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[cosmicB]

Now there yah go.. it can't be spoken any clearer...

I just now recalled an exciting moment that I wish to share, to give the feel for the level of excitement I am seeing, and requesting...

...I was coiling a 50-meters of thick braided rope, after a full day of some extremely wickedly very dangerous tree trimming...
So high-strunged from the many risks and dangers, that I've got adrenaline flowing within adrenaline flowing... Some of those huge logs missed me by only inches... There was no other option...

An elderly couple walks along across the street in the evening dusk.. pausing to spectate the tree cutter coiling his huge rope...
I'd give it a hard-tug to loosen-up a few more meters, then coil it over my arm, with the finesse of thee artist... my coiling motions seemed almost hypnotic... I sensed the elderly lady's spirit was now close to touching the rope... The lady was now totally absorbed in the hypnotic motion... For her, the whole world had just vanished... I felt honored...
I thought of, where I am in this little hick western town... I adds a few coils.. then a snap tug... I'm thinkin' "this rope would probably have been used in hangings way-back in the wild west days... The whole town would come out to spectate the hanging... "K'yuk k'yuk..." "
I faces the lady, summoning my deepest stringy southern drawl...
With maximum excitement I says, "Thars gombe uhangin' tanight"..


Her face went sobby.. then to her 3.. then her 16.. then somewhere deep..? And she exploded into Laughter.. the stinging stinging sides kind.. with the tears, and the buckling-over, and the holding her sides.. and a knee to the ground... Then the other.. then her hands to the ground, laughing way beyond tears and achy sides... Still laughing and ooohing three blocks away... "healing laughter"...

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I didn't feel Any excitement in your words describing the monarchy...
You gave the feel that you were 3/4's asleep when you "spoke" them... Like maybe you possess a series of opinions which you haven't published, or prefer to hide...
I want to hear the one that is Full of Excitement... not so exciting that it makes the reader pee themselves, but bubbly excitements over something that is totally real, and perfectly right...

If the entity, one describes, is worthy of a specific description.. then what is its base opinion..? and what be its ceiling opinion..?


I prescribe strongly to this determining something's base/ceiling... Everything new, I must determine its base and its ceiling...
I did this with every science, every technology, every school of thought, every religion, every art, every psychic and sorcery concept... I refrained from touching black magic.. because of the one time it frightened me so very big whilst foolishly exploring Magic's cores and nuclei... That stuff is so scary Powerful, that just looking at it too long can kill us... I doubt there are any humes who have mastered black magic in its own right, to have become its driver... I doubt a human could do it, without suddenly SCBurning... Magic possesses one hell of a powerful collective knot... One you don't touch unless you really mean to destroy anything and everything... The magic in folklore is merely the creature's fur... I loved the part where the absolutely huge shiny-black spider came out of a deep cave, approached too fast, pinched my hips in its huge fangs, and flipped me up on its back perfectly, and took me for a long ride along the scenic route while I caressed it head with the love of a new mom caressing her new born for the first time...
Life feels your love, then returns it doubled...

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What be England's base..?

Its ceiling..?

What be the base and ceiling of the British Monarchy..?

[Laura-Lily]

As they said in France, 'Off With Their Heads'!
The royal family are nothing but a waste of space and money.

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[AussieAdam]

As they said in France, 'Off With Their Heads'!
The royal family are nothing but a waste of space and money.

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I expect you do say ''off with their heads''

I actually heard this while sat on the steps near Buckingham Palace - We creased up hahahahahaha

''Gee honey thats where the queen lives''
'' Wow I wonder if shes in, maybe we can invite her over when she next comes to the states?''.
''Well I dunno she might be kinda busy Martha''
''Well George you go right up to that nice man with the big bearskin hat and give him our number and be sure he passes it on''
''OK ok now lets go see where King Charles lives''

Our monarchy is our business so piss off America and instead worry about all the red necks that are gonna kick off when Obama becomes your first black President

[ZiaAries]

As they said in France, 'Off With Their Heads'!
The royal family are nothing but a waste of space and money.

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I expect you do say ''off with their heads''




Our monarchy is our business so piss off America and instead worry about all the red necks that are gonna kick off when Obama becomes your first black President

Aussie Adam,

Hey Dude, I have a feeling she belongs to y'all. She's has UK as her location as well, so don't be blaming us Yanks for something that might be yours to begin with. "Off with their Heads" don't sound like an American expression to me.
XO, American Zia

PS Canadian CosmicB has said far worst things in this thread. And you are right, it's the business of England and her people.

