studying for uk residency

[mini_ninja_64@chaos.social]

@whitequark this reminds me of the wierd "british values" clause stuff they brought in to education at some point

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@nina_kali_nina @whitequark "Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat".

[aryl@mastodon.social]

@whitequark technically if you count the 2-3 unemployed guys pretending to be a new IRA offshoot that does nothing but petty street squabbles with local crime it's correct

[aryl@mastodon.social]

@whitequark swear there was some weird RW irish astroturf thing about an anti-drug chudded IRA

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

i can't read this any more i have to go do something less aggravating

[chuckmcmanis@chaos.social]

@whitequark Wait, the British invented the structure of DNA? Wow, all this time I thought that was invented long before mammals even walked the Earth, much less drank tea.

[ignaloidas@not.acu.lt]

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems honestly a bit wild to me that a "biased history quiz" is a requrement

Here it's a quiz on the constitution (generally free), and a language exam (the actual hard part because it's quite hard to even learn the basics).

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@ckape have you watched Hellsing?

[girgias@phpc.social]

@whitequark yeah GL with that my Hungarian gf did it last year. It's definitely weird. She acquired a "copy" that was referring to the King as: "her majesty King Charles" which shows the level of care that went into the contents

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@ckape it inexplicably has a better appreciation for the differences between Catholics and Protestants than most of the western media i happened to watch until that point

[uint8_t@chaos.social]

@Girgias @whitequark TIL! ️‍⚧️

[uint8_t@chaos.social]

@whitequark I got second-degree cringe from simply reading your posts

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@uint8_t i'm not even posting all of the soul-crushing stuff. i'd have to scan the entire book if i wanted that i think

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@whitequark The Brits INVENTED the structure of DNA?

[tef@mastodon.social]

@whitequark @kouhai see: sinking of the belgrano and "gotcha!"

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@whitequark "do you think that margaret thatcher effectively utilized girl power by funneling money to illegal paramilitary death squads in northern ireland?"

[methoxyf@social.treehouse.systems]

@whitequark lol the British “invented” insulin. I feel dumber just reading these Maybe you shouldn’t study, just pick the answer you think Boris Johnson would pick and you should be all right

[secretgeek@mastodon.cloud]

@glyph @whitequark that is very disrespectual, their should be a capital "I" for Ireland

[yomimono@wandering.shop]

@whitequark saw a statue of George III in Cambridge and I was genuinely shocked for a second

[xethos@mastodon.xethos.net]

@whitequark I'd actually like to ask about an earlier question, "What was the role of the Royal Navy after slavery was banned?"

Except my question to the UK is more along the lines of "What was the role of the Royal Navy *before* slavery was banned then?"