Ive never met a nice South African

[sasguru]

"Mismatch" perhaps.

Scotland - Italy, anyone?

[shaunbhoy]

Scotland - Italy, anyone?

Or Scotland - France....................twice!!

[sunnysan]

Weather

I stopped moaning about the weather and the country long ago. You guys seem to do enough of that.

In all honesty , all things considered, I am very happy in the UK and I would go back for holidays to SA but never want to live there again.

On the whole, the rudeness comes from South Africans approaching issues less delicately than Brits and stating things rather than relying too much on innuendo and insinuation.

On the sense of humour front its takes many years to understand the nuances of British humour, especially the p1sstake which tends to be taken personally.

As far as being racist, on a personal level I have seen equivalent levels of racism in the UK and US. I am not even going to discuss Eastern Europe where IME the absence of any form of political correctness makes the levels of racism seem nearly pathological.

Go and ask a black guy in Brixton if he reckons the UK is racist and see what he says.

[Board Game Geek]

Go and ask a black guy in Brixton if he reckons the UK is racist and see what he says.

Is that before or after he mu....no...I can't say it...I'll be in deep do-doo.

:-)

[sunnysan]

:-)

Is that before or after he mu....no...I can't say it...I'll be in deep do-doo.

:-)

I rest my case

[chasingtheaurora]

I'm surprised that no-ones come up with the Spitting Image lyrics (below)!

I've Never met A Nice South African - sung by Spitting Image

I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru
I've had sunshine in the arctic and a swim in Tinbuktu
I've seen unicorns in Burma and a Yetti in Nepal
And I've danced with ten foot pygmies in a Montezuma hall
I've met the King of China and a working Yorkshire miner
But I've never met a nice South African.

No he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising man
'Cause we're a bunch of arrogant b***tards
Who hate black people

I once got served in Woolies aften less than four week's wait
I had lunch with Rowan Atkinson when he paid and wasn't late
I know a public swimming bath where they don't piss in the pool
I know a guy who got a job straight after leaving school
I've met a normal merman and a fairly modest German
But I've never met a nice South African.

No he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising man
'Cause we're a bunch of talentless murderers
Who smell like baboons

I've had a close encounter of the twenty-second kind
That's when an alien spaceship disappears up your behind
I got directory enquiries after less than forty rings
I've even heard a decent song by Paul McCartney's Wings
I've seen a flying pig in a quite convincing wig
But I've never met a nice South African.

No he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising man
'Cause we're a bunch of ignorant loudmouths
With no sense of humour - ha ha

I've met the Loch Ness monster and he looks like Fred Astaire
At the BBC in London he's the chief commissionaire
I know a place in Glasgow which is rife with daffodillies
I met a man in Katmandu who claimed to have two willies
I've had a nice pot noodle but I've never had a poodle
And I've never met a nice South African.

No he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising man
Because we've never met one either
Except for Breyten Breytenbach and he's emigrated to Paris. (farts)

Yes he's quite a nice South African
And he's hardly ever killed anyone
And he's not smelly at all.
That's why they put him prison.

[The Lone Gunman]

they did in another thread days ago.