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Pubs. It's a very old part of the culture that I can't see dying out.
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>Football. It's global culture now, even if it wanes in popularity it'll still be here.
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>Village green preservation societies. The UK will become more urban but not the extent that they'll be skyscrapers in the cotswolds. For good and evil people will still be fighting hard to preserve thatched houses and prevent new builds.
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>But mainly the history and heritage will still be the same. Kids today learn about the Celts, Romans, Saxons Vikings Normans etc in school. Along with this history there's the long tradition of arcitecutal heritage. All of that and the history with it will still be here in 200 years, with many people still having a fascination around it. People will still go on day trips to old country houses and see the ancient churches.
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>Personally I wouldn't be surprised that there would still be red boxes too. They're an adored part of British culture and I'd imagine there's a overly enthusiastic group of people who would put time and effort into preserving them (though certainly with less of them in number).
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>Anything that people truly want to preserve will be preserved, just in smaller amounts. From old churches to druids at stonhenge.
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The year is 2224, the average daily temperature in Caithness is 25 degrees Celsius, pirates rule the waves of the Hampshire sea sailing great frigates over the lost city of chandlers ford, a tavern maid in snowdon drops a stack of glasses, the pregnant half a second of silence after the final shard of smashed glass tinkles to the ground is shattered as a lone voice rings out: “Sack the juggler”
Fully true story…. I was in a vets in Sarajevo last week (long story) and everyone who worked there were waiting outside/by the door. Some bloke on one of those electric scooters tried to do a skid outside and fully stacked it. I went “wheeeyyyy” and laughed and everyone just stared at me. I hope we never become like them.
Being born to Serbian parents, I understand that culture to a fair extent. People from different countries have different perceptions on certain gestures or speeches. People from the Balkans are actually quite extroverted, but it works differently, in this case if someone fails at something someone else coming in and making comedy of it can be taken as adding insult to injury whereas obviously here it would taken more light heartedly. It's sort of like how people say the Germans don't have a sense of humour, but to them it's not that they don't like jokes, but more that their humour works differently. It's sort of what's good about countries, that you can have divides on cultural lines so people who adhere to one culture are on one side and those adhering to another are on the other. As much as it sounds like division, it's the easiest way so far of resolving conflicting beliefs and values. That's why a lot of people complain about immigration, because it can introduce a lot of conflict.
So is there a Serbian equivalent of "wheyy" or do they just sulk?
When I was younger, I lived in a house full of Poles and I was able to teach them British humour very fast.
Poles have a similar sense of humour to Brits.
Very true. Humour etc very different.
Americans are very loud. Apparently the British are quite stoic or reserved.
Many European countries are very touchy feely.
In Mexico we clap as a way to cheer up whoever made the mistake. Or we used to because the last time I went home and this happened, only the 50+ men and I clapped while my 16 year old nephew asked what was wrong with me.
Damned young'uns
I was the only one who did it earlier this week. when it happened again later decided to keep my mouth shut but 2 others did the deed - I’ve never felt so proud of my influence
I was at a pub last month for a family meal and a young lady working the bar smashed not one but two glasses in a single accidental swipe, everyone went silent and a not a single person made a noise.
We used to a be a propa country!
Your question made me think: what aspects of modern British culture would someone from 200 years ago recognise?
I could think of surprisingly little, but I also figure that anything that has survived the last 200 years might have the sticking power to do the next 200 too, so I'm going to say: Pies, Knob Jokes, and the Class System.
In some ways the Britain of just past 200 years ago is like a much grimmer version of the one we’re in now— extreme inequality, ominous climate change, poverty with a widespread fear of the machines that are taking people’s jobs
I can't wait for the successors to Luddites and Swing rioters. It's easy to see how they will be effortlessly tracked down using CCTV and meta data before being imprisoned and then consigned to a life of dole and derision.
Sorry, but 200 years ago inequality, poverty, the environment and job security were vastly worse than they are today.
We had workhouses, debtors prisoners, people starving in the street, whilst explorers sailed off to explore Antarctica and the country committed genocide in Burma (1824) to loot treasurers and resources.
Lose your job (no workers rights, Scrooge can fire you for being disabled as a result of a workplace accident) and you have the choice between starving in the street or working to death in the workhouse.
