Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
Aug 17th 2009, 8:09 pm
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Aug 17th 2009, 11:36 pm
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Aug 19th 2009, 4:32 pm
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Re: Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
This is so funny...here in Edinburgh we get loads and loads of American tourists, and of all those I actually met in one way or another, and had a wee bit of a chat with from time to time, I never, ever met a single one who admitted to voting for George Bush! They all said "they didn't vote for the guy!" Does that mean all those Americans who actually voted for Bush never actually leave the United States?
Aug 20th 2009, 11:13 pm
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Aug 21st 2009, 4:17 pm
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Aug 21st 2009, 5:21 pm
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Re: Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
So all those lovely American tourists are likely Democrats...
Aug 21st 2009, 5:57 pm
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Re: Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
Hmm, that actually reminds me of that Spitting Image song of the 80's.... "You'll never meet a nice South African". I think it needs re-releasing today, with South African substituted out for Republican...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLMKUXZ3hk
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Aug 21st 2009, 6:04 pm
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Re: Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
But of course, what else - being as there's no such thing as a lovely Republican....
Hmm, that actually reminds me of that Spitting Image song of the 80's.... "You'll never meet a nice South African". I think it needs re-releasing today, with South African substituted out for Republican...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLMKUXZ3hk
Hmm, that actually reminds me of that Spitting Image song of the 80's.... "You'll never meet a nice South African". I think it needs re-releasing today, with South African substituted out for Republican...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLMKUXZ3hk
Aug 21st 2009, 6:29 pm
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Re: Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
You're not, by any chance, suggesting that the average Republican base member is a narrow-minded, jingoistic, social retard who thinks the world ends at his/her city limits, are you?
Aug 21st 2009, 8:19 pm
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Re: Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
I have to say that all the American tourists I see either in Edinburgh or in London are well behaved and very polite even though many of them are loud and seem to like to be heard before they are seen. Even where the young Americans over here are concerned I have never seen any single one of them drunk or causing problems like so many Brits are and do not only here in the UK but also in any place they go abroad, and because of our geographical position in the UK very many Brits go abroad because to us abroad is so much closer than it is to Americans, unless it's Canada or Mexico, but even those countries are quite far away from many Americans simply becaise of the sheer size of their country which is a Continent in itself almost, and as far as Canada is concerned there doesn't seem to be much difference at all from the USA. Most Brits would hardly be able to distinguish any difference at all between the two. Americans and Canadians even sound and look exactly the same to us here in Britain.
Aug 25th 2009, 5:13 am
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Re: Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
The UK, soon to be known as North Pakistan has a glorious future just around the corner. All the bad things that have been mentioned will be a thing of the past
Instead of scruffiness and tattoos, there will be flowing clean white clothes and no bare midriffs and public drunkenness
Instead of a massive divorce rate and the majority born out of wedlock as is the situation now, that will be come virtually unknown
Instead of drab grey council houses, the landscape will glisten with the golden domes of the mosques for as far as the eye can see. Instead of monolithic soulless supermarkets, the streets will be full of bustling traders with their wares set out on the sidewalks
The schools will be full of earnest pupils trying to become doctors and computer scientists instead of call center operators (They will be in south Pakistan)
The roads will be far less congested with 8 or 9 people in every car instead of one or two
Dogs and other pets which cause such a nuisance will be virtually unknown in the new culture
The birth rate of 1.2 per woman which is such a threat to the future of Britain, will rise to 4.5+ thus ensuring many more workers to support the retired
It just goes on and on - but already you can see that the Britain of 2060 will be a beacon of contentment in the world and certainly the envy of the U.S. with every desirable statistic being represented by North Pakistan (formerly Britain) alone amongst Western nations
I will look back on the bad old days and my sweetie ration card from 1953 and the offensive weapons act (flick knives) from that year, and wonder at how it has all changed for the better beyond anyone's imagination
Instead of scruffiness and tattoos, there will be flowing clean white clothes and no bare midriffs and public drunkenness
Instead of a massive divorce rate and the majority born out of wedlock as is the situation now, that will be come virtually unknown
Instead of drab grey council houses, the landscape will glisten with the golden domes of the mosques for as far as the eye can see. Instead of monolithic soulless supermarkets, the streets will be full of bustling traders with their wares set out on the sidewalks
The schools will be full of earnest pupils trying to become doctors and computer scientists instead of call center operators (They will be in south Pakistan)
The roads will be far less congested with 8 or 9 people in every car instead of one or two
Dogs and other pets which cause such a nuisance will be virtually unknown in the new culture
The birth rate of 1.2 per woman which is such a threat to the future of Britain, will rise to 4.5+ thus ensuring many more workers to support the retired
