Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
Jan 29th 2012, 3:29 pm
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Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
For all those expats living full-time or part-time in France, what are the 5 things you hate most about the UK?
For me
1. The weather
2. The drunken lout and drug abuse culture.
3. People sponging off the State with no intention of ever working.
4. Infrastructure has been allowed to decay (roads and railways).
5. Political correctness gone mad.
What are your top 5 hates?
For me
1. The weather
2. The drunken lout and drug abuse culture.
3. People sponging off the State with no intention of ever working.
4. Infrastructure has been allowed to decay (roads and railways).
5. Political correctness gone mad.
What are your top 5 hates?
Jan 30th 2012, 12:10 pm
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
For me it is:
(1) Chavs and other spongers off the benefits system.
(2) The weak idiots in government - all parties, every last one of them.
(3) Rotten, over-priced public transport.
(4) Employment laws that give free reign to bad employers.
(5) The surveillance state: politically-correct police, CCTV cameras everywhere, shop-your-neighbour everywhere, 'think of the children' everywhere.
(1) Chavs and other spongers off the benefits system.
(2) The weak idiots in government - all parties, every last one of them.
(3) Rotten, over-priced public transport.
(4) Employment laws that give free reign to bad employers.
(5) The surveillance state: politically-correct police, CCTV cameras everywhere, shop-your-neighbour everywhere, 'think of the children' everywhere.
Jan 30th 2012, 12:35 pm
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
Blimey, that sounds just like Sweden - plus we've got the worst climate in Europe.
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Jan 30th 2012, 5:25 pm
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
For all those expats living full-time or part-time in France, what are the 5 things you hate most about the UK?
For me
1. The weather
2. The drunken lout and drug abuse culture.
3. People sponging off the State with no intention of ever working.
4. Infrastructure has been allowed to decay (roads and railways).
5. Political correctness gone mad.
What are your top 5 hates?
For me
1. The weather
2. The drunken lout and drug abuse culture.
3. People sponging off the State with no intention of ever working.
4. Infrastructure has been allowed to decay (roads and railways).
5. Political correctness gone mad.
What are your top 5 hates?
Jan 31st 2012, 1:06 am
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
1. Maggie Thatcher
2. Manchester United
3. Manchester City
4. Maggie Thatcher
5. Maggie Thatcher.
2. Manchester United
3. Manchester City
4. Maggie Thatcher
5. Maggie Thatcher.
Feb 4th 2012, 2:25 pm
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
Feb 4th 2012, 9:07 pm
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
What would a psychologist make of you starting all your 'bad' things with the letter 'M'. So, how would Mummy, Matron, Wilson (inverted psychology), Manhood and Muscle stack up? As a Baggies fan (adopted), one-time Tory voter (the one and only time), upbringing Labour, but more content with Lib-Dems I shall have to talk with my psychiatrist, or better still my lovely OH as she knows me too well at times.
1) Thatcher
2) Tories
3) Telegraph
4) Triviality
5) Thatcher.
Analyse that.
Feb 5th 2012, 12:40 pm
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Feb 5th 2012, 4:48 pm
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
For all those expats living full-time or part-time in France, what are the 5 things you hate most about the UK?
For me
1. The weather
2. The drunken lout and drug abuse culture.
3. People sponging off the State with no intention of ever working.
4. Infrastructure has been allowed to decay (roads and railways).
5. Political correctness gone mad.
What are your top 5 hates?
For me
1. The weather
2. The drunken lout and drug abuse culture.
3. People sponging off the State with no intention of ever working.
4. Infrastructure has been allowed to decay (roads and railways).
5. Political correctness gone mad.
What are your top 5 hates?
1. Lack of respect for others
2. Litter louts
3. Drunken yobs (and yobettes)
4. Health and Safety madness
5. Political correctness
Feb 9th 2012, 4:38 pm
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
I can't really say I 'hate' anything, but since you ask, here goes:
1) Obesity. Having lived here for so long I'd forgotten French women don't put on nearly so much weight as their British counterparts.
