Why are our CUK expatriates of such low quality?

[Sysman]

At my comprehensive school, they taught us never to start a sentence with "and" or "but".

They were wrong.

And you are quite correct!

And at my prep school, they taught us that starting a sentence with "and" or "but" was a no-no.

And they also taught us not to use the word "nice".

But that was simply because with a language as rich as English, there are numerous alternatives to the word "nice", many of them much more succint.

And starting multiple sentences with "and" or "but" isn't correct for an eight year old writing an essay, so Teech was right.

But it's fine in a debate.

[Sysman]

What do you call an ex-pat who stops working abroad ?

Sponging layabout foreigner?

[DodgyAgent]

They are all enjoying their lives?

So why are they spending all their time on here telling us about it?

[doodab]

So why are they spending all their time on here telling us about it?

Probably the same reason sas spends all his time on here telling us how tulip life as an expat / contractor / non-wandsworthian / anyone who isn't him is.

[configman]

So why are they spending all their time on here telling us about it?

It makes us feel good to hear you all moaning about how bad things are in the west - and about all the jobs coming our way in the east.

[d000hg]

So why are they spending all their time on here telling us about it?

Because we speak English and their neighbours don't?

[manclarky]

What do you call an ex-pat who stops working abroad ?

Re-Pat?

[manclarky]

and then if he works abroad again

Ex-Re-Pat?

[Mich the Tester]

Because we speak English and their neighbours don't?

Dutch internet forums are full of people insulting each other in a humourless fashion; here, believe it or not, it's more civilised and occasionally quite funny.