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Da Boss wrote:We are?
News to me, I love fish.

Really? My grandma was fresh off the boat, and she and her immediate family couldn't stand it. I got the aiti-martitime impression from her. Maybe it was just a family thing.

reds8n wrote:

Da Boss wrote:We're a nation of cantankerous bollockses. Oddly well educated, but with a huge disparity between younger and older people.
Oh, and we're pretty worried about our reputation.

Are there actually any of you left over there anyway ? As far as I can make out almost your entire population is over in mainland Uk waxing lyrically about how great your home is.. without actually ever going there.

Australia being fat is entirely because all your slim young folk work over here in bars. Seriously. They're more common than fruit machines these days.

No no no. They *are* the fruit machines.

I see a country I love, and a corrupt government I despise.

Seeing as most people here seem to be from either the UK or the USA, I'll do the country of my birth, South Africa rather than where I am living now

I see South Africa as a country that is losing its way after a promising 'rebirth'. To continue the dog analogy of the first post, we haven't quite figured out what breed we are yet.

We spend half the time preaching the benefits of our 'African Roots' and in the next breath embrace all the European aspects of our heritage to make us sound more developed.

We are a sports mad country, but slowly losing faith as the Olympic team stumbles and falls to its worst result ever and our rugby team finishes bottom of the Tri-Nations again.

As a country, we have made crime the biggest participation sport nationally as levels of all sorts of crime (murder,rape, muggings, burglary' etc) go through the roof. Of course we try to complain about this, but the government turn around and say "problem? there's no problem here my friend....by the way,vote ANC and we will make you a king!"

We also love to be the counterfoil to British Jingoism, especially on message boards. Whenever someone feels the need to point out how great the British Empire was, we simply point to the plundered resources of Africa, the condemnation of an entire continent and treating it simply as a bit of map that can be colured in pink and the concentration camps that decimated the afrikaner population during the Boer Wars......so really, the British Empire wasn't all that great after all for everyone else in the world

In politics, we tend to have one choice, the ANC- former terrorists/freedom fighters who don't seem to have much of a clue about anything. Of course to raise objections is to be branded a 'white supremacist' so we tend not to go there anymore and let them get on with it

All in all, I'm rather glad i'm living in the UK right now lol

i live in england and i hate it. Weathers terrible, escpacily this summer. most people are rude. we have an incompetant goverment AND the tax is well too high. personally i'd love to move to the US or AUS

Britain is like a man in a pub reading a newspaper, with a half finished pint of beer, and a bag of crisps (potato chips the all non-Brits)
and the bill is somewhere in the region on £20 ($40 approx)
damn the credit crunch
DAMN IT TO HELL!!!!

You are drinking in the wrong pubs son.

If you don't mind risking a kicking, Weatherspoons (your local friendly Fight Club) can send Chavs Raggy for less than £20.

If not, most I tend to pay is £3 a pint.

If I go to my local and have a pint of Bombardier and a bag of crisps, it's £4.80.

Dude....seriously. You are getting ripped off big time! Might may like, 90p tops for Crisps, and Ale is normally dead cheap compared to fizzy foreign piss.

£1.57 for a pint in my local, £3 for pies, peas and a pint on Mondays. I miss living up north, stupid expensive London.

You fool!

Drinking in London is impossbile with a steady supply of Donor Kidney's and stolen Grandmothers with which to pay the exorbirant fee's!

reds8n wrote:

Da Boss wrote:We're a nation of cantankerous bollockses. Oddly well educated, but with a huge disparity between younger and older people.
Oh, and we're pretty worried about our reputation.

Are there actually any of you left over there anyway ? As far as I can make out almost your entire population is over in mainland Uk waxing lyrically about how great your home is.. without actually ever going there.

Word to the wise matey: Never use the term "Mainland UK" to an Irishman who isn't from the North. It's like poking me in the eye. (I'm prickly about it because I used to work in tourism)

We've got tonnes of Polish and Russians and Romanians nowadays, but they seem to integrate fine. I have a lot of friends bumming around in the UK in teaching jobs, and there are a lot of Irish builders too.
I love the UK though. London > Dublin. For the most part. Dublin has a certain grubby charm.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Dude....seriously. You are getting ripped off big time! Might may like, 90p tops for Crisps, and Ale is normally dead cheap compared to fizzy foreign piss.

Yes, but it's my local.

Wetherspoons? It's a museum for every wino in the town most nights. The one where I live is full of freaks inside; full on Mos Eisley mode.

And it smells of death now smokers are banned. Anyone else notice that? I know people get stuffy about smoking but BO and Fosters is on par.

My local Spoons used to be an Opera House. Shame really. Centre of culture to centre for

Sad huh? Still, I drink down the Pantiles these days. Highly, highly sophisticated, divvent ye knaa!

Let's be honest, Wetherspoons is basically a job centre with a bar.

Perfect bedfellows