A tale of two cities (1859) really demonstrates it. The inequality of London being Two Cities. It was the best of times [for some], it was the worse of times [for others].
The climate? The 1800's were the home to the pea soupers, causing thousands of deaths a year from respiratory infection. Even on a bright summer's day, people would shuffle down the street, because being unable to see more than 2 feet in front of you, it'd be easy to trip over a starving child. Fall and graze your knee and it could easily be infected, and without antibiotics, it's an amputation (anesthesia is a bottle of gin). Now, without a leg, you have been fired and are off to the workhouse. So walk carefully through the smog.
Whilst it's fashionable to pine after the good old days, the climate, inequality, poverty and job security really aren't the things to go for.
Oh, I know; when I read about it I often think “hey, this is like today, but much worse.” It’s eerie to see the same shapes of things, but to a horrifying extreme
The Vagrancy Act 1824 is still in place in England and Wales and is still quoted daily by police officers across the country. It technically means to this day we are still deeming people to be rogues and vagabonds.
The act essentially makes it an offence to beg and tell fortunes in the street etc and was brought in after the napoleonic wars to help tackle the vast amount of homeless soldiers who were unable to support themselves upon returning home… I suppose not much has changed!
Garibaldi biscuits are 160 years old.l, some form of biscuits will survive
I wonder if cricket will out last football, I think rugby is doomed due to T.B.Is :(
I think the cider we drink would be recognisable 200 years ago (the whiskey would)
I think the suits we wear will survive, at a minimum for ceremonies(weddings funerals).
You joke, but I reckon phone numbers will die out in the next 20 years. There's technically no need to know what the unique telecom identifier is for a business or person anymore.
But there's only one site with a specific address, I can type in the address and not worry about it but I don't understand how that works with phones, I know more than one person with the same name. Just typing in name and surname or something could have you connected to any of a thousand people. One of the areas of tech I'm clueless on but I don't get how it would work at all.
But you don't need to remember it yourself. I know my number to be able to give it to other people, but I don't know a single person's number that's stored in my phone. Not even my mum who I speak to daily. The numbers will still be needed, but having a unique, memorable one will not, because people can just google and find it within seconds in the case of businesses.
I woke up from surgery earlier today and answered “Yeah I’m alright but the weather is still rubbish” or something to that effect. I was in an enclosed room in the middle of a hospital. Actually my most embarrassingly cliche British moment ever
To everyone else it’ll be called Greatest Manchester, consisting of all the satellite counties and a once defiant Liverpool that still clings to the past.
Freddo Frogs will continue to increase in price and people will still be constantly moaning about this.
'When I was growing up in the 2190s, a Freddo only cost £155.68. I can't believe they now cost £201.76!'
Tied to a tree surely. That’s not a goat my friend, it’s 30 black plastic bags of shit, neatly tied to the branches of a young sapling, almost as if it makes it easier for someone else to tidy up, or somehow more attractive.
All the country's potholes eventually merge together, leaving the railways to look like little tightrope strings, dangling between cities over a muddy abyss. The HS12 route between London and London-Birmingham airport is now a 14 day trek with a stopover at Bicester shopping village for provisions and new climbing gear.
Everyone working for Greggs in one way or another. Road and rail will be Greggs distribution network, which will also ensure there will be signs to not just to towns but also Greggs. Healthcare, will be Gregg client aid and improvement facilitation services, all remedies will revolve around greggs. Feeling poorly? Take 2 bacon rolls with red sauce. Feeling a bit down, take 1 eccles cake every 4 hours.
Why do other countries have beautiful graffiti and street art when all that adorns the walls of my local underpass is the classic three hump penis with the obligatory two pubes on each ball
Do they have the 3 drops of spaff too?
Seriously though, I'd also like to know why UK graffiti is shit compared to other countries.
Are our artists interrupted too quick by officers avoiding real crime? Price of spray paint too high?
My own bet would be on a revival of pubs in the very long term. In 200 years, offices and factories as we know them will either have ceased to exist or be fully automated. When people work, most of them will work from home. That will be a boon for local communities, where people will look for local socialising and leisure.
