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I am just in the 1% top UK earners working 25 hours a week from the comfort of my sofa with my average European education, broken English and working class background.

I feel shame for how easy was for me to get a great life in this country when most locals struggle with social mobility.

I get that full fat coke is an idiomatic phrase but it stems from honest ignorance towards macronutrients. I am a diabetic type 1, I had to explain that carbohydrates and alcohol can affect your blood like sugar to endless British people lol

Please, if you are monolingual and monoculture, just have some healthy skepticism about well eradicated habits in this society. That’s what I want to inspire in my friends

I lived here for over 20 years. Speak other two languages natively because my parents were from two different European countries. This is an informed opinion not hearsay!

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> I get that full fat coke is an idiomatic phrase but it stems from honest ignorance towards macronutrients

You don't understand. It's literally just a reference to full-fat and semi-skimmed milk, like a small joke. It's OK to not understand, you're not from the UK, but it's a bit outlandish to turn your own failure to understand a very basic joke into grand claims about British education lol.

I think you've just been living in the UK too long and should probably go home. You sound completely depressed. 20 years in a country you hate populated by people you despise sounds like Hell. It's not too late to make a change. Where's home for you then?

I don’t hate UK, otherwise I wouldn’t be so critical about it, I wouldn’t care if I hated it.

It’s okay if you wanna keep the head in the sand. I get it. It’s better if you don’t know any better. People who are themselves ignorant cannot see other people gaps.

Btw look up the reasons Coca Cola rebranded the Coke Zero to Coke Zero Sugar, and why it all stemmed from UK.

I live in Germany and speak German so that criticism doesn't really apply to me and as far as I'm concerned you're not talking about me, just my home country.

But yes, you hate the UK clearly, though I guess you predictably now refuse to admit it to the person you're trying to troll, because that would be far too vulnerable. To admit to me now that you've indeed wasted 20 years of your life in a country you hate is absolutely tragic, that's a life wasted right there, and there's no way of getting that time back. No wonder you're so angry.

> People who are themselves ignorant cannot see other people gaps

Literally seeing other people's gaps is the easiest thing of all lol, another gem from you, the enlightened continental European who nevertheless refuses to say where they're from (quite cowardly I might add, after all, why do you care what I think?). That's how we can critique, for example, top level footballers despite not necessarily being any good at football ourselves. It's introspection that is hard.

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