Reply to: I cannot live in the UK, alhtough I could claim asylum

[Mich the Tester]

13/24 for me... oh dear.

Yes, and you're an immigrant too!

OUT!

[cailin maith]

13/24 for me... oh dear.

[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.

[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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[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.

[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....

[lilelvis2000]

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.

Another waste of time, but it does make DC look good in that suit of his.

[Spacecadet]

But then I've left already so I don't care.


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Some of the questions might be said to have a somewhat tenuous connection to getting on with daily life in the UK.
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The real life test itself was only created to keep the immigrant haters happy and passing it is mearly a hurdle (which only the chronically stupid will fall at), not a filter.
Then the Guardian (in their lefty wisdom) publish their online version to make it look like immigrants have more right to be here than natives, cause they've passed the citizenship test and we haven't.

[Mich the Tester]

You scored 16 out of a possible 24

You have failed, the pass mark was 75% According to the Life in the UK Test, you have insufficient knowledge of the English language or of life in the UK to remain

But then I've left already so I don't care.


<understatement mode on>
Some of the questions might be said to have a somewhat tenuous connection to getting on with daily life in the UK.
<understatement mode off>

[DodgyAgent]

11/24 for me but at least it is more than 20%

[petergriffin]

You scored 10 out of a possible 24

You have failed, the pass mark was 75% According to the Life in the UK Test, you have insufficient knowledge of the English language or of life in the UK to remain

Now, will I be deported back to Montecarlo?