Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Which banks are going to receive money from Lehman ($65bln)?

Greekman

75 , you only just passed it. BTW its £50 a test , and you can take as many as you like.

Aldwick,

I was only joking about taking the Life in Britain test.
The Life of Brian test, now thats a different matter.

I have a test for you lot.

Q1 Name a single MP who has never fiddled his/her expenses.

Q2 To the nearest 10, how many times has this or the last government promised to sort out immigration.

Q3 What day/date (allow 10 days each side) did Fred post a half sensible post that agreed with anyone.

Q4 Why does buttered toast always land butter side own.

Q5 Name any Muslim terrorist ever arrested in Pakistan who does not hold a British passport.

Q6 Why when most Gypsies never travel do they insist on being called travelers.

Q7 Why when you have had a skin full and as a result been sick, does it always contain sweetcorn.

Q8 Why when you are drunk do all ugly women look beautiful, whilst all beautiful women still look the same.

Q9 Why do birds cr*p all over my car just after I have washed it, although I can leave it in the same place dirty for weeks and they leave it be.

Q10 Why when we are drunk and not thinking straight say never again (sensible), and yet when we are sober and thinking straight we go out and get drunk (stupid).

Answer over 50% of these questions and you deserve to be allowed to live here!

Life in Britain - I got 63% !

Seymour

75% you need to pass it , did you get the one right about were Father Christmas lives ? that's a very important question to get right.

Last I heard he had moved in with the tooth fairy.

Oh dear!

"You have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 15 out of 24 (63%)"

Mind you, some of the questions could be better worded and, IMHO, are a bit badly defined.

eg, Question 14 of 24
Is the statement below TRUE or FALSE?
'You can attend a hospital without a GP's letter only in the case of an emergency.'

An attendance at hospital can be a second visit and not need a letter, ie, 'a follow up' to a first visit, being one which did need a letter.

Syria's deputy oil minister announces resignation

Syria's deputy oil minister has announced his resignation, saying he is joining the anti-government revolt.

Abdo Hussameddin announced his defection in a video posted on YouTube.

He is the highest ranking civilian to abandon President Bashar al-Assad since the uprising erupted a year ago.

Japan reports record current account deficit

Japan has reported a record current account deficit because of rising energy imports, as the country's economic recovery remains fragile.

The shortfall was 437.3bn yen ($5.4bn; £3.4bn) in January, the ministry of finance said.

Speech by Julia Gillard Australian Prime Minister.

“IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT . . .
Take It Or Leave It.

I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.

This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.

We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!

Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.

We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.

This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, THE RIGHT TO LEAVE.

If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.”

Although this speech has been proved a hoax, just think how many votes she (or any of our wimpy pot in the UK) would get if they said it how it should be.

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yes it would be great . i would bring home the troops and man our borders and send anyone back who should not be here . i would cut all middle management in all our services all migrants would be told to leave within weeks . any one fiddling would have all there money taken away including business no one would be allowed to claim unless they signed to say it was correct and would except jail or deportation.
and yes our paths and our old would be looked after

mnamreh

So you don't agree that “IMMIGRANTS, NOT British, MUST ADAPT . ?

Hi Mnamreh,

You say, 'which has led populations to believe that migrants and others unfairly get more than natives'.

But they do.

I will give just one incident, but there are hundreds more I can give.

Many years ago in the 1970's my brother who had been saving to get married had been on the council housing list for around years.
He received a letter stating that he was around 6 months from getting council accommodation, so he made wedding plans.
A few weeks later he received another letter stating that because all council authorities had been instructed to make a certain number of social housing available to the thousands of immigrants that were coming into the UK (due to how long ago this was, I can't remember where they were from, I think it was from Bangladesh).
He now had to wait at least a further 6 to 12 months for a house/flat etc.

Obviously he was very annoyed.

Immigrants often get preferential treatment, as most government bodies as well as private individuals know that if an immigrant makes a complaint, it is taken far more seriously.
I can give several examples were immigrants have got away with breaking the law (mainly social) were a white indigenous person would not have done.
The Police as well as many government department workers have to tread on egg shells when dealing with these people.
All they have to shout it words like Racist and you can be in serious trouble.

I must add that I have met and worked with many immigrant and found many to be fine decent people, but even those are very wary of standing up to their more radical brethren.

Like the hoax article stated, all I and many others want is equality and fairness.
Anyone who believes that our own indigenous population is treated on a par with immigrants is not living in the real world.

I appreciate there are augments as to what is a UK indigenous person, but I don't go with those augments that go back almost to stone age times.

If we all try to picture an indigenous UK person, I m sure we will all come up with a similar person.

immigrants on the whole are lazy once they have there council house they dont work .
stop all benefits until you have at least 10 years of stamps ,
do like the aussies do and the usa . then you will see that they will not come

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TANKER


all migrants would be told to leave within weeks

.This isn't Nazis Germany

mna . most immigrants come here for free benefits FACT, no immigrant should get any benefits we should do the same as down under send them back

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Mnamreh,

Certain cultures don't mix and many don't wish to.
Even in their own countries tribal or/and religious factions kill and maim each other.
When these countries kick off what do we then do?
We accept the same people into our country and expect them to behave and change to our ways.
When I joined the Police in 1977, Honour killings and Witchcraft killings were unknown in the UK as were most serious gun crimes.
What do we have now, a culture of both Honour and Witchcraft killings with gun crime (mainly the Yardy drug gangs) almost getting to uncontrollable proportions.

As previously stated by me and yourself in your previous post all we want is to be fair and 'right-minded'.