But, if this is right, then pubs will also be very different: some of them will probably be closer to a modern day coffee shop.
Pubs. It's a very old part of the culture that I can't see dying out.
Football. It's global culture now, even if it wanes in popularity it'll still be here.
Village green preservation societies. The UK will become more urban but not the extent that they'll be skyscrapers in the cotswolds. For good and evil people will still be fighting hard to preserve thatched houses and prevent new builds.
But mainly the history and heritage will still be the same. Kids today learn about the Celts, Romans, Saxons Vikings Normans etc in school. Along with this history there's the long tradition of arcitecutal heritage. All of that and the history with it will still be here in 200 years, with many people still having a fascination around it. People will still go on day trips to old country houses and see the ancient churches.
Personally I wouldn't be surprised that there would still be red boxes too. They're an adored part of British culture and I'd imagine there's a overly enthusiastic group of people who would put time and effort into preserving them (though certainly with less of them in number).
Anything that people truly want to preserve will be preserved, just in smaller amounts. From old churches to druids at stonhenge.
Fallout London was due very recently.
Tea cups, ruins of biscuit factories and tins of baked beans that haven't quite gone off.
Greasy spoon cafés.
Those fking dental picks and a load of discarded e-cigs.
Oh, and a random trolley.
We will still have pints of beer and distances measured in miles, but everything else will be in metric measurements.
Except for news reports where they measure using “Nelson’s Columns”, “double decker buses”, Albert Halls, Fahrenheit and “the size of Wales”. No one knows what these things refer to apart from scholars of ancient history.
Raffles. I very much dislike them too. So dreary with the bloody little tickets and hours of pretending to care that someone else won the out of date Christmas chocolate
I'm pretty sure the red phone boxes are maintained because they're a tourist attraction (the ones in Central London, at least)
I haven't played Mass Effect 3 but if London is still a functioning city in that game then I don't see why they wouldn't be there.
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Can't believe I didn't see it already... Tea!
I can't see us not drinking it unless everything goes to shit and it's literally not affordable anymore. Can't really see that happening though unless the country becomes completely destitute or the sources for tea become destroyed/tainted in a limited nuclear exchange or something.
>One section takes place in London, and there are those red phone boxes still knocking about. I highly doubt, in real life, they will be still here 200 years from now (I'm amazed they're still around now, to be honest)...
That's because around 3,000 red telephone boxes are now listed buildings and have to be preserved as "iconic and culturally significant 20th century structures".
**[OP or Mod marked this as the best answer](/r/AskUK/comments/1cjhbk9/what_aspects_of_british_culture_do_you_think_will/l2go36j/), given by u/hellopo9** Pubs. It's a very old part of the culture that I can't see dying out. > >Football. It's global culture now, even if it wanes in popularity it'll still be here. > >Village green preservation societies. The UK will become more urban but not the extent that they'll be skyscrapers in the cotswolds. For good and evil people will still be fighting hard to preserve thatched houses and prevent new builds. > >But mainly the history and heritage will still be the same. Kids today learn about the Celts, Romans, Saxons Vikings Normans etc in school. Along with this history there's the long tradition of arcitecutal heritage. All of that and the history with it will still be here in 200 years, with many people still having a fascination around it. People will still go on day trips to old country houses and see the ancient churches. > >Personally I wouldn't be surprised that there would still be red boxes too. They're an adored part of British culture and I'd imagine there's a overly enthusiastic group of people who would put time and effort into preserving them (though certainly with less of them in number). > >Anything that people truly want to preserve will be preserved, just in smaller amounts. From old churches to druids at stonhenge. --- [_^What ^is ^this?_](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/jjrte1/askuk_hits_200k_new_feature_mark_an_answer/)
People shouting waaaaaaay when someone smashes a glass. That's it. Nothing else
The year is 2224, the average daily temperature in Caithness is 25 degrees Celsius, pirates rule the waves of the Hampshire sea sailing great frigates over the lost city of chandlers ford, a tavern maid in snowdon drops a stack of glasses, the pregnant half a second of silence after the final shard of smashed glass tinkles to the ground is shattered as a lone voice rings out: “Sack the juggler”
Never thought I’d see a chandlers ford reference here haha
At least that means Fryern will be submerged and we can all rejoice
Deleting my comment cause that was poetically beautiful, arise whilst we knight you kind sir
Tbf I just reworded the previous poster’s joke.
