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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 12:26 am

    liam04uk wrote:

    hmm, a lot of things you hear about america are them bigging it up. I have relatives who moved to america and trust me the reality is not much better then here at all. I would rather move to canada as out of everyone i know who moved there no one regrets it at all.

    I know America is full of cunts but nowhere could be worse than here.

    I agree Canada is a far better option though, low rates of crime. Shame about the fucking brutal winters.

    Last edited by DavieBoy, Fri 21st Nov 2008, 12:26 am.

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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 12:27 am

    xEuphoria wrote:

    Good

    I'd sooner be Welsh than English

    England has a bad reputation  for other countries hating them

    I think most people outside the uk would think of wales as being england tbh

    It made sense in my head


    bjshooter

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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 12:51 am

    Davie82 wrote:

    I know America is full of cunts but nowhere could be worse than here.

    I agree Canada is a far better option though, low rates of crime. Shame about the fucking brutal winters.

    im not on about the people. Im saying that the standard of living etc.. is not as great as people think. There are a lot of places worse then here. It annoys me because most people ONLY see the bad things about this country and forget about the good things 

    *breaths* 


    liam04uk

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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 12:52 am

    liam04uk wrote:

    im not on about the people. Im saying that the standard of living etc.. is not as great as people think. There are a lot of places worse then here. It annoys me because most people ONLY see the bad things about this country and forget about the good things 

    *breaths* 

    Okay.


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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 7:13 am
    I love my country but I despair at the rate of which it is declining into a cesspit, and the government full of career politicians who are only in the job due to the perks they recieve and screw everybody over again and again so they can continue to stick their snouts in the trough once again. City centres brimming with gangs going around stabbing people because it's the cool thing to do, morons caring more about which celebrity is doing what this week. A country packed with jobless layabouts who are too idle to get a job and sit around on benefits watching X-factor, a tv show that is in fact slowing down the rate of human evolution. A nation now so politically correct blacks are allowed to discriminate against whites (The national black police association) and nothing is said, children and teenagers running around intimidating law abiding citizens and threatening them and people accepting it out of fear of being arrested if they stand up for theirselves, because our state police will not dare infringe upon the rights of the scum that inhabit our streets. However, if your tyre pressure is a little low prepare to end up in court and feel the full force of the law. I'll stop now but I could go on all day.
    **********Warning the above post may contain irony, lies or outright sarcasm**********

  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 1:05 pm

    vampir3uk wrote:

    I love my country but I despair at the rate of which it is declining into a cesspit, and the government full of career politicians who are only in the job due to the perks they recieve and screw everybody over again and again so they can continue to stick their snouts in the trough once again. City centres brimming with gangs going around stabbing people because it's the cool thing to do, morons caring more about which celebrity is doing what this week. A country packed with jobless layabouts who are too idle to get a job and sit around on benefits watching X-factor, a tv show that is in fact slowing down the rate of human evolution. A nation now so politically correct blacks are allowed to discriminate against whites (The national black police association) and nothing is said, children and teenagers running around intimidating law abiding citizens and threatening them and people accepting it out of fear of being arrested if they stand up for theirselves, because our state police will not dare infringe upon the rights of the scum that inhabit our streets. However, if your tyre pressure is a little low prepare to end up in court and feel the full force of the law. I'll stop now but I could go on all day.

    I have to agree with you. I think the biggest issue is people are to scared to stand up for what the think is right. Such as i posted a news article on my blog about someone being forced to remove there england flag as it may offend immigrants. You may have read it a few months back? My blog goes through the college network and nothing i said was racist, i just said that how come people are scared of immigrants, yobs etc.. and sit idlely by and do nothing. My blog got pulled from the network incase it offended someone O_o, the country needs someone to stand up and say enough is enough in my opinion. ITs full of cowards who like you say, are to scared to do anything because we feel the law, as the people breaking the laws continue to get away with it.


    liam04uk

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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 1:52 pm
     Nationality isn't bound by country borders.

