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Originally Posted by Mr Orange
he is a bit obvious
unless they are retired living on thier savings or fixed pension-Quote:
Originally Posted by astasinim
with negative interest rate they are getting shafted big time
Well 99.9 % of immigrants are shitQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr Orange
and are here not to integrate , just to make money-
it's sad that Britain purposely had a policy to just let in scum from the worlds worse countries,
and not 5 million nice people like your good wife .
You cannot really blame British people ,sick to death of this filth, if they have grown tired of looking out for the few good immigrants and just paint them all with the same brush .
Best advice to anyone visiting Britain ,just steer well clear of the immigrants here.
Well i like it here in the UK.
I really enjoy my frequent trips to Asia and Scandinavia but for all its faults, i'm staying.
UK is about the only place in europe worth staying - actually UK is great, have you seen the lake district on dawnQuote:
Originally Posted by Bower
I agree!!! :UK:Quote:
Originally Posted by nostromoUK is probably best place in europeQuote:
Originally Posted by The Bold Rodney
Again, based on what? The great weather? The friendly natives? The low cost of living?Quote:
Originally Posted by nostromoUK is about the only place in europe worth staying - actually UK is great, have you seen the lake district on dawnQuote:
Originally Posted by Bower
:rolleyes:
If I had to stay in Europe, it'd be a Med country for sure. They're lazy like the Thais and they have more than their share of fit women. Until the Euro screwed things up it they used to be very affordable too.
Anywhere outside the urban sprawl is fine. The only problem is, many MP`s seem to think the urbanisation of the UK is progress. Fok that. I wouldn't give a bucket of piss to live that lifestyle. OK, we could do with a little more sun, and a complete rethink about how our country is run, but apart from that, i`m quite happy with my lot. These folk who complain about their home countries, and think they've arrived at nirvana when they move to Thailand, are just deluding themselves. Ive nothing against anyone moving out there, and making a decent life for themselves, but, to think its the land of milk and honey is just a joke, and a bloody insult to those of us who know the reality.Quote:
Originally Posted by nostromo
As do IQuote:
Originally Posted by Bower
Put it this way Blue. I`d rather be in the position of being retired, drawing my pension, plus my state pension (Fair enough, they are feeling it too), than in the position of not knowing if i`ll have a job next week, will I be able to pay the mortgage or bills, feed and clothe the kids etc etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
I for one are quite happy with the seasonal changes of weather in the UK, right now here on the South Coast its 26 and sunny, suits me.Quote:
Originally Posted by khmenAgain, based on what? The great weather? The friendly natives? The low cost of living?Quote:
Originally Posted by nostromoUK is about the only place in europe worth staying - actually UK is great, have you seen the lake district on dawnQuote:
Originally Posted by Bower
:rolleyes:
Never had problems with the people, i consider myself rich in friendships.
Cost of living, well its relative to ones needs.
I use my mothers economic needs as a yardstick, she owns her small house and has just £12,000. in the bank. She manages very well on her pension. She doesn't smoke and only has the occasional glass of wine. However she can afford to run a car.
You can only speak as you find.
Oh and the Lake District like many other regions is stunning at dawn at any time of year.
Different strokes and all that but compared to other European countries the climate is shit for most of the year, there are millions of ne'er do well scumbags in every city and hick town, and the ridiculous taxation makes the cost of living astronomical.Quote:
Originally Posted by BowerI for one are quite happy with the seasonal changes of weather in the UK, right now here on the South Coast its 26 and sunny, suits me.Quote:
Originally Posted by khmenAgain, based on what? The great weather? The friendly natives? The low cost of living?Quote:
Originally Posted by nostromoUK is about the only place in europe worth staying - actually UK is great, have you seen the lake district on dawnQuote:
Originally Posted by Bower
:rolleyes:
Never had problems with the people, i consider myself rich in friendships.
Cost of living, well its relative to ones needs.
I use my mothers economic needs as a yardstick, she owns her small house and has just £12,000. in the bank. She manages very well on her pension. She doesn't smoke and only has the occasional glass of wine. However she can afford to run a car.
You can only speak as you find.
