Miki Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Di (not John)My post was more a tongue in cheek reply to the posting but as you say, the world is becoming very similar in many things. We have had Italians who complain about youths behaviour back in Milan, something we were always led to believe is not very Italian at all and all the lads were simply Mommas boys.".....We once contacted the police as the noise was indescribable and they said they would do nothing as they did not have the manpower - there were just to many people."Have you tried ringing the gendarmes here between 19h00 until 08h00 if you live in the country ? The reply even after a burglary or especially a noisy occurrence, will often be for you to ring back during opening hours or to leave your name, address and complaint and we will call to see you as soon as we can (and that can be quite sometime later !) ".....ah the 'good old days' NOT."NOT........Grrrr, you are in France now and although I appear to defend the UK on occasion am I alone in detesting this new speak regularly coming out of Britain ?Others include : Aussie originated raising of the last syllables of a sentence.Whatever, whatever !You wish.........although a couple of little kids said that to me and it sounded kind of cute, although Chelsea did certainly go on to win the title quite well in the end !!(they were from Manchester by the way!)Just a personal opinion on it, c'est tout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vraititi<P>PSG till I die -fluctuat nec mergitur.<P> Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Is there any thread on this forum at the minute that is NOT going to turn at some point into a rant about the UK's perceived shortcomings and end with somebody launching into a diatribe against the UK ? If not, well, maybe we should all decide to start ALL posts by a right go at the UK, and then 5 posts in, agree to move the discussion somewhere else, in the hope that, enfin, we can progress further to a rational discussion on something a little more original and fresher than UK Vomit plc or UK Gangs-of-pedophiles-roaming-UK's-hamlets Ltd. We've all lived in the UK, we've all gone through pretty much the same daily life experiences, good or bad, we all know the score, we've all survived it pretty well by the looks of it, so now could we move on please ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobS Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 And some of us still live over here and know that it is not as bad as they portray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 And some of us are happily moving back with eyes wide open as opposed to eyes wide shut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shas Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 It,s a lovely world we live in, along side all the bad bit,s ...and some shops do open sunday,s?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motorhead Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Once again Vraititi hits the nail on the head. This thread seems to be merging with another less subtle one.Now Vrai is French but lives in Britain probably because he sees more pros than cons to it and I stay in France for much the same reason - Sunday opening or not.It's a big world and there is nothing more democratic than voting with your feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vraititi<P>PSG till I die -fluctuat nec mergitur.<P> Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Thanks MH, but you know, I don't see my living here so much as a conscious choice made upon carefully weighing the pros and cons; it was, nearly 3 decades ago, simply a choice based on where I could 'find myself' best, I was young, wild and linguistically mega keen and it turned out to be the right decision (the 'everything goes' English side appealed to me at the time), mainly because of my passion for the English language, the linguistic immersion, the surroundings, the poetry, etc. I had it all mapped out for me in France, was preparing the Agrég', etc. but I just had to live this passion in situ, I could no longer 'hold it'. The French writer Le Clézio is fond of saying that his country is not France but the French language; well, by the same token my land of predilection is not England but the English language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 WOW!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 WOW!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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