London, UK is not cool anymore - I'm leaving

just21 · Sep 12, 2008

Breaking news:

The sun is shining, England are favorites to win the world cup and they will be partying like it is 1999 in Floridita tonight.

Alexandre · Oct 9, 2008

excellent, check out this article, Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has criticised England, labelling it a "s***hole" and a "dump", couldn't he be more right?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ist-Noel-Gallagher-brands-England-a-dump.html

just21 · Oct 9, 2008

It is becoming like the US, segregated by race and income. Move to the appropriate area, don't rely on public services and it is ok. If global warming happens then it will be unbeatable. Remember the summer of 2006?

BuyHiSellLo · Oct 9, 2008

Quote from just21:

It is becoming like the US, segregated by race and income. Move to the appropriate area, don't rely on public services and it is ok.
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Wrong,move to the appropriate area, don't rely on public services and it is great!

Alexandre · Oct 9, 2008

boy we're in trouble, just went for a stroll and numbers of shops closing down is staggering, never seen this before.

Gringinho · Oct 9, 2008

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It is becoming like the US, segregated by race and income.
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Europe is more sectored into economic social classes -- "old money" and status. It is not the complete ghettos of the US and the racial bias over there. Ghettos exist - e.g Marseilles - but it's very different than in the US.

wee man · Oct 9, 2008

Quote from dalengo:

Song for the Anglosphere
A Song of Patriotic Prejudice, offered in 1960 as a possible English National Anthem.

The English, the English, the English are best I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.
The rottenest bits of these islands of ours
We've left in the hands of three unfriendly powers
Examine the Irishman, Welshman or Scot
You'll find he's a stinker, as likely as not.

The Scotsman is mean, as we're all well aware
And bony and blotchy and covered with hair
He eats salty porridge, he works all the day
And he hasn't got bishops to show him the way!

The English, the English, the English are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.

The Irishman now our contempt is beneath
He sleeps in his boots and he lies through his teeth
He blows up policemen, or so I have heard
And blames it on Cromwell and William the Third!

The English are noble, the English are nice,
And worth any other at double the price

The Welshman's dishonest and cheats when he can
And little and dark, more like monkey than man
He works underground with a lamp in his hat
And he sings far too loud, far too often, and flat!

And crossing the Channel, one cannot say much
Of French and the Spanish, the Danish or Dutch
The Germans are German, the Russians are red,
And the Greeks and Italians eat garlic in bed!

The English are moral, the English are good
And clever and modest and misunderstood.

And all the world over, each nation's the same
They've simply no notion of playing the game
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won
And they practice beforehand which ruins the fun!

The English, the English, the English are best
So up with the English and down with the rest.

It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad
It's knowing they're foreign that makes them so mad!

For the English are all that a nation should be,
And the flower of the English are Donald (Michael)
Donald (Michael) and Me!

(Michael) Flanders & (Donald) Swann
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What an absolutely desperately crap song!

just21 · Oct 9, 2008

Quote from Alexandre:

boy we're in trouble, just went for a stroll and numbers of shops closing down is staggering, never seen this before.
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The law changed in April. Landlords are liable for council tax even on unoccupied premises.

Alexandre · Oct 9, 2008

these are indeed "taxing" times....

pavlov0032 · Oct 9, 2008

Its a Russian comedy club skit on corrupt policemen who gets owned by a driver.

Quote from SWINGTRADER77:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6UPxdK65JU

we could be russian.... no thanks
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