✧✦Catherine✦✧them: yt shorts have brainrot on them
me: the uk government is forcing me to watch brainrot
Rabbit@whitequark This is a question you need to be able to answer for immigration purposes, I take it?
That's an asinine question
@ra6bit yes and yes
@whitequark My condolences.
@whitequark I hate it.
artemist@whitequark @ra6bit is the test full of confusing wording to make sure people are utterly confident in their english and in order to catch people off guard?
@whitequark @ra6bit that's such an utterly irrelevant question to so many people, too. might as well ask for the exact value of the london underground penalty fare.
Phil M0OFX@whitequark @artemist @ra6bit I don't know a single British person who could answer these questions.
狐ヴィクシー@whitequark @artemist @ra6bit why would anyone outside of policy making and planning know, or need to know census statistics?
@KitsuneVixi @artemist @ra6bit this is a part of a larger question block that i think is there to say "britain is multicultural". it's just very hamfisted
they also have questions about christmas, divali, eid al-fitr and hanukkah
@KitsuneVixi @artemist @ra6bit neither have i, but i guess that makes the questions valuable. now if only they cut the 80% of them that are pure hazing...
@whitequark @KitsuneVixi @ra6bit i expected that to be fairly common knowledge, but i guess that varies a lot by where one came from. the county i grew up in was around 10% jewish, 3% muslim, 3% hindu, and 3% buddhist. i would regularly have friends in school fasting and have to consider who would be available on which days depending on days of prayer.
not sure how common that knowledge would be in the uk outside parts of some cities though.
demize@whitequark @ra6bit “Radioactivity is not a British invention” is one of the silliest sentences I’ve read in a while, and not for good reasons
SnowFox@whitequark @demize @ra6bit North Atlantic T(r)opical Organization?
(It's also partially susceptible to the "see which words are shared between multiple answers" trick, and presumably you can tell it's not "North American" because they've spelled it Organisation... though NATO seems to use both.)
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Ronflaix@a1ba @ra6bit @whitequark I feel like I'd fail my own country's culture quiz if I had to take one. 😶
@a1ba @ra6bit @whitequark addendum: it's not like I'm uncultured but I feel like my own culture of my country seems to be quite different from what one would be expected to *know* for such exams.
@Ronflaix @a1ba @whitequark That's because the point of these is not to make sure people know what would be relevant. It's more squarely simply to reduce the chances they will succeed.
eLearningTechie@ra6bit 💯
And it's why I will never apply for a Brit passport. It's all just humiliation with a disproportionately high price tag attached.
And it's why I will never apply for a Brit passport. It's all just humiliation with a disproportionately high price tag attached.
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Neo Ehproque@a1ba @ra6bit @whitequark in good Holy Grail tradition, they alternate "When do Christians celebrate Christmas" with "which was the population of England in 1902"
Schroedingers_Cat@a1ba @ra6bit @whitequark Doh. And, despite the actions of some people, this is wrong. British values - if there is any such things, which I don't believe there are - include kindness.
For many of us, we are kind, generous, open, accepting. We are lovely people.
Led by people who make donkeys seem like a good alternative.
@SteveClough
there is a weird pattern on fedi where people who don't understand the concept of jokes or memes are also publicly christian
@ra6bit @whitequark
there is a weird pattern on fedi where people who don't understand the concept of jokes or memes are also publicly christian
@ra6bit @whitequark