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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 1:53 pm

    bjshooter wrote:

    I think most people outside the uk would think of wales as being england tbh

    It made sense in my head

    I've travelled, and the people I ask, bieng that I'm part Welsh, have never heard of Wales.

    It's not a real country anyway, it's a Province.


    moley

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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 4:17 pm

    DavieBoy wrote:

    Fuck, so would I. I wouldn't wanna be a deluded prick who thought my country had a chanc eof winning the World Cup hahaha.

    When you move to England (and the chances are that, like 99% of your countrymen, you will move South of the Border as soon as you possibly can) you will come to realise that we are in general very negative about our national football team.  Even when In-Ger-Lund do get a good result many people are all too keen to downplay any sense of achievement.

    I've always found patriotism to be rather sinister, especially the type of patriotism/ nationalism you get in Scotland and Wales, which is defined by vigourous hatred of the English and not much else.

    Blasphemy is a victimless crime!

    pointless

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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 4:19 pm
    It just tells you how great their own nations are, having to base their entire national pride on hating another nation.
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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 4:21 pm

    pointless wrote:

    When you move to England (and the chances are that, like 99% of your countrymen, you will move South of the Border as soon as you possibly can) you will come to realise that we are in general very negative about our national football team.  Even when In-Ger-Lund do get a good result many people are all too keen to downplay any sense of achievement.

    I've always found patriotism to be rather sinister, especially the type of patriotism/ nationalism you get in Scotland and Wales, which is defined by vigourous hatred of the English and not much else.

    I can guarantee you I will never move to England. 99% of my countrymen? Exaggeration much?

    I can assure you we are more interested in how our team does, it's just funny seeing you lot fall flat on your faces when you claim you are going to win every fucking tournament under the sun, particularly as you look down your noses at us in the process.

    Scotland > England.


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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 4:22 pm

    vampir3uk wrote:

    It just tells you how great their own nations are, having to base their entire national pride on hating another nation.

    Explain how that's the entire basis of our national pride? We hate England because they think they're great (in a footballing capactiy) and they are simply average. If we were truly that way inclined we'd all have been watching Germany v England the other night praying the Germans were gonna win, but were we? No, we were watching our own nation versus Argentina.


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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 4:30 pm

    DavieBoy wrote:

    Explain how that's the entire basis of our national pride? We hate England because they think they're great (in a footballing capactiy) and they are simply average. If we were truly that way inclined we'd all have been watching Germany v England the other night praying the Germans were gonna win, but were we? No, we were watching our own nation versus Argentina.

    To be honest make i think its sad to hate another nation. Every country likes to support the own team, there not gonna support it by calling it shit are they? I don't see why any nation should hate another. hate is a very strong word. You talk to us guys on here and i bet most of us are English and we all seem to get on mostly. Or do you hate us to?


    liam04uk

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  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 4:30 pm
    I think the English football team is a complete joke, everytime they get involved in a competition the media bandwagon starts and everybody thinks we are going to conquer the world. Then we are knocked out by a pub team from Kuala Lumpur and everybody goes around looking for a scapegoat rather then admitting they are a bag of shit. I also hate football.
    **********Warning the above post may contain irony, lies or outright sarcasm**********

  • Report | Quote Posted: Fri 21st Nov 2008, 4:31 pm

    DavieBoy wrote:

    I can assure you we are more interested in how our team does, it's just funny seeing you lot fall flat on your faces when you claim you are going to win every fucking tournament under the sun, particularly as you look down your noses at us in the process.

    Who claims this? Like I said, the fact of the matter is that most English people are very negative about our national football team. Even after we travelled to Berlin and beat Germany (something no other team has done since Brazil did it 35 years ago) all you hear people saying is "Yeah but Germany played shite".

    DavieBoy wrote:

    Scotland > England.

    At what?
    Blasphemy is a victimless crime!

    pointless

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