Originally Posted by Bigger Jim (Post 9193623)

Perhaps they are getting their own back, after all, this and a number of other sites have taken great delight in sticking it in during the good times.

As for the Daily Mail, since so many of you act and say you would not dream of reading it, how do know what it contains?

I read most of the papers and they all have their own slant and it would be foolish to say that any are better than the others. Different perhaps appealing to different segments of society that's their job and in the case of the Mail it seems to work. They all get things wrong at times even the Guardian which some of you appear to love and many of its readers accuse of blatently censoring their comments. You pays your money and takes your chance or read them all for free on the net.

Not sure where many of you live in Spain but there has been a haemorrhage of people returning from our area. Of the remaining home owners many simply cannot afford to return to the UK and are literally stuck in Spain. Some of the lucky ones have a foothold in both countries and divide their time between them.

Jim

Originally Posted by Bigger Jim (Post 9193623)

As for the Daily Mail, since so many of you act and say you would not dream of reading it, how do know what it contains?

Jim

Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 9193661)

It's the most quoted paper here, and whenever anyone gives a link to it, and you see the number of expat contributors, it would seem to be required reading for expats. Despite their apparent hate of the paper. I bet every time they do a similar article, the viewing figures shoot up, great for their advertising revenues.

Originally Posted by JLFS (Post 9193211)

I cant believe you dont know Jordan, aka Katie.

She is a natural beauty, with the lady like presence and good manners of the late Audrey Hepburn....;)

she is often seen in the company of 2 bald men..;) in fact they could be twins.

Originally Posted by bil (Post 9193659)

I remember before I came out here reading that 1 in 3 of all Brits had given thought to emigrating. I think the other statistic was that 75% usually return within 3 years.Brits don't seem to transplant well.

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 9193333)

I wouldn't recognise the woman if she jumped up and bit me on the nose.

Whenever I see or hear the word Jordan, I realise its probably not the country but some silly tart with big tits, ten a penny these days, so I switch off or move on to something interesting.

Maybe I'm getting past it, but I remember when page three girls were first on the go and I never saw them as anything particularly exciting either, just boring tarts with big boobs instead of brains, and definitely not reason enough to go out and waste money on a crap news rag.

Originally Posted by The Oddities (Post 9193824)

The problem for me never watching GB tv or reading GB newspapers is that it leaves me in the cold when it comes to such obviously important issues.:confused:
Graham

Originally Posted by The Oddities (Post 9193824)

The problem for me never watching GB tv
Graham

Originally Posted by bil (Post 9193863)

Wotcher Gray, how you doing?

Not reading UK newspapers is a great way to relax, I find.

Originally Posted by The Oddities (Post 9193924)

All seems to be slowly improving:fingerscrossed:
For more than ten years I never read the papers in the UK and luckily I am blessed with a wife who hates soaps even more than I do so we hardly watched tv either. The hardest time we had was when our house sale was held up for a month, all our worldly goods were with the removal company, no work and all that we had was an old tv and bits of furniture that the clearance people were to take. I think that that month more than any other time made me realise that you really have to disengage your brain to watch the box on a daily basis. We watch more tv here to try and improve our Castellan at least the tv then has a purpose.
Graham

Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 9193874)

I can see why you're an "oddity" now! ;) You must be one of the very few, most seem to need their daily fix of soaps and the other rubbish they watch.
Good for you.:thumbup:

Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 9193874)

I can see why you're an "oddity" now! ;) You must be one of the very few, most seem to need their daily fix of soaps and the other rubbish they watch.
Good for you.:thumbup:

Originally Posted by bil (Post 9193345)

Yeah. Cuts, crowds, busy roads, grey skies....

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 9194093)

Well theres plenty of cut,crowds,busy roads and maybe a few grey skies in Spain.
As in the UK, it all depends where you live, however one thing that crosses my mind almost every day in mid- winter when I pick a fresh orange of the tree, is that no way would I be doing this back in blighty.