Nice enough, polite except when drunk or a problem arises (and most lose the politeness pretty quickly and their heads with it), drink too much all the time to deal with the sense of loneliness people talk about in this thread. It is very sad that as foreigners go, even when we have lived here for decades, most of us cannot say we have a friend from England. The only time I have made friends is when we had a common interest in (like childcare share, baby-sitting and so). When that interest is over, there is hardly anything left. English people move based on fulfilling their needs, take happily from others and generally give very little back. You matter as far as you provide for something they want or need. Once that is over you are nothing, nobody. You are dispensable. No sense of friendship.
In my experience of having lived in 3 different countries, they make the worse, low-quality, uncommitted, unloyal friends of all. They are often too complicated and come up with an array of excuses to not mingle, help, etc. (the very best friend they haven't seen for years - but never talked to you about... because it doesn't even exist!; the family visit and the very tight deadline are some of their favourite excuses - but you know they are lying most of the time). I once asked a "friend" a favour as I had to rush off to hospital, and they came out with the "tight deadline" lie. I knew they were lying. At least in this occasion they had the decency to confess to me a few days later that they were lying.
I shudder to think how they are told this behaviour when they are kids within the privacy of the family ("if abc asks you for a favour, just lie and here are your options: the deadline thingy, the very best friend and so on"). Their selfishness is unique and high contrast with how much they are always ready to take from others, as they did during empire.
It it weren't for family ties, I would have left a long time ago. I miss my uncomplicated, straight-forward friends from my home country. Wanna go out for a bit? Yes or no, that's it. With English people is a whole, exhausting, debilitating palavva and I have had enough and given up. I resent the dishonesty and the eternal drama, the selfishness, the lack of seriousness, the hardly ever arriving in time, the frequent cancelling or, worse, the not even turning up and not even telling you. Never ever in my life I have met people so disrespectful to others.
WORSE FRIENDS EVER, indeed, most don't qualify for the word "Friend".
But of course, they will turn it around to make themselves feel good.
Examples: They don't turn up in time to do something agreed by a group of people? They will say something like "Oh, you haven't left me any work". It's brilliant, their capacity to let others down and still blame you for it. It was your fault! You didn't leave them any work to do! Unbearable dishonesty.
I understood long ago and joined the 100,000 foreigners who've given up and just accept things as they are. I take the smile in the street together with the neighbour who would never say hello even after 10 years, the chat at the corner shop together with those who would never greet you in the street althogh you've been working with them for years organising, discussing, putting projects together and so on... but look down or just stare blankly at you when they see you in the streets.
Oh well, let's enjoy their great music, the occasional fish&chips too and rid with it! Nothing much we foreigners can do to change an emotionally stunt nation to scared to open up and delve into the, yes sometimes scary, regions of friendship. It's their tragedy too and probs explain the high levels of suicide in their country.
08/10 Why are English people so cold
In my experience of having lived in 3 different countries, they make the worse, low-quality, uncommitted, unloyal friends of all. They are often too complicated and come up with an array of excuses to not mingle, help, etc. (the very best friend they haven't seen for years - but never talked to you about... because it doesn't even exist!; the family visit and the very tight deadline are some of their favourite excuses - but you know they are lying most of the time). I once asked a "friend" a favour as I had to rush off to hospital, and they came out with the "tight deadline" lie. I knew they were lying. At least in this occasion they had the decency to confess to me a few days later that they were lying.
I shudder to think how they are told this behaviour when they are kids within the privacy of the family ("if abc asks you for a favour, just lie and here are your options: the deadline thingy, the very best friend and so on"). Their selfishness is unique and high contrast with how much they are always ready to take from others, as they did during empire.
It it weren't for family ties, I would have left a long time ago. I miss my uncomplicated, straight-forward friends from my home country. Wanna go out for a bit? Yes or no, that's it. With English people is a whole, exhausting, debilitating palavva and I have had enough and given up. I resent the dishonesty and the eternal drama, the selfishness, the lack of seriousness, the hardly ever arriving in time, the frequent cancelling or, worse, the not even turning up and not even telling you. Never ever in my life I have met people so disrespectful to others.
