Wow that's a big can o worms!!lazyeye6 said:I also make note of the region they claim as home. :idea: Perhaps all immigrants should go home. That would solve everything.acotrel said:Whenever anybody tells me anything, I always take note of their body language and speech patterns.
baz said:Wow that's a big can o worms!!lazyeye6 said:I also make note of the region they claim as home. :idea: Perhaps all immigrants should go home. That would solve everything.acotrel said:Whenever anybody tells me anything, I always take note of their body language and speech patterns.
acotrel said:In Australia we say that sort of thing about Pommie bastards, probably because they make us feel inferior. We are much more at home with Americans because they saved us in WW2 and the 1917-1918 war in Europe..
baz said:Wow that's a big can o worms!!lazyeye6 said:I also make note of the region they claim as home. :idea: Perhaps all immigrants should go home. That would solve everything.acotrel said:Whenever anybody tells me anything, I always take note of their body language and speech patterns.
Smart Move Nigel...not sure why I continue to peak at this thread. Gives me a chuckle I guess.Fast Eddie said:.....I'll be over on the other pages if yer want me!
but those people have moved to the uk for a better standard of living i would assume? i would also assume you moved to the us for the same reason? the decline in industry in this country i find very sad i still work in heavy engineering but it's truly a cutthroat industry these daysfrankdamp said:I actually went back to the UK for a few days to consider a return. Absolutely no way! Two thirds of the population seem to be from India, Pakistan, the Arab world, the West Indies and parts of Africa. White Brits are a definite minority.
The towns and cities have been greatly remodelled - I got lost within a mile of where we used to live. In my old neighborhood, about 2 miles of housing was demolished so a massive Tesco supermarket could be built I'm sure their car- park is visible from earth orbit.
All the old industries are gone (Leyland Motors, Leyland Paints, British Tire & Rubber, Leyland & Birmingham Rubber) and the town has become a dormitory suburb serving Manchester & Liverpool.
About the only area not messed up is round my sister's home. The Parish Church, built in 1064 A.D. hasn't changed much. She lives in a sheltered housing complex built around the Rectory to that church.
It was a sobering experience and made me grateful to be living in small seaside town in Western Washington. You live and learn!
acotrel said:I've been reading a bit of history lately - about Captain Cook and also Tommy Townshend ( Lord Sydney). I don't think many Australians know much about their history. I never knew much about British politicians - Pitt the Younger or Lord Sydney and King George the fourth. - Interesting stuff. - We have currently got modern day aborigines defacing statues.
Ahhh, yes, that's a quote from the greatest punk of the 20th century - Margaret Mead.
Free love in Samoa. Just what the "hung up" prudish conservative values of the West needed.
Made her career. Instant professor. Instant celebrity.
But . . . she, the queen of 20th C anthropology, fooled by her own arrogance, her own wishes, and the sexy stories of the adolescent Samoan girls she wanted to believe, and who she thought her lessers. Punked.
http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_ ... samoa.html
And . . . . academia naturally loved it - free love in Samoa - they ate it up . . . for 50 years . . . . until Derek Freeman discovered the punking.
Of course, there followed decades of politicized counterattacks on Freeman.
Lots of PC . . . . . "I haven't read Freeman's book but I KNOW he's wrong." Typical.
It continues, in anthropology classes today, professors refuse to assign Freeman's book.
Better that their students hear no evil, see no evil, smell no evil.
That's science for ya. Politicized science.
Here's an interesting, and even handed, history of the affair -
Dear Eddie,Is he the no-nonsense, straight talking, strong leadership kinda guy that the US (and thus the rest of the world) need to see us all through the current global issues and make the world a better place?
Or is he a dangerous idiot that would create even greater frictions both within the US and between the US and the rest of the world?