Has British Culture Declined In The Last 20 Years?

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-0829-brits-20100829,0,4163226.story

Just noticed that myself. Oh dear.

"In England, breaking boundaries or shocking people is an obligation," said Gabe Doppelt, the former editor in chief of Mademoiselle, who's now the West Coast bureau chief of the Daily Beast, and who launched her career in London. "Go back to Chaucer. It's some of the most shocking stuff I've ever read."

waht wtf What arrant nonsense.

yeah, regretted not reading it in a newspaper cuz i couldn't wad it up and throw it away

Brits in being shocked at shocking brits shocker.

the article does sort-of correctly identify a strain of this country's sycophant popkult shite which will only be emboldened by american approval

it's like when someone achieves minor success in america and they get fawning broadsheet fluff pieces w/ exagerrated claims for their popularity

Also commonplace in Britain are figures, like Morgan, who can move seamlessly between appearing on game shows and interviewing leading politicians,

Ha ha.

Morgan's Englishness, likewise, isn't incidental to his success.

Confusing 'Englishness' with 'being a wanker' there.

He wants to interview Cowell, he told a reporter, because during an earlier sit-down in Britain, which he called "Round One," Morgan "nearly took him down, made him cry."

Making Cowell cry may normally be a noble goal, but remember that Morgan is such a horrible person that even Jeremy Clarkson punched him.

xp next week, Timmy Mallett plays a round of Mallett's Mallet with David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

sycophant popkult shite

Not sure what this means, but it seems to gesture somewhat to the one otm thing in this, to wit the thing about the private school teacher put downs. We're an incredibly teacherly culture, in the sense that we love pointing out breaches of 'the rules', while pushing them ourselves. Maybe this isn't just our culture idk, but it seems to me we're incredibly servile and pompous about authority, and basically love being bollocked while silently resenting it.

aspirant public figures ascend thru a layer of bitter sniping before reaching a level where ppl are really very impressed with them, they become even more impressed with themselves and any criticism is notional

like piers morgan cld douse comatose corgis w/ paraffin and ignite and still be indulged w/ sunday times spreads abt 'the man we love to hate'

One of Britons’ self-confessed worst habits – nose-picking – may actually be good for their health, new research suggests.
A poll in January revealed nose-picking is the second most common bad habit among British people.

https://www.rt.com/uk/386242-nose-picking-health-bacteria/

The Brass Eye controversy being billed as the ultimate low point of tabloid culture upthread there - happier times, eh?

Much of the reasoning expressed upthread still works, but I wonder if anyone would be willing to give an enthusiastic "no!" in 2017.

I think British film is in rude health

not since Michael Powell retired

I think a lot of my favourite stuff right now is harking back to older eras/aesthetics, though that's probably me getting older, my own biases and laziness as much as anything else.

Pengest Munch is a good counter-argument though.

there is no such thing as 'british culture' tbf

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nintchdbpict000311240356.jpg?strip=all&w=960&quality=100

take it to the real england thread