2) The crummy drinking culture.
3) "Wot you lookin at, innit"; the rise of the moron.
4) The overcrowded motorways (not that I wish to suggest in any way that toll roads reduce traffic), the decline in driving standards and the increased speed at which people go.
5) An NHS that allowed my mother to die of breast cancer because they didn't listen.
1) Obesity. Having lived here for so long I'd forgotten French women don't put on nearly so much weight as their British counterparts.
2) The crummy drinking culture.
3) "Wot you lookin at, innit"; the rise of the moron.
4) The overcrowded motorways (not that I wish to suggest in any way that toll roads reduce traffic), the decline in driving standards and the increased speed at which people go.
5) An NHS that allowed my mother to die of breast cancer because they didn't listen.
Feb 9th 2012, 7:50 pm
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
I can't really say I 'hate' anything, but since you ask, here goes:
1) Obesity. Having lived here for so long I'd forgotten French women don't put on nearly so much weight as their British counterparts.
2) The crummy drinking culture.
3) "Wot you lookin at, innit"; the rise of the moron.
4) The overcrowded motorways (not that I wish to suggest in any way that toll roads reduce traffic), the decline in driving standards and the increased speed at which people go.
5) An NHS that allowed my mother to die of breast cancer because they didn't listen.
1) Obesity. Having lived here for so long I'd forgotten French women don't put on nearly so much weight as their British counterparts.
2) The crummy drinking culture.
3) "Wot you lookin at, innit"; the rise of the moron.
4) The overcrowded motorways (not that I wish to suggest in any way that toll roads reduce traffic), the decline in driving standards and the increased speed at which people go.
5) An NHS that allowed my mother to die of breast cancer because they didn't listen.
1. Dumpy women and men in France, 'cos they don't grow tall, but try getting size 11 shoes.
2. Tend to agree, and as for the price ...
3. Never seen agro, but assume it must exist ... somewhere ...
4. Clear roads lull me into a false sense of security when I get off the ferry in UK ...
5. Toughie Perbrain. I can only sympathise. My mum didn't do too well either. For me the NHS has too many cooks and the chefs haven't read the menu ...
... don't get me started on teachers ....
Feb 14th 2012, 11:51 pm
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
New to this site but hey here goes, in no particular order...
1. The lad/ladette 'culture' that plagues our towns and cities.
2. Roads - too full, too many roadworks, surfaces like cobblestones.
3. Gimme, gimme, gimme attitude of the scroungers and workshy.
4. Bonuses for 'poor' pathetic bankers (literal and otherwise) that already earn 6+ figure salaries and definitely don't deserve them.
5. The weather!
(But teachers are great, well some are......)
1. The lad/ladette 'culture' that plagues our towns and cities.
2. Roads - too full, too many roadworks, surfaces like cobblestones.
3. Gimme, gimme, gimme attitude of the scroungers and workshy.
4. Bonuses for 'poor' pathetic bankers (literal and otherwise) that already earn 6+ figure salaries and definitely don't deserve them.
5. The weather!
(But teachers are great, well some are......)
Feb 15th 2012, 12:44 am
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
1. Too close to France
2. Expats who live in France who think it is oh so clever to slag of their homeland.
3. The channel tunnel ends in France
4. Expats who live in France can get back into England through said tunnel
5. Ferries to and from France.
I am sure there are more but hope that helps
2. Expats who live in France who think it is oh so clever to slag of their homeland.
3. The channel tunnel ends in France
4. Expats who live in France can get back into England through said tunnel
5. Ferries to and from France.
I am sure there are more but hope that helps
Feb 15th 2012, 2:31 am
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Re: Name your top 5 bad things about the UK
1. Not far enough away from the Antipodes
2. No chance of retaining the Ashes
3, Richie Benaud on TMS
4. Dame Edna
5. Rolf Harris
2. No chance of retaining the Ashes
3, Richie Benaud on TMS
4. Dame Edna
5. Rolf Harris