Townies! Ugh! VERY NB

Re: Au contraire, mate

4 hour wait for the hospital, thats a luxury, you should try Portsmouth. They have a recorded case of a 9 hour wait!

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been there done that

Snowy,

Spent the first 17 years of my life living on farms in Hampshire and Sussex. Ran off to London at the first opportunity and been here ever since (with a brief foray to the NE - but I soon realised the error of my ways).

So don't try and fool me into thinking the country is great. You can stuff your roses round the door, bollocks in the yard and the travelling library. Give me a supermarket, two tube stations, six bus routes, five pubs and a dozen or so restaurants within a five minute walk of my door anytime.

Oh, and I don't have to worry about AI, either.

PS - that should read bullocks in the yard, but it's a nice typo.

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Re: Totally wrong !!

16 year old pick-up trucks, must be a rich area, to dear as the rust not appeared yet.

Brian

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Did you know......

..that there is a large section of the London commuter population which, for a large proportion of the year, travels to work on the train - in the dark. Walks from the station - in the dark.

Works in an artificially lit office block.

Lunches in a similarly illuminated canteen.

and rides home on the train - in the dark.

They never see daylight - except at weekends when they probably spend 65% of it in bed reading rubbish newspapers and/or in front of a computer screen.

Is that natural, healthy living?

I think not.

Whenever I have to travel on the tube I sometimes think that their skins are turning translucent, like the frogs in Speedwell Cavern Derbyshire.

The "Smoke" = "Village of the Damned" IMO.

Steve Cronin



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Re: Au contraire, mate -funny...

When my late father had a fall in a Leicester Hospital they would not treat him as they did not have an A&E unit at that General Hospital so they rang for an ambulance to take him to A&E at the Leicester Royal Infirmary some fifteen minutes away. The ambulance took three hours to arrive so it was around 11pm when he eventually got to casualty. We waited with him, my two sons & I (elder one had just completed his 2nd year in doctor training in London and younger one his first) and waited. At 2am elder son suggested that we put him in our car and drive to the Royal London Hospital which has a "Fast Service" minor injuries clinic and we would be back long before he would be seen at Leicester. He was only part serious on this of course.

However when eventually my father was seen and treated, it left me 15 minutes to get to the office and open up for 9am.

Many a true word is spoken in jest!

Steve Cronin



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How the hell did they think you express semen? As only a small part of the sperm is 'ripe' in the testicle you can't stick a needle in and get it. It takes around 12 weeks to produce sperm, and women think they have to work hard to have a baby!/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

This is not about townies, it is about education, these are the same people who 'wont eat that foreign muck' when they go abroad, or move to marina complexes and winge about the noise of the yachts or the nearby workshops.

I do not live in the countryside, I have always lived 'next' to it, I have also worked on farms as a kid or temp work as a student. I would not particularly like to live in the countryside yet though, I like the convenience a town brings, although with internet shopping the countryside is shrinking now. But I like cinemas that have stopped showing JAWS.

The Sun report makes me feel so sad for this country, I have dated idiot girls who would not eat meat if it wasn't packaged in neat little non animal looking polystyrene packs. Me, I would scrape meat of a cows back if I was hungry. I buy most of my meat from a friend who now runs a hobby farm, I actually can't eat supermarket lamb, pork or beef. Oh, and eggs from the supermarket, yuk, though I did have a chick pop out into the pan on one of the eggs he gave me, dead obviously, but ruined breakfast as it smelled a bit!

Having been brought up in a fishing family and working at sea I wonder how the population would cope with seeing how fish are caught, cleaned and gutted. I wonder if they think they come up covered in batter, I wonder if they realise quite what deep sea mud is like, or the smell of mud that has not seen daylight, ever!

I blame the PC schools.

Beastiality, the farmers must be so happy this morning. Good thing they are not at a stables. When I bred a couple of dog litters, and had to help the stud dog a little as my bitch had tired him out by making him chase her, these people would have had me in prison. Lets just say it involved baby oil lol.

I despair!

And to the people who said 'I had to turn my telly <sic> off it was so disgusting' this is why the rest of Europe laughs at us!

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Re: Please inform....

Aah now there we do score. At A&E you have to wait a short time while they fetch a local GP - sadly they're a bit short on equipment - light failed and nurse had to hold a torch when HWMBO got some wood in his eye !

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Why I like living in the country. I will resist the school essay but point out that we have that nice Mrs Beckett at DEFRA looking after us. At the Labour conference she made a 2000 word speech and didn't mention farming once. I now see in my local paper that there are more bureaucrafts at DEFRA than there are dairy farms in England - so thank you Mrs B for doing such a grand job of looking after the F in your title. Perhaps she should consider F'ing off?

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Re: Au contraire, mate

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4 hour wait for the hospital, thats a luxury, you should try Portsmouth. They have a recorded case of a 9 hour wait!
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Oh, so much worse than that...just not "recorded"...:-)

We drive to Lymington, 45 mins drive with your boot down and 30 seconds wait.



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What really strikes me about this article is that there are clear advantages to marrying a pig farmer's daughter!


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What I disliked when I lived in small village was the folk who would rant on that you weren't a "real" country person if youhadn't lived there for at least 100 years and didn't agree with their views, whether it was farmers' inalienable right to spread muck all over the roads or the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable. Fortunately, as in the rest of life (apart from Surrey, which isn't really the "country" anyway,) these prats are in a minority so intelligent folk like us can usually ignore them. In my book, a "country" person is one who lives there, and if you choose to do so instead of being there by accident of birth it doesn't make you a lesser mortal, even if you don't always vote for the local squire.

Personally I've no objections to dung, it makes the potatoes grow and smells nice, but agro-business is no different to any other industry these days, except that they get more subsidies than (say) the coal miners. Pollution is not nice whatever form it takes. As a biker I really do object to their spreading muck where my taxes have paid for good quality tarmac to be laid. It is no more "natural" than skidding on a diesel spill outside an oil refinery is "natural".

I really like the country, its just some of the people who live in it who get on my wick. Just like living in town, I suppose, but with better scenery, and less drainage.


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