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Offline Sparks

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« on: August 31, 2006, 07:58:01 PM »
I'm going to get so flamed by this but what the hey ......

The past three years I've been contracting and been working all over the world for long periods. In fact this year I have only been in the UK for about 2 weeks total up until 4 weeks ago.
I decided I needed some time off so I came home for an extended break. Other than seeing my family I wish I hadn't bothered.

My god this country is screwed up ...  The place I call home,  the countryside I love, the landscape, the history is all going down the toilet faster than I can imagine.  My home town is a place I barely recognise.  The town centre is too dangerous to be on the street on your own at night, violent gangs of teens are outside every shopping centre shouting foul abuse and intimidating passers by. Every night the local paper has another story of violence.  A few examples .... two guys steal a Merc and then do an illegal U-turn in the road in front of a motorbike and kill him; then steal the van of someone who stops to help to get away: guy in the town centre punches a pregnant woman in the stomach: buses stoned by gangs of youths ..... just a few.  The limit of peoples imagination for a good night out is to get steaming puking drunk.

School exam results have come out and record passes - hooray we all cheer - until we notice that in some maths exams 16% would get a passing grade and 45% would get you an A.  Local companies can't find graduates - GRADUATES  - who are literate and numerate.
The number of immigrants who have come from the former eastern block countries is 20 times higher than the estimates !! But that is not all bad - most of these people are at least educated and have a work ethic unlike our home grown youth.  
Muslim pressure groups are making constant demands on the government to change foreign policy and become more Musilm freindly.
The anti gun lobbyists are now targeting the clay pigeon shooters saying there are still too many legally held guns in the community - even though no legally held guns are being used for crimes.  In the mean time programs on TV warn us of how we must behave if we find some one in our house (we have to ask them to leave by the way ...).
The "Knife Amnesty" is paraded as a great sucess but the stabbings continue.
Petrol is 93p a litre - that's $6.68 a US gal.  The local Volvo dealer wanted $114 an hour to work on my S40. .....

These are just a few of the indicators of how completely morally bankrupt society in the UK has become - it is not the definitive list by any means.

Emmigration of UK nationals is at it's highest since the 70's .... I wish I could become one of them.

It breaks my heart to see this beautiful country ****ed up like this. My mother wonders if this is what her brother was killed in Italy defending and I do too.

I'm only 45 and I can look back to a different and better time.  People say to me I am a "Little Englander" with rose coloured glasses but I KNOW how we were educated, I KNOW how my town was and it was not like this so screw political correctness and people who don't want to see the evidence in front of them.

The problem is the tide is too strong and too high.....  .

I feel bitter and angry but I need out - this isn't my home any more ...

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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2006, 08:08:43 PM »
That sucks.  It's also possibly an indicator of things to come for us over here in the US, England has succesfully predicted a number of recent trends, and this shows no change from that.

It's true what they say, you can never go home again....
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2006, 08:14:32 PM »
All the violent crime here in Toronto is always caused by blondes.

Just sayin'....

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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2006, 08:25:58 PM »
they wouldn't do that here in my beloved Florida.  one of us concealed permit holders would be frightened and pop a cap into one of them and be lauded as heros. "an armed society is a polite society, manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." Robert A. Heinlein

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« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2006, 08:26:12 PM »
You guys need more guns.
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« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2006, 08:30:21 PM »
If you had guns most of that crap wouldn't happen!

Just saying.

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« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2006, 08:55:16 PM »
Sparks, I don`t know what your up to here, but we know better. We have been informed otherwise by the absolute "last word" authority here on the BBS that the things you have noted absolutely do not exist in the U.K.
You can confront him yourself if you wish to dispute his informative and enlightened facts concerning everything U.K. You will just have to figure out which shades he is using this week. :)



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The town centre is too dangerous to be on the street on your own at night, violent gangs of teens are outside every shopping centre shouting foul abuse and intimidating passers by. Every night the local paper has another story of violence.


Bah! Must be a misunderstanding. Violence is non-existent there. We`ve been told.

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The limit of peoples imagination for a good night out is to get steaming puking drunk.


Easily explained. The U.S. tourists. :)

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School exam results have come out and record passes - hooray we all cheer - until we notice that in some maths exams 16% would get a passing grade and 45% would get you an A. Local companies can't find graduates - GRADUATES - who are literate and numerate.


We all know that everyone there, with the exception of the U.S. tourists, are directly linked by family tree to Albert Einstein. Once again....we have been told. :)

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Muslim pressure groups are making constant demands on the government to change foreign policy and become more Musilm freindly.


Once again, we have been told that only the U.S. has such problems...by the authority.

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The anti gun lobbyists are now targeting the clay pigeon shooters saying there are still too many legally held guns in the community - even though no legally held guns are being used for crimes.


You think those poor, innocent clay pigeons don`t have feelings too? Besides , those silly shotguns are not needed. It is a silly and annoying hobby. At least our informant says so.

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In the mean time programs on TV warn us of how we must behave if we find some one in our house (we have to ask them to leave by the way ...).


There is no home invaders in the U.K. Just confused rumors started by troublemakers. More than likely, the guy with the black clothing and the bag of silverware is just a good samaritan and was going to polish the silver and return it as a surprise and to spread good faith and joy to all. People just jump to conclusions and misquote the facts. At least that`s what we have been told.

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The "Knife Amnesty" is paraded as a great sucess but the stabbings continue.


Misunderstanding of the statistics. The acute rise is puncture/stab wounds due to accidents usualy involving falling are on the rise worldwide.

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Emmigration of UK nationals is at it's highest since the 70's .... I wish I could become one of them.


If you are truly serious about this I think I can hook you up with a very informed gentleman who is extremely knowledgeable about the paradise of Qatar. You will love the cafes there.


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« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2006, 09:28:29 PM »
Chairboy says that's an indicator of what's to come yet there are some in this country that still think we need the "nannyisms" of Europe......it dumbfoudns me!

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« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2006, 09:59:07 PM »
It's what's to come here?

Hardly.

It already exists here.

He pretty much described any very high density population area in the US. There'd only be minor differences.
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« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2006, 11:02:48 PM »
Lone wolves often became the mountain men of old because they simply couldn't stand the mass insanity of city life.

The herd mentality.  Pfft.

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« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2006, 12:05:37 AM »
The education system might be hitting the pooper already judging from some posts on here as well as fellow classmates...
Who are you to wave your finger?

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« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2006, 12:28:42 AM »
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It's what's to come here?

Hardly.

It already exists here.

He pretty much described any very high density population area in the US. There'd only be minor differences.
Bingo. Sounds just like New York, Philly, D.C., Chicago, Detroit, L.A., Atlanta, Houston, St. Louis, Phoenix, Dallas, or Boston.
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« Reply #12 on: September 01, 2006, 02:17:48 AM »
well said sparks.
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« Reply #13 on: September 01, 2006, 02:25:51 AM »
I feel for ya man.  In my neck of the woods you never know who has a gun so we all tend to mind our own business.  And it just aint your country goin down the toilet.  The whole planet sucketh.
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« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2006, 02:34:30 AM »
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You guys need more guns.


Absolutely, then they could "pistol whip" everyone.   I agree.
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