Yet more misinformed crap.

On 2006-08-26, SimonJ <[email protected]> wrote:

<whining rant deleted>

You forgot to name a country where none of your moaning applies.

I'm sure that was an oversight and you will be along in a minute to
correct this, with some kind of useful indication that you're not just
talking out of your hat too.

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Ian Rawlings wrote:
> On 2006-08-26, SimonJ <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <whining rant deleted>

<sarcastic remark deleted>

Why... anywhere but the UK of course Ian! ;-)

Matt
(56 hours left in this "absolute ****-hole" and counting the minutes!)

Matthew Maddock wrote:

> 56 hours left in this "absolute ****-hole" and counting the minutes!

I hope that Tony will give you a tearful farewell !!

On 2006-08-26, Matthew Maddock <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why... anywhere but the UK of course Ian! ;-)

Ridiculous isn't it, in fact if there's a good reason to leave the UK
it's to get away from the whining ranters!

At least you seem to have an actual properly thought-through reason to
leave, rather than some airy-fairy notion that there's no crime or
injustice overseas. The only worry I have for you is that you'll move
and then you'll see the mass emigration of whining ranters to follow
you, then you'll have to move back to get away from them ;-)

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Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!

> At least you seem to have an actual properly thought-through reason to
> leave, rather than some airy-fairy notion that there's no crime or
> injustice overseas. The only worry I have for you is that you'll move
> and then you'll see the mass emigration of whining ranters to follow
> you, then you'll have to move back to get away from them ;-)

I have to admit to having the same concerns - that and the assumption
that just because you are British you want to be friends with someone
else just 'cos they are British and live in a foreign country too - when
you would probably avoid them in the UK! I have a friend who has had a
house over there for 14 years, he met a group of Brits in his local town
recently (by chance in a cafe) they said they had never seen him before
and asked if he was new - they were quite put out when he said he'd been
there for 14 years, and that he hadn't joined their 'little brit group'.

To that end, we deliberately picked a place that doesn't have many brits
living in it (yet!) - tho it is getting harder and harder to not walk
down any street in France and not hear an English voice. Don't get me
wrong, we don't want to cut all contact with the English speaking world,
but we're not moving over there to eat fish & chips if you know what I mean!

Matt
(Bollocks - leaving date moved back to Friday now to sort car issues out
:-( )

"SimonJ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >
>> Jumping to a different country to try to escape would seem to be far
>> harder than jumping out of the cities though, which is what I was on
>> about in the first place.
>>
> This country is an absolute ****hole no matter where you live.
> Personally I'm sick of having to pay an absolute fortune in taxes, to fund
> the pondlife chavs who sit around all day in a house paid for by my taxes,
> drinking whitelightning paid for out of dole money funded by my taxes,
> watching Jeremy Kyle on a TV stolen from some poor unfortunate who worked
> many an hour to buy it. Sick of the PC brigade defending the rights of
> thieving scum, while condemning home owners who defend their own property.
> This country is so biased against the honest, hard working people, that it
> make it almost worth just chucking the job in and joining the massed ranks
> of the happily unemployed.
> This country has also made itself a target for every extremist terrorist
> going, because of some prick in no10 sticking his head so far up Bush's
> arse that all you can see are feet.
> And no, I don't live in a city, or town, I live in a nice sleepy little
> village, where we are pretty much untroubled by all this, but just because
> its OK here doesn't make the country any a better place.
> ................................................................................................................

I absolutely agree 100%, even when you work hard to retirement, struggled to
pay your mortgage, took a private pension out, only to loose this if you are
unfortunate enough to go into an old peoples home in later life.

Seems the best idea is, not to work, get into huge debt and get it written
off, spend all your dole etc., then get everything free off the state as
lots of people are seem to be doing, ............ and more on they way soon!

Brian (Huddersfield)

On 2006-08-27, Matthew Maddock <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have to admit to having the same concerns - that and the
> assumption that just because you are British you want to be friends
> with someone else just 'cos they are British and live in a foreign
> country too - when you would probably avoid them in the UK!

