Good things about the Uk ...

[DodgyAgent]

We'll order up the tombstone from the monumental mason then:

HERE LIES DODGY AGENT
LIKE A CHEAP RUG

BELOVED OF NO ONE

HE WOULD RATHER ROT HERE
THAN ANYWHERE ELSE

AMEN

You can take the loser out of a country, but you cant take the count..ry out of the loser

[bogeyman]

You can take the loser out of a country, but you cant take the count..ry out of the loser

Eh? What are you on about now?

[DodgyAgent]

Eh? What are you on about now?

Basically I am calling you a loser

[expat]

Judging by the amount of foreigners from Australia to Russia to Afghanistan coming here then it is clearly the greatest country on the planet inspite of its ruling classes

Many Australians come here for a time, often as a base for an overseas trip to Europe. Fewer come here to stay than Brits go there to stay.

I don't know if I'd put "at least it's better than Afghanistan" on the tourist board posters.

In general, yes there is substantial immigration to the UK, and substantial emigration from. Why is it that educated and skilled workers are much more common in the latter than the former?

[oracleslave]

Eh? What are you on about now?

I believe the clue is in the pronounciation of 'country'

HTH.

[DodgyAgent]

Many Australians come here for a time, often as a base for an overseas trip to Europe. Fewer come here to stay than Brits go there to stay.

I don't know if I'd put "at least it's better than Afghanistan" on the tourist board posters.

In general, yes there is substantial immigration tot he UK, and substantial emigration from. Why is it that educated and skilled workers are much more common in the latter than the former?

Because we are a better country at educating our people?

[DimPrawn]

Best thing about the UK is the freedom of speech. Where else can we viciously slag off and ridicule the government on a public forum without fear of consequences, and


hang on there's some guys in dark suits at the door. Back in five.

[bogeyman]

Basically I am calling you a loser

K. Thanks

Coming from you that's nothing less than fantastic.

It's like a tramp pissing in your pocket.

[expat]

Because we are a better country at educating our people?

In the German office I was in last year, we had, as well as a lot of Germans, a number of English-speakers including an American, an Indian, 2 Londoners, and me. Somebody described a piece of humour as "puckish" and someone else asked what that meant. One of the German guys described it, adding that it came from Puck, in "one of Shakespeare's plays ... A Midsummer Night's Dream, wasn't it?" Someone else then added that the character was also called Robin Goodfellow.

I knew that too, but the other English-speakers didn't know any of this. A sadly accurate sign of different levels of education. Not every German could have done that, but it was noticeably not at all unexpected that some could. Ask most of us even to name a German author, never mind show some familiarity with one of his characters: I don't think it would come out well.

[DodgyAgent]

K. Thanks

Coming from you that's nothing less than fantastic.

It's like a tramp pissing in your pocket.