Man that's really rough, will things be ok?Originally Posted by JimOttley
I wish i could muster something better right now, but it's 4:35am and I've had a few too many beer na beer!
Things will be OK, right?
g'nite mate.
talk tomorrow alright, i'll add you man.
The "me too" was also applying to the "easy-peasy to please" bit as well as the hard timesRead my signature Jim,its the truth mate,when your up you never think its going to end,unfortunately sometimes it does,with a bumpBut if you have had it once you can always get it again
I'm just trying to get my head down and invent a few useful saleable things again
Jim
Take care Jim, good night to you too
Don't worry we have been through a lot for the last 5 years and although we are arguing all the time and both in a lot of pain just now I think we will manage to stick together through it all, we love our kids and we love each other, just have to work at it, not easy though.
Jim
What i love about the UK??
- My husband
- NHS
- The weather - no typhoons and no discomfort of heat and humidity
- Great landscapes
- Fish and Chips
"10% of life is made up of what happens to you, 90% is decided by how you react"
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost"
Get your trainers on,take a run along Rizal Blvd,beautiful place to be as the suns rising
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
Got to agree with you mike,theres a reason Sangatte and "The Jungle" existed,theres a lot to be said for these shores,I never put it down,visit africa and parts of asia,when they hear your from the UK they all say they would love to come,a lot of people dont realise how good they have it here,as you said its a great country to live in,we have many pluses to counteract the minus
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
;dWhat I love...
1. The NHS
2. Civil Liberties
3. Multiculturalism...
What I hate.... Bah, would take too long to type
Yep we don't realise how lucky we are, damn sight harder life elsewhere in a lot of ways.Got to agree with you mike,theres a reason Sangatte and "The Jungle" existed,theres a lot to be said for these shores,I never put it down,visit africa and parts of asia,when they hear your from the UK they all say they would love to come,a lot of people dont realise how good they have it here,as you said its a great country to live in,we have many pluses to counteract the minus
For James I just remembered the thing I love most about Britain -
"Our eccentrics"
Britain is full of them (I am quite probably one) and while many are extreme they are a fundamental part of Britishness.
Jim
The British sense of humour is something I always miss when I'm away from the UK for a long period. Nobody cracks a joke like us, that's something to be proud of
I think thats why care in the community apart from the really unstable is hardly noticed in the UK most of us are a bit wibbleYep we don't realise how lucky we are, damn sight harder life elsewhere in a lot of ways.
For James I just remembered the thing I love most about Britain -
"Our eccentrics"
Britain is full of them (I am quite probably one) and while many are extreme they are a fundamental part of Britishness.
Jim
Oh lord why did you make so many clothes and shoe shops
I think thats why care in the community apart from the really unstable is hardly noticed in the UK most of us are a bit wibble
Fiercely proud of our own insanity
Jim
Can I add. Love them!
And I have to say proud of our comedy in our country. There is so much to choose from.
Yes, and the difference between the upper class and the lower class! Nothing. It just okay for them to do mad stuff. But if a working class boy says I want to be a tobogganist, they get told to shut it,clipped round the ear and told to get a real job
Billy Connolly Tobogganist part 1
Billy Connolly Tobagganist Part 2
And I would add
Arbroath Smokies I just love those!
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.
I thought this website was very useful study of laughter of Britishness
http://www.happinessandlaughter.com/
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.
"Suburban V-neck Pullover Volvo crowd that spoil it all"
I love Connolly, he gave me some serious dirty looks back in 1984 in the Silver Thread Hotel in Paisley at the 20th anniversary of the Paisley folk club as I was right into photography back then and he had a little bit of a problem with photographers
Jim
Aye, I don't come to your work and take photos of you ya p**k. Probably what he'd say
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.
[QUOTE=James Hubbard;182540]I wanted to ask all of you who are Brits and those who have lived in the UK for a long time - or just arrived and fresh ...
--What do you love about the UK, and what are you proud of about our country?
I have lived in the Philippines for a year and I have missed a lot, ... will be going back in 2.5 weeks and I will miss my asawa but I really look forward to my country.
Let me try to start the list with 4
1) Temperate Climate
2) World Class Education
3) Stiff upper lip and politeness (in general)
4) Respect for other nations and cultures . . .
