Scotland's "culture" was invented in the Victorian era, which they stole from the Irish and the English. Scotland as such isn't a real nation. The Highlands are an Irish colony and the Lowlands are part of England which was stolen in the Middle Ages by drunkards, murderers and louts. The left-wing Lowlanders attempt to make up for having no culture, by stealing the cultural artifacts of the Highlanders, such as tartan and pretend to be "Celts" despite their Saxon surnames and ironically despite the fact that Scottish Lowlanders destroyed Highland culture.
They invaded our country in the time of James I and took control of the monarchy. Despite the fact that Guy Fawkes and many of the native English freedom fighters wanted nothing to do with them and tried to force them out. They also brought freemasonry into England, a Satanic system which they invented through merging Kabbalistic Judaism and Rosicurantism. They set up the "Bank of England" as a way to rob the English working class, with their capitalist system of exploitation which they invented through Adam Smith. The Scottish also taitned Britain's name and helped cause the Israel-Palestine conflict through the Balfour Declaration, which the Scottish-Zionist, Arthur James Balfour authored. The Scottish-Jewish coalition then stole land from the Palestinians, carrying on today.
Similarly they have caused the conflict in Northern Ireland, where under the rule of their Scottish-king James they began to set up private Plantations in Ulster, the Scottish-Hamiltons did this and even today there is still conflict between the Ulster-Scots and the Irish. I don't hate the Scottish, but it seems like they have to try and take control of England to try and get noticed in the world. Their politicians such as the Labour Party, led by Scottish people such as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, suck up to the Zionist War mongers who run America and drag English boys into their Scottish-Zionist-Capitalist wars.
When I think of Scotland, I think of ugly sectarian bigots in Glasgow, drunken yobs in Celtic shirts, with no future ahead of them fighting in the streets in track suits with bottles of buckfast in their hands. In England, 14 million Irish moved here and we assimilated them into our society completely. Catholics and Protestants don't hate each other here, unlike the mad hate filled, bitter Scots.
Some Scottish people are OK, but I just want us to have our own republic and our own Prime Minster. Instead of Scotland's monarchs and the Scottish politicians like Ken Livingston, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Alister Darling and all the other Scots who control England as a colony. With their Calvinist traditions of hate and bigotry they also add an unseemly element to the presentation of what it means to be "British", which makes most English people nowadays not want to be British. They also steal our taxes to fund their backwards, dole theiving societies-England should be Free.
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