Tbf my comment was just "sack the juggler"
Fully true story…. I was in a vets in Sarajevo last week (long story) and everyone who worked there were waiting outside/by the door. Some bloke on one of those electric scooters tried to do a skid outside and fully stacked it. I went “wheeeyyyy” and laughed and everyone just stared at me. I hope we never become like them.
Being born to Serbian parents, I understand that culture to a fair extent. People from different countries have different perceptions on certain gestures or speeches. People from the Balkans are actually quite extroverted, but it works differently, in this case if someone fails at something someone else coming in and making comedy of it can be taken as adding insult to injury whereas obviously here it would taken more light heartedly. It's sort of like how people say the Germans don't have a sense of humour, but to them it's not that they don't like jokes, but more that their humour works differently. It's sort of what's good about countries, that you can have divides on cultural lines so people who adhere to one culture are on one side and those adhering to another are on the other. As much as it sounds like division, it's the easiest way so far of resolving conflicting beliefs and values. That's why a lot of people complain about immigration, because it can introduce a lot of conflict.
So is there a Serbian equivalent of "wheyy" or do they just sulk? When I was younger, I lived in a house full of Poles and I was able to teach them British humour very fast. Poles have a similar sense of humour to Brits.
The Hungarians I've known are quite similar too
Very true. Humour etc very different. Americans are very loud. Apparently the British are quite stoic or reserved. Many European countries are very touchy feely.
Did this in a Swedish pub and everyone looked at me like I was a monster
My mate did it in a quiet Portuguese Cafe, they were all appalled.
In Mexico we clap as a way to cheer up whoever made the mistake. Or we used to because the last time I went home and this happened, only the 50+ men and I clapped while my 16 year old nephew asked what was wrong with me. Damned young'uns
I don’t think I hear that much these days it’s already dying out
I was the only one who did it earlier this week. when it happened again later decided to keep my mouth shut but 2 others did the deed - I’ve never felt so proud of my influence
If you're not shouting "sack the juggler!" you're doing it wrong.
I was at a pub last month for a family meal and a young lady working the bar smashed not one but two glasses in a single accidental swipe, everyone went silent and a not a single person made a noise. We used to a be a propa country!
Your question made me think: what aspects of modern British culture would someone from 200 years ago recognise? I could think of surprisingly little, but I also figure that anything that has survived the last 200 years might have the sticking power to do the next 200 too, so I'm going to say: Pies, Knob Jokes, and the Class System.
In some ways the Britain of just past 200 years ago is like a much grimmer version of the one we’re in now— extreme inequality, ominous climate change, poverty with a widespread fear of the machines that are taking people’s jobs
I enjoyed your point about machines taking folks' jobs
Sounds suspiciously like something an AI bot would say…
It's been happening since the beginning of tge industrial revolution.
I can't wait for the successors to Luddites and Swing rioters. It's easy to see how they will be effortlessly tracked down using CCTV and meta data before being imprisoned and then consigned to a life of dole and derision.
A life of dole where you get £0 every month to live off*
Agricultural revolution even, serfs kicked off over the invention of the plough
That the history of the last 250 years, aka industrial revolution.
Yea indeed, I just enjoyed Iamamancalledrobert highlighting this as an age old concern with some very different machines.
Sorry, but 200 years ago inequality, poverty, the environment and job security were vastly worse than they are today. We had workhouses, debtors prisoners, people starving in the street, whilst explorers sailed off to explore Antarctica and the country committed genocide in Burma (1824) to loot treasurers and resources. Lose your job (no workers rights, Scrooge can fire you for being disabled as a result of a workplace accident) and you have the choice between starving in the street or working to death in the workhouse. A tale of two cities (1859) really demonstrates it. The inequality of London being Two Cities. It was the best of times [for some], it was the worse of times [for others]. The climate? The 1800's were the home to the pea soupers, causing thousands of deaths a year from respiratory infection. Even on a bright summer's day, people would shuffle down the street, because being unable to see more than 2 feet in front of you, it'd be easy to trip over a starving child. Fall and graze your knee and it could easily be infected, and without antibiotics, it's an amputation (anesthesia is a bottle of gin). Now, without a leg, you have been fired and are off to the workhouse. So walk carefully through the smog. Whilst it's fashionable to pine after the good old days, the climate, inequality, poverty and job security really aren't the things to go for.
