UK perspectve 2005
 

i'm over in the Uk for a few weeks on business right now and in the two years since i left society has changed

violece seems to be the norm, where i used to life in st albans, herts, now has armoured police vans patrolling on fri/sat nights nights \with surveilance cameras looking out for trouble, and duting the day the high street is full of scum looking for aggro.

i live in a 'transitional' neighbourhood in nashville which i am sure has much higher crime and more offences against the individual, but going back to my home town had been an eye-opener

i'm feeling very intolerant right now, after a friend of mine was shot dead in a motiveless killing recently in the us, another friend in the uk beaten up in a 'grown-up' happy slapping attack, separation from my wife, and now this second bomb attack by fundo muslims, i'm extremely pissed off

suffice to say, anyone on my flight my flight wearing a towel on their head carrying a ruck-sack may be liable to a chav-style 'happy-slapping'

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So are you looking forward to coming back to the US?

I went back for my first trip in three years at Easter. The only difference I saw was that everyone was talking like they'd walked off the set of Easties and this was in nicey nice Cobham and Weybridge. :confused:

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I know what you mean.......im not easily rattled, i have lived in NY and hollywood and spent many a late night in large US cities,but....... when i was home last october i parked in the local high st (camberley,surrey) and thought i would get some cash from the ATM and have 1 beer, the roving gangs of little foul mouthed drunken yobos set off some kind of alert in me and told me to get back in my car,,,,so i did!! in my home town of all places.
that being said i drove around the block to a parallel street and went into a lovely pub that felt the same as i left it 20 years ago..Funny huh!!
I am working on moving to Northern ireland and most people think that Im crazy but having made several trips over to recce the place I can tell ya the people are lovely.....plus i have family there.
G

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Not too far from camberley, my brother lives right near that Tescos at Brooklands

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I see.

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Jesus, how ignorant are you? You do realize that the people that you just so beautifully described are Sikh's and not Muslim, right? It's stupid tw*ts like you that cause more trouble than you prevent. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem!

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Please go easy on him......looks like he is having some personal issues
he seems like a good guy we all have bad days

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What do we expect when we here news that a teenage boy has won his case to appeal curfew orders. Apparently judges ruled its not legal for police to impose curfew orders on anti-social yobs anymore so the little dears can now roam the streets at will.

Happy slaps? If some little twat fancied his chances 'happy slapping' me I wouldnt be calling the police.

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This isn't going to turn into yet another Daily Telegraph, port, country's going to the dogs thread is it?


A thought though, for anyone who's been away a while. Your perspective is changed forever. You are not the same person who left.

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Amen to that! ;)

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Yup. You can't go back, only forward. You may go back to that country, but that's not the same thing.

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And tonights second award for "Stating the bleeding obvious" goes too...

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Shut up and start reading a decent newspaper. :D

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I tried to go there for the M&S but I'd forgotton that everything shuts at Easter.

My parents used to live in Hampton, as did I, but they're now behind bars in St George's Hill.

Isn't there some sort of Military place round Camberly? I seem to remember that there was a fair bit of trouble in the evenings.

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The Staff College

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Nothing wrong with News Of The World :eek:

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OK, but the port will give you gout.

Fact.

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You Can't Go Home Again.........

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there is the royal military acadamy at sandhurst which is very cool as you get to meet officers in training from all over the world in the pubs and shops
also about 10 miles away is Aldershot the home of the british army (i was born there) so sometimes there would be fights between civvies and squaddies, but that was tame compared to the Chavscum in the high st today
have you heard of ..the old dean estate?
G

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Who ya gonna call-Ghostbusters? :D

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The home of the British army is any pub which will let them in......

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I've actually gone through several phases on this one, in the years away. When I was back last year, I decided that you can go home again when you are ready to enjoy the fact that neither you nor home are the same.

Damn I'm philosophical this evening.

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And I'm Phil Silvers , but you can call me Bilko....:p

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Yes you are!!! No floorstripper about is there?
I've not been "home" since I was 21 except for several brief visits. I would dearly love to be able to live there for a few months every year, but chances are slim that will ever happen. I know it wouldn't be the same, the perspective of youth is far different from that of when you are a"certain age." Idealistic as it may be that long ago time and that place still exist in my heart. :)

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ChavBusters

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Not any more :D


You can. What you do is, you assimilate past and present and all the in between bits - dialectics, in fact. I had exactly this happen to me in London, which, with a couple of millennia plus behind it, is the perfect metaphor for change and constancy.

OK, I think I'll stop now before the DEA arrive.

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Just Sarge.

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I'm armed with my Burberry extraction gun as we speak......

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Go Go Go

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Squeeze that NY yankees hat off of your head and your last remaining brain cell, you little bastard......

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I've always wanted to ask a chav how the yankees are doing this season? The reply..... "Huh, you taking the piss mate?"

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:D :D

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If there is one thing I hate about the UK, it is those little bastards :mad:

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Oooh Oooh I almost got agitated there....

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What the little smillies? :confused:

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OK since you called me a stupid tw@t....

1. you're retarded for making the assumption that I don't know the difference

I'm british and I lived in multi-cultural north-london for two decades and a very good friend of mine is a sikh

see the attached pic - the bloke on the right is wearing a sikh turban, the one on the left is wearing an afghan style turban as favoured by islamic militants in al-qaeda

2. Although the comments about being sick of this yobbo culture and having my local train station closed for hours yesterday were completely serious, anyone actually thinking the last statement was serious is devoid of any humour.

the use of the nonemclature 'towel head' obviously does NOT refer to sikhs - their turbans look nothing like towels as you can see by the educational picture