living in the trnc winging poms

parkey


Joined: 19/03/2012
Posts: 4

Message Posted:
19/03/2012 22:54

Well my handsomes I am gob smacked with the content of this expat site. You are openly racist. Well you English come back to the UK pretend to be disabled and claim up to £500 per week. I have news for you you chose to live outside the EU. Oh my swiming pool pump takes a lot of electric and i can only run the said pump for an hour a day. Guess what it would cost you £30.00 a day here to heat the bloody thing.

The locals rip us off, no property deeds, log books for cars. I was already to move to TRNC until I looked at this expat site. You are the sort I want to leave behind. No wander you lot get ripped off you also get ripped off by us Cornish when you come here on holiday and chuck your rubbish out of the car window from Saltash to Landsend. We double the prices in July and August. Oh by the way I married a Londoner. Get rid of the English attitude and enjoy the country you are living in embrace the local culture. Learn to speak Turkish. By the way my electric bill is £85 per month.

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
19/03/2012 22:58

Welcome !!

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
19/03/2012 23:02

Thats it Parkey get it off your chest

gooligan


Joined: 30/01/2007
Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
19/03/2012 23:17

I wonder why he's divorced )

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
19/03/2012 23:26

Needs a spellchecker!



Wonder how many toes he's got?

ttoli


Joined: 24/03/2007
Posts: 1172

Message Posted:
19/03/2012 23:32

Why would I want to heat my swimming pool pump?

cyprustom


Joined: 23/09/2008
Posts: 60

Message Posted:
19/03/2012 23:35

obviously another dickhead

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 00:34

I hadn't realised that Cornwall was having its referendum on the same day as Scotland for its full independence. What will the currency be, the Dynar?!



Richard

bertieboss


Joined: 22/07/2011
Posts: 149

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 02:51

Message 1 - you're not far off the mark !!

Ed1957


Joined: 03/09/2011
Posts: 377

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 06:16

Too close to home for some to feel comfortable



Welcome parky

Temomed


Joined: 22/07/2010
Posts: 29

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 07:36

The truth hurts Parky, But there are a lot of nice people over here. Have been coming and going for nearly 9 years now and still loving it.

englishman


Joined: 25/02/2012
Posts: 34

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 08:38

it seems to me that everyone wants to go it alone scotland cornwall maybe wales all want to go it alone.so why not let them and then send them all back there.then we will have english presenters on tv,have you seen how many scotish and irish are on tv.how many english managers in the prem football not many.thay come to england and work then moan thay want there own state instead of britain.its time us ENGLISH STARTED HAVING OUR SAY...........ENGLISH PEOPLE UNITE..

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 08:40

"living in the trnc winging poms"

To be honest I thought he was referring to the poor aim of hunters!

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 09:54

I think your right stay where you are, ripping people off, sleep well

rigsby


Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 912

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 10:39

Funny people the cornish,one week they want independence and the next they are looking for a handout.

wattys


Joined: 07/10/2008
Posts: 278

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 11:27

Parkey



What's your interest on this site why did you join ?

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 11:34

I've got a feeling we are going to find out wattys

Simbas

mikelapta



Joined: 20/11/2008
Posts: 2186

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 11:48

See the weather posting.....I avoid the "whinging poms"ergo I have lots of nice Brit friends who love this laid-back country.and the weather,and the cheap prices for foodstuffs{and alcohol}good interest rates



Long live KKTC



And if you do not like it here........................Get back to no Bank Interest,Foreign refugees,high alcohol prices,being controlled by EEC



I know where I have been happy for 10 years as a holiday home,now 3 1/2 years full time.



Time for coffee in my shorts in the beautiful sunshine



Mike.

parkey


Joined: 19/03/2012
Posts: 4

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 13:23

Well that stirred the hornets nest.

Sorry my warped sense of humour does get me in a bit of trouble occasionally.

Seriously for a moment. I lived in over the border for a while and spent some time in Spain I think you are much better off, outside of the EU. Having looked at locations world wide I have come to the conclusion TRNC is where i will end up, if i am still welcome after my previous comments. Mike enjoy your coffee. And no we do not rip people off in Cornwall. Dave.

