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Post by ARENA on Mar 29, 2014 13:31:38 GMT
The French are dreadfully male chauvanist. Everything is addressed to the male (both mail and remarks) When we first opened a bank account, the cheque book was in my name. I told the banker that it was a joint account. She smiled and assured me we could both use it. She was totally non-plussed when I said I wanted the cheque books to have Mr A & Mrs JA ************* on them. It wasn't till I threatened to bank somewhere else they relented.
A victory for women's rights!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2014 9:03:28 GMT
Young women.
Well not all of them. I can be selective!
The ones that piss me off are the over endowed overweight ones that have tattoos on the parts of their breasts we can see (a lot) which go down to infinity. Why do they bother and have they thought what they are going to look like when they are 70?
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Post by goldelox on Mar 31, 2014 9:47:12 GMT
Queuing isn't a word the Spanish understand!
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Post by Prue on Mar 31, 2014 10:04:58 GMT
Agreed, JJ. I also have problems with "generously-proportioned" young women who wear skimpy clothing. Shorts, short skirts, tight little dresses, crop-tops, can look very sexy on slim women*. On - OK, I'll stop with the euphemisms - on a fat sheila it's repulsive. Please hide your revolting great wobbly arse, fat floppy belly and monstrous thick thighs under a long skirt, a loose shirt, and a big pair of trousers. The sight is extremely offensive. As for the recent fashion of just wearing tights without anything over (or under, for all I know) them: lovey, even if you're lucky enough to be as slim as a tulip, nobody - NOBODY (except your boyfriend, presumably) - wants to see every crease and cranny of your arse and your fanny, so why do you think it's OK to walk around with all your most private bits on public display? * Yes, I'm jealous of them: I'm very far from slim. Right, that's that sorted by the grumpy old bat What I actually came here to whinge about was prams. When my boy was a baby (A many year ago, when I was young and charming) we had a pram for leisurely strolls to the local shops or round the quiet suburban streets, and an umbrella stroller for places where we had to consider other people's needs. The pram was about 1/3 of the size of today's equivalent. These days every mother seems to have one of these bloody great three-wheeler chariots. They take up the full width of the footpath; in the supermarket they take up the entire aisle. As for public transport, recently I got on a tram (which I rarely do) and found the front 1/3 of it chocablock, while I could see there was hardly anyone in the back bit. The reason was that one self-important, special *MOM* had got on at the front of the tram, and was blocking access to the rest of it with her pwecious baby's six-foot wide Chariot. Umbrella stroller, love. You wheels your baby round in it, then when you get on the tram, or train, or bus, you take the baby out, fold the stroller up, and stash it out of everyone else's way.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2014 10:34:00 GMT
Prams. Oh yes!
My daughter lives in London. And occasionally I have the pleasure of walking (yes, she walks! The early years of walking with dad paid off) to school to collect my grandsons.
And apart from the wretched little yapping designer dogs tied to the fence outside the school there are prams bigger than Minis. Three wheels marked with Range Rover or some such, with huge off road wheels and tyres and the person pushing it wearing Hunters or similar boots, and often a nice clean wax coat. I have a wax coat, but mine smells.
I have seen these prams in the country where I live and they are designed for people to actually run pushing them. Not inappropriate. But in London? Cmon now. You could not run 100 yards without disabling someone. And looking at you despite all the work in the gym you could not run in any case.
Shall I carry on? Nope, save to say some of these bloody things cost well over £1000:00!
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Post by ARENA on Mar 31, 2014 11:19:20 GMT
People who give Islamics a hard time.Many of my friends are Muslim. Guess what? They are good and bad,like everybody else. They have their extremists, like them blooming Christians do. If you are going to have religions, for f**K sake live up to them. Tolerate each other!
signed Grumpy atheist.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2014 11:26:48 GMT
Nothing at all to do with religeon. ALL to do with culture. Discuss?
Signed Another perhaps not so grumpy atheist.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 31, 2014 13:45:41 GMT
Culture? You've lost me there. People are judging others on their religion and it's NOT religious....how come?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2014 13:59:36 GMT
I think most people are totally ignorant of the religion which in its unadulterated form is not too bad. They conjoin things like FGM and the fact that women are effectively isolated as in some ways religious practice, which they are not.
In my own city there are some children (mainly girls) who go to school age 5 unable to speak English despite their parents having been born here. That is largely because the women, the mothers are totally isolated in a particular area, surrounded by others in a similar position so barely speak English themselves. That is not a religious practice, it is a cultural one, imposed on them by their menfolk but it is the one that many local people resent.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 31, 2014 14:15:42 GMT
We have exactly the same problem with the British population in France. People who have been here for years and congregate in english speaking enclaves.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2014 14:26:34 GMT
We have exactly the same problem with the British population in France. People who have been here for years and congregate in english speaking enclaves. I have heard that one on many occasions, and about similar enclaves in Spain. There is a significant difference. The people in those enclaves did not go to France or Spain as refugees. A very high proportion retired there and have similar attitudes to the old colonial enclaves. I also think they are wrong, but almost all have the means to support themselves - an income from somewhere so they don't have to work. So it is different. From what I understand they are resented in some parts of France. But English people bying property cheaply in parts of rural Wales are also resented.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 31, 2014 14:43:15 GMT
I am obviously out of touch. I tend to ignore the BNP and UKIP propaganda but what you are telling me ,is that all or most of the Muslims in the UK are poverty stricken refugees. Please expand.........
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2014 22:14:29 GMT
Arena. I am neither BNP or UKIP and am unaware of their propaganda. If you are impugning that I support either I would be more than a bit upset.The overwhelming majority of Muslims live quietly and without any problems. However if one takes a city such as Bristol we have around 30,000 Somali's living here in a population of I think half a million. the vast majority arrived within the last 20 years, and among the young male Somali population there are 51% unemployed. That is bound to cause tension, and some degree of resentment such as 'why should 'they' get all those benefits' I don't agree with that, but I do understand it. And you have similar situations in cities such as Sheffield, and in your part of the world Marseilles and some of the Paris suburbs.
I tried for a while to teach English as a second language to refugees. I gave up, partly because of red tape and partly because I soon realised that the vast majority from Africa and the Indian sub continent were not literate in their own language, in other words they could not read and write their native language. Not so people from Poland and other areas such as Lithuania. They were a push over because they wanted to learn.
I don't know the answer, I wish I did, but I doubt even in the 'English' enclaves in France you would as a total French speaker be able to walk into a café and order a coffee and not be understood. However that IS the case in some parts of Bristol because it is so divided. within about 10 yards in some cases. I wish I was exaggerating, but I am not.
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Post by scorp on Apr 1, 2014 7:32:15 GMT
This is, I suppose, why we have the two terms now in use, 'Muslim' and 'Islamist' - it's the latter that are the boil on the public arse. The ones who sport placards calling for the beheading of anyone who disagrees with them, or operate Islamic vigilante patrols in areas of cities that they claim as 'theirs'.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 8:45:43 GMT
Yes Scorp, they are the ones that give them all a bad name, and no doubt football hooligans travelling to away matches abroad gave England (Ingerland) a bad name but only represented a minute fraction of the English population.
The issue I have is that most of the Muslims I know cherry pick, as do many Christians. They smoke drink and fornicate, all of which are a no-no in the Koran. However they also treat their women folk as a sub class, and that is a cultural trait and does not appear to be the 'law' in the Koran.
By the way I should have said 100 yards in my post last night, but it was late and I had taken a glass or three of wine
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