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Anonymous Coward User ID: 70807389 United States 10/19/2016 10:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68881719 9/10 of us can't afford to flee anywhere. Every year passes 10's of thousands move in and overcrowd even more. They get priority for Schools, Doctors, Housing, Benefits. How much longer it can go on before braking point can't be far off. This is classic, I cant believe the cheek. A poor ac blaming the immigrants for his failures in life. Why dont you get off your ass and work to better your life and be able to live in an all-white suburb instead of living of benefits or tax credits. Who said I dont work Tramadol Junkie? I know your account from old your nothing but a red karma seeking cunt. My tax pays for your subscription here while you sit on your "ass" collecting benefits. There is no fast way out of London, Tess made the right move years back it seems, wish I done the same. You sound like the usual entitled lazy chav who blames lack of jobs on immigrants but wont get out of bed in a morning and work for a living. I am disabled so I am entitled to every penny I receive and can spend on what I wish. I worked for over 20 years as a solicitor and civil servant and paid my dues. typical foreign invading filth...hey refugee, you know why your kind gets a jobs in western nations in the first place? because you all work for slave wages and allow any and every form of abuse to be done to you because that's all you know, that's all your cultures know because the nations you come from are pure shit and now you bring your shit to civilized nations and think its normal, guess what it snot, youre all fucked up and you need to realize this fact |
Just A Heroin Junkie
(OP) User ID: 72099278 United Kingdom 10/19/2016 10:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Just A Heroin Junkie This is classic, I cant believe the cheek. A poor ac blaming the immigrants for his failures in life. Why dont you get off your ass and work to better your life and be able to live in an all-white suburb instead of living of benefits or tax credits. Who said I dont work Tramadol Junkie? I know your account from old your nothing but a red karma seeking cunt. My tax pays for your subscription here while you sit on your "ass" collecting benefits. There is no fast way out of London, Tess made the right move years back it seems, wish I done the same. You sound like the usual entitled lazy chav who blames lack of jobs on immigrants but wont get out of bed in a morning and work for a living. I am disabled so I am entitled to every penny I receive and can spend on what I wish. I worked for over 20 years as a solicitor and civil servant and paid my dues. typical foreign invading filth...hey refugee, you know why your kind gets a jobs in western nations in the first place? because you all work for slave wages and allow any and every form of abuse to be done to you because that's all you know, that's all your cultures know because the nations you come from are pure shit and now you bring your shit to civilized nations and think its normal, guess what it snot, youre all fucked up and you need to realize this fact I am white British you fucking idiot. |
Craazee8
User ID: 70344860 United States 10/19/2016 10:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You get drunk on warm beer, try to imitate Americans sports fans at your soccer matches by wearing baseball caps backwards, masterbate to American gay porn, and your women all get fucked by Jamaican men until they are 30, then hope to marry pakastani doctors, who are the only ones that can find a job in your rotten country. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71861331 Pretty accurate.. I don't think even a blind Muslim would even dare think about raping you Tess never mind marry you. U bitches ask, and then you don't like the answer and you get all hostile. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7652149 Canada 10/19/2016 10:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68881719 Who said I dont work Tramadol Junkie? I know your account from old your nothing but a red karma seeking cunt. My tax pays for your subscription here while you sit on your "ass" collecting benefits. There is no fast way out of London, Tess made the right move years back it seems, wish I done the same. You sound like the usual entitled lazy chav who blames lack of jobs on immigrants but wont get out of bed in a morning and work for a living. I am disabled so I am entitled to every penny I receive and can spend on what I wish. I worked for over 20 years as a solicitor and civil servant and paid my dues. typical foreign invading filth...hey refugee, you know why your kind gets a jobs in western nations in the first place? because you all work for slave wages and allow any and every form of abuse to be done to you because that's all you know, that's all your cultures know because the nations you come from are pure shit and now you bring your shit to civilized nations and think its normal, guess what it snot, youre all fucked up and you need to realize this fact I am white British you fucking idiot. muckin the pinen innenfatten? |
Just A Heroin Junkie
(OP) User ID: 72099278 United Kingdom 10/19/2016 10:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Just A Heroin Junkie You sound like the usual entitled lazy chav who blames lack of jobs on immigrants but wont get out of bed in a morning and work for a living. I am disabled so I am entitled to every penny I receive and can spend on what I wish. I worked for over 20 years as a solicitor and civil servant and paid my dues. typical foreign invading filth...hey refugee, you know why your kind gets a jobs in western nations in the first place? because you all work for slave wages and allow any and every form of abuse to be done to you because that's all you know, that's all your cultures know because the nations you come from are pure shit and now you bring your shit to civilized nations and think its normal, guess what it snot, youre all fucked up and you need to realize this fact I am white British you fucking idiot. muckin the pinen innenfatten? What? English please. |
Just A Heroin Junkie
