things you don't miss about "Old Blighty"
Nov 29th 2013, 11:07 am
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things you don't miss about "Old Blighty"
I was thinking last night as I took a short walk around my naighbourhood last night that on a holiday back home the streets would have been heaving with teenagers drunk and high out of there scull. That is definatly something I don't miss about home.
Is there anything about the UK you don't miss?
Is there anything about the UK you don't miss?
Nov 29th 2013, 11:10 am
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Re: things you don't miss about "Old Blighty"
Snotty upper class British people who effortlessly think they are better.
Nov 29th 2013, 11:18 am
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Nov 29th 2013, 12:41 pm
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Re: things you don't miss about "Old Blighty"
It would be quicker to answer the question what do you miss about home. Apart from the obvious friends and family, I can honestly say nothing.
Nov 29th 2013, 12:42 pm
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Re: things you don't miss about "Old Blighty"
They would be public school boys, probably celebrating after a successful regatta. 
I don't miss much, ...... other than pork pies, bacon, and kebabs with chilli sauce. 
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Nov 29th 2013, 12:50 pm
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Nov 29th 2013, 2:18 pm
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Re: things you don't miss about "Old Blighty"
I don't miss mass surveillance of the population via CCTV.
Nov 29th 2013, 2:43 pm
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Re: things you don't miss about "Old Blighty"
Tiny parking spaces, queues and CCTV!
Nov 29th 2013, 2:50 pm
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I liked the omnipresent CCTV in central London. Inside the "ring of plastic" after the '92 and '93 bombs, street crime was virtually eliminated from the City, at absolutely zero cost or inconvenience to any of the law-abiding public. What's not to like about that? 
Nov 29th 2013, 3:04 pm
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I'd argue CCTV has absolutely zero effect on dissuading a crime from being committed, it just potentially increases the chances that an offender will be caught.
Nov 29th 2013, 5:56 pm
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Re: things you don't miss about "Old Blighty"
I was thinking last night as I took a short walk around my naighbourhood last night that on a holiday back home the streets would have been heaving with teenagers drunk and high out of there scull. That is definatly something I don't miss about home.
Is there anything about the UK you don't miss?
Is there anything about the UK you don't miss?
Nov 29th 2013, 6:48 pm
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Is there anything about the UK you don't miss?
Nov 30th 2013, 1:58 am
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