Britain in this day and age

I got thinking about a post I made in another thread, who actually lives in britain and enjoys it, the weather is as most people say cr*p and they are right, our streets are filling up with more chav scum by the day who are taking all of the labour jobs or living on the dole, most random people I see are miserable usually due to the bad weather [ I think that I am right in saying that sunnier weather makes peoples minds change] and don't get me started on the tax's and high rates for houses.

I love rainy/foggy/overcast weather myself - sweating in 100 degree
heat is NOT good. The week I spent in London was great. But I don't
think I could survive being there; would miss all the great Mexican
food and guacamole here in sunny, sunny, hot hot hot southern California. :smile:

I love the foggy weather too, but some of the things I've heard about the gang problems have just been terrible. Personally, I'm moving up to Canada as soon as I can, since I can't really stand this place for various reasons that I don't really want to go into now.

I blame rap music, myself :razz: Although obviously media makes it seem worse than it is, especially if you read any of the Murdoch stables (Daily Mail et al), and society has always had these kinds of similar problems; basically life is still pretty much is as good as it ever has been, despite pikeys and r&b music and stupid government.

you have pikeys...

...we have pike.

yum!

Of course I like living in Britain, otherwhise I wouldn't live here Silly. :razz:

We have Muskie and Sturgeon

Yum + Lotsa $$$

Last week at my cottage whilst crossing one of the bidges in the nearby village, I saw a MASSIVE fat-ass fish swimming around.

Thing hat to be a foot wide and 3 feet long. BIG fish.

Wish I had a fishing rod.

Ralph Richardson was once (reluctantly) on an American chat-show promoting a film. The host was one of those oily bastards with a silver-grey coiffure and mahogany tan.

Host: (looks directly at camera and displays magnificent teeth) "Sir Ralph, if you hadn't been born an Englishman, what would you have wanted to be ?

The audience prepares to whistle, whoop and holler.

RR: "An Englishman."

Host: (Shuffles papers, bathed in confusion) "And now, a word from our sponsors"

Monqui said:
I love the foggy weather too, but some of the things I've heard about the gang problems have just been terrible. Personally, I'm moving up to Canada as soon as I can, since I can't really stand this place for various reasons that I don't really want to go into now.

Ah, good old Pacific Coast of Canada, that's where the REAL dreary weather is...normally. This year has had the coldest and hottest temps I've ever seen. Instead of 0 to 20 degrees max throughout the year it's been about -12 to 34. Hardly any rain, although we've had a few real downpours. But I wouldn't want to live anywhere else (well, maybe Japan...but it's the same type of biome.) Be grateful it's not any harsh old London Fog...the not-so-healthy kind.

whats chav scum???

I spent almost two weeks in London in 89. I seriously would consider living there if I thought I could make a living doing what I do here(movie biz). I never had so much fun or met so many nice people willing to just sit and talk over a beer before. Remember, I had just come in from France, where I was spit on in the subways, cursed at by cab drivers, and treated like a stoopid piece of s**t by waiters. France sucked. The French in France suck.

In London, I stayed in Kensington Gardens, but felt so comfortable, I often just got on the subway and went for miles and miles looking for rock and roll clubs and pubs.

Beautiful country, nice people, (courteous even??!!). Great place to be.

Campaignjunkie said:
would miss all the great Mexican food and guacamole here in sunny, sunny, hot hot hot southern California. :smile:

houmous pwns guacamole!

Juim said:
whats chav scum???

Chav scum= townies= lil 'hardnuts' who listen to thier terrible rap music lil eminem and lil popstars and who always keep thier sacred baseball caps on at a 90 degree angle, and will basically start on anyone who looks at them.

Black people that are real hard-asses is what our defenition of 'n****r' is (Instead of it meaning any and all black people which is really racist IMO)

fizscy46 said:
Black people that are real hard-asses is what our defenition of 'n****r' is (Instead of it meaning any and all black people which is really racist IMO)

and that came from where :S

Britain does have a lot of racists around where I live, but i'm not one, its just iggnorance.

Canada has a tonne of racism due to our large diversity. White people tend to hate the chinese, and middle easterns, blacks tend to hate the whites and chinese, and chinese tend to hate the middle easterns and blacks

Soylent Green is tasty.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3443293.stm
Apparently, in Germany you can eat a person for a mere 8 years in prison.

IMO the majority of racism in Britain comes from black people
themsleves. The black equivalent of the Chav scum, the hard arses who r
der wicked gangster rappers!! If one of them's in your way, and you ask
him to move so you can get past, you can guarantee that he'll turn
round and say "Is it coz I is black?". "No, it's because you're in my
way and I'd lik to get past..." "Is you bein racist white boy?" "No...
I want to get past...".

