What's Britian like?

[omega 616]

Which is why I am moving to aus, alot nicer there and everything is cheaper than in England.

I know they have a crazy policy relating to games but I will just get my brother to buy them for me in England and post them to me.

Sounds like a good plan!

Although personally, I think Aus would be a bit hot for me, but to each his own

Thats going to be a problem for me aswell, I can't control by body temp. so it could get a little dicey for me.

Not to mention the wild life is a tad dangerous.

But back on topic, England is crap, spend one day on the outskirts of Liverpool city centre and any body will be sick of it.

Another one from Merseyside? Quite a few Merseysiders around here ain't there?

I don't know, are there?

 

[omega 616]

We all say we hate each other (scousers hate mancs, northeners hate southeners and the scottish hate everyone and have their own money which is the same as our money but just with different pictures) but at the end of the day, we all agree on one thing.

We are British, and we are fucking proud of it.

LOL Reminds me of something I heard a comedian say once.

Scousers hate Mancs, until some southerners come along, and then they're no longer Scousers and Mans, they're northerners. Then when some Scots come along it's no longer "We're northerners!", "We're southerners!", it's "We're English!".

Then when some French people come along it's no longer "We're Scotish!", "We're English", it's "We're British!". Then when some Americans come along it's no longer "We're British!", "We're French!", it's "We're European!". And so on...

And it all ends when aliens invade and we say "fuck you! were earth"

 

[CK76]

Weather is not so bad, I will say palest I have ever been is time in Britain. Lots of friends over there I get along with them well enough. Humour is part of it, as well as world view. Also, they gave us football, and for that really hard for me to dislike them. Now I have marching on together stuck in my head...

 

[tricky_tree]

pretty decent economy. concencus politics. moderate socialists in charge but no overpowered unions. oh and fish and chips. also weed is legal to smoke. overall its kinda like purgatory, so so

Weed is not legal at all, it's a class B drug

nah man its illegal to buy but you can smoke it in front of a police officer totally legally. that being said maybe asking for a light from one of them would be pushing it a little

Really? Damn should have told my friend who is currently serving 2 years for possesion

edit: 2 years, 5 years is the maximum penalty, 14 if it;s with intent to supply.

 

[tricky_tree]

Out of all the places in the world Britain is still up there with the best places to live.

Really!?!?!

Bad weather, bad food, everything is more expensive then everywhere else, we get somethings last (dvd's and such) and chavs are a huge problem.

As Bill Bailey said "we crave disappointment", "we're just a bunch of stoned, illiterate, wheezing, shagging, lardy bastards".

Thats why I am hoping to move to aus a.s.a.p.

Sorry to dissapoint but the convicts get things later than we do, and they cost more aswell. There's nothing wrong with the weather IMO, it's hot in Summer, cold in Winter, rains in Spring and Autumn, that's what you get in the northern hemisphere genius.

I've said my peice many times, end of the day the only way to decide if you like a country is by going, if you come over here with half a brain and any interests that don't all include motherboards and CPU's, you'll find plenty of interesting things to keep you occupied, despite the stereotypes, we make tourists pretty welcome, 2 Frenchies who work with me love it here.

The chav points are pretty juvenile, I live in Nottingham, a place a bad reputation for gun crime (largely undeserved)and I have no trouble walking around at night, if I see a group I'll just carry on walking. If you shit yourself everytime you see a burberry cap you will be made a target, but random attacks are relatively rare, the stories you read generally have a connection between attacker and victim, even if it is only a loose one, but those sorts of things happen all over the world. I was held at knife-point in Prague and my friend lost 3 teeth in Amsterdam, so just be thankful that our chavs aren't superhuman neo-nazis, and be thankful for everything we have.

 

[omega 616]

Out of all the places in the world Britain is still up there with the best places to live.

Really!?!?!

Bad weather, bad food, everything is more expensive then everywhere else, we get somethings last (dvd's and such) and chavs are a huge problem.

As Bill Bailey said "we crave disappointment", "we're just a bunch of stoned, illiterate, wheezing, shagging, lardy bastards".

Thats why I am hoping to move to aus a.s.a.p.

Sorry to dissapoint but the convicts get things later than we do, and they cost more aswell. There's nothing wrong with the weather IMO, it's hot in Summer, cold in Winter, rains in Spring and Autumn, that's what you get in the northern hemisphere genius.