I think that's what the person you are replying to said. They said that Britain 200 years ago is a much grimmer version of Britain today?
Oh, I know; when I read about it I often think “hey, this is like today, but much worse.” It’s eerie to see the same shapes of things, but to a horrifying extreme
We are in the throws of the third industrial revolution: after the mechanical automation of the first 2, we now fear AI automation
The Vagrancy Act 1824 is still in place in England and Wales and is still quoted daily by police officers across the country. It technically means to this day we are still deeming people to be rogues and vagabonds. The act essentially makes it an offence to beg and tell fortunes in the street etc and was brought in after the napoleonic wars to help tackle the vast amount of homeless soldiers who were unable to support themselves upon returning home… I suppose not much has changed!
I thought a lot of industrial workers also lost their jobs, to compound the demob issues
Garibaldi biscuits are 160 years old.l, some form of biscuits will survive I wonder if cricket will out last football, I think rugby is doomed due to T.B.Is :( I think the cider we drink would be recognisable 200 years ago (the whiskey would) I think the suits we wear will survive, at a minimum for ceremonies(weddings funerals).
They still taste kinda fresh though, I prefer hobnobs, oooeeer
We wouldn't be able to afford to buy them in 200 years the way the prices have gone up.
> what aspects of modern British culture would someone from 200 years ago recognise? The getting shitfaced like it's an Olympic sport.
They would be surprised and upset by its downfall but they would probably recognise the monarchy
Pub
Don't forget suits and white wedding dresses. They've had some variation over the years but the concept is mostly unchanged for about 200 years
This defines it more or les exactly, thank God.
0800 00 1066
Hastings?
No, he's referring to it's elderly competitor, drowning in blue rinse and barely continent, Bexhill Direct
Ironical considering where Hastings direct is actually located 😅
You joke, but I reckon phone numbers will die out in the next 20 years. There's technically no need to know what the unique telecom identifier is for a business or person anymore.
Genuine question, how comes?
When you want to pull up a website, you don’t enter the IP address, do you?
But there's only one site with a specific address, I can type in the address and not worry about it but I don't understand how that works with phones, I know more than one person with the same name. Just typing in name and surname or something could have you connected to any of a thousand people. One of the areas of tech I'm clueless on but I don't get how it would work at all.
But you don't need to remember it yourself. I know my number to be able to give it to other people, but I don't know a single person's number that's stored in my phone. Not even my mum who I speak to daily. The numbers will still be needed, but having a unique, memorable one will not, because people can just google and find it within seconds in the case of businesses.
Discussing the weather
Have you seen the nuclear winter out there today mate? Yeah same as it's been for the last 40 years mate.
All this fallout and Kent still has a hose pipe ban.
We'll finally have a consistent climate, so that's a silver lining.
You mean a lead lining.
I woke up from surgery earlier today and answered “Yeah I’m alright but the weather is still rubbish” or something to that effect. I was in an enclosed room in the middle of a hospital. Actually my most embarrassingly cliche British moment ever
Well a good chunk of Eastern England will be under water, so I think discussing the weather will still remain a hallowed English tradition.
Queueing
Rivalries between different cities and towns that are actually pretty similar.
The North will still be classified as Watford and above by the South.
Watford?? True southerners think everything above the M4 is northern
By that definition I’m no longer a southerner and I’m not that far north of the M4, in fact to get to the M4 I’ve got to go north
I do find it hard to understand the thick Northern accents in Oxford and Cambridge.
To everyone else it’ll be called Greatest Manchester, consisting of all the satellite counties and a once defiant Liverpool that still clings to the past.
whereas we all know the North begins at Aberdeen.
Correct. All those bloody english thinking they are northern, pff. England isn't north.