And there's always little corners in schools and colleges, and you KNOW
that if a white person sat down there, they would be absolutely
mullered.

The only black person I know is a slightly younger skater called Hanson. The colour of his skin has never been an issue in my town at all, despite the fact we have a black population of around...well, the 4 people there are in his family I'd guess.

I live in a nice town and its been a great place to grow up, but lately you don't see kids out playing football or armies like I used to, but they are all out trying to piss off skaters or hanging out around the chip shop. Kids just seem to have lost their innocence these days, loads are smoking at horrendously young ages, somehow getting their hands on drink, and swearing like it is going out of fashion. Its just a ned infestation up in Scotland - if you read some of the national press then you will see a lot of letters and articles discussing the "crisis", albeit in a normally light hearted tone.

fizscy46 said:
Canada has a tonne of racism due to our large diversity. White people tend to hate the chinese, and middle easterns, blacks tend to hate the whites and chinese, and chinese tend to hate the middle easterns and blacks

Not here on the west coast...it tends to be very anti-white. Because everyone can get away with it. Sure there are the older people who grew up with stereotypes and such but the younger generations are pretty linient, as well Vancouver has the highest rate of mixed-race couples in just about anywhere. There just isn't a lot of general racism around here, any conflict tends to actually be within racial groups. (Big issue of East Indians and gangs lately (The parents have no idea what to do and the kids have just been engrossed in the 'thug' mentality.) and I have seen the results of it.) The only presiding racism I usually see here is with natives, but often that's the result of a monetary/goverment/social services conflict as well.

Australians generally cant afford to be racist, too many foreigners come here.

My school is probably around 50% white, the rest asians/africans/mideast, and there is absolutely zero friction.

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Australians generally cant afford to be racist, too many foreigners come here.

My school is probably around 50% white, the rest asians/africans/mideast, and there is absolutely zero friction.

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What? No Aborigines??

Around here it's more an anti-themselves attitude... the whites and blacks don't try to kill each other or anything but I've yet to see them hang out with one another.

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Australians generally cant afford to be racist, too many foreigners come here.

My school is probably around 50% white, the rest asians/africans/mideast, and there is absolutely zero friction.

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What? No Aborigines??</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Quite correct, Flashman, Aborigines are actually quite rare everywhere except Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland (which just happen to be the most sparsely populated states...). Usually you can't even tell they're Aborigines, except the ones that go around calling themselves "black" - nearly all of the Aboriginal genes are recessive to Caucasian genes.

As for other race conflicts, as Wilson said, you simply can't afford to be racist. Sure, there's the various Chinatowns, but that's the extent of it (if you exclude the "hard-ass" gangs). In a class of 50 at my school, we have 8 Indians, 6 of various Asian descent, a lot of whites and about 3 mixes. And we all get along just fine, no racial friction - in fact, there's quite the opposite, as people are constantly jokingly accusing each other (and the teachers) of being racist.

"Discriminating by race is fine by me, because I'm white" - The Spark

IMO most racism nowadays comes from the self segregation of specific groups as already said. Blacks have their s**t attitude toward whites, Asians have their spiky hair and some clicks, but mostly they are more integrated. I think the only group around here that suffers from prejudice not of their own creation are Mexicans.

I think the cause of racism towards the Mexicans in our country is partially a result of the constant stories of them illegally entering the country. Please note where I put the word 'constant' there; I'm uncertain just how bad the problem is and whether or not it truly is a problem, but I know sure as hell the media likes to report it as one.

I think the only group around here that suffers from prejudice not of their own creation are Mexicans.

Its a shame really. Because it spouts situations that happened like earlier this year (I forget the mans name, but he was shot like three times for posessing a weapon, yet he never pulled anything out, he was hispanic.)

Cash Car Star said:
I think the cause of racism towards the Mexicans in our country is partially a result of the constant stories of them illegally entering the country. Please note where I put the word 'constant' there; I'm uncertain just how bad the problem is and whether or not it truly is a problem, but I know sure as hell the media likes to report it as one.

I can't recall but the Mexican/States border suffers from either 30 or 300 thousand illegal crossings per year I believe it is (I don't know off hand, but I know it was enough to make me pause and think about it for a while.)

it's 300.

SumhObo said:
Usually you can't even tell they're Aborigines, except the ones that go around calling themselves "black" - nearly all of the Aboriginal genes are recessive to Caucasian genes.

i think there's a little more to it than the oboriginal gene pool being absorbed into the caucasian one, although i believe the government tried that too, by outlawing aboriginy couples getting married, and only allowing them to cross-breed with whites. [abolished in the 60's]

the good old empire, as well as all the governments of australia that took her place, have done their damdest over the years to wipe out the oboriginies. i'm surprised that there's any left at all.