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Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 9:16 pm
Replies: 172
Views: 17,815
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Returning home, having left in 1966

I am soo happy for you, well I guess you already have a top job lined up here in the UK then for both you and Mr X

There is a great demand for angry 40year old women in the UK

I never said your...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 8:51 pm
Replies: 172
Views: 17,815
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Returning home, having left in 1966

My bloodpressure is excellent, I am a dedicated runner and I run London Marathon this year, just like the previous year.

It is understandable that you already having a 40 year crisis though, 5th...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 8:25 pm
Replies: 172
Views: 17,815
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Returning home, having left in 1966

You are obviously a person in good balance and in harmony with yourself.
I can tell that you are very happy with your achievments and not the least bitter. 20 Years in Bari hasn't been wasted away...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 7:56 pm
Replies: 364
Views: 26,302
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Honest Advice from those returning from Canada

you're definitely not selling Canada (or UK) to me.
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 7:38 pm
Replies: 172
Views: 17,815
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Returning home, having left in 1966

Cant leave yet, I am on a fixed contract, and there is a nice bonus when you complete it.

I love the job market in GB!!!

What drives me nuts is the way that GB think they run Europe when in...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 7:35 pm
Replies: 172
Views: 17,815
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Returning home, having left in 1966

I love your attitude, "You are not even British!!!"
(That was not really a problem for the company that offered me my current job and flew me over to the UK, but then again, they couldnt find anyone...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 28th 2008, 7:16 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 2,181
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: are you more chilled out now you are living in canada ??

Im used to have an audience of admiring people watching me doing sports (aparently over 1 million people watched me run the London Marathon)

...but then again why would you spend your 2 week...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 3:02 am
Replies: 172
Views: 17,815
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Returning home, having left in 1966

President Bush went to the number 1 ranked one Harvard
London Major Boris Johnson went to top UK ranked Oxford

Linus Torvalds went to Helsinki University (ranked 104th )
Linus Torvalds invested...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 1:58 am
Replies: 364
Views: 26,302
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Honest Advice from those returning from Canada

running is brilliant, I normally run on golfcourses, they dont like it much especially when I go across the green (you would have thought that 9 stone lean runner would make less damage than an...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 1:38 am
Replies: 364
Views: 26,302
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Honest Advice from those returning from Canada

but that is still sitting indoors and eating and drinking, my ideal after work activity is sports, running, cycling, skiing,...and no, cricket and golf are not sports.
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 1:31 am
Replies: 364
Views: 26,302
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Honest Advice from those returning from Canada

[QUOTE=fledermaus;6723708]Maybe British people complain because they can see that things could be better if only someone put some effort in. QUOTE]

Yeah maybe, I often find it comic how British...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2008, 12:35 am
Replies: 364
Views: 26,302
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Honest Advice from those returning from Canada

My British collegues told me that it is quite British to always finds something to complain about, no matter if I work with British collegues in London, Vienna or Paris.

The always want more...
Forum: Europe
Aug 27th 2008, 8:29 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 2,210
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: A word of warning about Poland

that is exactly the reason I would never consider even visiting Australia.

It must be something in the air
Forum: Europe
Aug 27th 2008, 8:21 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 2,210
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: A word of warning about Poland

welcome to the time of reversed discrimination.


the pyramid is these days upside down.

it is like White, western man is resposnsible for all evil in the world and should therefore suffer...
Forum: Goa
Aug 27th 2008, 8:09 pm
Replies: 3,948
Views: 716,377
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: GOA - Buyer Beware!

Why buy when you can rent?

Why does British tourists neccesary have to buy property everywhere, just rent like the rest of the world.

It is cheaper, less commitment, less trouble generally,...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 27th 2008, 7:59 pm
Replies: 172
Views: 17,815
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Returning home, having left in 1966

Unfortunitely this good UK education has created 25 teenage killing so far this year and that is just in the South East.

So isnt this idea of Good UK education based on how the UK was in the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 27th 2008, 7:04 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 2,181
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: are you more chilled out now you are living in canada ??

Doest it get boring in Canada?

I kill office time on the BE forum, but if I was relaxing in Canada, there is now way I would be wasting all that outdoors time on the internet.

Id be out...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 27th 2008, 2:16 am
Replies: 29
Views: 2,181
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: are you more chilled out now you are living in canada ??

doesnt the fact that you only have two weeks holiday stress you out though?
it would stress me out...

at least I just agreed to work from home Monday and Fridays, so my "actual" working week is...
Forum: Goa
Aug 27th 2008, 2:12 am
Replies: 3,948
Views: 716,377
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: GOA - Buyer Beware!

Registrant:
Churchill Properties Overseas
Office Suite H
The Innovation Centre
St Cross Business Park
Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5WB
UK

Domain name: CISOVERSEAS.COM
Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 27th 2008, 1:57 am
Replies: 3
Views: 1,515
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Need a new challenge...please hear me out

The credit crunch, increasing cost of living is not exclusive to the UK.
It is the same pretty much all over the world, but the difference is that in England you have a chance to get a job that pays...
Forum: USA
Aug 27th 2008, 1:27 am
Replies: 181
Views: 30,133
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: I'm so tired of living in 'Home of the slave'

the fact that the business below only exists in Canada, UK, US, Australia and NZ.


http://www.doctorsnotestore.com/


Is it because they "work" sooo hard in these countries?
Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 26th 2008, 8:54 pm
Replies: 201
Views: 186,427
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: I am english, so where can i live without all the bloody forms

Gibraltar - Awful place, should belong to Spain
Spain - Full of drunk british chavs and british mafia (Costa del Street Crime)
France - We all know what they think of Brits
Germany - Why?
Denmark...
Forum: Scandinavia
Aug 26th 2008, 8:46 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 2,407
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: Moving to sweden. Need some advice and assurances.

I agree with previous posters.

I know a GP, Physio, Teacher, IT consultant that all tried to get a job in Sweden, but without speaking Swedish. They all returned back to the UK within 6months. To...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 26th 2008, 8:39 pm
Replies: 34
Views: 3,161
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: How to remain positive?

isnt it normally standard that the men gets the tough deal when it comes to custody? At least it is like that in the UK.

Happiness is not a place, not city, not a location, not a big house and not...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 26th 2008, 7:45 pm
Replies: 34
Views: 3,161
Posted By hockeyhairdo

Re: How to remain positive?

You just gonna have to stay strong, isnt there any British expats you can meet up with and have mutual support?

Also look at the positives, last weekend the 25th teenager this year was stabbed to...
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