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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by kmlx on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:46AM (#25275229)
> It's a fairly stereotypical British trait to be self deprecating. If we were singlehandedly saving the world from a rogue asteroid the general sentiment would probably be "let's hope we don't mess this up".

was this always so? i've noticed this while living in London and, coming from a literal 3rd world country, I do not understand it. i'm trying to find when this started... i don't it started anytime in the recent past. seems to have been going on for a while.

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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by VBprogrammer on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:56AM (#25275563)
It's an interesting question. I'm sure you could probably do a study and find that on average British people are no more self-deprecating than the average; and yet it does appear as one of those commonly accepted parts of the British psyche.
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