Oh and the Lake District like many other regions is stunning at dawn at any time of year.
The UK has its good and bad points, and good and bad places like anywhere else but to say it's the best place to live in Europe is purely subjective. For every Lake in the Lake District I could give you a lake Como or Lake Garda.
If it's so great then why do so many emigrate every year, or plan to emigrate at some point in the future? And I use my own economic needs as a yardstick, my money can go much further elsewhere doing the same things, in a more pleasant climate.
The point I'm trying to make is for all these people to have to ask why someone returned to live in the UK only goes to show how bad the quality of life is. If it was a country with a better quality of life not everyone would be asking why someone came back to live there.Quote:
Originally Posted by astasinimWe all know the dream, and the reality are two completely different things. Once people realise the reality of Thailand , it becomes too much hassle for many of them to stay. I would guess most of the ones saying lucky B`stard, are the ones who have never been, so lets not get too carried away, and slap ourselves on the back too hard eh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caxa
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Simple really. Its the grass is greener syndrome. Look at it from another point of view. How many people have said they would never go to Thailand because its one giant brothel? Again, uneducated decisions.
UK is still a great place. I lived the past 9 and a bit years in Bangkok and returned to the UK at the beginning of May. I have really enjoyed the past few months here, but will be traveling to the Middle East next month to work and will probably rotate between their and Thailand, 4 - 6 weeks working then 3 - 4 weeks in Thailand relaxing. Will do that until the new contract in SE Asia comes up in about 6 months time and then should have more time in Thailand. However, I will be coming back to the UK to visit, and will enjoy coming back here for business and to live if circumstance dictates it's the best option.
I can't stand Brits who stand in the bars of Thailand saying how awful the UK is. They are usually the ones who could not make a proper go of it here, despite all the advantages they were dealt at birth.
It used to be nice , now you have to move to an area where there are few immigrants ,and chavs eg the Lake District or where Bower lives
Many southerners just don't make good dole scroungers, it is against their nature.Quote:
Originally Posted by English Noodles
Well i'm about to hand my resignation to my boss in four weeks time giving a months notice and shall be fucking off to Asia for a year .. It's horrible here can't wait to get out , thing is in a years time i'm going to have to return and start all over again ...
I will think about that when the time comes ...
But untill then !! Get me on that fucking plane ....
Not working as an English teacher one hopes, but maybe that's the way they spell there "up in't north"? :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by English Noodles
You might be able to make your point if you could string together a simple sentence in English! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by pattayardm
Sorry but I dont do drugs. Your kind of fucker shite brings down the UK. How much do you get in benefits every month?Quote:
Originally Posted by khmenThat, as well as the fact I have good friends who live there and it's a much nicer, more relaxed lifestyle than in the UK. And you didnt answer my perfectly reasonable question.Quote:
Originally Posted by nostromoWhy do you include Netherlands in your chart with italy etc? Oh I see weed. Fucking drug addictQuote:
Originally Posted by khmenReally, what do you base that on? I'd rather be in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, or even Greece in its current state than in the UK. For various reasons including sun, women, weed, and general quality of life.Quote:
Originally Posted by nostromoUK is probably best place in europeQuote:
Originally Posted by The Bold Rodney
Fucking drug addict? Fucking square.:)
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Try it, you never know, you just might like it and it might stop you being so fucking uptight.:rolleyes:
That may well be the case but I am afraid the rest of the enlarged Europe has been allowed to dump all and sundry here ,, I would,nt put the thousands of Fillipino,s and Thais who do all the jobs here that the indigenous folk wont doQuote:
Originally Posted by Lorenzo
Gun rampage taxi driver kills 12Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
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Police stand next to a body covered by a blanket following a shooting on Duke Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria
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A taxi driver went on a shotgun rampage today, killing 12 people and wounding at least 25 before turning his weapon on himself.
Divorced father-of-two Derrick Bird, 52, shot several colleagues in Whitehaven in Cumbria, then drove his cab through the countryside of the Lake District blasting other victims apparently at random.
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Following a frantic manhunt, police found his body 20 miles away in woods near the hamlet of Boot three-and-a-half hours later.
Cumbria Police said there were 30 separate crime scenes.
