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'''[[Creator/JohnOliver John]]:''' Now, to be fair, that is about as emotional as a British newsreader is capable of being. The American equivalent of what you just saw would be [[Creator/{{CNN}} Wolf Blitzer]] stripping naked and setting fire to his own beard.

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'''[[Creator/JohnOliver John]]:''' Now, to be fair, that is about as emotional as a British newsreader is capable of being. The American equivalent of what you just saw would be [[Creator/{{CNN}} Wolf Blitzer]] Blitzer stripping naked and setting fire to his own beard.
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-> "Now that is going to piss off the British, and [[SubvertedTrope you do not want to piss off the British]] because if you do, [[DoubleSubverted we will say, 'Oh, dear', shake our heads, swallow the anger, and carry it around until we die]]".

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-> "Now ''"Now that is going to piss off the British, and [[SubvertedTrope you do not want to piss off the British]] because if you do, [[DoubleSubverted we will say, 'Oh, dear', shake our heads, swallow the anger, and carry it around until we die]]".''
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-->-- ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''

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-->-- ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''
''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0krx_qXu7LA season 2 episode 13]] about the UK's 2015 general election. The quoted moment is 7 1/2 hours into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4DsAi2dI70 ITV's coverage]], corresponding to 05:30 in the morning.
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->''"In our experience, Americans are uncouth misfits who should be run out of their own barbaric country."''
-->--'''Major Ashley-Pitt''', ''Film/QuigleyDownUnder''

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-->--'''Creator/JohnOliver''', ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''

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-->--''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''

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-->--''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''-->-- ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''

->'''Child 1:''' ...Therefore, any proper utilitarian system should favor deep-seated loathing of other people's tastes and habits, hidden beneath an opaque cloak of civility.\\
'''Child 2:''' I dunno... what sort of people would want to live in such a system?\\
'''Child 1:''' Did you know that utilitarianism was invented in Britain?
-->-- ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'', [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/utilitarian-judgment "Utilitarian Judgment"]]
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-> Now that is going to piss off the British, and [[SubvertedTrope you do not want to piss off the British]] because if you do, [[DoubleSubverted we will say, "Oh, dear", shake our heads, swallow the anger, and carry it around until we die]].

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-> Now "Now that is going to piss off the British, and [[SubvertedTrope you do not want to piss off the British]] because if you do, [[DoubleSubverted we will say, "Oh, dear", 'Oh, dear', shake our heads, swallow the anger, and carry it around until we die]].die]]".
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-> Now that is going to piss off the British, and [[SubvertedTrope you do not want to piss off the British]] because if you do, [[DoubleSubverted we will say, "Oh, dear", shake our heads, swallow the anger, and carry it around until we die]].
-->--'''Creator/JohnOliver''', ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''

->'''British Newsreader:''' Hmmm... total shock, really, from where we started in the evening.\\
'''[[Creator/JohnOliver John]]:''' Now, to be fair, that is about as emotional as a British newsreader is capable of being. The American equivalent of what you just saw would be [[Creator/{{CNN}} Wolf Blitzer]] stripping naked and setting fire to his own beard.
-->--''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''
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->''"As us Brits are fond of saying: try your best to hide your sadness!"''
-->-- '''Tahani al-Jamil''', ''Series/TheGoodPlace''
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->''"It would seem that you ''cannot'' be funny without being vulgar--that is, vulgar by the standards of the people at whom English humorous writing in our own day seems mostly to be aimed."''

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->''"It ->''"Nearly all English humorists today are too genteel, too kindhearted and too consciously lowbrow... It would seem that you ''cannot'' be funny without being vulgar--that is, vulgar by the standards of the people at whom English humorous writing in our own day seems mostly to be aimed."''
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->''"It would seem that you ''cannot'' be funny without being vulgar--that is, vulgar by the standards of the people at whom English humorous writing in our own day seems mostly to be aimed."''
-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', "Funny, But Not Vulgar"

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