WORSE FRIENDS EVER, indeed, most don't qualify for the word "Friend".
But of course, they will turn it around to make themselves feel good.
Examples: They don't turn up in time to do something agreed by a group of people? They will say something like "Oh, you haven't left me any work". It's brilliant, their capacity to let others down and still blame you for it. It was your fault! You didn't leave them any work to do! Unbearable dishonesty.
I understood long ago and joined the 100,000 foreigners who've given up and just accept things as they are. I take the smile in the street together with the neighbour who would never say hello even after 10 years, the chat at the corner shop together with those who would never greet you in the street althogh you've been working with them for years organising, discussing, putting projects together and so on... but look down or just stare blankly at you when they see you in the streets.
Oh well, let's enjoy their great music, the occasional fish&chips too and rid with it! Nothing much we foreigners can do to change an emotionally stunt nation to scared to open up and delve into the, yes sometimes scary, regions of friendship. It's their tragedy too and probs explain the high levels of suicide in their country.
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"Rough sleepers 'turning Norwich Riverside into campsite"
Norwich, UK, so the press keeps telling people, it's a great place to visit and live. What they don't tell is, Drug violence, Mugings, rapes, street attacks, car crimes, anti social events.... need any more.
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Norwich, UK, so the press keeps telling people, it's a great place to visit and live. What they don't tell is, Drug violence, Mugings, rapes, street attacks, car crimes, anti social events.... need any more.
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"King Charles hiring new chef at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk"
And guess who will be footing the bill after the so called king of England wants better cooked quail eggs on his breakfast menue?
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And guess who will be footing the bill after the so called king of England wants better cooked quail eggs on his breakfast menue?
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"UK electric car sales hit record high as taxpayer subsidies help attract buyers"
Lie's Lie's And more Lie's. The electric car industry is in turmoil. Sales are down and falling. This statement is nothing more than propergander from a car industry in panic that has invested billions upon billions which they are losing.
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Lie's Lie's And more Lie's. The electric car industry is in turmoil. Sales are down and falling. This statement is nothing more than propergander from a car industry in panic that has invested billions upon billions which they are losing.
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After seeing how many drivers are not taxing or insuring/MOT their cars, I have decided to do the same. Two years now without being stopped!!!! So, as long as I take extra care while driving, who's winning, me or the greedy system?
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UK business growth hits five-month low amid budget uncertainty and weak demand – business live.
The Uk is heading into depression. The Labour Government is Fucked with it's own failed socialist program. All the states wealth has been spent on parasites and lazy scum that will not support themselves.
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The Uk is heading into depression. The Labour Government is Fucked with it's own failed socialist program. All the states wealth has been spent on parasites and lazy scum that will not support themselves.
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Iam now convinced that the UK is simular to the resident bird called, Willy, Wanker" that flies around in ever decreasing circles, until one day it dissapeares up it's own arsehole.
Good luck with the future, people, your'e going to need it.
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Good luck with the future, people, your'e going to need it.
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Russian aggression is a direct result of NATO and EU policy and the CIA involvement in the Ukraine 2014 coup.
Energy costs are a direct result of labour and Tory clowns pushing windmills and the climate change hoax.
01/10 The cost of living in the UK
Energy costs are a direct result of labour and Tory clowns pushing windmills and the climate change hoax.
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If you support the climate change hoax this is in you. They want you poor, they don't want you eating meat.
01/10 Why is corned beef so
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"Covid cases rising with new variants Nimbus and Stratus"
So you humans think you can beat mother nature, WER'E BACK.
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So you humans think you can beat mother nature, WER'E BACK.
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November 2025 UK budget by Reeves Labour Government.
Get ready for the horror that she will announce to fill the black hole of government borrowing interest repayments.
Those up to their necks in debt already, this will be the final death blow to many.
01/10 Get on the soapbox
Get ready for the horror that she will announce to fill the black hole of government borrowing interest repayments.
Those up to their necks in debt already, this will be the final death blow to many.
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