Was it a conspiracy ?
Apr 5th 2007, 7:33 am
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Re: Was it a conspiracy ?
It Has cleaner better hospitals ,clear seas , friendlier people , NO spongers , daily waste collections , UK TV , useable swimming pools , and barbecues . and only 2 hours from UK !!
Yeah cos we all know how the Spaniards love the English
Yeah cos we all know how the Spaniards love the English
Apr 5th 2007, 8:21 am
#62
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Re: Was it a conspiracy ?
What do you do for a living Pete? The "big" and "top level operator" tag, talking about "dolly birds", how this once great country is going to the dogs and retiring to the Costa. Are you a 1970s east-end gangster or something?
Apr 5th 2007, 8:36 am
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Re: Was it a conspiracy ?
[witless chump[/QUOTE]
Apr 5th 2007, 8:37 am
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Actually I am interested in how Pete says he is middle class...hmm by what standards?!
Apr 5th 2007, 10:16 am
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Apr 5th 2007, 10:23 am
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Reminds me of a BBQ we had once in the middle of a huge deluge. I had a friend holding an umbrella over me while I cooked the food on the barbie. Everyone else was safely indoors. You certainly didn't have to worry about your beer not staying cold
and the food still tasted good.
and the food still tasted good. But they are a hardy lot in New England...and you soon learn to be the same...so we have had our BBQ going in the snow...
Apr 5th 2007, 10:25 am
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Apr 5th 2007, 10:38 am
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Apr 5th 2007, 10:56 am
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Re: Was it a conspiracy ?
Well the Costa del Crime is the hub of organised crime and drugs. Interesting I read in one of the local papers recently that the foreigners that are in the Spanish prisons consist of in first place Morrocans, 2nd place British, 3rd, Some African nationality (can't remember which), 4th Brazillians and the followed by columbians, Germans etc. But we beat the other Europeans in filling up their prisons, maybe Reid has an arrangement with the Spainish.
Apr 5th 2007, 12:20 pm
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Well the Costa del Crime is the hub of organised crime and drugs. Interesting I read in one of the local papers recently that the foreigners that are in the Spanish prisons consist of in first place Morrocans, 2nd place British, 3rd, Some African nationality (can't remember which), 4th Brazillians and the followed by columbians, Germans etc. But we beat the other Europeans in filling up their prisons, maybe Reid has an arrangement with the Spainish.
Apr 5th 2007, 12:42 pm
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Well he will be in good company, I beleive they have a few mayors, and lawyers in there as well.....with so many in there at the moment, they probably could start their own government....
Houses of Prisonment with their own Secretary of Development and Planning...
Houses of Prisonment with their own Secretary of Development and Planning...
Apr 5th 2007, 6:14 pm
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Re: Was it a conspiracy ?
Can we have a whip round and get Big Pete a plane ticket to Spain......soon.....very soon.
Apr 5th 2007, 6:26 pm
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To be fair...not many of us would moved country if we did not think it was the bees knees.....
I would bore people to death about how great the USA was in my first 3years...I wanted to help everyone come over to this great place...
I still like living here...but I now know its not the place I first thought it was...
I would bore people to death about how great the USA was in my first 3years...I wanted to help everyone come over to this great place...
I still like living here...but I now know its not the place I first thought it was...
Apr 5th 2007, 6:29 pm
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Re: Was it a conspiracy ?
We never thought that the US was the bees-knees, or better than the UK. It did and still does represent a professional opportunity for my husband, and we thought - mistakenly - that the kids and I would not be detrimentally affected by the move.
Apr 5th 2007, 6:39 pm
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