Britainology 100: The Life in the UK Test (feat. Trashfuture)
Added 2025-02-27 14:23:45 +0000 UTCIt's a Britainology episode, except it's every member of TF on this one, so in a sense it only makes sense to give the show guest billing. And Milo has created a suite of test questions to determine whether or not we know enough of the actually-relevant details about the UK. Let's just say that the final scores... are something of a surprise to us.
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I got a 2
Petrorenminbi
2025-03-06 15:08:46 +0000 UTCwe can't be sure Harald died like that, a tapastrey commissioned by Williams brother isn't a reliable source.
Maggie+Al
2025-03-03 23:37:02 +0000 UTCCheeky 2, cooking show and T.E. Lawrence's uncle-impersonation
Asa Wagner
2025-03-03 16:32:54 +0000 UTCNot me and Nate having the same path to UK citizenship, but mine was more expensive because the Tories decided to add an additional 1300 pound fee on applications in process.
Man, I Got Nothing
2025-03-02 12:14:55 +0000 UTCI feel like Nate isn't really a Britainologist as such, but more of a Sherman to Milo's Mr Peabody
Kvvvy
2025-03-02 04:59:26 +0000 UTCblindsight heaven or the flesh interfaces but for the chuds and brackets good
Lain of the Wired
2025-03-02 03:56:34 +0000 UTCHe's portrayed dying that way in the Bayeux Tapestry, but there's a good chance that the figure isn't actually him or was added later. It's also possible that it is him but wasn't supposed to be taken litteraly, because an arrow in the eye symbolized an oath breaker and the Normans had a self legitimizing story about Harold breaking an oath. Basically as if a modern artist painted a recently deceased politician with their pants on fire to represent dishonestly and then future historians concluded they burned to death.
Alma Blue
2025-03-01 22:14:46 +0000 UTCHate to say this, but Harold Godwinson probably wasn't killed by an arrow in the eye. Although it's the subject of much academic debate and basically impossible to conclude either way.
Alma Blue
2025-03-01 22:13:52 +0000 UTCCan't believe they had Trashfuture on, nice
Alex Wennberg
2025-03-01 15:07:41 +0000 UTCCan’t believe the Tom Daley show wasn’t called Come Dive With Me.
Toss a coin to your GP
2025-03-01 15:05:13 +0000 UTCphenomenal episode
Lilith Dyke
2025-02-28 22:17:06 +0000 UTCThe phrase “He cannae see man! He cannae see!” has been etched into my brain for the last 30 years
Josh L
2025-02-28 20:11:54 +0000 UTCI got a 0, like the proper American I am. :p
Katherine
2025-02-28 17:16:30 +0000 UTCYes I came here to say this! Justice for Riley
Matthew chester
2025-02-28 15:37:12 +0000 UTCExactly this is David Sneddon erasure
Aoife
2025-02-28 14:49:38 +0000 UTCThat is essentially what happened to David Cameron
Josephine
2025-02-28 12:20:02 +0000 UTCI got 16 and high anxiety from being reminded of all the things I couldn't answer.
Giftmacher
2025-02-28 11:03:49 +0000 UTCIn 1930s Australia they could administer the immigration test in any European language depending on what languages you spoke and whether they wanted to let you in. When a famous Czechoslovakian communist came to deliver a series of lectures on fascism the authorities in Fremantle tried to make him take the test in Scottish Gaelic (this being the only language they knew and he didn’t). He sued them and won so according to the High Court of Australia Gaelic is not a European language.
Jacob King
2025-02-28 08:08:42 +0000 UTCMicheal Barrymore's best cover was "Let the Bodies hit the floor"
Joshua Fitzpatrick
2025-02-28 07:58:08 +0000 UTCJustice for Riley
Tom
2025-02-28 06:55:03 +0000 UTCAccording to his autobiography, Ozzy ALSO bit the head off a dove. The bat was thrown onstage by a fan, but the dove was in his pocket at a record deal. On signing the deal he was meant to release it, but he was so fucked up he just took a bite.
Tom
2025-02-28 06:54:12 +0000 UTCPeak Riley to loudly proclaim the Canadian license doesn't transfer cuz he couldn't be bothered to do it within a year
Whisky_Delta
2025-02-28 06:53:26 +0000 UTCand also with you
Carter Kriss
2025-02-28 06:38:17 +0000 UTChow cute is this https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/7312348/paul-gascoigne-vinnie-jones-talksport-reunited/amp/
Shivvy
2025-02-28 03:35:40 +0000 UTC👏🏽
Shivvy
2025-02-28 03:35:16 +0000 UTClmao is there a google doc for Milo's Life in the UK test?
William
2025-02-28 01:30:48 +0000 UTC17!
Abigail 1
2025-02-28 00:20:10 +0000 UTCI'm more confused than ever about when British people are or aren't legally allowed to say stuff like "so and so fucked a pig" but regardless I hope that one day you all know the joy of being able to say it about anyone at any time without any evidence.
GG Allin Dulles
2025-02-27 23:20:24 +0000 UTCThe rhumble in the pj and Duncan song is spelt with an h to avoid legal issues with Michael Buffer who has the phrase trademarked
Duncan
2025-02-27 22:42:08 +0000 UTCA real sad day for American supremacy
Shivvy
2025-02-27 21:43:22 +0000 UTCfinally put another point on the board 🦇
Shivvy
2025-02-27 21:19:29 +0000 UTCYES. SAME.
