Anyone from the UK?

[LittleGreene]

That reminds me, I need to bet booked in for a slow air leak (in a tyre, not from me).

No one needs a slow leak

 

[jonnoback]

It’s decidedly mild here today. Birds are singing like it’s spring, maybe they’re just thankful it’s not frozen today.
New week new me. Going into this with a positive attitude to get shit done.

-Early morning gym class. (Already achieved)

-I Will Answer all those emails I avoided last week.

-Meal Planning for the family (as let’s be honest, deciding what to eat is the worst part of anyone’s day)

-Book the car for a service a MOT

That is positive - and I really need to sort a gym out... can feel I'm kinda slowly getting quite unfit...

 

[MerryeMikee]

No one needs a slow leak

 

[MerryeMikee]

Well, it may be needed, but who wants it!

 

[WriterLust94]

It’s decidedly mild here today. Birds are singing like it’s spring, maybe they’re just thankful it’s not frozen today.
New week new me. Going into this with a positive attitude to get shit done.

-Early morning gym class. (Already achieved)

-I Will Answer all those emails I avoided last week.

-Meal Planning for the family (as let’s be honest, deciding what to eat is the worst part of anyone’s day)

-Book the car for a service a MOT

Best if luck

 

[WriterLust94]

New day huh... Nope

 

[Meekly_Anna]

I have a Border Collie, he just loves the mud, water, and anything messy.

Are we talking about your dog or your husband?

 

[StrentWriter]

Good evening UK’ers. Really humbling day for me. Been out on site in Cambridgeshire today to see a building I designed some time ago finally going up. It utilises a whole load of sustainable wood in its construction, which I am pleased made it to the build. Days like this remind myself of why I trained and why I need to keep going and finish my doctorate.

Hope everyone has been having a good day too.

 

[jonnoback]

Right... time for some food.

 

[Ironfan]

Evening all, first run post Christmas done.

https://ibb.co/vxshDFSt

 

[GetNerdy]

Evening all, first run post Christmas done.

https://ibb.co/vxshDFSt

Nicely done!

 

[StrentWriter]

Evening all, first run post Christmas done.

https://ibb.co/vxshDFSt

Respect! Good pace there.

 

[NudieUser]

What do you miss most?

The people, the architecture, the roads, the environment. Honestly a lot!

 

[MerryeMikee]

The people, the architecture, the roads, the environment. Honestly a lot!

Wow, I need to look afresh at my own country perhaps

 

[NudieUser]

Wow, I need to look afresh at my own country perhaps

I can really point out so many good things about England. I know everyone is sick of government but it’s the same for my family back in France and friends all over the world from America to Bali.

 

[StrentWriter]

I may get castigated for this, but our governments, past and present are traitors. We are the last of our kind because of out of control immigration.

The British empire covered 2/3rds of the globe and directly moved millions of indigenous peoples the world over, causing more grief and conflict everywhere it turned, often doing it on its way out as well (see: India, Pakistan, the Middle East including Palestine, and more).

“Indigenous Brits” are a mixture of Celts, Romans, Brittany (so French) peoples not to mention Angles, Saxons, and the like, to say nothing of natural migrations of people from all over the world.

I live in London, drinking Belgian beer, eating Spanish tapas, joking with my Lebanese and Palestinian neighbours, attend a running club full of Algerians, in an area amongst Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Jain believers.

We breath the same air, go to the same shops, go home at night and turn in for bed, to do it all over again the next day, the same as everyone else.

Please fuck off with your racist bullshit and keep it out of this haven of peace on this forum.

Thank you.

 

[spawnofdavey]

I may get castigated for this, but our governments, past and present are traitors. We are the last of our kind because of out of control immigration. My grandfather and granduncle fought for this country, my Granduncle is in a grave in Northern France and we don't know how he died. My son was an engineer in the RAF and fought for this country in both Gulf Wars, the last one was based on a pack of lies from Tony Blair and Bill Cliton.

Now Starmer says there is going to be another war after decades of discrimination against Whites in our military but he now wants our White British young men to join up as they failed to meet their recruitment figures because ethnics didn't join up. They think that's OK and is going to sit well with us? Their hypocrisy is outstanding, and their lies and corruption are staggering, and now they want our young White British sons to die for them when their backs are against the wall?

Bollocks to your racist, uninformed, prejudice.

 

[Meekly_Anna]

It seems she got her wish. May I recommend to be a tad more polite?
Not because she's right, she is not, but I would really HATE it of this lovely hread would become something like the MAGA bollock threads at politics.
Talking as a non British refugee at the Brits thread, that is. Refugee from politics.
I tried to read there today but it's the same old. If there's no insult in the first sentence the opinion is worthless as it seems.

 

[peekingone]

No one needs a slow leak

Ok this was funny

 

[StrentWriter]

It seems she got her wish. May I recommend to be a tad more polite?
Not because she's right, she is not, but I would really HATE it of this lovely hread would become something like the MAGA bollock threads at politics.
Talking as a non British refugee at the Brits thread, that is. Refugee from politics.
I tried to read there today but it's the same old. If there's no insult in the first sentence the opinion is worthless as it seems.

With respect Anna, it’s because she does this over on that board so openly, brazenly and without any remorse, that I am so vociferous in my response now.

I’m not going to apologise for telling someone being openly racist in a forum full of different peoples of different creeds, colours and proclivities, to fuck off.

If she posts anything like that again here, I’ll report her post and I suggest you all do the same.

EDIT:

Just to be clear - this is my haven too from the anger, and the monstrosities of elsewhere. I am not British born but I am a British passport holder. My grandparents fought for Britain in WW2 and WW1, coming from France, the Caribbean and further afield. This country is as much mine as someone else who uses it to espouse divisive racism and I will fight for our collective right to be left in peace from racists.

 

[Meekly_Anna]

My grandparents fought for Britain in WW2 and WW1, coming from France, the Caribbean and further afield.

I understand your opinion and feel with you. Some people have not only annoying opinions but the also annoying stubbornness to share it on a regular base.
You will not change her with an insult.
I don't say that you should or shouldn't try.
I understand that you are annoyed. I wanted to kick my technician through the next concrete wall today. That he weights more than twice (may be three times my weight? I could ask him tomorrow if you are interested) as much as I do is not the point.
Anyway, you know her probably better than I do.
By the way: our grandfathers, great grandfathers might have met at some point...

 

[StrentWriter]

I understand your opinion and feel with you. Some people have not only annoying opinions but the also annoying stubbornness to share it on a regular base.
You will not change her with an insult.

That may be true, but I can make it clear to her that her views are entirely unwelcome here.

I don't say that you should or shouldn't try.
I understand that you are annoyed. I wanted to kick my technician through the next concrete wall today. That he weights more than twice (may be three times my weight? I could ask him tomorrow if you are interested) as much as I do is not the point.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Edmund Burke.

Sorry, I can’t let stuff like that fly. Not racism, not misogyny, not anything that takes aspects of us we cannot change and make it something to divide us.

Forgive me for being direct on this issue.

Anyway, you know her probably better than I do.

Unfortunately yes.

By the way: our grandfathers, great grandfathers might have met at some point...

That’s intriguing Anna. Hopefully on good terms and not on the battlefield!

 

[NorthernCardinal]

Evening.

 

[spawnofdavey]

I'm off to read in bed for a bit. Night.

 

[StrentWriter]

Goodnight Davey.

A whiskey needed for sure.

Night all.