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PostPosted: 06:14 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: The worst place to live in Europe Reply with quote

No wonder I get so depressed every time I go back to the UK

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8015743/British-Isles-worst-place-to-live-in-Europe.html
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PostPosted: 06:57 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why is it that the cost of living is so high in the UK?
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PostPosted: 07:12 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

CHR15 wrote:
as crap as this country is, we have pretty much the best rules on modifying bikes (ie non)


everything else is wank.


That and free health careless! I mean care!
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PostPosted: 07:14 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: The worst place to live in Europe Reply with quote

FinnDave wrote:
No wonder I get so depressed every time I go back to the UK


O Rly

Go stick your head in a nice clean snowdrift or something Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 07:18 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: The worst place to live in Europe Reply with quote

Tonka wrote:
FinnDave wrote:
No wonder I get so depressed every time I go back to the UK


O Rly

Go stick your head in a nice clean snowdrift or something Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: 07:19 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well that has cheered me up Rolling Eyes

Anyone got about four foot of rope that I can borrow Wink
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PostPosted: 07:23 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paxovasa wrote:
Well that has cheered me up Rolling Eyes

Anyone got about four foot of rope that I can borrow Wink


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PostPosted: 07:23 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paxovasa wrote:
Well that has cheered me up Rolling Eyes

Anyone got about four foot of rope that I can borrow Wink


Nope, we need all the rope we can get, suicide season about to begin.

I once got involved in a (very drunk) argument with a bunch of Norwegians about which country had the highest suicide rate. They were anxious to hold on to their number one spot in the suicide league, but Finland had overtaken them that year.

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PostPosted: 07:28 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

But we top the league of teenage pregnancies Razz
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PostPosted: 07:30 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paxovasa wrote:
But we top the league of teenage pregnancies Razz


Must be something in that, the UK is overpopulated and here we are running out of people!
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PostPosted: 07:32 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

FinnDave wrote:
Paxovasa wrote:
But we top the league of teenage pregnancies Razz


Must be something in that, the UK is overpopulated and here we are running out of people!


Like a cattle mart, we will sell you some of our proven breeders Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 07:35 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paxovasa wrote:


Like a cattle mart, we will sell you some of our proven breeders Thumbs Up


You cant even sell them...... I mean who would want to buy this....

https://chavspeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/chav-pregnant-lovely.jpg
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PostPosted: 07:37 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you're comparing that to cattle, it's an insult to the average cow.
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PostPosted: 07:39 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

She still has at least 30 years of breeding left.

Got to be worth £15,000 or a new R1 Wink
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PostPosted: 07:41 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Doug97 wrote:
Why is it that the cost of living is so high in the UK?


Decades of mismanagement. And society's shit as well. However, I put that down to the weather. There's no wonder we're all so bloody angry with the weather being so gadawfully miserable all the time...
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PostPosted: 07:51 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paxovasa wrote:
She still has at least 30 years of breeding left.

Got to be worth £15,000 or a new R1 Wink


Just think how pissed you'd have to be to want to get anywhere near that. Put me off my breakfast, that has.
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PostPosted: 07:58 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

And according to 'Newsweek', the best place to live is....Finland, even though we punish children by making them hold trees...
https://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/09/is_finland_the_worlds_best_place_to_live_1961149.html
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PostPosted: 08:00 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: The worst place to live in Europe Reply with quote

FinnDave wrote:
No wonder I get so depressed every time I go back to the UK

Typical expat. It's easy, don't come back....I love it here. Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 08:02 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

FinnDave wrote:
even though we punish children by making them hold trees...


Looks like he is trying to push it over Laughing
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PostPosted: 08:02 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: The worst place to live in Europe Reply with quote

Vin wrote:
FinnDave wrote:
No wonder I get so depressed every time I go back to the UK

Typical expat. It's easy, don't come back....I love it here. Mr. Green


Typical expat because that's usually the reason we left in the first place. I avoid going back as much as possible, but my wife still likes the old place, sometimes I have to go with her.
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PostPosted: 08:11 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

carlosthejackal wrote:
Doug97 wrote:
Why is it that the cost of living is so high in the UK?


Decades of mismanagement. And society's shit as well. However, I put that down to the weather. There's no wonder we're all so bloody angry with the weather being so gadawfully miserable all the time...


I put it down to the overcrowding, the weather has always been shit in the UK, but we didn't used to be so bloody miserable to each other. A selective cull of about 30% of the population should help. We expats are doing our bit for Britain by living elsewhere Very Happy
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PostPosted: 08:11 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: The worst place to live in Europe Reply with quote

FinnDave wrote:
Typical expat because that's usually the reason we left in the first place. I avoid going back as much as possible, but my wife still likes the old place, sometimes I have to go with her.

So you then spend your time slagging off the old country and bigging up the new. I love it here but don't slag off every country I visit, that would be rude. No problem with you leaving however.
Remind me, how much do bikes cost in Finland?
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PostPosted: 08:14 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: The worst place to live in Europe Reply with quote

Vin wrote:
FinnDave wrote:
Typical expat because that's usually the reason we left in the first place. I avoid going back as much as possible, but my wife still likes the old place, sometimes I have to go with her.

So you then spend your time slagging off the old country and bigging up the new. I love it here but don't slag off every country I visit, that would be rude. No problem with you leaving however.


I simply posted a link to an article in a British newspaper, the results of a factual survey.
Vin wrote:

Remind me, how much do bikes cost in Finland?


Too fucking much! I paid 5k for a 2003 Fireblade last week, and that was a genuine end of season bargain. I didn't say everything was great here. Crap beer, -30 in the winter, +30 in the summer, plenty to complain about here if people want to.
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PostPosted: 08:23 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

FinnDave wrote:
A selective cull of about 30% of the population should help. We expats are doing our bit for Britain by living elsewhere Very Happy


I've been saying that for years...
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PostPosted: 08:26 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Re: The worst place to live in Europe Reply with quote

FinnDave wrote:
I simply posted a link to an article in a British newspaper, the results of a factual survey.

In the Torygraph and compiled by a price comparison website Laughing
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