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This pretty much sums it up for me.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:...the massed majority chew the cud, watch jeremy kyle and have nothing better to do with their time than update their facebook status with X Factor results....

This, a thousand times this.

This...individual...partially sums it up for me.
Gombeen parish pump politics.

MGS reminded me of rorscach there..

Monster Rain wrote:

This pretty much sums it up for me.

GODDAMN! That woman's fingers are huge!

Huge fingered people are what I've always hated about america, too.

mattyrm wrote:MGS reminded me of rorscach there..

Yeah MGS, you should start a journal

I wouldn't say I really hate any particular aspect of my country. I don't often think about things on a national level anyway.

@Notprop: Dude get off your high horse. The OP asks what we don't like, we put what we don't like. It is not your place to decide what's petty

I pretty much hate all the politicians that run this country. The crap they pull, and get away with is sickening. Thats the major thing. Other then it it would be the crime. Most places are pretty good, but if/when your in the wrong places, youd better have your eyes open, and your balls twisted on right.

The hypocrisy that occurs when any party is elected. Whatever made the public vote for them is instantly thrown out of the window and becomes the exact opposite.

I'm not going to point to finger at any specific party either, because they all do it.

I see politicians are the same type of gak in all countries

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Dude get off your high horse. The OP asks what we don't like, we put what we don't like. It is not your place to decide what's petty

...Are you talking to me, or did you just not notice the second page?

Nope, sorry I went back and edited my post to show who I was talking to.

What would have to happen to get you guys to emigrate, could I ask? And where might you emigrate to?
I was "lucky" in that the UK was crying out for people with my qualifications and I enjoy my work here. But emigrating still sucks.
My government are planning to bring in a new program whereby unemployed teachers are forced to work in schools for the dole money or they do not recieve benefit. I'm alright with people working for their benefit, but that is bloody scandalous. The reason is that they've put a hiring freeze on but are encouraging retirement, but don't want to confront the unions over the wages so that they can hire more teachers. The solution? Indentured servitude for young teachers! Jackpot. (Next time you think the UK government has a dumb policy, I want you to think about that, look west, and thank whoever that you live here.)

Avatar 720 wrote:The hypocrisy that occurs when any party is elected. Whatever made the public vote for them is instantly thrown out of the window and becomes the exact opposite.

I'm not going to point to finger at any specific party either, because they all do it.

I shall now quote a passage from Viz, allegedly a message from Gordon Brown in the run up to this years election!

Gordon Brown in Viz, Issue 194 wrote:I try my best for your people, and what do I get in return? Nothing but whining and moaning nit-picking. Whatever I do it's never good enough. I've tried to a good job in Government, and do I get any thanks from you witches? NO! Of course not! I've had it up to here, you bollock-brained, money-orientated, drink and drug-addled, paedo-obsessed hypocrties. I'm fed up to the back teeth with your antics, your ridiculous not-in-my-back-yard, something-for-nothing, nothing-is-ever-good-enough-for-me attitude. Well let me tell you something, you people make me SICK. You are NEVER satisfied, and your attitude it typical of the permanent malcontent that has RUINED this country. And you just won't cheer up - why don't you all just feth OFF AND DIE?

Thank you for reading this,

Gordon Brown

Sums Britain up quite nicely really.

Yeah in fairness, to those complaining about politicians, if the electorate didn't fall for it, the politicians wouldn't do it. We get the government we deserve, sadly.

What do I hate?

The fact that in less than two years, I will be going to university, and the tuition fees are set to increase to up to £9000 per annum.

That is almost double what OxBridge charge at the moment.

Bloody Lib-Dems.

Don't you mean "Bloody Lib-Dem Tory Coalition"?
Strange quirk that people are more apt to blame the small partner in the coalition for stuff like this.

I think that's mostly because they promised they wouldn't raise them.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:@Notprop: Dude get off your high horse. The OP asks what we don't like, we put what we don't like. It is not your place to decide what's petty

Yes, sorry old chum. Who am I to temper your heartfelt angst over important gak like rugby. [did I really type that?]

Next case.

Yaah horsey!

Junkies arguing in front of the store, the police no longer bothering because they hear it too often, the constant threats of violence from Moroccan youth, who then play the race card and the worst of all, our cheese. Oh the humanity, that cheese..

The Dreadnote wrote:I think that's mostly because they promised they wouldn't raise them.

Yeah, but then is it not easy to see that raising them is a Tory policy the Lib Dems have been forced to stomach as part of the coalition process? I'm not saying some annoyance at the Lib Dems isn't warranted, but I think it should be equally (at least, probably more) pointed at the Tories.

(This sort of thing happens at home all the time, and allows the larger party to use the smaller party as a dumping ground for unpopular sentiment. The smaller party is usually obliterated by the electorate at the next election and the larger party goes on to pick another sacrificial lamb to slaughter. Unlikely that that would happen in the UK because the political scene is less diverse.)

