Worst thing in your country ?

The fact every day that passes bring us closer to english/american culture... Montréal english popultion percentage increase each day, so is the way people speaks and act there. I am not racist, but I doubt no one would like his home country to be invaded by another culture. What if London would suddently became 50% french and everyone there would start speaking an awful mix of both languages?

crimson_wizard wrote: The house prices are so dear in England, that even the Basking sharks are moving north to Scotland. However i think it is a bit much picking on one parent families, not all of them have chosen to be single, but are and try to carry with their lives. The UK ain't a bad place to live, there are some parts i'd rather not go to, but others i'd give my right arm for. Every country has something wrong with it, regardless. As for the Iraq war, we went in for the reasons but got rid of the right man and his cronies. Blair maybe a liar, which politician isn't, but at leasst the rest of the world didn't have Thatcher, or the sneering Tories in power for 17 years.

I'm afraid that most who are in one parent families have chosen to be.  Either they were never married to begin with and had children (and this is a choice and a choice which disgusts me), or they were married and chose to get divorced.  There are only a very few circumstances in which someone is a single parent who did not choose to be a single parent, and those circumstances would be abandonment by the other spouse, or severe abuse by the other spouse which makes it unsafe for the spouse to remain in the marriage.  Everything else is a choice. 

Don't get me wrong, I am not making a judgment call here about divorce or about those who have been divorced (I myself am familiar with that institution - who would have thought it - but fortunately no children were produced from my rather short marriage).  Nor do I believe that people should stay together for the sake of the kids.  I am simply stating that getting a divorce is a choice.

limeyrob wrote: The housing shortage is not through lack of building but vast changes in social structure - more single people with money to buy. In an island the size of ours it doesn't take much to upset the balance. Population size hasn't gone up drastically - compared with the demand for housing in the last 20 years or so.

You make some good points, but this one I'll pick up on just briefly.  I wouldn't go as far as to say that property is theft, but it is a limited resource which we have to own sparingly, and with consideration for others.

There are whole swathes of the countryside where the average starter home is seriously out of the range of young local people (like round here) because they are bought up by retiring people from the South East of Birmingham.  Some places in Cornwall, Devon & Norfolk Broads have over 90% of their housing under second home ownership.

I don't think its right to say there are single people with money to buy....the spare money in this country of mostly with the 50 plus bracket...but its single people with a desperate need for somewhere to live, to such an extent that they are willing to pay out more than half their salary on rent.......in places like here, where a 1 room bedsit will go for over £400pcm (and I don't live in the South East!).

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BitchBrew wrote: LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES

with Velvy on the loose, i think you have bigger problems to worry about.

Tony R wrote: marktheshark wrote: Syzygy wrote: marktheshark wrote: BaldJean wrote: marktheshark wrote: The Doctor wrote: marktheshark wrote: The ACLU, Hurricane Rita and yes Iraq is even pissing me off! Have to agree with you on the ACLU.  But don't forget NOW. AKA National Association of Gals (NAG)! hmm, Mark, 2nd time you disappoint me. the ACLU? I am more worried about the decline of civil liberties in my former home country I can't condone an organization that aids terrorists Jean. Do you? Does that mean that you're also against the CIA?   Depends on which terrorists they're supporting. I can only guess that you must have top security clearance and know all this. Right? Disengenuous remark of the week award goes to The Shark. C'mon Mark surely youre not invoking Plausible Denialbilty on us?

"I can neither confirm or deny the aiding of terrorists by any US organizations"



Except the ACLU.

Angeldust wrote: What's the worst thing that's happening in your country these years ?

Average people are getting more and more stupid, especially the young who are all "rappers". The suburb under culture becomes predominant, the langage is getting poorer and poorer, and the media contribute to this situation. I'm afaid it's a world phenomenon among western societies.

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BaldJean wrote: marktheshark wrote: The Doctor wrote: marktheshark wrote: The ACLU, Hurricane Rita and yes Iraq is even pissing me off! Have to agree with you on the ACLU.  But don't forget NOW. AKA National Association of Gals (NAG)! hmm, Mark, 2nd time you disappoint me. the ACLU? I am more worried about the decline of civil liberties in my former home country

I can't condone an organization that aids terrorists Jean. Do you?