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They say, without a hint of irony.
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Europeans colonised and took over most of the world. As in, they moved to places that weren't theirs and imposed their values unto others to steal as much as they could from the countries they invaded. Now they complain others are doing the same to them and whine when others are fighting back.
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The first three questions I got were: - Wishing a colleague a Eid Mubarak, at which the colleague mentions that she's no longer of the faith. - It's Odd Socks day for Alzheimer awareness. Will you take off a sock? (No -> Linda disapproves.) - Bring your dog to work day, will you bring treats to work? (No -> it got canceled anyway because of complaints.) This just sounds like an exhausting attitude to go through life.
It is satire about working in a large corporation in the UK.
Oh. Just more conservative self-victimization about made up issues. Truly pathetic.
I feel like it's more particular than 30 year old. Seems to be a white, straight male with an Anglo Saxon heritage living in England. A black lesbian living in Derry would have a vastly different experience despite being just as much "30 year old in the UK." This isn't a criticism just an interesting case of unconscious bias at play and how we tend to universalise our experiences.
This is in fact an extremely large, dare I say representative, demographic. Je suis Nicolas (30 ans) aussi. And his counterpart Nicola (30 ans) has similar problems herself.
>A black lesbian living in Derry would have a vastly different experience despite being just as much "30 year old in the UK."
By the 2021 census population pyramid, about 12,000 / 1.9M = 0.63% of the population are 30 year old women in Northern Ireland, and about 0.58% of the Northern Ireland population is black. Maybe 5% of women are lesbian? Derry's population is 85,000. So 85k * 0.63% * 0.58% * 5% = 0.15 of a person.
>This isn't a criticism
You are in fact criticising it by accusing the author of "unconscious bias" (and various -isms by insinuation).
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It is satire about working in a large corporation in the UK.
Oh no, I got that. It's just satire of the whiny kind instead of actually funny or interesting.
I think generally it was reasonably well done as a novelty joke website that is obviously trying to make a political point. That in itself makes it reasonably interesting IMO.
I live in the East Midlands in the UK. You can grab a reasonable first house here for less than £150k quite easily. So you'll need a 5% deposit, £7,500 for one of those. One person on an average salary for the area would be able to afford a mortgage for a house like this on their own. But Nick has a girlfriend, who can hopefully work, so should be able to afford it easily. But half of people earn less than the mean s…
LISAs are a trap if you want to buy in the South. You can only use it if the value of the property is £450k or less. The limit hasn't been raised since 2017 despite crazy house price inflation. So many people got completely fucked by this; they have their money locked up in the LISA, can't buy a house near London with it, and can't transfer it to something else without a huge penalty.
See: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/06/lifetime-isa-...
More broadly, "the govt pays the rest" is part of the problem. All this help-to-buy stuff amounts to demand subsidies that just push prices higher and higher.
I feel like it's more particular than 30 year old. Seems to be a white, straight male with an Anglo Saxon heritage living in England. A black lesbian living in Derry would have a vastly different experience despite being just as much "30 year old in the UK." This isn't a criticism just an interesting case of unconscious bias at play and how we tend to universalise our experiences.
>Seems to be a white, straight male with an Anglo Saxon heritage living in England. This is in fact an extremely large, dare I say representative, demographic. Je suis Nicolas (30 ans) aussi. And his counterpart Nicola (30 ans) has similar problems herself. >A black lesbian living in Derry would have a vastly different experience despite being just as much "30 year old in the UK." By the 2021 census population pyrami…
It might well be. I didn't suggest otherwise.
> You are in fact criticising it by accusing the author of "unconscious bias"
No, I'm not, that's why I took the time to explicitly say so. I made no "accusation," you've just taken it that way. We all have unconscious biases and we all act them out in various ways. I made absolutely no value judgement and I think I'm a healthy society we should be able to talk about these things without everything having to be taken as an accusation.
> population pyramid
I intentionally used an atypical demographic reality to demonstrate my point: that person is just as much "a 30 year old in the UK" as Nicolas. There are obviously many millions of other people who are not like Nicolas and it's reasonable that a conversation includes an eye to the diversity of experience around us for a host of different reasons.
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I don't believe you because I live in the UK and the idea that people don't celebrate Christmas is beyond moronic. The shops start doing Christmas stuff the day after Halloween. It's unending Christmas songs for two months. Tell me you seriously didn't notice this.
Shops != schools. Go to a school, they are brainwashing children. Shops will do whatever makes them profit, they are not strictly run by the government.
A fair number of my family are teachers so check your facts before trying your lazy assertions.
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>Seems to be a white, straight male with an Anglo Saxon heritage living in England. This is in fact an extremely large, dare I say representative, demographic. Je suis Nicolas (30 ans) aussi. And his counterpart Nicola (30 ans) has similar problems herself. >A black lesbian living in Derry would have a vastly different experience despite being just as much "30 year old in the UK." By the 2021 census population pyrami…
> This is in fact an extremely large, dare I say representative, demographic. It might well be. I didn't suggest otherwise. > You are in fact criticising it by accusing the author of "unconscious bias" No, I'm not, that's why I took the time to explicitly say so. I made no "accusation," you've just taken it that way. We all have unconscious biases and we all act them out in various ways. I made absolutely no value ju…
>I intentionally used an atypical demographic reality to demonstrate my point: that person is just as much "a 30 year old in the UK" as Nicolas. There are obviously many millions of other people who are not like Nicolas and it's reasonable that a conversation includes an eye to the diversity of experience around us for a host of different reasons.
The housing market in SE England sucks if you're young and work for a living; doesn't matter if gay or straight, man or woman, black or white. At any rate, I reject the notion that we can't talk about problems unless literally every last little niche demographic is affected. Not everything is about everyone. Someone must speak for Nick (30 ans).
The Nick meme is a great way of encapsulating how utterly sick of the UK young professionals are at this point. There is no way to win. I know many young people who are very comfortably in the top 5% of earners in the UK, paying tens of thousands of pounds of income tax per year, and are still locked into paying massive amounts of rent, because it's near-impossible to actually own a house here at this point. So quite…
I reject this generational war thing though. British state pensions are the worst in Europe. The triple lock doesn't make pensioners rich; it just keeps them from sliding into abject poverty.