Hello James Hubbard! I don't exactly know your background and why said what you said ... I went through, read almost if not all your comments here and I couldn't help not to say ... "
1) Temperate Climate -
Doesn't it mean not subject to prolonged extremes of hot or cold weather?
2. World Class Education. Oxbridge. Compare a graduate from cambridge to a graduate from university of the philippines and you will see the educational disparity -
There is no comparison. These are the link you can look up. History will tell you. It is self explanatory. It is like comparing grandfather to a great great grandson. This is not an excuse but you might consider that - our medium of instruction is mostly in English whereas, yours is in the language you're born to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...f_the_colleges
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...he_Philippines[/COLOR][/COLOR]
3/4) Differences - We all live and differ in culture and traditions, music, beliefs, moral values, principles and I can go on. I think that ther eis good/bad everywhere. I've not been robbed at home, I was here!
WHO IS NOT PROUD OF ORIGIN. If I am a Chinese, I am proud being Chinese. If I am German, I am proud being German, if I am Filipino, I am proud being Filipino ...
We need a new national anthem. Its crap. daa daa daaaa daaa daaaa daa daaa blah blah blah. With a mighty rush rebellious Scots to Crush
Billy on the anthem
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.
[QUOTE=bless.books;182828]Bless, he's been up late had too many beers and he is terribly homesick and looking forward to coming home to the UK in a couple of weeks, he is young and exuberant and he got a bit off topic earlier
From all his other posts he is just trying to tell it as he see's it, he's not always right, I bet you he is homesick for the Philippines two weeks after he gets back to the UK
Jim
I wish I had those shots in digital format, I'll need to dig them out and get them copied
Jim
Just watched that
There was a tiny one second clip of Clive James in the audience, he was also a brilliant satirist and critic, I still enjoy him sometimes on the radio these days (not that I am a decrepit old foggy
Jim
Question Time, is another institution I enjoy watching thatJust watched that
There was a tiny one second clip of Clive James in the audience, he was also a brilliant satirist and critic, I still enjoy him sometimes on the radio these days (not that I am a decrepit old foggy
Jim
James is still kicking around as I write this
Like I arrived from Mars haha. Love that quote. Gordon last chance. George Galloway is on the panel. He is always a plonker
BBC Iplayer QUestion Time Norwich
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.
[QUOTE=bless.books;182828]Bless,
1) Yes, temperate climate does mean no extremes in weather. And happily so, having lived here through 3 typhoons and another one coming, give me bland (beautiful) british "fine rain that soaks you through" anyday!
2) Am I not allowed to be proud of the "world class education" we have in the UK? The country is a veritable mecca for the best and brightest students from all over the world!! I'll never stop being proud of it!
3) Differences. Yes, the distinction is, in the UK, we celebrate our differences, and look at them as beautiful things, we are not culturally homogeneous, but rather, we are a multi-cultural melting pot. Whereas in other places (including where I currently live) the place only has ONE kind of person. Anyone else who has different colour of skin or a different accent is looked upon with suspicion and a little bit of ridicule.
In the UK, cultural differences are things to be proud of- making the country a much richer experience, whereas, other countries, if you're different, you're ridiculed and made to feel embarrassed.
4) Bless said : Who is Not Proud Of Origin : I guess there are many, nevertheless, the point of this thread is to celebrate why we are proud to be british, or what we love about Britain.
--As the author of a book on passing the life in the UK exam, I would assume that you rather enjoy it in my country
Will never like the climate here1) Temperate Climate
2) World Class Education
3) Stiff upper lip and politeness (in general)
4) Respect for other nations and cultures . . .
Too hard to finish one courseStruggling with my ECDL.
Teachers speaks so fast.
Elderlies are very polite
But I love the countryside!
i love uk very much but PI is undescribable place to me specially in my place GOD'S PARADISE. hehe supak mo?
all things are possible!
[QUOTE=JimOttley;182830]Hello JimOttley!
Bless, he's been up late had too many beers and he is terribly homesick and looking forward to coming home to the UK in a couple of weeks, he is young and exuberant and he got a bit off topic earlier
From all his other posts he is just trying to tell it as he see's it, he's not always right, I bet you he is homesick for the Philippines two weeks after he gets back to the UK
Jim
Thank you for your comment ... I wish there will be more of you who can look more than see, who can listen more than hear ...
