Reply to: Britain to be like Madeira in 2080

[lilelvis2000]

Pakistan is a failed state with nukes. No booze, no skirts, no music. Not to mention those blasphemy laws that make life there so worthwhile.

You're talking out your ass.

again.

[d000hg]

Id put my money on it being like this

Isn't that just a typical Lidl?

[IR35FanClub]

Not going to call you racist as I understand your frustration, but these days in NL I actually seek out restaurants with foreign staff, particularly from southern Europe, because most of the locals are frankly bloody useless at anything that involves 'service'. I can imagine the situation's pretty similar in the UK. Why would you employ some drunken inbred local who's been forced to apply by the the job centre if someone from eastern Europe or further afield arrives at your pub or shop looking smartly dressed and politely asks if you're looking for staff? Why, in fact, should we expect businesspeople to hire second rate chavs instead of hiring the best they can find?

It would be hard to call me a racist, my other half is african and my best mate jamaican, and they would be the first to admit that immigation in the uk has let too many people in over a short space of time. Ive worked with a few first and second gerenation indians over the years now and they often moan about how many "new" indians the gov is letting in on work visas. I think most people have the same opinion... its not racism to think that letting in enough new people each year to build 2 towns the size of milton keynes is a bit too many.

[mudskipper]

Was thinking about the population thing.

It's only an extension of what the British did a couple of hundred years ago. If you think about the number of white Aussies and Americans and imagined having to rehome them all back in the UK, we'd be pretty chocka.


Facts and figures.

Population of UK = 63,000,000
Number of Americans with English and Scottish ancestry = 335,564,998

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_American

[EternalOptimist]

Not going to call you racist as I understand your frustration, but these days in NL I actually seek out restaurants with foreign staff, particularly from southern Europe, because most of the locals are frankly bloody useless at anything that involves 'service'. I can imagine the situation's pretty similar in the UK. Why would you employ some drunken inbred local who's been forced to apply by the the job centre if someone from eastern Europe or further afield arrives at your pub or shop looking smartly dressed and politely asks if you're looking for staff? Why, in fact, should we expect businesspeople to hire second rate chavs instead of hiring the best they can find?

wow , you are almost saying that we should band together with people who share the same values, rather than with people who were born close by, or who look like us


you can get shot for saying things like that

[BlasterBates]

So what do you think they can look forward to in Madeira, dummy?

(and the hundreds of millions of people at equal or more tropical latutides elsewhere)

I presume they´ll all come to Britain.

What are you doing to reduce your carbon footprint?

[Mich the Tester]

We have 2 million people claiming"they cant find work (it would help if they got out of wetherspoons) and yet there are literally hundreds of thousands of cleaners cooks and waiting staff coming from overseas to "study".. Call me xenophobic, but we shouldn't force the lazy parasite brits to do these jobs before we give them away to foreigners?

Not going to call you racist as I understand your frustration, but these days in NL I actually seek out restaurants with foreign staff, particularly from southern Europe, because most of the locals are frankly bloody useless at anything that involves 'service'. I can imagine the situation's pretty similar in the UK. Why would you employ some drunken inbred local who's been forced to apply by the the job centre if someone from eastern Europe or further afield arrives at your pub or shop looking smartly dressed and politely asks if you're looking for staff? Why, in fact, should we expect businesspeople to hire second rate chavs instead of hiring the best they can find?

[IR35FanClub]

The Met office have shot down in flames the claim that Britain will be sub-tropical in 2060. It will be subtropical in 2080.

You mean it will be light and fluffy with a hint of lemon?
Or fortified and a bit sickly sweet?

As to all those pictures of what britain will look like... have you not been on the tube lately?. I was there working last year and it started to wind me up that no one spoke english.

I mean seriously every day Id listen in to peoples conversation and think, this isnt good. A bit of tourism and immigration to support the economy isnt a bad idea, but this is ridiculous. We have 2 million people claiming"they cant find work (it would help if they got out of wetherspoons) and yet there are literally hundreds of thousands of cleaners cooks and waiting staff coming from overseas to "study".. Call me xenophobic, but we shouldn't force the lazy parasite brits to do these jobs before we give them away to foreigners? Ad no im not racist Im talking everything from old Europe, new europe, asia, africa and the rest. I dont count aussie/kiwi or us drawl as english either :-)

So where did all the brits go from London? Sell up and move overseas?

And as to weather(sorry climate) predictions... im running one of the HadSM3 climate models in boinc as my screen saver. After 161 hours of CPU Its only up to May 1839 (looks a bit chilly at the mo), so ill let you know what it comes up with once its got the past history right.

[KaiserWilly]

What, Karachi?

Then, back in the real world...

[PorkPie]

And that matters because?

[Mich the Tester]

Pakistan...No booze, no skirts, no music.

What, Karachi?

[gingerjedi]

Why would anyone want Mitsubishi emblems in his garden?

Maybe Madeira isn't as boring as I first thought?

[KaiserWilly]

Yep, not a bad place at all. Obviously there are grotty parts, and a lot of povery, but on the whole I'd say Karachi is quite worthwhile, especially if you have some friends there who'll show you around. Lagos IS a dump, although Victoria Island is OK as a stopover for a few nights, and if you get out of the city and learn something about the cultures it's OK too. Nigerians often have a fantastic sense of humour which makes up for a lot; they seem to get through their days by finding things to laugh about. So even in Lagos there are positives.

Yeah. Even in Treblinka there were positives too.

Pakistan is a failed state with nukes. No booze, no skirts, no music. Not to mention those blasphemy laws that make life there so worthwhile.

Nigeria, well, those emails I receive from time to time are really hilarious, yes. The downside about Nigeria is the population boom: they will
hit 450m by 2050. Some estimations even say 900m people. Get a good anti-spam filter.

[escapeUK]

So what do you think they can look forward to in Madeira, dummy?

(and the hundreds of millions of people at equal or more tropical latutides elsewhere)

And that matters because?

[OwlHoot]

The Met office have shot down in flames the claim that Britain will be sub-tropical in 2060. It will be subtropical in 2080.

This is what you can look forward to. ...

So what do you think they can look forward to in Madeira, dummy?

(and the hundreds of millions of people at equal or more tropical latutides elsewhere)