I cannot live in the UK, alhtough I could claim asylum

[SueEllen]

hah! I've met a number of people who have "passed" the LIUK test (or equivalent ESOL course) and can't speak a word of English. Pay someone £300 and you have a bonafide certificate you can use within minutes.

I did a Masters degree with a group of them.

They nicely kept the fees down for the UK and European students even though they all failed....

[PAH]

I'm English, I got a "buy".

I came here illegally from foreignerland. Don't speak English. Can't write English, but Google Translate can. No intention of integrating, just here for the money.

Can't be deported, even if I commit a serious crime, as I have a cat. If that dies I'll have knocked up some skank by then so my human rights will be intact.

The European Court will defend my rights to stay in the UK so I don't have to go to mainland Europe where they live.

Gotta love the system.

[d000hg]

I score 50%

Um...

23. How might you stop young people playing tricks on you at Halloween?

• Call the police
• Give them some money
• Give them sweets or chocolate
• Hide from them

Depending where you live any of those could be the right answer.

[Arturo Bassick]

I score 50%

Um...Depending where you live any of those could be the right answer.

Not only that but the "correct" answer is a bloody American tradition! FFS.

[d000hg]

Not sure, Halloween has been around for decades here... bobbing for apples and all that. It is certainly becoming more like the US version though... advertised for weeks ahead like a public holiday.

[Arturo Bassick]

Trick or Treat is an American tradition, simple as.
It may be becoming adopted in the UK (much to my disgust) but it is not in our tradition.
It did not exist at all when I was busy creating havoc at that age.

[d000hg]

The truth seems rather less cut and dried than that. As with most traditions, it's evolved over time.

Trick-or-treating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Arturo Bassick]

I interpreted the question as specifically aimed at trick or treating, hence my point.
How do you stop kids playing a trick.
Give them a treat.

My tradition was not about black mailing the residents. We knocked on doors and ran away. We swapped all the front gates in the street. We changed all the door numbers. We took all the milk bottles in the street and placed them in the front path of the nasty old crone half way up the street. All without any request for payment to bugger off. Mischief night and Halloween.
Happy to have those things done to me, but will T or Ters to **** right off.

[cailin maith]

13/24 for me... oh dear.

[Mich the Tester]

13/24 for me... oh dear.

Yes, and you're an immigrant too!

OUT!