(OP) User ID: 72099278 United Kingdom 10/19/2016 12:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You get drunk on warm beer, try to imitate Americans sports fans at your soccer matches by wearing baseball caps backwards, masterbate to American gay porn, and your women all get fucked by Jamaican men until they are 30, then hope to marry pakastani doctors, who are the only ones that can find a job in your rotten country. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71861331 Pretty accurate.. I don't think even a blind Muslim would even dare think about raping you Tess never mind marry you. U bitches ask, and then you don't like the answer and you get all hostile. I dont like Tess. |
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Just A Heroin Junkie
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73175156 United Kingdom 10/19/2016 12:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You all eat fish and chips, have bad teeth and speak like Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in my fair lady. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72415328 I live by the North Sea so I prefer jellied eels, muscles, cockles & whelks, crab, scallops not traditional fish & chips. yummmm........apart from the jellied eels. Never tasted anything worse in my life. Saying that, I'm Scottish and happily eat 'potted heid'. Oh and haggis too. lol |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73175156 United Kingdom 10/19/2016 01:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You all eat fish and chips, have bad teeth and speak like Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in my fair lady. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72415328 I live by the North Sea so I prefer jellied eels, muscles, cockles & whelks, crab, scallops not traditional fish & chips. yummmm........apart from the jellied eels. Never tasted anything worse in my life. Saying that, I'm Scottish and happily eat 'potted heid'. Oh and haggis too. lol Do you remember getting a bag of boiled whelks, still in the shell, and the bag held closed with the pin? Had to fish them out of the bag, pick the 'scab' off , then gwt thw whelk out of the shell with the pin. They were so delicious. Mussels.....FFS starving now. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73221383 United Kingdom 10/19/2016 01:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You wake in the morning, say goodbye to teddy, take the lift down and get in your Mr. Bean car. You drive by the dentist's office and flip it off on your way to work as a chimney sweep. You stop working 5 times a day to have tea and crumpets. For dinner, it's spotted dick. Quoting: Deplorable Dace Once back home, you watch some Faulty Towers, smoke a fag, kiss a pic of the Queen Mum goodnight and it's back to bed with teddy. I love this description so much! Made me smile reading it! If only life was like that...living the dream lol. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73221383 United Kingdom 10/19/2016 01:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Is the question about the landscape or the people or life in general? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11330901 As an American, I think we have a lot more variety in things we can buy. I'm not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing, just an observation. For instance, a Briton would be overwhelmed in the typical American supermarket or shopping mall. I'm not even sure you call them supermarkets. Big grocery stores. A place to buy food for the household. The British often forget that their four constituent countries are comparable in size to like 4 out of 50 states. Los Angeles to New York is about 3,000 miles, and it's all the USA. If you're in London and you travel 3,000 miles east, you'd have passed Moscow. I think the British often fail to grasp this concept when contemplating what the US is. It's continental in size. I also don't understand the reverence for a monarchy. Or even a need for a monarchy anymore other than posterity and some sense of former greatness, though keeping it seems a little sad in my opinion. From what I see on google maps, the road system in cities looks odd to an American eye. Not just driving on the left, but the crosswalks and those zig-zag lines. Now, while it's true London is a very old city, it's like American cities in that most of its development happened in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution. London and other British cities evolved a little differently from American cities at this time. Not saying it's bad, just different. American cities tend to follow traditional grid patterns, whereas the roads in British cities seem to be all over the place. Again, I'm not talking about ancient roads, but roads built from the 1800s to the present day. In the countryside, the roads look quaint, but they're all so narrow and poorly marked. Also, Britain doesn't seem to have a comprehensive highway system comparable to the USA. There are some expressways, but no limited-access roads going continuously for hundreds of miles. In fairness, I know Canada, as big as it is, doesn't even have ONE trans-Canadian highway that comparable to an American Interstate (limited access for thousands of miles, minimum of two lanes in each direction, no traffic lights, etc.). Most of the cars driven in Britain seem small and strange looking to an American eye, and the license plates are very nondescript. Don't forget we do live on an island, a pretty small island in geographical terms. We have no requirement to have large 8 laned motorways. You can travel from Southern England to Northern Scotland in less than 24 hours. It takes you guys that long to drive through one US state. We of course drive on the left (not sure why?). Our motorways are linked well between major cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle etc) in England specifically. But you are right some areas don't have motorways at all Cornwall and The Highlands. It's all A and B Roads. Our licence plates are boring but the first two letters indicate the city or area the car was first registered followed by the year it was registered. I'd like them to have county designs on them or something similar to your states. