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Someone speaks their mind!!
Eeyore:
--- Quote from: Boggert on September 14, 2008, 22:23:33 ---Valid point well put...
However I feel better for it!
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Having seen the way it ended, so do I!
Dang, you guys had me worried for a moment! :lol:
Apologies if it came across as heavy handed - seems you folk had it well in hand.
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
I don't know, what is the world coming to? I go away for a few days relaxing work, and all hell breaks loose! All because some TV bloke with a weirdy beard fires his mouth off!
Immigration. Wow, what a topic! I have to say that in some ways I agree with what Edmonds has to say, but being a complete cycnic, sorry realist, is he near to launching another TV series? :roll: I mean, come on, this is a guy who invented a large pink inflated thing, for petes sake!
We are all descendants of immigrants somewhere along the line. The term 'English' comes from Angles, who were a warlike tribe from, surprisingly, Germany. As were the Saxons.
If it hadn't have been for immigrants from all over Europe and other countries including the West Indies and Brazil, the RAF would have had a hard job to pull of the result they did in 1940, when our blond friends across the North Sea got a pushy.
I have issues with anyone who does illegal stuff, regardless of their country of origin.
It is interesting to note, that a lot of the economic migrants from Eastern Europe are now heading back, as they are finding that GB is not what it was cracked up to be.
Saying that, I am a firm believer in setting our house in order. We have enough lazy, scrounging reprobates of our own. Lets sort them out. Oh no, sorry we can't do that! We might upset someone!
One thing I did notice when I was working with the Border Agency, there are a lot of Brit ex-pats coming back from Europe, due to life becoming 'more difficult' for them, due to what could be seen as state sponsored racism, namely an increase in taxes, no access to health care and general obstruction to planning applications. Interesting!
It could be said by some, that the Brits/English are now paying for their deeds carried out in the past.
It always amuses me that we are a country who are very proud of our heritage, and our Britishness, yet our monarchy are German! I'm reminded of a bit in one of the episodes of the third Blackadder Series when Prince George is talking with Sir Talbot Buxomley. It sums up the monarchy quite well.
T: I care not a jot that you are the son of a certified sauerkraut-sucking
loon!
G: Ah, thank you, sir.
T: It minds not me that you dress like a mad parrot and talk like a plate of
beans negotiating their way out of a cow's digestive system. It is no
skin off my rosy nose that there are bits of lemon peel floating down the
Thames that would make better Regents than you.
G: Well, bravo!
T: The fact is, you *are* Regent...
G: Yes, I am...
T: ...appointed by God, and I shall stick by you forever, though infirmity
lay me waste and ill health curse my every waking moment. (falls into the
chair)
Personally, I blame the Pixies and their attitude towards the Goblins. Just because the Pixies have wings, they think they own the place! Kick them out, I say, and reclaim the toadstools for the Gnomes! As for the Trolls, Pah! Coming over here, living under our bridges and picking on the Billy Goats Gruff! Wasters!
If you are seriously that concerned, use your vote when it comes to election time! Don't let the Nu Labour gremlins get away with another term!
Have a nice day, y'all! I'm going to sleep now, so I can be up tonight, catching the bad guys. The Sun, it burns my eyes, I'm melting, MELTING! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Sider:
LSP, could you please stop stirring the excrements??? Tension is high enough as it is without your goblin bashing antics. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Seriously, though, I do take a limited amount of offence at Smudges comment about registering kids in a Spanish school. I haven't the faintest idea about the German health care system, and as such, I cannot comment, but as far as the Spanish educational system, I do have a small amount of knowledge.
Whereas finding a teaching position as a foreigner is quite difficult (only slightly more difficult that it would be for a spaniard) due to the nature of the tests (they involve quite a lot of local knowledge, i.e. local history, that could be difficult for, say, a maths specialist to know), registering a child in the Spanish educational system is quite straightforward, as long as you trouble yourself to learn the language, which tends to be the main reason for a lot of British families struggling to send their offspring to schools in Spain.
Incidentally, that seems to be the main reason why a lot of British expats have to lift camp and come back from Spain. At the risk of generalizing, there seems to be a certain type of expats who tend to gheto themselves in brit only pockets, and unfortunately, instead of blending in and learning the facts for themselves, they rely on other stablished parties who are not necessarily kosher.
In quite a lot of the cases where illegal building, lack of planning applications, dodgy dealings, [insert your crime of choice here] have been afflicted on british (or german) expats, the perpetrators/misinformers/persons of dubitable parentage have been Britons themselves, taking advantage of the lack of integration of their victims.
Oh, and I do agree with one of the comments in the post:
Let's go back to hating the french!!!! :lol: :lol:
mike142sl:
--- Quote from: Lord Shagg-Pyle on September 15, 2008, 08:29:11 ---, but being a complete cycnic, sorry realist, is he near to launching another TV series? :roll:
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He has a book coming out :roll:
crazymac:
--- Quote from: Lord Shagg-Pyle on September 15, 2008, 08:29:11 ---
We are all descendants of immigrants somewhere along the line. The term 'English' comes from Angles, who were a warlike tribe from, surprisingly, Germany. As were the Saxons.
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I'm not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can trace my history as far back as records go to Scotland! Scottish born and bred, as were my Father and Mother, Grandparents, Great Grandparents etc etc etc, My family were Proscribed of Land, Title and Deed due to Lawlessness and general misbehaviour during the attempted English occupation of Scotland and we are on record as supporting the cause!!
And I'm sure a few of my scottish brethren can join me on this claim!
Having said that..........I am an immigrant to Wales :doh:
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