400,000 left the UK

Apparently 400,000 people migrated from the United Kingdom last year, no doubt in search of a culture which can pitch itself above Big Brother and hoodies generally tarding things up. Many of you will know that I and other UK folk like to complain about chavs on here, so it's about time to illustrate them!

http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=4140588273&FlashViewType=Personal&MemberId=4309601765

Quite simply - what the f**k.

Check out the guy who has his hands down his trousers for most of the video. Weird.

If your trying to escape bad government and rap "music", then don't move to the USA.

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Reality has become a commodity.

Yeah, but there are significant advantages to living in the US rather than the U.K.

While, yeah, the US generally has the same issue ... the US is A LOT bigger. Also, Canada is just a short drive away.

Oh, and computer parts are cheap here. Starting a business is easy too.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Theres also Australia :biggrin:

Do any of you members actrully have a bebo profile?

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Aaron's Stuff

I live in Michigan. Starting a business is easy, paying the taxes to keep it open is laughable. Lately, many many businesses have ether closed or moved out of state. But yes, living in the US can have it's advantages. (I'm just glad don't live in South America.)

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Reality has become a commodity.

I take it you mean South America the continent, since you capitalized the "S"? :razz:

Because America is so big, if you wanted to, you could get away from a lot of the "modern" disputes and troubles.

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How many people who left turned around and went back after realizing the rest of the world is just as f**ked up?

I take it you mean South America the continent, since you capitalized the "S"? :razz:
Because America is so big, if you wanted to, you could get away from a lot of the "modern" disputes and troubles.

True, but then again; if this the standard Louisiana experience then i don't know how fare I'm willing to go to get away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwbUCI9bEvA

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Reality has become a commodity.

omg, I knew that movie gave Louisiana a bad name, lol. That is certainly NOT the "standard" Louisiana experience. I'll admit, that there are still people way down south, ...and I mean WAY down south; far from me, that are quite like that. Needless to say, we leave 'em be. But Louisiana is just as civilized as the rest of the country. We have one of the best engineering schools in the country and our football team (LSU) is kicking butt this year! I'm not a football fan (American football anyway) but we aren't like that at all. I know you were kidding, I'm just setting things strait, I'm sure Finger could clarify as well.

-the defense rests Your Honor! :biggrin:

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Twitter:@Riven202

yep, I currently live in the New Orleans area.
It is nothing like those movies portray. Most of us have our teeth,
and I, for one do not own a banjo or play with alligators.
Our politics aren't exactly civil sometimes, though.

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don't sweat the petty stuff,just pet the sweaty stuff.

No need to be defensive. You know i was kidding.
Besides, Michigan has Detroit, nuff said.

ps: 8 mile is not a tourist attraction. :ar15firing: It's an eye sore.

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Reality has become a commodity.

heh, agreed on the politics issue smackintosh.

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Australia is pretty good, just watch out for the dropbears. Although can't get a lot of things like fireworks, guns, airsoft or paintball without a lot of paperwork.

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Reckless disregard for childrens well being, women and nothing but utter contempt for other cultures.

I think Crono hit it on the head. The problem is amplified here because of how small the place is. In the small towns and villages of continental Europe i'm fairly certain the roads alongside the cities arent clogged up with souped up hatchbacks and cider drinking thugs...

I wouldn't move to the USA, unless I lived on some ranch far away from the foibles of domestic politics. Europe has no jobs and is tied up by mayoral bureacracy, South America is full of lunatic socialists and cartels, Africa is well, anarchic at times and Asia is just bizarre.

Looks like plan C to live on a remote Scottish island is the one for me. Fishy might join me!

... and Asia is just bizarre.

You can't escape, really.

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Why snark works.

Come to lolland :biggrin:

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Boo f**king Hoo

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Looks like plan C to live on a remote Scottish island is the one for me. Fishy might join me!</DIV></DIV>

and miss living alongside the wonderful youth of Glasgow!?!

I think a small pond in Lolland would be a cool place to retire to.

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i eat paint

This is a fact!

The deeper you go into the suburbs, the blacker the white kids get.

The reason why: When you see rapers on tv acting like thugs it looks glamorous. When you actually have to go to class with them and watch as they play dice and carve their names into the side of expensive machinery, (metal shop) while your doing your work, you don't see glamor any more. You see a grope of stupid, thugish, a** holes. And you don't idealise them, you loath them.

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Reality has become a commodity.

Canada isn't bad. If I could live anywhere though, it'd probably be New Zealand.

You Quote the Truth, Redwood.

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don't sweat the petty stuff,just pet the sweaty stuff.

I love cars but I hate the stupid utterly exorbitent level of tax that the greedy government slap on anything car related in this s**t hole of a country. If it gets any worse I will have to move to Australia were gas is as cheap as it is in America, plus there would be no yobs.

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Just Kidding

Just Kidding

When the last time you heard our gas prices. It's up to $3.25 a gallon. Last July it was just under $2 for a couple of months. Before that it almost hit $4.

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Reality has become a commodity.

Thing is RedWood, in the UK -

1 litre = ?1.05ish

US, 1 gallon (4 litres) = $3.25 / ?1.50

:smile:

edit: incidentally I use public transport so im not too bothered, unless of course bus tickets start going up (7 mile trip ?2.40 / $5 ?)

Difference between States and Europe: Everything's farther apart in the US, so you end up using more gas. Like, can't speak for Europe, but 1-2 hours is an average commute to work where I live. Takes me ~45 minutes just to get to school.

I know our gas is still cheaper than most of the world. I just have no idea what gas cost in Australia.
I'v herd that things are horribly expensive in The UK region, but i can't be too much worse than the US (or at least the area i live in). Say you work at a job making $10 an hour (thats low but minimum wage is $7.15). You work 40 hours a week and you take home $1120 a month (less if work provides insurance, or union). A one beadroom s**tty apartment cost about $550-$700 a month. Phone $50, electric is around $40 (for a tiny apartment), gas is $80 (agan for a tiny apartment, up %70 this year), food, car, you can't live without a net connection any more. Its hard.

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Reality has become a commodity.

I think I'm going to move under the sea.

Life is better down where it's wetter.

I just have no idea what gas cost in Australia.

At its highest $1.60/litre, can vary between $1.20 for the first half of week and $1.60 by the end (in my area at least, it varies quite a lot from one place to the next).

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SourDough2.0 - With Strawberry Jam

1 Liter ~= 3.75 Gallons
1 AUD ~= .88 USD

1.20 * 3.75 * .88 = $3.96US/gallon.

I pay about $3.20/gallon right now, and I'm in an expensive state with high gas taxes. Conclusion: cheaper in the US.

Solution: invent a hoverboard!

I did but it runs on petrol :sad:

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Gwil said:
Solution: invent a hoverboard!

No way! I love cars not hoverboards!

Invent cars that drive on something other than petrol then. I wonder if that's even possible?

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Why snark works.

Cars that run on deisel fuel can manage just as well on a 50/50 mix of deisel and vegetable oil. It's cheaper, and even makes your car smell like a doughnut frier.

Apparently, deisel engines were originally designed to be run on peanut oil, for 3rd world countries with no petrochemical industries.

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i eat paint

Yep, diesel requires little to no modification to use oil.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

If you want a really nice place to live, come to Scotland, and I don't mean down in the Glasgow/Edinburgh belt, away where I live, in the Highlands. I'd say it's very true that the standard of life up here is just great, roving gangs of neds, alcoholics at every corner, people constantly starting on because you look at them funny, not a single decent driver around.
It's just lovely.
(Also everyone grows weed)