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73065322 United States 10/19/2016 01:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think that its cloudy and rainy and the beer is warm and all the food is boiled filter organs. In the cities it is drunken hooligans assaulting people and in the country it is short round women in floral print dresses and hats and Vicars...whatever those are. You have some sort of police that drive around trying to get you in trouble just for having a television set. You can't do anything without asking for permission from come sort of local council that never approves anything. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 37104132 United States 10/19/2016 03:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why would you give a rat's behind what Americans think about what it is like in Great Britain? I couldn't care less what Britainites think it's like in America. Although, I did have a Londonite tell me he was afraid to come to the USA because of the violence he had seen in American movies. But since you asked: I think that many of the older generation in the UK seem worried about their country and perhaps world affairs in general. They are very friendly. The younger generations are pretty much synonymous with all other young people around the world. I was only in London a short while so my impressions are limited to more touristy areas. Outside of London and down to Cornwall it is just beautiful and the people are lovely, kind and polite, but then I was always taught to say please and thank you so I usually get that back. The witches in Tintagel gave me a pause, but gypsies were very interesting. The landscape is truly gorgeous down in cornwall. I was expecting flatter land and lots of fog/and or rain. The rolling hills surpised me and the sun. Oh and I sooo loved driving on those crazy tiny roads. That was a trip. And the lady I let the cottage from was super personable. I would have loved to have taken her out for beer and a chat. Also, now that I have had real English tea, I'm hooked. Ive been using P&G Tips and it's pretty darn good. If you have any suggestions for a better tasting tea that might be found in an American Grocery store please let me know. I didn't manage to get to Scotland and Wales, so I have no opinion on those areas. I am sure they are lovely. I forgot. There is one thing I can tell you. I had a dream about London some years back and way before I had went there or even thought about going. In the dream I was standing in a particular location overlooking the Thames, London was burning and their was clearly an invasion happening. I woke up running from the horde. Why I dreamed about London period much less why I dreamed about me being there I do not know. I would have given this dream all of about two seconds of thought except that a couple of days later I saw a picture taken of London from the exact location I had been standing in my dream. I wasn't even looking for that location and had to backup and look again. Everything was there, as I had seen it in my dream, except for the invaders and the London burning. I don't know if this dream means anything or not. I may have just been an eerie coincidence. Well, that's all I got. |
ChuckNoland
User ID: 42319005 United States 10/19/2016 03:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ill bet its awesome to live there. Pints of Guinness that flow like the river Thames, never ending episodes of the Benny Hill Show and Monty Python. Getting my ass kicked at every game of darts by the locals.Banging as many British women as possible. Making them moist with my American Southern drawl. Oh and the beautiful landscape. |
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Deplorable Rorschach
User ID: 72115403 United States 10/19/2016 05:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Is the question about the landscape or the people or life in general? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11330901 As an American, I think we have a lot more variety in things we can buy. I'm not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing, just an observation. For instance, a Briton would be overwhelmed in the typical American supermarket or shopping mall. I'm not even sure you call them supermarkets. Big grocery stores. A place to buy food for the household. The British often forget that their four constituent countries are comparable in size to like 4 out of 50 states. Los Angeles to New York is about 3,000 miles, and it's all the USA. If you're in London and you travel 3,000 miles east, you'd have passed Moscow. I think the British often fail to grasp this concept when contemplating what the US is. It's continental in size. I also don't understand the reverence for a monarchy. Or even a need for a monarchy anymore other than posterity and some sense of former greatness, though keeping it seems a little sad in my opinion. From what I see on google maps, the road system in cities looks odd to an American eye. Not just driving on the left, but the crosswalks and those zig-zag lines. Now, while it's true London is a very old city, it's like American cities in that most of its development happened in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution. London and other British cities evolved a little differently from American cities at this time. Not saying it's bad, just different. American cities tend to follow traditional grid patterns, whereas the roads in British cities seem to be all over the place. Again, I'm not talking about ancient roads, but roads built from the 1800s to the present day. In the countryside, the roads look quaint, but they're all so narrow and poorly marked. Also, Britain doesn't seem to have a comprehensive highway system comparable to the USA. There are some expressways, but no limited-access roads going continuously for hundreds of miles. In fairness, I know Canada, as big as it is, doesn't even have ONE trans-Canadian highway that comparable to an American Interstate (limited access for thousands of miles, minimum of two lanes in each direction, no traffic lights, etc.). Most of the cars driven in Britain seem small and strange looking to an American eye, and the license plates are very nondescript. Don't forget we do live on an island, a pretty small island in geographical terms. We have no requirement to have large 8 laned motorways. You can travel from Southern