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For God's sake Albert-Turner. Dr Stealth's animated strap is distracting enough. Put your's in the same bloody thread and I'm having real trouble concentrating on what people are saying!!!

I left the yUK in 2001 after migrating there as a lad in 1985 with my mother from France. French by design, British by education/culture/humor as it were. After my degree (at good old RMCS) I got a job in The Netherlands which lasted 10 years before having the feeling of being bogged down. Nice job, good pay, but fuck all to do in a country with is majority concrete from north to south, the Dutch are friendly folk but I didn't fancy my kids growing up there. I started having a look at jobs in NZ,Oz,US but in the end got the opportunity to move to Switzerland to do the same-ish job but with far more variety, less pay, but way higher quality of life for all the family. Been here 5 months now and loving it. The Swiss are a bit like the Dutch except with mountains, they are great people if YOU make the effort to get to know them. Common sense prevails + non of this EU regulation shite.

Originally Posted by CaptainPlume

On the subject of the Maori, under NZ law one is considered one if one has one eighth Maori blood. I do giggle a bit at a couple mates who are of skinny, pasty white guys with tribal names & tattoos who look a bit out of place doing the haka with the fecking huge Islander types who are also mates!

Like the fella on the right you mean?



Seen here doing something that most of the rugby world would probably enjoy.




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Originally Posted by The_Seagull

Like the fella on the right you mean?

My mates are more along the lines of people who have limbs made out of bits of string whith knots where the joints are. FFS I thought if one was going to get a tribal tattoo one should have biceps!

Originally Posted by The_Seagull

Seen here doing something that most of the rugby world would probably enjoy.

Batterning "Laboons" Hartley? A bit like when yer man thumped Ashton the disciplinary committee should have ordered the Chairman's thanks, three cheers & a gold watch.

Originally Posted by CptDanjou

Fiji looks attractive if you dont need to make a living

Fiji Real Estate – Properties For Sale

Unless things have changed very recently, I'm fairly sure foreigners aren't allowed to buy land in Fiji.

Originally Posted by alib

So 55% I read above of the Brit population considers emigration. It's a tribute to their basic fecklessness that emigration is so low.

We do have to bear in mind moaning apathetically about everybody else being at fault is the nations way of life or more accurately the populations way of joylessly passing the time until they die. It's not like many of these inveterate whiners will actually get off their arse and leave. Nor will they actually try to improve things in the UK, they will mostly sit timidly before the TV furious that someone else isn't fixing things for them, which is the root cause of the UK woes.

The small adventurous percentage that do emigrate can often be found clustered together abroad expounding the superior merits of the British while moaning about the natives. A depressingly small number break free of this blackhole of joy sapping negativity. Many return to the Motherland more disgruntled than ever.

The Whinging Pom is an entirely accurate stereotype that most pedestrian emigrant destination Aus, Strains are mostly a very dull ginger people but they at least relatively optimistic and willing to make the effort to be happy. Septics are also perplexed by this dysfunctional Limey behavior, to be such a misery is for them a badge of shameful defeatism. The sad enclaves of elderly Brit xenophobes on the Spanish coasts are a fairly recent and perhaps the most heinous example of this phenomenon.

One thing I'd recommend for breaking free of this pathology is realizing you have a problem and going somewhere not favored by other Brits, then persistently avoiding them for a couple of years. You may eventually find the natives have their own virtues and realize you are just another optimistic immigrant with a new life to build not an ex-Pat, dragging their grumpy culture around with them like a bad tempered hermit crab.

You finally may also notice that the UK actually has a great deal going for it and that is why it attracts so many hopeful immigrants, if only the idle natives would just try to make a go of it instead of moaning endlessly.

I didn't read this earlier this morning as it looked a long winded waffle kind of post and I didn't have that much time. However, after reading it I can see it is a load of hogwash, particularly the bit at the bottom.

Yes, there are a lot of native people who would rather dole doss, but there are a hell of a lot more immigrants who would rather do that. To say that native Brits are too idle to make a go of it is pathetically ridiculous. The reason they can't make a go of is because immigrants come in and charge a hell of a lot less or work for a hell of a lot less which is a handsome wage where they come from. It may interest you to know that Poles who flocked here just after Poland joined the EU are now flocking back because even they can't survive on the money that they were charging which was a lot less then the minimum.

A friend of mine who went back to the UK 6 months ago after working in Afghanistan is looking for a job back in Afghanistan as he can't survive doing his business (plumber/electrician) because he is getting undercut by immigrants who incidentally are not qualified.

Stereotypes only work on the French and Italians. I think you should get out more.

No point. In one ear, out the other.

Originally Posted by CaptainPlume

My mates are more along the lines of people who have limbs made out of bits of string whith knots where the joints are. FFS I thought if one was going to get a tribal tattoo one should have biceps!



Batterning "Laboons" Hartley? A bit like when yer man thumped Ashton the disciplinary committee should have ordered the Chairman's thanks, three cheers & a gold watch.

Very true mate. Both have faces you'd never tire of kicking.

As for Tito (an excellent player by the way) I first noticed him on the last lions tour to NZ when he captained the Mouri. He ran on and I was thinking "hang on! That's no mouri it's the live child of crusty the clown and some random jock".


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