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ROMFT_WO2RN May 5th 2011 8:33 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer (Post 9346767)
Get yer stilletoes off R2D2. Handbags on the dance floor. Just settling on the sofa for an hour of Jezza Kyle. TV at it's finest....

Bizaarly the man was bloody good on his documentary about Army driving training:ohmy:

Surely his daytime tv however is just like being in Qld :confused: ;)

Turban Explorer May 5th 2011 8:35 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by ROMFT_WO2RN (Post 9346775)
Bizaarly the man was bloody good on his documentary about Army driving training:ohmy:

Surely his daytime tv however is just like being in Qld :confused: ;)

I prefer the chav to the red neck.

ROMFT_WO2RN May 5th 2011 8:36 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer (Post 9346780)
I prefer the chav to the red neck.

It's a close call but I suppose Burberry wins in the end :D

Turban Explorer May 5th 2011 8:43 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by ROMFT_WO2RN (Post 9346783)
It's a close call but I suppose Burberry wins in the end :D

Some absolute beauties on today. Facebook cut offs and text messages, DNA tests - the new motifs of romance...

ROMFT_WO2RN May 5th 2011 8:44 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer (Post 9346789)
Some absolute beauties on today. Facebook cut offs and text messages, DNA tests - the new motifs of romance...

For "romance", I presume you mean drunken random shagging ;)

JackTheLad May 5th 2011 8:47 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 9336805)
Can it be that it was all so simple then
or has time rewritten every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
tell me would we? Could we?

As Barbra Streisand says, if you could do it all again......would you? Emigrate that is........


Yes, but that doesn't preclude me from having a right old whinge about how redneck this place is.

JTL

Turban Explorer May 5th 2011 8:49 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by ROMFT_WO2RN (Post 9346791)
For "romance", I presume you mean drunken random shagging ;)

My favorite hobby. Just never let them near your facebook profile and use a decoy mobile. :)

Pollyana May 5th 2011 8:51 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer (Post 9346710)
I'm out on parole. First day in London. Fantastic! Watching a robin and a couple of squirrels in the garden and wolfing tesco finest cheese.

Enjoy!!! :thumbsup:Its beautiful there at the moment - well it was when I left three days ago! :wub:

ROMFT_WO2RN May 5th 2011 8:52 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer (Post 9346798)
My favorite hobby. Just never let them near your facebook profile and use a decoy mobile. :)

Facebook, not a chance :eek: all my JR's had them and were dumb enough to put the phots from their "black ops", mobiles on :confused: Funnily enough the GF's at home found out DUH!! :D

ukecadet May 6th 2011 12:52 am

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by ROMFT_WO2RN (Post 9346806)
Facebook, not a chance :eek: all my JR's had them and were dumb enough to put the phots from their "black ops", mobiles on :confused: Funnily enough the GF's at home found out DUH!! :D

What are JR's,GF's and DUH's

ROMFT_WO2RN May 6th 2011 2:24 am

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by ukecadet (Post 9347164)
What are JR's,GF's and DUH's

JR = Junior Rate normally prefixed with "damned"
GF = girlfriend, come on man get down with the youth speak :p
DUH = generally expression "how could you not understand that, you must be as thick as a whale omelette"

Carbery May 6th 2011 8:45 am

Re: Would you do it all again?
 
Loved reading this thread - I dont usually read 8 pages of replies as I have a very short attention span:o
I think the vote is subjective to where you are at the moment, had I voted 4 years ago it would have been no but now with us settled happily in a lucrative business, a nice home in an area we are happy with, kids settled in good school and university, a much better social life and friends than we ever had in UK my vote is yes.

quoll May 6th 2011 8:51 am

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 9346691)
Yep, back in jail, my next parole is due in mid September :thumbup:

Coo, twice this year huh! I dont get to escape until early September for my FIRST trip this year (got to remember the good behaviour thing and stop bashing the warders quite so much!) but we are going for 8 weeks thank goodness

paulry May 6th 2011 1:33 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by Carbery (Post 9348047)
Loved reading this thread - I dont usually read 8 pages of replies as I have a very short attention span:o
I think the vote is subjective to where you are at the moment, had I voted 4 years ago it would have been no but now with us settled happily in a lucrative business, a nice home in an area we are happy with, kids settled in good school and university, a much better social life and friends than we ever had in UK my vote is yes.

Too right. It's one wicked see-saw. My underlying and long held belief is we've done the right thing to move here. But translating the dream into a liveable reality seems nearly impossible - especially when a lot is going wrong. Sometimes it's tempting to chuck the towel in and go back. But go back to what exactly? <shudder>

slapphead_otool May 6th 2011 2:40 pm

Re: Would you do it all again?
 

Originally Posted by paulry (Post 9348421)
Too right. It's one wicked see-saw. My underlying and long held belief is we've done the right thing to move here. But translating the dream into a liveable reality seems nearly impossible - especially when a lot is going wrong. Sometimes it's tempting to chuck the towel in and go back. But go back to what exactly? <shudder>

Times are tough everywhere. This is the first time Gen X and Y have seen a recession, and right now they are adopting a Nelsonian stance to a large degree.

In my opinion we are living beyond our means and have done so for many years.

Re the OP question – I would have done it sooner, differently, and had better values. I’m old enough now to look back on it and ask “what was it all for, and what difference did I make”.

The answer is pretty well none.

I would have changed that.


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