Da Boss wrote:What would have to happen to get you guys to emigrate, could I ask? And where might you emigrate to?
I was "lucky" in that the UK was crying out for people with my qualifications and I enjoy my work here. But emigrating still sucks.
My government are planning to bring in a new program whereby unemployed teachers are forced to work in schools for the dole money or they do not recieve benefit. I'm alright with people working for their benefit, but that is bloody scandalous. The reason is that they've put a hiring freeze on but are encouraging retirement, but don't want to confront the unions over the wages so that they can hire more teachers. The solution? Indentured servitude for young teachers! Jackpot. (Next time you think the UK government has a dumb policy, I want you to think about that, look west, and thank whoever that you live here.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but then why would schools ever hire a teacher on a regular salary, when they can get a dole teacher? Surely the result would be teachers never being employed on a regular salary, every teacher being a dole teacher, and because none of the teachers can get a salaried job, the dole becoming the new base salary for all teachers? Meaning no-one ever wants to be a teacher, and the profession becoming terribly understaffed?

You're not wrong. The teachers with current contracts will be the only ones being properly paid for their work until the hiring freeze is over. It's not even that they would CHOOSE the dole teachers, they're not actually ALLOWED to hire any new teachers at the old rate. They have to accept the dole teachers. The policy hasn't kicked in yet but it will be starting soon.
It's ridiculous, isn't it?

The fees are not set to charge £9K, they might rise by that much, depending on what your uni decides to charge. They have been told that £6K is the max with £9K under exceptional circumstances only. It's a shame the media and the students have decided to gloss over that bit.

And it has nothing to do with Lib-Dems; it was Labour who fragged us with their iresponsible spending. I am not pro gevernmnt though although no matter who came in had a difficult choice to make to reign in the spending.

I am faced with possible redundancy from the RAF in April becuse Labour signed many ridiculous contracts which costs more to end and scrap than it does to keep the contract and pay for something we don't need!!

This was not just consigned to the military but was also in other areas such as extended quango's, many different spending foul ups in local council contracts and ridiculous NHS contracts which were not needed and too costly; as soon as Government and Contract were put to any company they doubled or trebled their quotes which arsehole politicians, who are so removed from real ife it's embarrasing, just signed away.

Lord Young, for example, said that most peope who had mortgages were better off. He's obviously never had a mortgage and was so far removed from the reality he really thought that. His career didn't last much longer after taht.

Then there were the hundreds of review bodies that the Government set up to investigate these contracts and complaints!

Oh I want to add that to my list. Commissions and review bodies set up to "deal with" issues.
ARGH.

Mr Mystery wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:The hypocrisy that occurs when any party is elected. Whatever made the public vote for them is instantly thrown out of the window and becomes the exact opposite.

I'm not going to point to finger at any specific party either, because they all do it.

I shall now quote a passage from Viz, allegedly a message from Gordon Brown in the run up to this years election!

Gordon Brown in Viz, Issue 194 wrote:I try my best for your people, and what do I get in return? Nothing but whining and moaning nit-picking. Whatever I do it's never good enough. I've tried to a good job in Government, and do I get any thanks from you witches? NO! Of course not! I've had it up to here, you bollock-brained, money-orientated, drink and drug-addled, paedo-obsessed hypocrties. I'm fed up to the back teeth with your antics, your ridiculous not-in-my-back-yard, something-for-nothing, nothing-is-ever-good-enough-for-me attitude. Well let me tell you something, you people make me SICK. You are NEVER satisfied, and your attitude it typical of the permanent malcontent that has RUINED this country. And you just won't cheer up - why don't you all just feth OFF AND DIE?

Thank you for reading this,

Gordon Brown

Sums Britain up quite nicely really.

I don't get it? Why did you link a joke article?

Yeah in fairness, to those complaining about politicians, if the electorate didn't fall for it, the politicians wouldn't do it. We get the government we deserve, sadly.

I'm not allowed to vote, i'm underage, so I can't be blamed for putting the government into power (i'm planning on just not voting when i'm older, it's always the same old crap no matter the party that gets in).

However, we're human. Given a list of 3 evils, we will always strive to choose the lesser of them. The electorate cannot be blamed for putting a bad party into power and being told to deal with it when no party keeps their promises, we can only choose the lesser of a list of evils.

The electorate doesn't 'fall for' anything, what simply happens is that people strive (or I hope they do) to choose the party that instead of doing the most amount of good for the country, will do the least amount of harm. The electorate is given the illusion of choice, but no matter what happens, each available government will turn around and kick you in the teeth; it's just a matter of who has the lightest kick.

Perhaps so, Elmodiddly, but the fact remains that the reason people are annoyed with the Lib Dems is because they effectively betrayed their voters by U-turning on the fees.

Admittedly, politicians pull this sort of nonsense all the time, but this really got on the nerves of the voters, especially when the Lib Dems then seemingly laid down and died, and seem to have failed to even try and oppose this.

Stop signs in two languages (usually spanish)