It just goes on and on - but already you can see that the Britain of 2060 will be a beacon of contentment in the world and certainly the envy of the U.S. with every desirable statistic being represented by North Pakistan (formerly Britain) alone amongst Western nations
I will look back on the bad old days and my sweetie ration card from 1953 and the offensive weapons act (flick knives) from that year, and wonder at how it has all changed for the better beyond anyone's imagination
Aug 25th 2009, 6:12 am
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Re: Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
The UK, soon to be known as North Pakistan has a glorious future just around the corner. All the bad things that have been mentioned will be a thing of the past
Instead of scruffiness and tattoos, there will be flowing clean white clothes and no bare midriffs and public drunkenness
Instead of a massive divorce rate and the majority born out of wedlock as is the situation now, that will be come virtually unknown
Instead of drab grey council houses, the landscape will glisten with the golden domes of the mosques for as far as the eye can see. Instead of monolithic soulless supermarkets, the streets will be full of bustling traders with their wares set out on the sidewalks
The schools will be full of earnest pupils trying to become doctors and computer scientists instead of call center operators (They will be in south Pakistan)
The roads will be far less congested with 8 or 9 people in every car instead of one or two
Dogs and other pets which cause such a nuisance will be virtually unknown in the new culture
The birth rate of 1.2 per woman which is such a threat to the future of Britain, will rise to 4.5+ thus ensuring many more workers to support the retired
It just goes on and on - but already you can see that the Britain of 2060 will be a beacon of contentment in the world and certainly the envy of the U.S. with every desirable statistic being represented by North Pakistan (formerly Britain) alone amongst Western nations
I will look back on the bad old days and my sweetie ration card from 1953 and the offensive weapons act (flick knives) from that year, and wonder at how it has all changed for the better beyond anyone's imagination
Instead of scruffiness and tattoos, there will be flowing clean white clothes and no bare midriffs and public drunkenness
Instead of a massive divorce rate and the majority born out of wedlock as is the situation now, that will be come virtually unknown
Instead of drab grey council houses, the landscape will glisten with the golden domes of the mosques for as far as the eye can see. Instead of monolithic soulless supermarkets, the streets will be full of bustling traders with their wares set out on the sidewalks
The schools will be full of earnest pupils trying to become doctors and computer scientists instead of call center operators (They will be in south Pakistan)
The roads will be far less congested with 8 or 9 people in every car instead of one or two
Dogs and other pets which cause such a nuisance will be virtually unknown in the new culture
The birth rate of 1.2 per woman which is such a threat to the future of Britain, will rise to 4.5+ thus ensuring many more workers to support the retired
It just goes on and on - but already you can see that the Britain of 2060 will be a beacon of contentment in the world and certainly the envy of the U.S. with every desirable statistic being represented by North Pakistan (formerly Britain) alone amongst Western nations
I will look back on the bad old days and my sweetie ration card from 1953 and the offensive weapons act (flick knives) from that year, and wonder at how it has all changed for the better beyond anyone's imagination
Aug 25th 2009, 10:18 am
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Re: Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
The UK, soon to be known as North Pakistan, has a glorious future just around the corner.... there will be flowing clean white clothes and no bare midriffs and public drunkennes...the landscape will glisten with the golden domes of the mosques for as far as the eye can see. Instead of monolithic soulless supermarkets, the streets will be full of bustling traders with their wares set out on the sidewalks...schools will be full of earnest pupils trying to become doctors and computer scientists instead of call center operators (They will be in south Pakistan)...Dogs and other pets which cause such a nuisance will be virtually unknown in the new culture
Fantastic take-aways though, amazingly gorgeously out of this world curries......and the muezzins make for excellent alarm clocks.
I've never ever seen a pissed up, vomiting, urinating, foul mouthed, semi dressed, copper thumping Asian of either gender, unlike the true born natives for whom it's a way of life in Brown's Broken Britannia or in the unfortunate sunspots of Continental Europa where the local inhabitants are forced to witness this self same way of life especially delivered to their vomit stained, pissblown doorsteps by the likes of Club 18-30 flown in on mega cheap flight/package deals from any UK airport.
Aug 25th 2009, 12:50 pm
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Re: Is the British Isles long past it's better days or not?
Absolutely perfect descriptions of Bradford....Blackburn....Burnley....Oldham....Leic ester....Southall.....Slough.....et al
Fantastic take-aways though, amazingly gorgeously out of this world curries......and the muezzins make for excellent alarm clocks.
I've never ever seen a pissed up, vomiting, urinating, foul mouthed, semi dressed, copper thumping Asian of either gender, unlike the true born natives for whom it's a way of life in Brown's Broken Britannia or in the unfortunate sunspots of Continental Europa where the local inhabitants are forced to witness this self same way of life especially delivered to their vomit stained, pissblown doorsteps by the likes of Club 18-30 flown in on mega cheap flight/package deals from any UK airport.
Fantastic take-aways though, amazingly gorgeously out of this world curries......and the muezzins make for excellent alarm clocks.
I've never ever seen a pissed up, vomiting, urinating, foul mouthed, semi dressed, copper thumping Asian of either gender, unlike the true born natives for whom it's a way of life in Brown's Broken Britannia or in the unfortunate sunspots of Continental Europa where the local inhabitants are forced to witness this self same way of life especially delivered to their vomit stained, pissblown doorsteps by the likes of Club 18-30 flown in on mega cheap flight/package deals from any UK airport.
Nowhere/nobody fit that description North of the border then?