Indeed, you start your new life overseas and get besieged by ex-brits
who live in a gated community in a foreign country as opposed to a
sinkhole estate in Britain, and just want to moan about the old
country and how foreigners were always coming there, forming their own
enclaves, not learning the local language etc, all this moaning done
in english down at the local manufactured brit-pub, reading british
newspapers.. I've never figured that lot out.

> To that end, we deliberately picked a place that doesn't have many
> brits living in it (yet!) - tho it is getting harder and harder to
> not walk down any street in France and not hear an English voice.
> Don't get me wrong, we don't want to cut all contact with the
> English speaking world, but we're not moving over there to eat fish
> & chips if you know what I mean!

So you mean France is filling up with immigrants who walk down the
streets talking foreign languages like English and opening ethnic
restaurants? Oh my! ;-)

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> Indeed, you start your new life overseas and get besieged by ex-brits
> who live in a gated community in a foreign country as opposed to a
> sinkhole estate in Britain, and just want to moan about the old
> country and how foreigners were always coming there, forming their own
> enclaves, not learning the local language etc, all this moaning done
> in english down at the local manufactured brit-pub, reading british
> newspapers.. I've never figured that lot out.

When we went into the bank recently (in the UK) the guy we were speaking
to told us about his boss who went to buy a house in Spain and came back
saying they didn't want it because there weren't enough English people
in the area!!

> So you mean France is filling up with immigrants who walk down the
> streets talking foreign languages like English and opening ethnic
> restaurants? Oh my! ;-)

Ethnic restaurants? nah, it hasn't got that bad yet! Well, I did see one
Indian restaurant once, but only one and it was in a big city!
Actually, seriously the take-aways are something we are both going to miss!

Matt

On 2006-08-27, Matthew Maddock <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ethnic restaurants? nah, it hasn't got that bad yet! Well, I did see one
> Indian restaurant once, but only one and it was in a big city!
> Actually, seriously the take-aways are something we are both going to miss!

When I meant ethnic restaurants I meant British theme pubs, places
selling British cooked breakfasts etc etc, I'm sure there's a few in
some areas.

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"Horse.trader" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "SimonJ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> >
>>> Jumping to a different country to try to escape would seem to be far
>>> harder than jumping out of the cities though, which is what I was on
>>> about in the first place.
>>>
>> This country is an absolute ****hole no matter where you live.
>> Personally I'm sick of having to pay an absolute fortune in taxes, to
>> fund the pondlife chavs who sit around all day in a house paid for by my
>> taxes, drinking whitelightning paid for out of dole money funded by my
>> taxes, watching Jeremy Kyle on a TV stolen from some poor unfortunate who
>> worked many an hour to buy it. Sick of the PC brigade defending the
>> rights of thieving scum, while condemning home owners who defend their
>> own property. This country is so biased against the honest, hard working
>> people, that it make it almost worth just chucking the job in and joining
>> the massed ranks of the happily unemployed.
>> This country has also made itself a target for every extremist terrorist
>> going, because of some prick in no10 sticking his head so far up Bush's
>> arse that all you can see are feet.
>> And no, I don't live in a city, or town, I live in a nice sleepy little
>> village, where we are pretty much untroubled by all this, but just
>> because its OK here doesn't make the country any a better place.
>> ................................................................................................................
>
> I absolutely agree 100%, even when you work hard to retirement, struggled
> to pay your mortgage, took a private pension out, only to loose this if
> you are unfortunate enough to go into an old peoples home in later life.
>
> Seems the best idea is, not to work, get into huge debt and get it written
> off, spend all your dole etc., then get everything free off the state as
> lots of people are seem to be doing, ............ and more on they way
> soon!
>
> Brian (Huddersfield)
>
Thats if there is anything left of your pension after Gordon Brown has
robbed the fund his pension is safe btw because we are the daft sods going
to pay it.
Derek