Thread: UK standard of living rises above that in America for the first time in a century

I've got this aching hemmorhoid.

If only he'd stop redding me!

Originally Posted by astasinim

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by astasinim

That looks more believable to me, although im surprised the UK featured in the top 17.

If those little up/down green/red arrows indicate change from previous year then the UK is movin on up and the US is movin on down. Also, this is a human development ranking. Is standard of living the same?

All i know is the gap between the haves and have nots, is widening at such a rate, that we`ll be back in Victorian times soon. You just have to look at the housing market at the moment. First time buyers just cant get on the ladder, and are finding themselves renting or living with mum and dad into their 30s.

In the UK society is slowly breaking down into four categories (IMHO):

1. -Those who work in min wage jobs with zero security

2. - Those working for the govt. (lots of them) at not much over min wages but with pensions etc + more benefits.

3. - Those who are retiring or selling up their small businesses to leave the place or live off limited capital

4. -An increasingly wealthy, but tiny elite that control increasingly larger monolithic corporations.

In the case of the UK overtaking the US in per capita GDP, more like a case of the US falling behind the UK I suspect. In any case, averages ignore the growing gulf between groups 1 and 2, and group 4.

^ Interesting. Much like me (#3), a voluntary economic refugee.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

^ Germany is still 'recovering' from the reunification process. Absorbing the former socialist East-Germany has been quite a huge financial and social burden.

You don't have to tell me, I am paying for that every month with my taxes. Though there already changed a lot in the east in the last 17 years.

Originally Posted by Dalton

^ Dont tell Fabian that, he's a proud kraut...

I feel with you, as there is nothing useful coming out of Denmark.

^ Deutschland, Deutschland über alles

Yeah, I know how you feel...

Originally Posted by Texpat

I've got this aching hemmorhoid. If only he'd stop redding me!

Put him on IGNORE and that stops the REDS and you do not have to read his silly shit either.

I think Germany would be lower because the food and women are not very nice. You cant have a good standard of living without nice food and pretty girls and shaved armpits. for the girl's that it, i dont shave my armpits. I shaved my ballsack once though.

We have some nice food and some nice women too.

Originally Posted by Dalton

^ Deutschland, Deutschland über alles

Yeah, I know how you feel...

Marmite, is he such an idiot in reality too or is he just pulling my leg?

Originally Posted by Fabian

Marmite, is he such an idiot in reality too or is he just pulling my leg?

Can I tell you on Thursday, as I'm meeting up with him tomorrow?

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Free health care?

Must be communist propaganda like free schooling and free emergency services.

Better dead than red! Yee haw!

Well, even the commies don't do "self-care", eh?
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Originally Posted by Fabian

We have some nice food and some nice women too.

Yes, but I dont want to have sex with food and eat women. I want to do it the other way round.

Originally Posted by tristram

I dont want to eat women

Why not?? I do!!!!

Originally Posted by Fabian

Marmite, is he such an idiot in reality too or is he just pulling my leg?

Guess you have to meet me, to find out..

Originally Posted by Fabian

some nice women too.

As long as they keeps there mouth shut, the language sounds horrible..

Germany has some nice women, and some nice food- and good Beer.
Could be worse. Try Papua new guinea.

Originally Posted by Fabian

Originally Posted by Dalton

^ Dont tell Fabian that, he's a proud kraut...

I feel with you, as there is nothing useful coming out of Denmark.

Bacon. Denmark is full of pigs, and tasty ones at that!

A fair bit of the English gene pool came from Denmark too.

Originally Posted by Begbie

Ireland is the surprise. Do they have a very high standard of living or is it just very expensive ?

Agree they're a bit of a dark horse but they've been climbing steadily up the list since the early nineties, and have had among the strongest growth rates in Western Europe.

Originally Posted by sabang

A fair bit of the English gene pool came from Denmark too.

... as evidenced in this picture of modern-dayUK life.

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Agree they're a bit of a dark horse but they've been climbing steadily up the list since the early nineties, and have had among the strongest growth rates in Western Europe.

I just wonder how much the UK could've done with all the money we gave to Ireland...

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I just wonder how much the UK could've done with all the money we gave to Ireland...

And Wales. It's costs the English taxpayers an absolute fortune to support those lazy work-shy buggers. Send em' back down the mines I say, along with all those unemployed pit ponies.

BTW. Fact. The chairman of British Council is Neil Kinnock. The director of St.Petersburg British Council office is Stephen Kinnock.

Bet there was some tough questioning to get that job, eh?

Originally Posted by Property

The director of St.Petersburg British Council office is Stephen Kinnock.

Was... the BC has to leave Russia about now, if I remember correctly.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Agree they're a bit of a dark horse but they've been climbing steadily up the list since the early nineties, and have had among the strongest growth rates in Western Europe.

I just wonder how much the UK could've done with all the money we gave to Ireland...

As Scotland has been subsidising england for the last 30 years you shouldn't begrudge a bit of cash that doesn't belong to you being passed to the Irish.