I hate the UK

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I hate the Tories. But I'm not going to get political here because I don't feel like arguing with know-it-alls.

As with other nations, some U.K. economists have pointed to the nation's economic socialist past. It was fun while it lasted, but now it appears that everything from higher education to health care has either failed in quality or required more fees and other "hidden taxes." The resurgence of protests aimed at a return to economic socialism show no traction and are, in reality, nothing more than Warhol-esque pop politics.

Even the United States is facing its own economic bubbles hovering over education and health care. When those bubbles burst, watch for a worldwide domino effect. U.S. economists describe this fate as impossible to avoid.

And, the socialists still cry for more freebies.

I heard a good story about England. A black man had worked all over the US selling some kind of high end technology for businesses. He went to England to make their first international sales, and had dinner with white clients, as he had done hundreds of times in the US. Something bothered him about the head waiter, but it took a while to figure it out. The head waiters in English restaurants did not automatically assume that the white guy was in charge. Their eye contact and body language showed they looked equally at everyone when greeting them and getting their reservation information. The difference from the US came unexpectedly, and he realized how much subtle disrespect he had previously taken as a fact of life.

Lifes told me you can't argue with socialists who think totally mainstream as the run of the mill dead end jobs usually supply its own patronage. Maybe a crap xmas bonus or a festive leaving mug..

I happen to like the UK enough to want to live there.

I do too, people too aggressive, no social structure and too many single mums with tons of kids etc running around Poundland screaming... it's like a cultural, spiritual and moral wasteland.

I used to live in South Korea. Like the Japanese they have very rigid social hierarchies and ways of acting in public and don't show strong emotions in public.

I kind of liked that in some ways as you always knew what to expect and they were less aggressive in pubs and clubs etc.

Though I could not have lived there as a Korean as probably would have found it stifling but as a foreigner it was kind of nice knowing what to expect from them all the time and all my fellow English teacher mates were university educated also like me so not meaning to be elitist but they were mostly decently behaved, well mannered and interesting to talk to and didn't just talk about Big Brother, Goggle Box and football etc... Not sure a uni education results in the same anymore these days.... I

Conversely,I find how some of these so called know-it-alls, find they know nothing at all.

it's a bloody ugly country when you look at it on an atlas.
it's all higglety piggelty in it's outline.

^ i just hate how narrow it gets around the firths of forth and clyde.

The UK is actually quite scenic in places.

Bas Vegas! Have to travel there almost on a weekly basis these days. Of course, Essex can be lovely; if you squint hard enough at what you're looking at.

The area around Stonehenge is really nice.

Yorkshire, too.

OMG, that Basildon sign is like they were trying for the "Hollywood" sign (and missed!) LOL!

I once almost moved to Basildon (the rent was cheaper), but the landlady of the flat I was trying to get said that for my line of work I wouldn't be able to make a living there.