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>>buro9+(OP)
The UK has just given up on being in any way internationally relevant. If the City of London financial district disappeared, within 10 years we'd all forget that it's still a country.

>>alangi+mb
As an aside, the UK is a great tourist destination, especially if you leave London right after landing.

Beautiful landscape, the best breakfast around, really nice people, tons of sights to see.

>>FredPr+Zp
Yes the end result of rich western nations that get strangled by government is to be a museum

>>monero+bL
I agree it’s tragic but out of all the ways a culture can strangle itself, museumification is the least horrible

>>FredPr+mQ
There's always the option of, you know, not strangling itself.

>>stavro+9f1
don't kinkshame the lovely people of the Isles, they apparently have a penchant for many things, like separate cold and hot water faucet and a bit of autoerotic asphyxiation.

>>pas+MQ1
> like separate cold and hot water faucet

This was, oddly, for regulatory reasons; the concern was that a blocked mixer unit could cause hot water (considered potentially unsafe) to be forced into the mains supply (presumed safe). This hasn't been a concern with mixer designs for a long time, but it took til the 90s to get the rule changed.

>>rsynno+5i2
The hot water was considered unsafe initially because early hot water cylinders over there were open tanks subject to incursion by vermin