UK has 'worst quality of life in Europe'

[Mich the Tester]

Try and picture the queen eating spaghetti bolognese.

With only fork & spoon

Oh bloody hell, are we going to start the whole spag bol thing again?

You are Menelaus and I claim my free 'leave my wallet alone' voucher.

[Mich the Tester]

How else would one eat Spaghetti Bolognese?

In a fighter plane.

[Le Rosbif]

How else would one eat Spaghetti Bolognese?

With a knife and fork

With chopsticks

With bare hands

...

[doodab]

We keep the prices high here so as not to encourage Eurotrash like you. HTH

I didn't say i couldn't afford it, i said i was gouged. I needed something urgently and had to pay twice what it would cost online. So thats what i did.

Bloody annoying but at least i have a working switch.

I had no idea that runaway inflation was part of the tory strategy for dealing with immigration though. Ought to work well as it will drive people already here away as well as keeping them out, and it isn't restricted to johnny foreigner.

[Churchill]

In a fighter plane.

Ah.

Point taken.

I thought Menelaus had been banished from this land...

[Churchill]

With a knife and fork

With chopsticks

With bare hands

...

How common.

[TimberWolf]

Ah.

Point taken.

I thought Menelaus had been banished from this land...

Can't really include him in the quality of life index as he had (or has) more than one.

[chef]

I am considerably richer than yau and I don't have to be an exile and I don't have to live with the boring Germans and I bet I have more mates than you do in Germany.


HTH

If ever there was a CUK version of "yeah, but, no, but, yeah, well anyways..." then you've just posted SAS.

-I have no wish to even work out if you have more wealth than me, money is not the be all and end all in my life
-I am not an exile, I chose to live abroad for the main 3 reasons that I thought Britain was going to the wall, the woman I plan to marry has a job that makes sense for her not to move and my own work is usually away from home but living in the what is effectively the center of Europe helps greatly to reduce that time
-Germans are not boring, you should shrug off those eurosceptic views of yours and maybe go visit your mate again in, wait where was it? ahh yes NRW, Germany.. what a bore he must have been

Just back from a week in North Rhine Whestphalia... with my old friend X von Y who's in the German diplomatic service. While there we drank several bottles of good Reisling and Mosel from his cellar and generally mused on the state of the world. Topics incuded (each of which would be worth a separate thread):

1. How Turkey is slowly becoming Islamist.
2. How Germany is slowing incubating its own tinderbox like the UK
3. How the German elite are turining against the Euro.
4. How the supply shock of cheap professional labour from countries like India will in short order lead to a much bigger positive demand shock as the newly rich middle classes will want Western goods and this is what Germany's mittelstand is focusing on.

And so on ...

You need to extract your head from your arse.
I live in London. Why would I look for nightlife in Germany FFS?
No, Germany is good for other things: the Rhine Gorge is amazing, German wines (and of course beer) are very good if you know your stuff and similarly some (but not all) German food.
But to be honest, not much in the way of culture or interesting monuments - so that makes a relaxing few days abroad since you don't have the pressure to go and sight-see.

and I wouldn't say you are fickle SAS but

Nothing to be confused about. Germans have their priorities right - no property booms, no big celeb culture, a solid economy with an excellent standard of living.
There are flaws as everywhere but IMHO much less than here. Germany is still first rate in its infrastructure and healthcare, while Britain feels increasingly second rate.

Learning German fluently is almost impossible when an adult though.

and 1 final quote just to prove my point, when asked where is the best place to emigrate to by Tarquin you replied

In your position Germany would be my choice.
Only bummer is that you will probably have to learn German, which I know from personal experience, is nigh on impossible to become fluent in after a certain age.

I'm off for some food and a beer.

[AtW]

With a knife and fork

With chopsticks

With bare hands

...

How would you eat it with a ****ing helmet and oxygen mask on your face?

[sasguru]

If ever there was a CUK version of "yeah, but, no, but, yeah, well anyways..." then you've just posted SAS.

-I have no wish to even work out if you have more wealth than me, money is not the be all and end all in my life
-I am not an exile, I chose to live abroad for the main 3 reasons that I thought Britain was going to the wall, the woman I plan to marry has a job that makes sense for her not to move and my own work is usually away from home but living in the what is effectively the center of Europe helps greatly to reduce that time
-Germans are not boring, you should shrug off those eurosceptic views of yours and maybe go visit your mate again in, wait where was it? ahh yes NRW, Germany.. what a bore he must have been




and I wouldn't say you are fickle SAS but


and 1 final quote just to prove my point, when asked where is the best place to emigrate to by Tarquin you replied


I'm off for some food and a beer.

All that reasearch for me. Awww shucks

I really quite like Germany and the Germans, not enough to live there though as I'm happy where I am, especially when their already high taxes go up to pay for the PIIGS