Goodbye to rip-off Britain

[Kap]

Quote from Cygnus Atratus:

Yes, blah,blah,blah, don't forget the young frustrated female South Korean students that pack Borders (Charing Cross Rd) every evening, or the Polish & Brazilian babes serving £5.00 soggy sandwiches at Pret A Manger, or all those girls on the tube after paying £3.00-5.00 single tube fare Or the tall Sikh/Punjab babes all over.

Yes its friggin expensive, but as one poster said if you do Outer SW London or around Greenwich you will have a ball. Wimbledon,Southfields,Barnes,Richmond ? If you need occasional herbal mood enhancers but in a good area try Streatham,Clapham and Dulwich.Been in Fulham 6 yrs and just started to realise what a p!55hole it is. Healthwise make sure your insurance is proper or sneak your way onto a GP (family doctor) register, otherwise should you need any form of treatment and have to pay it would be circa £380-450/night before touching you. Do not worry about the Police they tend to shoot innocent young Brazillian men without warning.

You will also see/find that the English have an exagerrated and upper crust view of their "City" (financial district) resulting in most ladies dropping their knickers/panties if they smell any link you might have with the world of finance,especially when you say TRADER !! Hedgistan here covers Green Park, Picadilly, Mayfair and parts of St James .Whatever you do never ever ever buy anything for your mouth from a chain of 5000 calorie snack shops called GREGGS http://www.greggs.co.uk/customer_care/our_products/

Get yourself a Private Eye Magazine subscription, do not read the Daily Mail (or The Metro-freebie paper) & The Mirror newspaper. You will find news in the FT 18 hours old, The Sun silly,Daily Sport to saucy, The Telegraph has a cartoon strip called Alex which personifies most inbred "City" types. You may read The Guardian if you live in/around Islington,vegan,PETA/Greenpeace activist and hug trees If you aspire for a certain social class or status do tell us and will tell you what to wear; tweed jackets (Scottish made only) with red pants for the landed gentry or tracksuit bottoms and Reebook classic trainers if working class. Also expect to pay £120/month for local authority taxation for rubbish collections once a month.

IMHO BIGGEST & ONLY advantage is being able to play in Asia, Europe and then with the Yanks during high volatility periods with ease to the body

Regards

Cygnus Atratus

P.S. Remember not to use any firm of Estate Agents (Realtors) that has grotesquely painted Mini Coopers.

nowt wrong with Greggs ! Tuna crunch & veg pasty..lubbly, Im just off the munster road .. u tried OLIVe deli for lunch .. I reccomnend it.. and nuff sed bout those minis

 

[gnome]

Quote from Humpy:

"... Let's hope that there isn't a George W clone waiting in the wings somewhere to finish us off !!

We're hoping the same for ourselves, but fearful that what we've got next will be equally bad in its own way.

 

[annaland]

Quote from marketsurfer:

my beloved landrover is being sold to TATA.

heavens, what shall i do??


surf

You can finally get the teal miata with 22 inch rims and a body kit that you've always dreamed of.

 

[Humpy]

Quote from Kap:

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I was thinking cunt of all cunts was a bit harsh !

There there we love you all really - well sometimes

 

[Humpy]

You would think after say 50 years and trillions of pounds later things would be a lot better. But they aren’t in my view. There was no 70% going back to prison for a rest between crimes when they used the birch was there ?
I used to go from Hammersmith to Plymouth in 2.5 hours in the sixties. You have to set aside a couple of days now if you want to fly anywhere close like Glasgow from T5. We seem to have had a load of plonkers in Parlt for years. The Govt tells lies thru their professional liars – I mean spin-doctors that everything is better. Well it isn’t and chucking out the only honest bunch of politicians in the whole country ( Lords ) for another bunch of highly paid idiots on huge expense accounts seems exceptionally stupid or perhaps par for the course.
Blair should give his JP Morgan “slush fund “ money to the injured service men and their families ( seeing it was his incompetence that got them into the Iraq war ) – not buy yet bigger houses.
we need politicians who can grasp the nettle !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hydroblunt]

Quote from ByLoSellHi:

USD. We'll be in rate hiking cycle before too long in the US.

American's will express their discontent with inflation in November.

I don' t know any other way to put it, but you are clueless.

 

[smithmar]

Quote from bigbiscuit:

they're both still going.. Viz is worth the price for Rogers' Profanisaurus alone!

Oh yes - and the yanks might even understand a few of these.

"Blimp my ride" - what happens when you married your formerly slim girlfriend.

"Carbon Cockprint" - the environmental impact of long distance relationships

etc etc

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from annaland:

You can finally get the teal miata with 22 inch rims and a body kit that you've always dreamed of.

my eye is on the purple minivan with supercharger and baby on board sticker.

 

[$preader]

Quote from Vinny1:

It would just be a long vacation, for a year or so. Wife and I would just get an apartment around London and then travel 2 weeks each month to different cities around Europe.

I'm hoping that it's not a bunch of hoops to jump through for an American to get an apartment in England?

You might want to look into the visa situation too,if you and your wife are both American your passports will only allow you to stay in the UK for 3 months,that's the visa waiver that exists between the countries.

You can apply for a 6 month visa at the Embassy but they will want to know why you are going,what you're going to live on etc etc

If you want to stay any longer it gets a WHOLE lot more complicated.You'd probably be alright for a little while leaving for 2 weeks then coming back but they're not stupid and you don't want to get flagged,especially if you've paid for rent and aren't allowed back in,even to get your stuff.

Also as a non-resident a landlord won't be able to do the background checks like they can here but if you pay a big chunk of the rent up-front and a hefty security deposit you could by-pass it.

 

[annaland]

Quote from marketsurfer:



my eye is on the purple minivan with supercharger and baby on board sticker.

You’re in luck because I can give you a great deal on mine! You can be rollin’ on dubs in no time. I promise nothing less than 8 cylinders, 2 exhausts, sliding doors, 2 rows of seats (3rd row had to be sacrificed for the subwoofer) and of course, a spoiler. Purple may be a problem - you may have to settle for pink. And just for you, I will include a bumper sticker "Baby on board, husband in trunk". I think you're just about set now.