Originally Posted by startwin (Post 4826498)

And it made huge news across the country - not exactly a regular occurance. I'm having my own mental tussle about staying here or going back to the UK, but I don't pounce on every negative in this country and hold it up as the norm. Speaking from my limited experience of annual visits back to the UK and keeping up with the news from there, I still say that I feel a damned sight safer here in the Vancouver area than back there. If I do go back to the UK to live, I'd like to be able to afford to live in a backwater somewhere quiet! My hometown (UK) newspaper last week carried stories of a dog that was tied up and set fire to; a cat that was stomped to death; an expectant mother stabbed in the abdomen; an elderly man punched for looking at a group of teens. That's just some. I think I'd rather wander down East Hastings at midnight!

Originally Posted by startwin (Post 4826498)

And it made huge news across the country - not exactly a regular occurance. I'm having my own mental tussle about staying here or going back to the UK, but I don't pounce on every negative in this country and hold it up as the norm. Speaking from my limited experience of annual visits back to the UK and keeping up with the news from there, I still say that I feel a damned sight safer here in the Vancouver area than back there. If I do go back to the UK to live, I'd like to be able to afford to live in a backwater somewhere quiet! My hometown (UK) newspaper last week carried stories of a dog that was tied up and set fire to; a cat that was stomped to death; an expectant mother stabbed in the abdomen; an elderly man punched for looking at a group of teens. That's just some. I think I'd rather wander down East Hastings at midnight!

Originally Posted by dozy_muppet03 (Post 4827251)

I beleive a women was punched and kicked while filling up her car at a gas station....

Go figure...


John

Originally Posted by bananahammock (Post 4826724)

Are you from Bristol then startwin? :)

Originally Posted by startwin (Post 4827283)

In my dim and distant past, yes! Obviously you've been reading the Evening Post as well!

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4819910)

; it's like an uglier Switzerland.

Originally Posted by startwin (Post 4826498)

And it made huge news across the country - not exactly a regular occurance. I'm having my own mental tussle about staying here or going back to the UK, but I don't pounce on every negative in this country and hold it up as the norm. Speaking from my limited experience of annual visits back to the UK and keeping up with the news from there, I still say that I feel a damned sight safer here in the Vancouver area than back there. If I do go back to the UK to live, I'd like to be able to afford to live in a backwater somewhere quiet! My hometown (UK) newspaper last week carried stories of a dog that was tied up and set fire to; a cat that was stomped to death; an expectant mother stabbed in the abdomen; an elderly man punched for looking at a group of teens. That's just some. I think I'd rather wander down East Hastings at midnight!

Originally Posted by neill (Post 4827602)

Someone's found the right description after all these years!
:rofl:

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 4830138)

No, it's just that someone's quoted Peter Ustinov after all these years.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 4830138)

No, it's just that someone's quoted Peter Ustinov after all these years.

Originally Posted by flashman (Post 4832297)

From what I remember Ustinov said that Toronto was New York run by the Swiss.

Just Google "Ustinov Toronto"

Originally Posted by Grah (Post 4832252)

Well if you fill the kids with sugar, pop and addiictive chemicals, then cater to their every whim with out serious consquences for their behaviours what do you expect.

Loads of different diet changing shows and research has shown that giving kids healthier diets changes behaviour and reduces problems. Yet the goverment still allows the manufactures to produce the crap and hence eaten by the addicts so the cycle continues.

Originally Posted by Grah (Post 4832252)

Well if you fill the kids with sugar, pop and addiictive chemicals, then cater to their every whim with out serious consquences for their behaviours what do you expect.

Loads of different diet changing shows and research has shown that giving kids healthier diets changes behaviour and reduces problems. Yet the goverment still allows the manufactures to produce the crap and hence eaten by the addicts so the cycle continues.