[Laura-Lily]

I am not American.

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[The Colonel]

As they said in France, 'Off With Their Heads'!
The royal family are nothing but a waste of space and money.

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I expect you do say ''off with their heads''

I actually heard this while sat on the steps near Buckingham Palace - We creased up hahahahahaha

''Gee honey thats where the queen lives''
'' Wow I wonder if shes in, maybe we can invite her over when she next comes to the states?''.
''Well I dunno she might be kinda busy Martha''
''Well George you go right up to that nice man with the big bearskin hat and give him our number and be sure he passes it on''
''OK ok now lets go see where King Charles lives''

Our monarchy is our business so piss off America and instead worry about all the red necks that are gonna kick off when Obama becomes your first black President

I can believe that is true!

They don't understand anything about the monarchy!

Even though I've met The Queen over ten times, even I've never asked her over for tea!!!

Silly foreigners! As Prince Philip would say "Shoot the lot of 'em I say!"

[myron myron]

From The Sunday Times, February 24, 2008:

The forces driving the middle class into exile

It is hard not to suspect that educated people are leaving because they are giving up on this country

Minette Marrin

In all the anxiety about migration, which is an infuriating new euphemism for immigration, little is said about emigration. Yet just as immigration has hugely increased, so has emigration. In particular, large numbers of skilled Britons are emigrating. Perhaps that doesn’t mean much and perhaps, in the churning melting pot of 21st-century globalisation, it doesn’t matter much, but it is striking.

According to new figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Britain is going through the biggest brain drain of any country and its biggest exodus for more than 50 years; one in 10 of our most highly skilled graduates has left and no other nation is losing so many qualified people; overall, only Mexico has more emigrants.

There are now more than 3.2m British-born people living abroad; of them 1.1m are highly skilled university graduates, according to the exhaustive OECD report. Of these professionals, more than three-quarters have lived abroad for more than 10 years.

Their most favoured destinations, rather unsurprisingly, are North America, the Antipodes, Spain and France. Figures from the Office for National Statistics for 2006 show that 207,000 Britons left that year - one every three minutes.

Do we care? The British have had a long history of expatriate life, more so than most countries, and in a time of easy travel and global opportunity one might well expect it. It may not be permanent anyway and, besides, huge numbers of highly skilled foreigners are arriving here to replace the highly skilled natives who leave.

All these changes are happening so fast that it is only possible to guess at what they mean. What we are seeing is clearly a brain drain but not, it seems, a net brain drain. It appears to be a net drain of well educated natives. If so, there will surely be profound consequences for British culture. This clears the way, fortunately for the columnist, for anecdote and prejudice.

It is difficult not to suspect, despite the lack of hard evidence, that so many educated people, many of them still young and keen to work, are leaving because they are giving up on this country. At least that is what many of them say. Whether on blog sites, in letters to newspapers, in casual conversation or in my own readers’ letters, I come across voices of anger and grief, particularly among the middle-aged or elderly. This country isn’t what it was, they say. What’s best about it is disappearing fast; it’s becoming unrecognisable.

This country certainly has changed a great deal and fast. Nobody can deny that in recent years society has become much less civil, much more fragmented and newly divided into alarming ghettos; a large, disordered underclass is growing of people who don’t know how to bring up their children, with disastrous results; schools and hospitals in some places are not just bad but dangerous; the streets in cities are so frightening for young people that more carry knives and use them; the old are poor and neglected; we have lost our trust in pensions and in banking.

More than anywhere else in the supposedly civilised world, we are spied on, intruded on and cross-questioned by incompetent bureaucrats who then lose our confidential details; in a country with a proud reputation for freedom, our liberties are being eroded, either by new laws or by politically correct conventions; our taxes are wasted on incompetent government and public services; uncontrolled immigration has inflamed anxieties about overcrowding, crime and public services as well as national identity; Britannia is being struck off our coinage for the usual daft reasons. And so on. At least it’s not Italy.

It is often merely part of growing older to think that things were better in the past and to feel a sense of displacement. As L P Hartley famously wrote, “the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there”. But actually, what some people seem to feel more acutely is that it is the present, not the past, that is a foreign country.