Witnesses spoke of their terror as Bird drove through Whitehaven with the shotgun hanging out of the window of his taxi.
Police said that, after leaving the town, the gunman travelled south along the coast, shooting people in Gosforth, Seascale and Egremont before turning inland and ending up in Boot. Officers later recovered two weapons.
Rod Davies, landlord of Gosforth Hall Inn, said the close-knit Cumbrian communities were shaken by the tragedies.
"There's a lot of very strong feeling of absolute shock. There's a lot of fear - a lot of people are expecting to hear names of people they know," he said.
Bird was said to be close to a fellow taxi driver he killed in Duke Street, Whitehaven, as he started his rampage at about 10.30am.
Glenda Pears, boss of L&G Taxis, said: "We just don't know what's happened. The lad that's been killed was friends with him. They used to stand together having a craic on the rank.
"He was friends with everybody and used to stand and joke on Duke Street."
One Whitehaven cab driver said he understood a total of three taxi drivers had been shot, two fatally.
The man, who did not want to be named, claimed an argument broke out between Bird and the other three men last night at the Duke Street taxi rank.
He said: "All of the taxi drivers were friends. But I heard last night there was an argument on the taxi rank.
"I don't know what caused it, but something must have happened last night. Derrick Bird took off in his car and went home. I don't know what time of night it was."
He said he knew one of the victims, describing him as "a real character".
The taxi driver, who had known Bird for 10 years, added: "He was quite a friendly person. This has been a shock to all the taxi drivers. It's just a tragic thing."
One witness said the gunman drove up alongside him at traffic lights by Whitehaven police station in Duke Street.
Alan Hannah, 68, of Great Broughton, told the Whitehaven News: "A car pulled up on the left, stopping at the lights.
"I saw a man with a large shotgun and his windscreen was smashed. I drove through the red light to get into Lowther Street and get out of the way. I got home safely but was very shaken."
Bird went on to murder popular rugby player Garry Purdham as he worked in a field near Gosforth, local residents said.
Mr Purdham, a farmer's son, was in his early 30s with two young children, according to neighbours.
He played for Workington Town Rugby League Football Club, whose chairman, David Bowden, paid tribute to a man who was "honest and industrious" on and off the pitch.
Bird also shot an elderly single woman, who was one of twins, on Drigg Road in Seascale, locals said.
Boot Inn landlord Sean King said that fellow publican Harry Berger, who runs the Woolpack in Boot, was shot in the arm in Seascale and was recovering in hospital.
A member of staff at the Woolpack Inn said a girl received minor buckshot wounds.
A man reported finding the body of another of Bird's victims - a woman in her 60s carrying shopping bags - outside his house in Egremont.
Billy Boakes, 23, did not see the shooting but heard two gunshots at around 11am.
He said: "I thought nothing of it at first, I thought it was just a trailer banging as it went down the lane but then I looked out the front window two minutes later and saw a car and a push bike parked up and thought there had been an accident.
"I went outside and saw the body of the woman lying outside my house."
Another Egremont resident said she saw the body of a man, thought to be in his 60s, lying on a road bridge in the town.
Bird crashed and dumped his car at the Boot Inn, continuing on foot into the woods where his body was found.
The vicar of Eskdale, the Rev Anne Baker, said she heard that two people had a lucky escape when they approached him after the collision to see if they could help.
She said police were tracing the gunman's route to the wood where he apparently shot himself, hoping not to find any more victims.
Early reports suggested that Bird also killed his mother, but Cumbria Police later confirmed that she was alive and being looked after by her family.
The emergency services in Cumbria were inundated with appeals for help.
A North West Ambulance spokesman said they received 51 emergency calls in the three-and-a-half hours Bird was on the rampage.
West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven declared a major incident, while the accident and emergency department at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle was on standby.
Cumbria Police set up a casualty bureau line on 0845 3300 247 and appealed for anyone with information about Bird's movements over the last 24 hours to contact them.
People who are worried about friends and family can call a police helpline on 0800 0960095 .
As he began his first Prime Minister's Questions today, David Cameron said the House of Commons would be "alarmed and shocked by the events unfolding in Cumbria" where at least five people had died in the shootings.