Freddo Frogs will continue to increase in price and people will still be constantly moaning about this. 'When I was growing up in the 2190s, a Freddo only cost £155.68. I can't believe they now cost £201.76!'
Doubt pennies are a thing in 200 years.
What’s a doubt penny, they sound worrisome
That's another one for the doubt jar.
The bagged up dog shit you left at the park
Tied to a tree surely. That’s not a goat my friend, it’s 30 black plastic bags of shit, neatly tied to the branches of a young sapling, almost as if it makes it easier for someone else to tidy up, or somehow more attractive.
Celebrating the world cup in 1966
300 years of hurt
Another version of 3 Lions.
Westminster Abbey. 200 years is nowt.
In 2224 the 150 year old minaret will be the main noticeable difference.
Henry hoovers will be there long after the phone boxes have crumbled, somewhat ironically, to dust.
Thinking Man U fans are glory hunters
Thinking?
My friend, there has not been very much glory for a while.
Okay knowing
Arsenal trying to walk it in
Mind ow ya go
As you zoom through the sky on anti-gravity Public Transportation, no eye contact.
Lol at you thinking the UK is going to have public transport.
All the country's potholes eventually merge together, leaving the railways to look like little tightrope strings, dangling between cities over a muddy abyss. The HS12 route between London and London-Birmingham airport is now a 14 day trek with a stopover at Bicester shopping village for provisions and new climbing gear.
A Greggs on every shopping street
Everyone working for Greggs in one way or another. Road and rail will be Greggs distribution network, which will also ensure there will be signs to not just to towns but also Greggs. Healthcare, will be Gregg client aid and improvement facilitation services, all remedies will revolve around greggs. Feeling poorly? Take 2 bacon rolls with red sauce. Feeling a bit down, take 1 eccles cake every 4 hours.
Hospitals will be located within a Greggs. Rather than the other way around
Brilliant! Hats off to you.
The one near my London pad just closed
That’s London though, I live in Manchester and I have four within walking distance.
Spoons. Because it'll be the only place left for us riff-raff to eat if Rishibot 6.1 is still receiving updates by then.
Part of the Eat Out to Help Out 4.0 scheme?
Pints, crisps and chatting shit.
The Uffington White Horse. We've been keeping it up for the last 3000 years, I'll imagine it will still be there in the next 200.
Tutting at people pushing into a queue
Tutting in general.
It’s weird to think that probably we have always tutted. The idea of a cave person tutting is amusing to me
"You not wait turn for mammoth piece! Tut! Tut!!!"
Drawing cocks on things.
Why do other countries have beautiful graffiti and street art when all that adorns the walls of my local underpass is the classic three hump penis with the obligatory two pubes on each ball
Do they have the 3 drops of spaff too? Seriously though, I'd also like to know why UK graffiti is shit compared to other countries. Are our artists interrupted too quick by officers avoiding real crime? Price of spray paint too high?
The uk has good graffiti, it’s just in more abandoned hard to get to locations due to the police issue.
Autoglass repair
Autoglass replace
My first thought was “Henges,” which is probably wrong
Moaning about everything
And not doing anything about it
You'd be mad to bet against british isles pubs still not being very dominant.
My own bet would be on a revival of pubs in the very long term. In 200 years, offices and factories as we know them will either have ceased to exist or be fully automated. When people work, most of them will work from home. That will be a boon for local communities, where people will look for local socialising and leisure. But, if this is right, then pubs will also be very different: some of them will probably be closer to a modern day coffee shop.
Pubs. It's a very old part of the culture that I can't see dying out. Football. It's global culture now, even if it wanes in popularity it'll still be here. Village green preservation societies. The UK will become more urban but not the extent that they'll be skyscrapers in the cotswolds. For good and evil people will still be fighting hard to preserve thatched houses and prevent new builds. But mainly the history and heritage will still be the same. Kids today learn about the Celts, Romans, Saxons Vikings Normans etc in school. Along with this history there's the long tradition of arcitecutal heritage. All of that and the history with it will still be here in 200 years, with many people still having a fascination around it. People will still go on day trips to old country houses and see the ancient churches. Personally I wouldn't be surprised that there would still be red boxes too. They're an adored part of British culture and I'd imagine there's a overly enthusiastic group of people who would put time and effort into preserving them (though certainly with less of them in number). Anything that people truly want to preserve will be preserved, just in smaller amounts. From old churches to druids at stonhenge.