Shivvy
2025-02-27 21:13:56 +0000 UTCAbsolute fake news about Lemar winning Fame Academy- he came third!
Corinne
2025-02-27 21:07:05 +0000 UTCMy only experience with the civil service was having to give notice for marriage. They asked me all those gotcha questions like, "When was your future spouse born?" "What does your future spouse do for a living?" It was quite stressful.
Andrew Davis
2025-02-27 20:59:04 +0000 UTCAll timer
PodcastListener
2025-02-27 20:52:23 +0000 UTCJacob Marley updated for 2025 with a gun would be sweet as fuck as a Luigi Mangione reference in a prestige tv show based on Dicken's Christmas Carol.
Snooder87
2025-02-27 19:52:19 +0000 UTCBATHROBES!!!
Alistair SM J
2025-02-27 19:47:57 +0000 UTCBonus question: which British WWI infantry officer had the name that went hardest? A: Tristram Pine-Coffin (died Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, 1919)
AngryOldManYaddaYadda
2025-02-27 18:44:37 +0000 UTCI learned of him thanks to BritSky
Shivvy
2025-02-27 18:40:12 +0000 UTCMISTER BLOBBY MENTIONED!!!
Shivvy
2025-02-27 18:39:59 +0000 UTCTerry Gilliam makes a lot more sense now.
James Rule
2025-02-27 18:23:57 +0000 UTCStudying for this right now. Why the ever loving hell do I need to know who was a good swimmer in the 80s?
Whisky_Delta
2025-02-27 17:48:03 +0000 UTCPigeons are a type of dove, not the other way around. In scientific studies you’ll sometimes find it referred to as a “rock dove” presumably to avoid having to say “yeah, I study pigeons” at conferences
Jermy
2025-02-27 17:43:43 +0000 UTCThanks to MILF podcaster extraordinaire Milo Edwards, I can name the most important Sugarbabes member: Siobhán :)
Shivvy
2025-02-27 17:43:41 +0000 UTCthe original test sounds like a lot like civil service application tests except instead of failing to get a job in the pension regulator you get deported
Nemo
2025-02-27 17:39:45 +0000 UTCthis is an absolute delight, even for britainology
marilyn
2025-02-27 17:37:16 +0000 UTCperfect episode for being stuck in british traffic
Nemo
2025-02-27 17:36:25 +0000 UTCSomeone took a dove onstage when Alice Cooper (the band, pre just the guy) were playing an outdoor festival in the late 60s. According to him (Alice Cooper the guy) he cast it into the sky whereupon it fell into the crowd, who promptly tore it into a thousand pieces.
benabu
2025-02-27 17:23:16 +0000 UTCUnfair, Nate qualifies for extended time, this is ADHD discrimination and I won’t stand for it
Jermy
2025-02-27 17:19:08 +0000 UTCMaitlis telling Blobby he can't come to New York has broken me completely
Chantal Tucker
2025-02-27 16:56:02 +0000 UTCKingmaker? Yeah that's gonna take all afternoon at best speed
Urban
2025-02-27 16:31:02 +0000 UTCLack of PJ & Duncan knowledge here is absolutely shocking
Mark Chickenf1sh
2025-02-27 16:29:34 +0000 UTCthis unlocked a memory of being taken by my Finnish gran to see Lamar, which was my first ever show, and every time she tried to say 'Lamar' she said it in a new, increasingly clapped way
Goff Daddy69
2025-02-27 16:15:22 +0000 UTCI got 17
Ethan Palmer
2025-02-27 16:04:50 +0000 UTC“Monster beyond all comprehension and beloved children’s entertainer” really doesn’t narrow it down
Ben Yardley
2025-02-27 15:55:36 +0000 UTCI now imagine someone going through the test, nailing every question as they recall all this inane trivia, only to realise they do not want to be British after all.
A Box of Foxes
2025-02-27 15:45:43 +0000 UTCIf you ever release any more britainologys onto the main feed pls do this one, i have so many friends who had to do this fuckass test who i need to send this to
Clare Patterson
2025-02-27 15:28:14 +0000 UTCCassett Boi deep cut
Eric Adams (German)
2025-02-27 15:19:24 +0000 UTCLol the law Nate mentions that allowed him to gain UK citizenship automatically had the opposite effect for me because I'm adopted and it made you unable to claim citizenship automatically through your father. So my sister (b 1980) has lived in Canada her whole life and was automatically a dual citizen, but I (born 1984, moved to UK 2004) did not, which eventually forced me to take the stupid Life in the UK test.
MxterSD
2025-02-27 15:11:44 +0000 UTCI did my driving theory test in Nottingham (in 2014), and it was all super dated technology, but we didn't have the security theatre. When I transed my passport, i paid to do the in person check with fast turn around, and basically had to explain the process to the guy who was supposed to check my application. That time I did go through security!
Angel-of-Deadlifts
2025-02-27 15:09:59 +0000 UTCmight just check this "trashfuture" podcast out
HJC
2025-02-27 14:38:09 +0000 UTC"NAME THE SUGARBABES!!!"
Ros Ballinger
2025-02-27 14:34:24 +0000 UTCtrashfuture go on trashfuture
etienne
2025-02-27 14:33:14 +0000 UTCIf the War of the Roses board game is the one I’m thinking of, an hour is hardly going to scratch the surface.
Richard McKinley
2025-02-27 14:32:40 +0000 UTCBritainology arriving always uplifts a monotonous afternoon at work into something excellent
Alfie Hall
2025-02-27 14:25:32 +0000 UTC
