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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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Britain? Expensive? Have you all gone mad?
Where else can you buy a gun or a knife for about 30 quid on any high street?
Drugs? Ecstacy is about a quid a pop now. That's a night out in anyones country. Christ, you can fill your pipe with top grade crack for around a tenner and still have change for some locally grown mega skunk and a blowjob from a local heroin induced teenager. The distribution channels are incredible these days. It's not like in the 90's when you had to go looking for stuff, just pop up to your local comprehensive school and you'll be able to get everything you need.
Recent surveys have also revealed that the cost of stolen goods has consitently fallen over the last few years. You can pick up many brand new electrical items for next to nothing nowadays. Ask anyone wearing a Henry Lloyd jacket or Burberry baseball cap or, alternatively, should you see any 15 year old girls pushing prams (you will) with another toddler who's covered in dirt screaming behind in tow, just ask her, she'll be only to happy to make a few extra quid before she picks up her giro, housing benefit, tax credit, etc. Chances are, they should be able to sort you out there and then.
You need to put things into somesort of context before you start making broad sweeping inflammatory comments like that. |
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cunning_stunt
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Britain? Expensive? Have you all gone mad?
Where else can you buy a gun or a knife for about 30 quid on any high street?
Drugs? Ecstacy is about a quid a pop now. That's a night out in anyones country. Christ, you can fill your pipe with top grade crack for around a tenner and still have change for some locally grown mega skunk and a blowjob from a local heroin induced teenager. The distribution channels are incredible these days. It's not like in the 90's when you had to go looking for stuff, just pop up to your local comprehensive school and you'll be able to get everything you need.
Recent surveys have also revealed that the cost of stolen goods has consitently fallen over the last few years. You can pick up many brand new electrical items for next to nothing nowadays. Ask anyone wearing a Henry Lloyd jacket or Burberry baseball cap or, alternatively, should you see any 15 year old girls pushing prams (you will) with another toddler who's covered in dirt screaming behind in tow, just ask her, she'll be only to happy to make a few extra quid before she picks up her giro, housing benefit, tax credit, etc. Chances are, they should be able to sort you out there and then.
You need to put things into somesort of context before you start making broad sweeping inflammatory comments like that. |
Yeah . Hats off . |
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cunning_stunt
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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You may actually be upper class in South Africa, if you can live that way. Lets look at some per capita income figures:
South Africa - US$13,300
England - US$38,000
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Lets call a spade a spade . We have the most uneven wealth distribution in the world . $13 300 a year does not represent the "middle class" .
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| What's it mean? If you can live that large in South Africa, you are probably a lot closer to upper class than middle class. |
I don't know .Hard to define . I suppose it does sound callous to the very poor . The way I'm calling it is that you see yourself relative to your social circles . I think if people in england lived the ways most of my friends do they would be considered 'rich" , where as my friends ...well....just middle classed . I can't get my head around thinking of them as "rich" , but obviously a very poor person might . So you have a point . |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:18 am Post subject: |
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Briton is the "has been" or "once was" of places . It's all gone to crap (other the ireland which is following the opposite trend) . the quality of life is so low that every year 100's of thousands of South Africans go there , can get visas from ancestry to stay there , but CHOOSE to go back to AFRICA .
Honestly ...having lived in both places I got to tell you brits....your country(countries) is/are full of wonderful friendly people on the most parts . But they are cold , expensive and quite unliveable to any decent standard . Things we take for granted back home are a luxury to you . Leave ...leave and never look back . |
It is interesting that you spelled Britain as Briton. A Briton actually denotes a person from the old days. By the way, the British make slightly more money now than the Americans. The economy has been improving in the past few years. However, as far as the amount of ignorance in the country, I have been saying the ignorance is a serious problem in England and not just in the U.S. |
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cunning_stunt
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| It is interesting that you spelled Britain as Briton. A Briton actually denotes a person from the old days. By the way, the British make slightly more money now than the Americans. The economy has been improving in the past few years. However, as far as the amount of ignorance in the country, I have been saying the ignorance is a serious problem in England and not just in the U.S. |
That's right . I was talking about "has been" and a Freudian slip of the hands . My mind pleasantly surprises me at times .
The British might make more money , but the states is a lot cheaper and still affords a good standard of living . Although this is decreasing . |
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