Emigration

[DimPrawn]

It's a bit sad really.

Happiest man in the World, Wandsworth man.
Happiest man in the World, Leafy Surrey man.
Happiest man in the World, Aussie man.

Can see a bit of a pattern here. Stay at home, underemployed dad seeks adventure elsewhere.

[sasguru]

You'd stump up £1.65m to get into the equivalent of a sink estate with sunshine?



The average Aussie is a thick tatooed ****wit who would think Argos was Harrods.

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I agree but I was just winding OH up since he thinks it's paradise

[sasguru]

It's a bit sad really.

Happiest man in the World, Wandsworth man.
Happiest man in the World, Leafy Surrey man.
Happiest man in the World, Aussie man.

Can see a bit of a pattern here. Stay at home, underemployed dad seeks adventure elsewhere.

You wish you could work from home, don't you?
On the other hand, you live in Swindon so probably not.

[OwlHoot]

The Men That Don't Fit In, by Robert William Service

There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,
A race that can’t stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain’s crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don’t know how to rest.

If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they’re always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: “Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!”
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that’s dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.

He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life’s been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He’s a rolling stone, and it’s bred in the bone;
He’s a man who won’t fit in.

[sasguru]

The Men That Don't Fit In, by Robert William Service

Lovely poem.
Has no bearing on modern reality though.

[OwlHoot]

I agree but I was just winding OH up since he thinks it's paradise

Also it was a great opportunity to publicly list all your assets, real and imag^D anticipated

[sasguru]

Also it was a great opportunity to publicly list all your assets, real and imag^D anticipated

Aye wasn't it just? It sent OH on a perfect neg repping frenzy
He consoles himself that it's all made up, when all of it, is, in fact, true.

[Old Hack]

You'd stump up £1.65m to get into the equivalent of a sink estate with sunshine?



The average Aussie is a thick tatooed ****wit who would think Argos was Harrods.

So, then again, I can see the draw for you.

Precisely.

and paradise for me is Sri Lanka thanks. The only bit I love about Australia is cape tribulation.

1.65m by the time your mid forties when your career is adding tulip up do me a favour...

And I believe it is you and fat boy on the neg repping rampage

[Old Hack]

Aye wasn't it just? It sent OH on a perfect neg repping frenzy
He consoles himself that it's all made up, when all of it, is, in fact, true.

Of course it it sas, of course it is. You keep telling yourself that, and even you may believe it one day

[sasguru]

Of course it it sas, of course it is. You keep telling yourself that, and even you may believe it one day

Just out of curiosity, why do you assume everyone is in the same socio-economic bracket as you?