He said: "When lives and communities are suddenly shattered in this way, our thoughts should be with all those caught up in these tragic events, especially the families and friends of those killed or injured."
The Rev John Bannister, from St James Church in Whitehaven, said it was "an awful time" for the town.
He said: "We are still reeling from the disaster with the Keswick school bus. The majority of children on that bus were from here in Whitehaven and surrounding villages and to be faced with this in such a short time is truly dreadful."
Local MP Jamie Reed said the community was "exceptionally close-knit".
He said: "You hurt one of us, you hurt all of us.
"It's the kind of place where you can leave your door open, so it's the kind of thing that really does shake the very foundations."
Three people were in a critical condition in hospital, sources said.
Chillingly, Bird told his friend Peter Leder last night: "You won't see me again."
Mr Leder told CNN that the taxi driver, who lived in Rowrah, near Frizington in Cumbria and was known as "Birdy" to friends, was "an outgoing, well-known guy, who everyone liked".
Cumbria Police have launched a "full and thorough" investigation into the tragedy, looking at Bird's history, access to guns and motives for the shootings.
The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant was closed while the gunman was on the run.
One of Bird's victims in Seascale was named by a family friend as Jane Robinson, 66, who was shot dead in Drigg Road, just yards from the home she shared with her twin sister, Barrie.
One of the taxi drivers killed by Bird was named locally as Darren Rewcastle.
A fellow cabbie said he had known Mr Rewcastle, whom he described as being in his 30s, for five years.
The driver said: "It was the first I heard about it this morning, when I was told that one of the taxi drivers had shot another one.
"It's been a massive shock for all of us."
West Cumbria University Hospitals Trust deputy chief executive Kevin Clarkson, speaking from West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, said: "The hospital's trust is part of the community it serves and our staff share in the grief.
"The following is an update on those who are most seriously injured. Three casualties are in a critical condition, five are in a serious condition.
One woman told tonight of the moment she was shot at by Bird from his car in Whitehaven.
Ashley Gastor told ITV News she felt the gunshot brush past her hair and miss her, before running to her sister's for safety.
She said: "I thought he was just going to ask me for directions or something. He said something to me and I didn't hear him so I said 'What did you say?' and I turned around and he said 'Do you like...' and I couldn't hear what else he said and when I turned round to look at him he was holding a gun at me out of the car window.
"I held my ears and ducked down to protect myself and the gunshot was fired. I tried to run down the hill and he fired another one, and when I'd run down the corner he went off in the car."
She added: "I felt it go past my ponytail on the back of my hair when I bent down. I was terrified but I was happy at the same time that he'd missed me.
"There was only me on the road at the time - me and his car - so I ran down to my sister's house, crying, and I just heard another gunshot when I was at the bottom of the hill, running away from him."
Errrr? even the "Tuk Tuk" drivers in Cumbria appear to stressed out at times! :rolleyes:
The lifestyle in the UK is to masculine.
In Thailand its too feminine.
Both are out of balance.
You still havent answered my question, you ignorant little shit. Yeah, me smoking a bit of weed to relax at the end of a hard days WORK is really bringing the UK to its knees, even more so than the pissed up shitcunts fighting and mouthing off every Friday and Saturday up and down the country.:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by nostromo
And FYI, I have never claimed a single penny in benefits from the government and I pay in thousands in tax each year. So, you can fuck off with your judgemental, boring, conservative, Daily Mail reading bullshit.
My parents were Hippies and I turned out OK :) I got a touch of ADD, but hell the pills keep me fluid ....Quote:
Originally Posted by khmenYou still havent answered my question, you ignorant little shit. Yeah, me smoking a bit of weed to relax at the end of a hard days WORK is really bringing the UK to its knees, even more so than the pissed up shitcunts fighting and mouthing off every Friday and Saturday up and down the country.:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by nostromo
And FYI, I have never claimed a single penny in benefits from the government and I pay in thousands in tax each year. So, you can fuck off with your judgemental, boring, conservative, Daily Mail reading bullshit.