Lundunsip


Joined: 03/02/2009
Posts: 38

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 13:30

If this was Facebook, I'd click the Like button on this post

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 15:21

Our favourite Australian bard sings this hilarious song about a whingeing 'Pom' who's in the pub, complaining about his wife's rather large posterior!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyKiaB5NMSU



In this case you can't blame the poor 'Pom' for whingeing, can you?

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 15:30

Mike - your private affairs are, of course, just that - your private affairs.



However, I do think "coffee in my shorts" goes a bit beyond the pale. Oh well - each to his own, I suppose



Also, does this not get a bit uncomfortable?

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 16:02

jeannie/Msg 22:



...'beyond the pale'?



The quotation is ...'beyond the pail'.



'Pale' means 'of whitish complexion' > his face is pale. It is an adjective.



A 'Pail' [Noun] is a bucket.

wattys


Joined: 07/10/2008
Posts: 278

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 16:05

Msg 23



Good to know you can get educated here as well as lambasted

Dillon


Joined: 05/02/2012
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 16:14

In Jeannies phrase, the pale refers to a wooden stake or post used with others to form a fence which would be a pailing fence and ‘beyond the pale’ is in reference to outside the bounds of the fence or acceptable behaviour, a conceptual boundary, to bring these things back within the pale of decency.

Dillon


Joined: 05/02/2012
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 16:15

for pailing read paling

EamonnMc


Joined: 18/06/2010
Posts: 1019

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 16:37

Msg 25,



Absolutely correct in your interpretation of the word "pale" and the context in which it was used. Tenakoutou, before you criticise others, you should ,perhaps, engage your brain.

Jonesy299


Joined: 07/02/2009
Posts: 367

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 16:50

Msg 23 - I think decompression sickness is affecting Dave's (Tenakoutou's) brain cells perhaps!!!

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 16:50

Thanks folks

breezyboy


Joined: 14/05/2007
Posts: 1179

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 17:12

Never mind about all that .......



Is he a Republican ex convict



or



A Monarchist Australian cousin???

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 18:16

I stand humbled and corrected - thanks Dillon and E.mac!



I'll pull my horns in next time - sorry Jeannie!

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 18:18

Tenakoutou - "No worries" (as you folks from the Antipodes might say



J

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 18:32

As the new vicar said in the pub one night when we got him p1ssed:



'I don't care if it snows or freezes,



I'll be safe in the arms of Jesus,



I am Jesus' little lamb,



My f*^!ing oath I am!'

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 19:09

msg 1 , lmao

dublinderm


Joined: 26/09/2009
Posts: 538

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 19:33

Hi,



Re Msgs 22, 23, and 27.



Eamonnmc I am surprised at you!



The Pale is the Pale of Settlement surrounding Dublin City and comprising parts of Meath, and Kildare. Inside the Pale English laws prevailed while outside the old Gaelic Eric celtic laws and customs still held sway.



Anyone who resided "beyond the Pale" was considered to be "Wilde Irish" and therefore somewhat savage and untrustworthy. If you went beyond the pale you no longer enjoyed the protection of the crown.



Parts of the pale embankment can still be seen in Clongowes College in Kildare.



As for the original sentiment of post No 1., hmmm hard to disagree.



DD

Ed1957


Joined: 03/09/2011
Posts: 377

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 19:39

I am enjoying a Pale Ale



all the rest pales into insignificance



cheers

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 19:45

After reading this thread - the abuse of the English language makes me feel sorry for the obviously failing educational system in the UK. Jeez, I haven't often seen so many spelling errors in one thread on this board. Unbelievable.

Dillon


Joined: 05/02/2012
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 19:46

And so it was that later, as the miller told his tale, that her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale.



There have been so many pale imitations of this classic by Procol Harum

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 19:48

Proud to be British, eh? Many of you lot cannot even write in your native tongue! What a disaster.

Dillon


Joined: 05/02/2012
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 19:52

Don't be shy DC, get it off your chest!

EamonnMc


Joined: 18/06/2010
Posts: 1019

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 20:03

Dublinderm,



Well aware of what "The Pale" was in Irish history, but if you "google" " beyond the pale" you will get several explanations and definitions. Not everyone posting here is concerned about Irish history. I still consider those from outside the pale, as being Wilde Irish, lol.

dublinderm


Joined: 26/09/2009
Posts: 538

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 20:16

Eamonn I was just trying to be pedantic! The term was invented in the Irish context so I feel entitled.