In reviewing Roger Scruton’s England: an Elegy a few years ago, the journalist Christian Tyler described that feeling particularly well. “For people in later middle age,” he wrote, “the present is a place of exile in which they are condemned to live estranged from the country they knew and loved as children. Brought up in the culture and mores of one place, they are involuntary immigrants to another; there they can choose either to acclimatise or to live locked up in a state of permanent regret.” Or they can choose to become emigrants.

That might be why some people leave this country. But I think the most important one must be economic; Britain is a wonderful place to live if you are rich and can pay your way around any inconveniences. Britain is relatively good if you are poor, particularly if your country of origin was even poorer. But for the educated middle classes Britain is no longer a good deal. The main reason for that is simple: it is the oppressive price of property.

Property here isn’t merely where you live; it is your entire way of life. It means how bad your local schools and hospitals are, how efficient your local authority, how nice your neighbours, how safe your streets. Property prices have become frightening.

As a result, professionals have to put up with a way of life that is much worse than that of their counterparts in Australia or America, and the cost of living elsewhere is lower as well. The same applies to retired Britons who own a house; they can get a better house and plenty of change, in a more civil society, if they abandon this country.

What’s remarkable, surely, is that still more people are not leaving. Perhaps that is because it is hard to stop loving this country, for all its faults. It is hard to abandon, as well as one’s family and friends, Britain’s humour, its lack of conventionality and its quirks.

Besides, things may change again radically and not necessarily for the worse. The cultural pendulum may be beginning to swing the other way in the direction of common sense and a more civil society. And, for better and for worse, property prices will probably go down.


Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article3423665.ece

[myron myron]

And check out the reader comments that follow the above-quoted Sunday Times article.

Here's one:

I've lived outside Britain for the past 9 years, venturing back just once for about 6 months then regretfully leaving. As soon as I land at a UK airport, have my passport checked by an Asian, go through security checks by a woman in a hijab and hire a taxi driven by a Pakistani, which takes me along the Stratford Road unrecognisable from that of my youth, where I was born and brought up and which is now a part of a huge Muslim ghetto, I wonder where I am. So I try out the buses and am forced to spend time in the company of teenage girls with 3 or 4 children swearing at their offspring and smothered in tattoos. The 'f'' word incoherently inserted into every phrase uttered has apparently become de rigeur, not only among children, but in the 'meeja'. A depressing set of shallow values, no discernible pride in being British, general lack of respect for anyone other than themselves and an appallingly incompetent government are all factors in my decision to live and work abroad. How sad I am

JC, Konigstein,

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article3423665.ece

[Aqua]

One every three minutes? Include me...my partner and I plan to move to France. Not for a while though, we're waiting for the kids to finish school and fly the nest, then there'll be no stopping us.

[myron myron]

One every three minutes? Include me...my partner and I plan to move to France. Not for a while though, we're waiting for the kids to finish school and fly the nest, then there'll be no stopping us.

Why France?

[mogadishu]

Silly foreigners! As Prince Philip would say "Shoot the lot of 'em I say!"

...wtf?

[Aqua]

One every three minutes? Include me...my partner and I plan to move to France. Not for a while though, we're waiting for the kids to finish school and fly the nest, then there'll be no stopping us.

Why France?

Both of us wanted to move across there even before we met one another so it's not been a difficult decision to make. It's still close enough to Scotland to visit family and friends and vice versa, but it's the prospect of a better quality of life, a new culture to embrace and better climate which appeals. The healthcare system over there is better too. There is also apparently less pressure on the countryside in France because more people are happy to live in the towns.

[ZiaAries]

I am not American.

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Thank you Laura-Lily for clarifying. We Americans get blamed for everything.

[The Colonel]

Silly foreigners! As Prince Philip would say "Shoot the lot of 'em I say!"

...wtf?

You mean you don't know about Prince Philips on foreigners and "bloody Arabs"?

Some of it is quite entertaining!

[Laura-Lily]

Aquarius,

I am living in France at the moment and I love it, I hope when you relocate you too enjoy a wonderful life here.
I know this has gone slightly off topic; from royal family to location etc, but it says a lot about a country when so many people are leaving permanently to live elsewhere. I think the latest figures suggested approximately 700/800 people are leaving the UK every day, it's a sad and sorry state of affairs.

I know my location says UK/USA, I haven't got round to adding France yet, not in one place long enough to call any one country 'home'!

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