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Forum: Spain

Sep 14th 2010, 7:36 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

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Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

I'm not trying to prolong a thread that has run its natural course, and I'm not complaining that the forum management moved it when the topic no longer fitted the forum's aims; in fact it increased...

Forum: Spain

Sep 13th 2010, 8:13 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

Views: 4,056

Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

Within the next two years, for the first time ever, I believe, almost the entire American military will be back on home soil. Millions of young, fit men (and women), trained to kill, wandering about...

Forum: Spain

Sep 13th 2010, 1:42 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

Views: 4,056

Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

Of course Saddam was a nasty dictator who oppressed his people, if you scroll further down Africa you will find several more just like him. And if you look at the rest of the world, you will find an...

Forum: Spain

Sep 13th 2010, 10:26 am

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

Views: 4,056

Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

The US is the dominant superpower in the West and as such acts as a kind of policeman for the rest of us, but according to their laws, not always ours, and always in their national interest,...

Forum: Spain

Sep 12th 2010, 10:24 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

Views: 4,056

Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

I suspect you know the answer and are merely fishing, but I’m in the mood for answering anyway.

Iran is extremely close to manufacturing nuclear bombs and already has the capabilities to transport...

Forum: Spain

Sep 12th 2010, 9:00 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

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Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

Well, you can’t get away from WW2, the biggest ever. Spain took no part in it and has not suffered its consequences, the same as Ireland.

Injustices after 1945? The list is endless, Poles,...

Forum: Spain

Sep 12th 2010, 8:01 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

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Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

That’s very close to how I feel about Spain. I love it to bits, but know that there is a limit to my integration. That limit might be imagined on my part, aided by my obvious guiri appearance.

I...

Forum: Spain

Sep 12th 2010, 3:30 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

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Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

I was an outsider when I lived in the West Country, much the same as I am an outsider here in Spain. On reflection, it was probably a bigger deal back in the UK. Big cities are a melting pot and I...

Forum: Spain

Sep 12th 2010, 12:06 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

Views: 4,056

Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

Talking about outsiders, we’ve got a small church near to us which is considered to be English but it’s actually Scandinavian. The 50,000 British expats who live in the area have taken it over by...

Forum: Spain

Sep 11th 2010, 10:40 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

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Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

About the West Country, to lighten the discussion.

On a rainy, early morning I walked my dogs in a newly planted forest near Launceston.. Half-way across the forest, we came to a river crossing...

Forum: Spain

Sep 11th 2010, 10:05 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

Views: 4,056

Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

Well, it's Sunday tomorrow, isn't it?

Forum: Spain

Sep 11th 2010, 9:52 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

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Posted By HBG

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I would imagine it is only you, jocular comments seem to pass you by, I blame it on the constant rain and counting sheep for a living. And if you keep making silly remarks, I'm going to phone the...

Forum: Spain

Sep 11th 2010, 9:44 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

Views: 4,056

Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

You've mispelt things, Bil. Mis huevos would have been more appropriate. And as purely Spanish is rightly discouraged on this forum, bollocks would have been more appropriate.

Forum: Spain

Sep 11th 2010, 8:45 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

Views: 4,056

Posted By HBG

Re: Outsiders.

My wife is a born Cockney but has lived most of her life in Spain, learning both Catalan and Castellano on her back (I'm dead if she reads this, and we're both on our second go on the...

Forum: Spain

Sep 11th 2010, 6:50 pm

Replies: 73

Outsiders.

Views: 4,056

Posted By HBG

Outsiders.

The name of this forum explain it well, we are expats – outsiders. It's not a big deal in a foreigner friendly country which welcomes integration, but there are dangers.

We can overdo our efforts...

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