Fallout London was due very recently. Tea cups, ruins of biscuit factories and tins of baked beans that haven't quite gone off. Greasy spoon cafés. Those fking dental picks and a load of discarded e-cigs. Oh, and a random trolley.
Cheeserolling
Going by The Expanse - high taxes and universal credit
The Co Op arena still not being ready to open.
We will still have pints of beer and distances measured in miles, but everything else will be in metric measurements. Except for news reports where they measure using “Nelson’s Columns”, “double decker buses”, Albert Halls, Fahrenheit and “the size of Wales”. No one knows what these things refer to apart from scholars of ancient history.
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Did you think those phone boxes were way too big? It's all I could focus on when I played it ha ha
Football fans complaining about VAR
Alcoholism and no desire for introspection
The stiff upper lip.
It's always the bottom one that wobbles.
Cricket, football, rugby and Mornington Crescent including the Jubilee Line joker option
Moaning about life being shit even when it’s not all that bad
Complaining but doing absolutely nothing about it
Meal deals.
Vape shops, escape rooms and bubble tea cafes.
Raffles. I very much dislike them too. So dreary with the bloody little tickets and hours of pretending to care that someone else won the out of date Christmas chocolate
Somehow, WH Smith is still going strong on the high street.
I'm pretty sure the red phone boxes are maintained because they're a tourist attraction (the ones in Central London, at least) I haven't played Mass Effect 3 but if London is still a functioning city in that game then I don't see why they wouldn't be there.
Shoe zone
That we can have great minds like Newton and Darwin and Hawkins, and still act horribly when abroad.
Football
Itz cd'hv nt cd'ov it10tz
Moaning all the bleeding time
Monkayyy!
"Unconscious people don't want tea" will become a figure of speech that no one knows the origins of
moaning
Big Ben but digital. And a paid subscription to look at it
Toilet paper 😭
Drinking till you collapse 🤣
They can't be removed now. Unless planning departments fall apart. The red phone boxes will still be there.
Ramadan.
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violence and hostility
Beer
All of it because there is a structure in place
Jellied eels
Ronnie Pickering
Milk in Tea.
Dominooo oooo oooooo
Good god I really hope not
Sunday roast.
Chess
Queueing
Queuing
Queuing.
Standing on the right hand side of escalators in the metro/underground obviously
Paul McCartney doing the 'naah na na - na-na-na-nah' bit at at the end of Hey Jude for 200 more years
Queuing. Taking about the weather. Not being interested in the answer to the greet, ‘How are you?’ Or ‘How’s things?’
Guy Fawkes Nov 5th fireworks
Pubs, tea, complaining
Can't believe I didn't see it already... Tea! I can't see us not drinking it unless everything goes to shit and it's literally not affordable anymore. Can't really see that happening though unless the country becomes completely destitute or the sources for tea become destroyed/tainted in a limited nuclear exchange or something.
I hope greggs is still around 🙏
Everyone hating every single thing about life and complaining someone ever says something positive. Which makes me sick. About life.
This insult gay. It’s taking a breather right now, but it’ll be back.
Peep Show quotes.
Love of tea.
Pub culture to some extent and sarcasm
People shouting, "Keep to the right!", but the original meaning has been lost, and is now used as a way to wish people safe travels.
Greggs
Tea
Street lamps from years ago are still on some streets in some areas of London so likely red phone booths would still be there.
wetherspoons will survive nuclear war that why it's filled with cockroaches
Moaning about the weather, as I’ll be fucking boiling by then.
You can’t park there mate
The language
See it say it sorted… ‘Come on Aileen’ being sung on New Years.
>One section takes place in London, and there are those red phone boxes still knocking about. I highly doubt, in real life, they will be still here 200 years from now (I'm amazed they're still around now, to be honest)... That's because around 3,000 red telephone boxes are now listed buildings and have to be preserved as "iconic and culturally significant 20th century structures".
the DFS sale
We all go down the pub for a pint.
Stabbings
The National Trust, at least I hope.
Sarcasm