Thread: What would your three wishes be ?

1. Free access to everyone to live and work anywhere in the world.
2. Free education to everyone at any age anywhere in the world
3. To stay in contact and stay friends with those I clicked with in my life.

Originally Posted by Troy

3. To stay in contact and stay friends with those I clicked with in my life.

still not over her yet

Free access to everyone to live and work anywhere in the world

That will just denude poor countries of all their talent, and swamp richer countries causing infrastructure and housing overload, social destabilisation and increasing hardship for those left behind in the poorer countries.

Utopia only exists in the minds of leftist dreamers.

Wishes that *could* realistically happen.

1. A 4 day working week and a 3 day weekend.

2. Britain to rejoin the EU.

3. Beer to be allowed again on Thai trains.

I'm a simple man with simple pleasures...

Originally Posted by taxexile

Utopia only exists in the minds of dreamers.

Still a statement of the bleedin' obvious, but....fixed.

I think Troy was referring to expats and those with transferable skills

well only troy can confirm your supposition, but he did say "everyone, any age, anywhere"

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Wishes that *could* realistically happen.

1. A 4 day working week and a 3 day weekend.

2. Britain to rejoin the EU.

3. Beer to be allowed again on Thai trains.

I'm a simple man with simple pleasures...

I agree with all of that.. a beer should be readily available on a Thai train

Originally Posted by taxexile

well only troy can confirm your supposition, but he did say "everyone, any age, anywhere"

Plenty of folk have transferable skills and knowledge. Not just caucasions

1. No person with an IQ of under 110 be allowed to vote for anything. Ever.
2. A safe, clean, limitless, earth friendly source of power
3. All non-ice deserts transformed to arable land.

Failing that, a burger fries and a coke.

Originally Posted by BLD

Plenty of folk have transferable skills and knowledge. Not just caucasions

what exactly is your point. if such freedoms were available then poorer countries would soon empty as those with any skills or no skills would head for richer countries and their higher wages. who would heal the sick, fill the teeth, dig the ditches, mend the cars or clean the toilets in bongo bongo land if they have all fucked off to zurich, los angeles or sydney.

The expat is usually there to train the local to a standard that's acceptable to the company that imported him or her. Once you have trained your counter part the idea is that you GO and they stay. If they have gleaned enough knowledge from let's say, me, or you then the balls in there court but it doesn't mean they will be granted a visa to where they may have set there sights on. It's not as simple as that.

Tax I suspect your world view comes from watching the UNITED Kingdom being not so united? Or watching to many episodes of coronation street. The world has changed tax and people with any sort of nouse, a bit of get up and go and some skills will gladly relocate. Look at the Filipinos. You couldn't find a more patriotic bunch of folk willing to toil in bumfuck places, remit the salary back to the p.i to fund a house. Put kids through school etc in the hope that once set up they can return to the p.i. I've worked with plenty of Filipinos and they got the skills. In comparison to the Lao. Who don't.

Originally Posted by taxexile

well only troy can confirm your supposition, but he did say "everyone, any age, anywhere"

Look at the thread title, you ridiculous berk.

I agree with you. But that is very different to anyone and everyone having free access to go and work wherever they want.

'No no, that's a socialist utopia!' you posted, on a thread titled 'three wishes'.

Prat.

What on earth are you babbling about you silly old hypocrite.

Originally Posted by taxexile

I agree with you. But that is very different to anyone and everyone having free access to go and work wherever they want.

Actually none of us have free access to go wherever we want.

Originally Posted by david44

Keira Nightly
and a modest yacht to share

It was Eos who asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal. Unfortunately, she forgot to ask for his eternal youth. She got what she asked for. It didn't really end well. Or at all.
Beer on Thai trains sounds like a winner.

I'll go with beer on the Trains. But failing that you can always hit the 7/ 11 opposite hualalumphong the bevvys and once ensconced in your 1st class cabin to your self nobody bothers you. But the fun used to be in the dining car

Originally Posted by BLD

But the fun used to be in the dining car

Indeed many sleepless card games on the 16+ hrs rattler SRT Hua Hin to Penang in an era when I needed no comforts.
I belive they stopped the through sleepers and all night carousing during the fun purge.
Thailand today quite suitabley for the shagged out ole wrecks like me is more like a Sunday school in terms of fun, while they clamp down on pleasure the driving health and safety as bad as ever!


I once slept on decks in tranquil Lakes Untersee, McQuarie, Ontario and wilder transits of Med, Black Sea, North Sea , Irish seas when my years of self medication hadn't caught up with me. I used to dream of my cabinmate Anna and waves of custard, no amount of therapy will ever erase those thrills.

I used to sin til late, now I sin until 10pm then have my Ovaltine?absinthe tincture or remedial message if lucky, nod off few hours until a desperate need to pee!!!

Thanks for those who actually answered the question sooner than critique the choice of others.

Sad news Keira's rationing me to once a year, good news tonight's the KNIGHT

Originally Posted by taxexile

well only troy can confirm your supposition, but he did say "everyone, any age, anywhere"

It's 3 wishes Tax.

Imho nationalist views, such as yours, are the main reason for wars.

...and Mike, I still work with that girl every day. We just changed the boundaries a little to ensure happiness for all.
I was referring to lost friends of both sex.

Originally Posted by Troy

We just changed the boundaries a little to ensure happiness for all. I was referring to lost friends of both sex.

ok

Me

1. for nature to achive balance again, yep fuk humans we are a plague and don't deserve our place on this planet. every time i see a wildlife programme it makes my heart sink, i quite frankly don't give a fuk with saving people, we don't desrve it. Its a race as to whther we'll off ourselves or some natural solution will achieve it but it can't come soon enough.

2. see number one

3. see number one