The hell of being a British Expat
Aug 26th 2007, 11:45 am
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The hell of being a British Expat
Gotta love Clarkson!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2326687.ece
"Fine, but in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”
Australia is where you go when you’ve made a mess of everything. That’s why the 1.3m Brits who live there are known as whingeing Poms. Because they’re all failures."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2326687.ece
"Fine, but in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”
Australia is where you go when you’ve made a mess of everything. That’s why the 1.3m Brits who live there are known as whingeing Poms. Because they’re all failures."
Aug 26th 2007, 12:17 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
LOL - Yep thats us
Still think he is funny though - Im on a group on facebook that says Jeremy Clarkson for PM!
Still think he is funny though - Im on a group on facebook that says Jeremy Clarkson for PM!
Aug 26th 2007, 12:20 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
Gotta love Clarkson!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2326687.ece
"Fine, but in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”
Australia is where you go when you’ve made a mess of everything. That’s why the 1.3m Brits who live there are known as whingeing Poms. Because they’re all failures."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2326687.ece
"Fine, but in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”
Australia is where you go when you’ve made a mess of everything. That’s why the 1.3m Brits who live there are known as whingeing Poms. Because they’re all failures."
Must replace his books that I didn't bring with me ...
Aug 26th 2007, 12:32 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
George Orwell
George Orwell
Aug 26th 2007, 12:50 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
Gotta love Clarkson!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2326687.ece
"Fine, but in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”
Australia is where you go when you’ve made a mess of everything. That’s why the 1.3m Brits who live there are known as whingeing Poms. Because they’re all failures."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2326687.ece
"Fine, but in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”
Australia is where you go when you’ve made a mess of everything. That’s why the 1.3m Brits who live there are known as whingeing Poms. Because they’re all failures."
Aug 26th 2007, 1:22 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
Gotta love Clarkson!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2326687.ece
"Fine, but in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2326687.ece
"Fine, but in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”
Aug 26th 2007, 1:25 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
Oh my are you telling me there are bars open at 10am in Australia 
I knew there had to be a good reason for going there
from one failure to all the rest
CHEERS
I knew there had to be a good reason for going there
from one failure to all the rest
CHEERS
Aug 26th 2007, 1:26 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
That's a classic rant. 
I loved the following comment from a reader:
I loved the following comment from a reader:
I think I am right in saying that Mr C lives in the Isle of Man which is not part of the United Kingdom and he qualifies as a tax exile himself, in the local parlance of the Manx he is a rich come over and they think of anyone from the UK as expats too.
His rants are good fun though.
His rants are good fun though.
Aug 26th 2007, 1:45 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
I just love the way so many people take him so seriously!
Tariq's last comment made me raise my eyebrows though.
Tariq's last comment made me raise my eyebrows though.
Aug 26th 2007, 2:19 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
In fairness to him ... he does dish it out to pretty much everyone ...
On the English ... We're not really a nation of zinc kitchen surfaces and brushed aluminium; we're more a nation of Wetherspoons, and Heat Magazine and... chlamydia.
And apart from anything else ... would you seriously take offence at something said by a bloke whose favourite record is Radar Love.
On the English ... We're not really a nation of zinc kitchen surfaces and brushed aluminium; we're more a nation of Wetherspoons, and Heat Magazine and... chlamydia.
And apart from anything else ... would you seriously take offence at something said by a bloke whose favourite record is Radar Love.
Aug 26th 2007, 7:00 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
awww bless the Clarkson,,,,
A complete dimwit himself who only looks good by two bumbling idiots mimicking his daft tone.... sorry richard and james but you just two gimps.
Now on the other the other hand mr clarkson ...... your the intelligent one I suppose, unfortunately you are true brit, so you belong here.
I am off being a failure else where.
A complete dimwit himself who only looks good by two bumbling idiots mimicking his daft tone.... sorry richard and james but you just two gimps.
Now on the other the other hand mr clarkson ...... your the intelligent one I suppose, unfortunately you are true brit, so you belong here.
I am off being a failure else where.
Aug 26th 2007, 9:05 pm
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Re: The hell of being a British Expat
Gotta love Clarkson!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2326687.ece
"Fine, but in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”
Australia is where you go when you’ve made a mess of everything. That’s why the 1.3m Brits who live there are known as whingeing Poms. Because they’re all failures."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2326687.ece
"Fine, but in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”
Australia is where you go when you’ve made a mess of everything. That’s why the 1.3m Brits who live there are known as whingeing Poms. Because they’re all failures."
Or watching Top Gear or reading his newspaper column?
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