r/mildyinteresting • u/waiha • May 01 '26

humankind hiccups 😅 Well this aged like milk.

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Stumbled upon this while clearing out the attic.

She visited my primary school in Edinburgh shortly after releasing TPS. The girl in front of me (my friend and train-to-school comrade) was Southeast Asian and has an incredibly elaborate sounding name. When Joanne screwed up her face when my friend gave her her name for the signature, I laughed. This is how she decided to sign my copy.

I was laughing at you, JK.

EDIT: It’s on EBay.

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u/whowouldsaythis May 01 '26

Bowling pins are called skittles in the UK so I don’t think so

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u/BargerianJade May 02 '26

Every time I learn what something is called in the UK I believe less that it's a real place

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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 May 02 '26

As an actual Brit we are indeed real, I like to think that America is not real though and just a disturbed dream.

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u/PsychologicalSir3326 May 02 '26

America is your repressed creation.

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u/surprisesnek May 02 '26

Do you think God Brits stay in Heaven Britain because they too live in fear of what they have created?

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u/4n0m4nd May 02 '26

I mean they just go other places and call them Britain too

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u/captainn_chunk May 02 '26

And call it “holiday”

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u/4n0m4nd May 02 '26

They're not immigrants, they're ex-pats.

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u/captainn_chunk May 02 '26

Everyone’s always talking about immigration but nobody talks about emigration. 🙈

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u/4n0m4nd May 02 '26

They didn't emigrate, they just moved to another country and became ex-pats. What do you mean can they speak the language? Yes, they speak English, The Language, of course they do.

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u/OverCategory6046 May 02 '26

I mean immigrant & expat are two seperate things. But yea, people who are immigrants and call themselves expats are funny ones.

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u/pchlster May 02 '26

Remember how many Brexiteers were outraged they couldn't just continue to live in Spain now that the UK had left the union? It was apparently intolerable that they now had to apply to get to keep living in another country.

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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 May 02 '26

We do indeed. Occasionally we also venture out on our holidays to other places, though we are sadly told to be aware of going to America at the moment due to some of us being held in detention for having "opinions" about your Orange Overlord.... (I wish I wasn't joking)

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u/4n0m4nd May 02 '26

You're too self aware to be included in my slagging mate.

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u/Fenris_Icefang May 02 '26

Brits staying in Britain? I have news for you. It’s called your colonial era.

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u/HazelEBaumgartner May 02 '26

LOOK AT US, FATHER. LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE CREATED AND WEEP.

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u/candidlyfrasersridge May 02 '26

Omg. This is freaking amazing! Giggling sooo hard

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u/SowwieWhopper May 02 '26

The whole country is one big Silent Hill

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u/eyesparks May 02 '26

Not nearly enough people here are haunted by horrifying manifestations of their guilt for that.

Or at least, not the people who really need it.

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u/Independent-Monk5064 May 02 '26

You watch too much tv. It’s simply not. Yours is tiny

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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 May 02 '26

And the siren just wont stop going off....

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u/Dependent_One6034 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

The people on the Mayflower were on there because they were either religious nut jobs that were getting exiled, others who were being Sentenced to death, or some who simply decided they wanted to go to the new world for a new life. I believe those who decided to go were paid for it, as they also manned the ship. (That payment, would have had to been upfront, Likely in rations and gold as once they left, that was it)

They didn't really have a choice but to go, if they didn't go they would have likely been hanged. (apart from those who chose to go ofcourse.).