to think that this country is a total farce!

[mamaLou13]

i just think the sooner my family get out of this country the better. Its ridiculous. Human rights has gone mad . The prison system is ludicrous! The immigration laws are a joke. Britain has lost almost all the values we used to stand for. Where i live british people are a minority/ stranger in our own country its unbelieveable that it has got to this point. The 'democracy' we live in is far to leanient. I am disgusted that we allow such things as the burkha here i believe that like france, Britain should ban it. So much money is being spent to enable life to be better for those who come here and claim our benefits, translators etc and running the NHS into the ground.... aibu to wonder WHAT ABOUT US BRITS????

Exactly smugaboo racist idiots always think the grass in greener, what they don't seem to realise is that it is them that is the problem, not the people around them.

Drop bears are bad this year, has been raining a bit, that always ups the population.

We do of course have our own share of racist idiots, but everyone does.

What are drop bears?

I don't think the OP realises how disconcerting and isolating it can be to be an immigrant. I remember thing when we first arrived and we went to the shops. Back home, I'd see people I'd known from school, family friends and that - just people you know around. There, no one knew us. If we literally disappeared off the face of the earth, no one would really be perturbed in the new country (in the old country, yes). It's very odd. Or else going to buy food and not recognising any of the brands - what on earth is worth buying? Is that yogurt rank? Or having your accent made fun of. Or getting totally confused by slang words or having words/expressions meaning totally different things in your own country (fine example: pants).

And that was from a relatively "easy" transition - from SA to the UK. Oh yes, and tons of people assuming (for e.g., if you're South African you must be a racist fuckwit) that you are a certain way because of where you're from. Ironic that so many English people assumed racist fuckwittery from South Africans, when, IME, there are quite a few English racist fuckwits

A drop bear (or dropbear) is a fictitious Australian marsupial.[1] Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above.[2] They are an example of local lore intended to frighten and confuse outsiders and amuse locals, similar to the jackalope, hoop snake, wild haggis, or snipe hunt.

It is often suggested that doing ridiculous things like having forks in the hair or Vegemite or toothpaste spread behind the ears will deter the creatures

(Wikipedia)