I would. I would guess that at last 50% are here because of what they can send home. Absolutely no interest in this county`s future what so ever. Its all about the £££, thats all, pure and simple. It could be the same shit hole they`ve come from so long as the £££`s are rolling in.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigelandjan
Quite. If someone wants to relocate for an expat package, start a business, or just retire, then fine, just dont forget who and what gave you those opportunities.Quote:
Originally Posted by English Noodles
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In Britain Cannabis may have been a hippy middle class pursuit years ago
that's no longer the case
most of the smokers are scabby low life male chavs
the last thing they need is a drug that makes them even less likely to get off thier arses and do something.
No, Rodders. Some of us actually have real skills and transferable assets. We are not all dumb idiots with limited options who think working for a few hundred bucks per week is a career move.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bold Rodney
Are you talking from experience then ?.:england:Quote:
Originally Posted by dodge
So, you're palling around with Smeg then? Ask him how the villa in Italy is coming along...Quote:
Originally Posted by English Noodles
No such thing. ADD is just a populist modish term for a feckless, ill disciplined trait that in the old days would have been cured by a swift blow to the back of the head and the threat of worse if the culprit transgressed further.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carrabow
Unpalatable though it may be, most modern labels are simply euphemisms for weakness and inadequacy.
Your parents.Quote:
Originally Posted by astasinim
Gent...Quote:
Originally Posted by thegentNo such thing. ADD is just a populist modish term for a feckless, ill disciplined trait that in the old days would have been cured by a swift blow to the back of the head and the threat of worse if the culprit transgressed further.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carrabow
Unpalatable though it may be, most modern labels are simply euphemisms for weakness and inadequacy.
A.D.D
always
degrading
dumbsh*ts :)
I don't think the problems that the UK has can be blamed simply on immigrants. Many immigrants (the majority? I don't know.) just want to make a better life for themselves and their families and are prepared to work (often much harder than UK citizens) to do it and, by so doing, make a positive contribution to British society. Of course there are many who just want to take advantage of 'the sytem' of benefits that the UK has. But then there is also a significant number of 'native' British citizens who want to do the same - sponge off the system. I'd be interested to know, if it is possible to find out, what proportion of benefit claimants are 'immmigrants' and what proportion are 'native' British.
I have as much interest in apportioning blame as anyone. I am retired and live in Thailand principally because I can't afford to live in the UK. I still pay tax, as I did throughout my pretty full working life, on my pension and on the (very) modest rental income from the flat I still have in the UK. Yet I receive none of the benefits (I have never claimed benefits in the past) that resident UK citizens take for granted. I get no free healthcare, even when I return to the UK on 'holiday', and my state pension will not be indexed when I get it (too soon, unfortunately!) - to name but two.
It's a natural gut reaction to target immigrants in receipt of benefits but, if the UK didn't have the comparatively generous benefit system it has, then perhaps at least, the immigrants and the UK natives who just sponge off the system and DON'T make any contribution would be discouraged and people like me can then only lay the blame for Britain's economic and social woes on successive British governments where it really belongs.
The question of integration of immigrants into the British 'way of life' is wholly another question raising similarly negative gut reactions and is, perhaps, even more insoluble a problem. I'm as guilty as many others of fearing and resenting many immigrants 'ghetto' mentality and refusal to become 'British' (whatever that is). But that's another story and I've prattled on long enough!
I do enjoy the GBP exchange rate!
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Originally Posted by IceSpike
Ouch!!
Well "noodless" old boy I congratulate you on your excellent "skills and transferable assets" but your skills obviously do not exhibit the best example of basic English!Quote:
Originally Posted by English Noodles
Read your original post again and look up the different meaning on "their" and "there". :rolleyes:
There speaks "theoldfart" who in his wisdom doesn't know that ADD is in the main diagnosed in children under the age of seven years.Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
"thegent" certainly being one of those! :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
What does it feel like to hate your birth country?
Probably the same ones who have stood in bars in Malaga / Benidorm / Costa Lotta spouting the same old crap,, mind you it make,s a nice break for those of us in the staff canteen back home not having to listen to the same recordQuote:
Originally Posted by English Noodles
In fairness Britain still isn't as fucking dire as Phuket.