[QUOTE=James Hubbard;182860]
James,
1) Yes, temperate climate does mean no extremes in weather. And happily so, having lived here through 3 typhoons and another one coming, give me bland (beautiful) british "fine rain that soaks you through" anyday!
Don't you think, you should have prepared yourself first by researching. What's it like in a tropical country. It is not ones fault having a typhoon is it?
2) Am I not allowed to be proud of the "world class education" we have in the UK? The country is a veritable mecca for the best and brightest students from all over the world!! I'll never stop being proud of it!
I am not contesting that. You can be proud of all you can think of and you have all the right. You made a comparison of the two universties. I only made a comment.
3) Differences. Yes, the distinction is, in the UK, we celebrate our differences, and look at them as beautiful things, we are not culturally homogeneous, but rather, we are a multi-cultural melting pot. Whereas in other places (including where I currently live) the place only has ONE kind of person. Anyone else who has different colour of skin or a different accent is looked upon with suspicion and a little bit of ridicule.In the UK, cultural differences are things to be proud of-making the country a much richer experience, whereas, other countries, if you're different, you're ridiculed and made to feel embarrassed.
Again, hear yourself. Don't generalise. Do you really celebrate it? If you experience what you experience, fine. We also have experiences here, I mean all who is not from UK, there is no need to mention it in great detail.
4) Bless said : Who is Not Proud Of Origin : I guess there are many, nevertheless, the point of this thread is to celebrate why we are proud to be british, or what we love about Britain.
James, yes, that is what this thread is all about. PROUD TO BE BRITISH IF YOU MUST. The thing is you were off topic on so many points. Which means limit it BRITAIN, AND JUST BRITAIN TO ALONE. Now, if you would like to say something about PINAS and HOW DIFFERENT FROM UK, then start another thread, or might as well not, bec you are comparing apple to orange.
--As the author of a book on passing the life in the UK exam, I would assume that you rather enjoy it in my country
First, I had the book bec I made use of my time and this is my contribution to the UK/Filipino Community. There is a degree that I enjoy being here but then again, I also enjoyed being/living in other countries as well. The word is - embrace and experience!
[QUOTE=bless.books;182926]
Ok book ... here's the final post from me in this little debate you have started:
1) Weather. You come off as a bit rude, "shouldn't you have prepared yourself, yak yak yak". OK Logic 101. Where did I blame you on the typhoons here? Also, without the aid of a crystal ball, I can't determine what the weather will be here. What's to say I didn't educate myself on the weather here and still came here anyway?
BlessBooks, I am talking about (how many times have I said this) WHAT YOU LIKE ABOUT LIVING IN THE UK! I LIKE THE WEATHER! KNOCK KNOCK! If I wanted to take the same tone as you, I'd say: Don't you think you should read the first post in a thread before you get all righteous!
2) Glad you're not contesting this one. Finally getting somewhere!
3) Yes there is need to mention it in great detail. When's the last time you heard a brit telling anyone how proud they are of their country? I'm pretty sure this is the only thread I've seen in any forum of this kind. Yet, every day I am being hit with pinoy pride and pilipinas kong mahal. If you don't like a topic that says "Proud to be British" then don't read it, and heck, don't post! It makes sense. Hit the back button in your browser
4) Deary me Bless, we gotta clear things up a bit here. I live in Philippines. I am British. This is the FILIPINO UK forum. I am comparing what I like in UK with the other thing I know which is the Philippines. It makes sense, since that's kinda the topic of the forum we're on! Again, if you didn't like what I had said why not just use the back button in your browser like I shall any time I see you reply to one of my posts?
As for the book and loving the UK, if you don't love it, why not leave it? You could sell your book online from the Philippines
Anyway,
I'm not gonna respond to you any more, I'll let you have the last word in this tussle. I have said my piece.
This is all,
what I like about Britain.
NHS.
Football.
what I hate about Britain,so many things.
my misses likes the weather here to
nhs because they employ her
british tv (comedy shows like 9 out of 10 cats, top gear, x factor, dancing on ice, strictly come dancing ...)
We have awesome comedy, that's truemy misses likes the weather here to
nhs because they employ her
british tv (comedy shows like 9 out of 10 cats, top gear, x factor, dancing on ice, strictly come dancing ...)
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