Back in the UK...

[sid the sexist]

Here are a few observations of the great British Isles...

It's cold.

Swearing is now so common it can no longer be referred to as 'offensive language.'

Every one/company/government department/shop is trying to con you even if there is nothing in it for them! It's a culture of trying to trick people.

Most people are usually helpful and friendly if you ask nicely.

The drivers are idiots and see driving as a personal right rather than a shared privelidge.

The supermarkets are the best in the world as far as choice, price and variety are concerned.

Almost everyone is fucking ugly or weird shaped.

UK TV, once the envy of the world, is now an infantile world of mindless rubbish.

Generally speaking the English countryside is a joy to see but the British themselves are a rather depressing group of people to be with.

There is no hope or optimism here. People wallow in self pity about their lives. It seems the louder you are the more important you are.

Can't wait to get back to the real world...

[harley quinn]

to respond to each observation:

right its freezing - minus 2 at midday

fucking right

unlike companies / governments etc in other parts of the world who are totally open and honest

unless they work for the London Borough of Southwark (bastards)

except for me

unless you want to buy a birthday card for someone 5 days before Christmas

except for m - OK you have a point

and it was all concentrated on three channels, stopped at midnight and broadcast eight hours a day.

it is and we're quite jolly when pissed

sorry Sid you are just hanging around with a bunch or morbid sods

now you're talking

Happy Christmas

[katoeylover]

Absolute bollocks as usual.

The drivers are idiots and see driving as a personal right rather than a shared privelidge.

But bad drivers (usually immigrants who havent passed a UK test) make it that much hardder to get around

Almost everyone is fucking ugly or weird shaped.

Only the poor people.

UK TV, once the envy of the world, is now an infantile world of mindless rubbish.

and?? we are supposed to watch re-runs of outdated and out of touch melodramas from the 50's and 60's

There is no hope or optimism here. People wallow in self pity about their lives.

I have read some bullshit on here about the UK over the last 4 years but this takes the biscuit.......

And if you dont like it here, Fuck off!

[stogie bear]

Add to that...

Everybody in the UK can make mince pies better than anyone else! Just fucking buy them from Waitrose Store, dearies. No one gives a fuck about the secret way you make a fucking cake!

And don't come to the UK if you want to get laid. This land is a barren and desolate wasteland for the horny. My bollocks have given up and worked their way back up into my gut just to keep warm!!!

[moe666]

No ladyboys?

[Dieter]

I landed on wednesday on London Heathrow...first what I thought...wrong air craft...me in Calcutta....
Just back from the biz trip...all I remember....shit traffic,smoking not allowed in the hotel, the food was so lala...., don´t want write about the domestic brews...,most was old-fashioned and the Airport from Dhaka / Bangladesh was more modern and better organised as Heathrow...
and the weather...brb.
Guys I could understand why you all miss LOS,....

Dieter

[daveduke007]

(Dieter @ Dec. 20 2007,23:23) I landed on wednesday on London Heathrow...first what I thought...wrong air craft...me in Calcutta....

[MARKUK]

haha good old terminal 3, will be passing through myself in 2 days, 1st time in 7 years why i fucking bother!

[Looker]

(stogie bear @ Dec. 21 2007,03:28) Just fucking buy them from Waitrose Store, dearies.

Just had two of them! Yes, they do sell Waitrose mince pies in Hong Kong

[allstar88]

(Looker @ Dec. 21 2007,14:42)

(stogie bear @ Dec. 21 2007,03:28) Just fucking buy them from Waitrose Store, dearies.

Just had two of them! Yes, they do sell Waitrose mince pies in Hong Kong  

what about chocolate logs?

[stogie bear]

what about chocolate logs?

Better ask Bit Beefy about that...

[Looker]

(allstar88 @ Dec. 21 2007,20:17)

(Looker @ Dec. 21 2007,14:42)

(stogie bear @ Dec. 21 2007,03:28) Just fucking buy them from Waitrose Store, dearies.

Just had two of them! Yes, they do sell Waitrose mince pies in Hong Kong  

what about chocolate logs?

Haven't spotted them..but waiting for the fruitcakes to go on sale