Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by abritinthebay 3383 days ago
> I've lived in the UK 30 years and I've never heard any nostalgia for the empire at all

Was it under a rock? Because I lived the first 26 years of my life in the U.K. and practically every conversation around patriotism was a bunch of faded empire nostalgia.

Hell, the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony contained a lot of it.