England to Northern Scotland in less than 24 hours. It takes you guys that long to drive through one US state. We of course drive on the left (not sure why?). Our motorways are linked well between major cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle etc) in England specifically. But you are right some areas don't have motorways at all Cornwall and The Highlands. It's all A and B Roads. Our licence plates are boring but the first two letters indicate the city or area the car was first registered followed by the year it was registered. I'd like them to have county designs on them or something similar to your states. You can drive through any state in the continental US in less than 24 hours tard. “When you’re dead you’re dead, but you’re not quite so dead if you contribute something” -John Dunsworth |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 40873218 United States 10/19/2016 06:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | lots of strawberry blond freckled bitches needing a good wanking. a guy employed by the queen to destroy the english language.chips,lift,wtf? a giant lump of dirt next to europe but too snobbish to be called european. end of the world? what idiot came up with that pos movie.? but to balance it out,hitchhiker of the galaxy made up for it. i hereby give simon pegg an honorary american badge. and a shoutout to my pond friends sinny and pimander. |
LearningEveryDay
User ID: 66296463 United States 10/19/2016 06:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | But, Britain seems to be further along the socialist path to failure than the USA, though with our corrupt MSA and the radical liberals, we are fast closing that gap. But Britian has not yet gone so far as France. And France not so far as a number of others. What do all those who continue on that path share? FAILURE |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73062352 Netherlands 10/19/2016 11:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think that its cloudy and rainy and the beer is warm and all the food is boiled filter organs. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73065322 In the cities it is drunken hooligans assaulting people and in the country it is short round women in floral print dresses and hats and Vicars...whatever those are. You have some sort of police that drive around trying to get you in trouble just for having a television set. You can't do anything without asking for permission from come sort of local council that never approves anything. Awww...quaint, the floral print...but not a lot of that goes on (unless it's the vicars in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Which is fairly likely these days.) Vicars are parish priests in the Anglican church. The Vicar of Dibley is quite accurate. [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] I used to live in a village just like this.Except the male vicar had run away with a woman who'd been married 3 times. The scandal...Eventually, he divorced his wife, became husband#4 and they came back to the village. In the cities, nowadays it's mostly Somalis and similar assaulting people. (See: Sweden.) No one but depraved serial killers eats innards anymore. Still there does seem to be quite an underground market in livers and lights. Yep, you can't do much around your property without someone insisting that they have to give you permission. In exchange for a lot of money. Don't get me started on TV licensing. They're not police, they work for the BBC, they have no powers apart from bullying, lying and fabricating evidence to extort money from anything with a pulse regardless of whether they have a telly or no. This all happens so that the BBC gets money to make lovely shows about idyllic little English villages in the rolling countryside which they sell for huge profits to Americans... With the profits they make shows that enable paedophiles and other unsavoury types. Or something like that.... Welcome to deeply dysfunctional Britain. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73062352 Netherlands 10/19/2016 11:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I generally think well of Britain. It has backbone. It is a strong power for democracy. We share much. Quoting: LearningEveryDay But, Britain seems to be further along the socialist path to failure than the USA, though with our corrupt MSA and the radical liberals, we are fast closing that gap. But Britian has not yet gone so far as France. And France not so far as a number of others. What do all those who continue on that path share? FAILURE I fear you may be mistaking the UK's blackshirt militarised police for 'backbone'. And any 'democracy' you happen to spot is rather accidental....(see: BREXIT, which wasn't supposed to happen. They thought they'd stitched it up, like they did the ScotInd vote.) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73062352 Netherlands 10/19/2016 11:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh, I forgot about the TV license. Do they still have it? I don't have TV service in the U.S., so I guess the license wouldn't bother me. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73211878 Yes. It is a totally anachronistic tax. Because the boys at the BBC cannot run a business and rely on handouts from the public. Even if you don't have a TV, the BBC's goons are not above fabricating evidence that you do. (There was a recent court case that slammed the goons for going to elaborate ends to fabricate 'evidence' that apparently showed a member of the public watching TV in his own home without a licence. He wasn't) Now the BBC is trying to spy on your internet connection to see if you're streaming any live broadcasts from anywhere. They are not nice people. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72869366 Canada 10/20/2016 12:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's dirty, depressing, full of nothing but pakies and drunks. If you're anything but a millionaire, you live in a shitty apartment you people call a flat, full of unemployed drunks just like you, lying on your mothers couch in your underwear eating crisps, drinking shitty warm beer, and watching the tele. It's a horrible existence. I thank God Almighty my ancestors got on a boat and left that whole shitty continent. |