"Life is no longer fun. Binge drinking and an increased suicide rate is caused by the government taxing and controlling everything to take the merry out of England" - Discuss
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Munzly
- http://poppycock.blog.co.uk/
- 2009-10-25 @ 14:04:57
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Not till you live abroad do you realise how good you had it!!
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technomist
- 2009-10-26 @ 21:42:17
I do agree. But then you come back and find that what you missed is still here but a whole load of other things you either didn't know about or have forgotten (if you have been away long enough) distract you from you enjoying it as much as you expected.
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jenray
Pro - http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 2009-10-25 @ 16:15:26
Well, I guess if we keep voting in ex-lawyers into Parliament we're going to get hundreds and hundreds of more laws because it's the only thing they know how to do well...and they have passed thousands of them since Blair took over the Labour Party and changed it beyond recognition, and our country too and continued Thatcher's policies as well...re Jack's comment, it does depend where you choose to live abroad as to whether it's worse or better than Britain, but we've certainly lost a sense of identity here that's for sure...we don't know what we are any more except maybe an adjunct of the USA or where we belong in the world anymore...with this loss of identity so our sense of pride has vanished, and idiocracy has replaced intelligent debate and solutions to our current problems...now laws are passed without thought of the consequences and our freedoms are diminished by the day or however long it takes to pass yet another law limiting it...10,000 laws I believe at the last count giving the State and the Police more power to deal with everything the population might do...trouble is, there isn't even an alternative to New Labour...ex-lawyers, no doubt, abound in the Lib/Dems and the Cons...so vote either of them in and you'll get even more laws and, not forgetting interminable inquiries with lawyers earning enormous sums by stretching them out interminably and the end result, invariably nothing much at all...or another one worded slightly differently...it is depressing...the whole world changed after 9/11 and governments stopped trusting the people, everybody became a potential terrorist...in that respect, Al Queda was very successful...it introduced chaos into a more or less orderly system, and nobody can put the genie back in the bottle now...this guy talks about being taxed to death, but that's not the real problem here...it's a loss of identity I think...even with money in our pockets, we could spend more and ease the bewilderment experienced by our people but it wouldn't work for long...this is just a carp about taxes and not having fun so pretty shallow in its content...
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tempted
- 2009-10-26 @ 07:21:15
and jenray's last comment got me thinking: were the english always this shallow?
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technomist
- 2009-10-26 @ 21:45:54
Oooh yes. Very shallow in a strangely deep kind of way. A rum lot all round.
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Right'ol Norfolk boy in frunta Norridge Castle torkin' a lotta squit, Thas wot Oy say!
Moid yew, He'er got the rite idea wi'thet 'ol sword and Gordon's backside!