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Originally Posted by Saradus
Yeah we british really don't view things through rose-coloured glasses. If anything we are overly realist and cynical!  It's a common thing in schools to be told things will only get harder when we leave education!  Albeit sometimes half-heartedly by teachers with dark humour (one of my favourite teachers ALWAYS told us how things would get worse in his jokey way)  |
As Alan Bennet once wrote, it's probably because the English are "conceived in irony... joking but not joking, caring but not caring, serious but not serious." Generally we just like to sit back and declare as the bad stuff rolls by "bah, well that's just typical, isn't it!"