I've said my peice many times, end of the day the only way to decide if you like a country is by going, if you come over here with half a brain and any interests that don't all include motherboards and CPU's, you'll find plenty of interesting things to keep you occupied, despite the stereotypes, we make tourists pretty welcome, 2 Frenchies who work with me love it here.

The chav points are pretty juvenile, I live in Nottingham, a place a bad reputation for gun crime (largely undeserved)and I have no trouble walking around at night, if I see a group I'll just carry on walking. If you shit yourself everytime you see a burberry cap you will be made a target, but random attacks are relatively rare, the stories you read generally have a connection between attacker and victim, even if it is only a loose one, but those sorts of things happen all over the world. I was held at knife-point in Prague and my friend lost 3 teeth in Amsterdam, so just be thankful that our chavs aren't superhuman neo-nazis, and be thankful for everything we have.

Ok but why did you quote me? It starts off sounding like you live in aus then goes on to imply I live in aus.

I have lived in 18 different places mostly around the same area from Liverpool to St Helens and chavs are always the same, loud obnoxious, baby producing machines who beat up people for not being born in a certain area.

 

[cynicalandbored]

This has been in hot threads for three days now...

On topic: Scotland's brilliant, so if you ever have the chance, go to Edinburgh and Glasgow. Especially Edinburgh. Any place that has pie shops open at two in the morning's got to be brilliant. London's worth a look too, but it's got too many people for my taste as a country bumpkin.

 

[ZydrateDealer]

I'm Cymry (Welsh XD) so britain for me is nice lots of cold weather which suits me fine, and gorgeous landscapes...also racism...lots of racism...I dunno why the English don't like us they invaded our lands after all!! Then again they invaded pretty much everywhere so I can't begrudge them for that, well no more than everyone else can

I used to live in Greenfield, Clwyd, not sure what the county's called now. From my experiences the English still rule North Wales, one woman on my street drove to Chester because she didn't want her baby to be Welsh.
I love Wales though

See that's what I mean why was she so upset by the fact that her child could have been able to class itself as welsh?? We get free healthcare damit I'd want my kids brought up in wales just because of that fact alone!!! Also England does rule over Wales, Scotland and North Ireland all of which are horrible places to live according to some english wankers which begs the quetion whose fault is that??? (this isn't directed at anyone in particular because they're english...just those that take the rest of us brits to be second class citizens because we didn't have the common decency to be born english!)

 

[tricky_tree]

@ Omega, I quoted you because you said you wanted to go live in aus, but your reasons appeared to be "we get games and dvds later and at higher costs"

@Zydrate, I think for most people it's just banter because they've never met a welsh/scottish/NI person, I used to make Scottish jokes even though I'd never met one, and when I did meet a scot we made the same jokes but it wasn't taken as offensive, just banter. When it comes down to it we all like each other really, unfortunately there will always be people like the woman in my anecdote

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Really? Damn should have told my friend who is currently serving 2 years for possesion

edit: 2 years, 5 years is the maximum penalty, 14 if it;s with intent to supply.

Damn, that's pretty harsh, was he caught with a lot? Most of the time you will getaway with a caution, where I live the chances are you will get away with fine for heroin, quite large amounts too as long as you aren't dealing.

 

[ryderawsome]

you cant carry it outside the house just smoke it outside. aka if your getting chased it is 100% suggested to smoke the evidence

 

[Triaed]

Expensive

 

[tricky_tree]

Really? Damn should have told my friend who is currently serving 2 years for possesion

edit: 2 years, 5 years is the maximum penalty, 14 if it;s with intent to supply.

Damn, that's pretty harsh, was he caught with a lot? Most of the time you will getaway with a caution, where I live the chances are you will get away with fine for heroin, quite large amounts too as long as you aren't dealing.

This is in Leeds, I say friend in the loosest sense of the word, I came back from uni and heard he'd been sent down. From what I heard he had an ounce but had prior dealings with the law due to weed. First timers normally get a slap on the wrist and maybe a fixed penalty notice but it seems they're coming down hard on the stoners.

ryder if a copper walks past you and you have a joint in your hand, or if you stink of it and look stoned they can nick you and ask you to perform a drug test. Smoking it implies, quite heavily, that you possess it, which is illegal.