Being originally from Cork, I suppose that makes me Wilde Irish so!!!





DD

EamonnMc


Joined: 18/06/2010
Posts: 1019

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 20:24

Cork, the "real" capital of Ireland. lol. Slainte,Dermot.

Karmels


Joined: 20/12/2011
Posts: 58

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 20:59

Parkey,



it seem like you have opened a bag of worms.



Having had family who lived in Cambourne then Crantock where they died after 43 years living in Cornwall, interacting with the local church and the people they were still EMMITS to the local people to the day they dieded.



So don't try to tell the expats of the TRNC how to intergrate with the locals and learn to speak Turkish, the people of Cornwall have never accepted anybody from the other side of Saltash, and yes you do double the price in summer and 99% of the Cornish people don't speak Galic.



Only Giberish.

Dillon


Joined: 05/02/2012
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 21:07

@Dublinderm message 35, The ‘Pale of Settlement’ was an area set aside for the expulsion of Russian Jews from Moscow established by Czar Cathrine II, The Great, in 1791.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/pale.html

‘The Pale’ or ‘The English Pale’ was a part of Ireland under the control of the English Government in the late Middle Ages.

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 21:11

Parkey, My Aunt lived in Helston for 40 years, she ran a Guest House, she was from Cambridge and for 40 years was never really excepted into the Cornish community.Hope you have better luck amongst the ex-pat community here most of which are not Cornish..

Dillon


Joined: 05/02/2012
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 21:31

@ MartinD41, Message 46, That sounds rather like a not-so-veiled threat Martin?

astro941


Joined: 22/05/2011
Posts: 193

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 21:54

Parky, I heard that there are no postitutes in Cornwall, because there are too many enthusiastic amatuers.

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 21:55

Karmels mess 44



Brilliant!









And spot on!

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 22:34

My maternal grandmother was born in Cork.



Apropros nothing at all; just thought I'd throw it in

Ed1957


Joined: 03/09/2011
Posts: 377

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 22:57

We can winge better than anyone

birdy



Joined: 21/07/2009
Posts: 154

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 23:17

msg 1



me agree as well....

EamonnMc


Joined: 18/06/2010
Posts: 1019

Message Posted:
20/03/2012 23:49

Jeannie,Msg 50,



Without her, you would not exist ! Good enough reason to mention it.

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 08:26

DutchCrusader/Msg 39: The 'Poms' can spell perfectly OK - here's a notoriously famous example!



'The wind was ruff and cold and blough,

She kept her hands within her mough,

And althow there was no snough,

The whether was a bitter fow!'

Dillon


Joined: 05/02/2012
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 08:52

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you,

On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird,

And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -

For goodness sake don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).





A moth is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, broth in brother,

And here is not a match for there

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,

And then there's dose and rose and lose -

Just look them up - and goose and choose,

And cork and work and card and ward,

And font and front and word and sword,

And do and go and thwart and cart -

Come, come, I've hardly made a start!

A dreadful language? Man alive!

I'd mastered it when I was five!



Richard Krogh (As in dough)

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 09:52

Excellent stuff, Dillon!



Your literary versatility is highly commendable!

dippersgirl



Joined: 04/05/2010
Posts: 795

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 11:13

Mess 1

Just make sure you do not come to Dipkarpaz!!!!!!!! I like it just the way it is without you

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 11:51

Dillon, message 56.



Excellent. Many thanks for posting (as in hosting but also as in toasting, boasting and roasting)



Jean

Dillon


Joined: 05/02/2012
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 13:31

Thank you Tenakoutou and Jeannie for those kind words, but alas;



I cannot take the credit

Which belongs to another,

Richard Krogh

Who penned the prose

Is the deserving other.



I merely typed it in!

And Google was the engine

Behind which

Turned up rich

And found the verse in question.

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 13:47

I do think that poster one has a good point ! Love it or leave and go to back the right place if you do



http://www.photosofcornwall.com/crantock_bay.html



Some fantastic places here ! And I have never forgotten a holiday at Crantock Bay back in 1973 a wonderful place.Send us a postcard if you find any litter I think we could wait some time to receive it



Spider,X

P.S I think this is a fantastic site enjoy the link.

Smity



Joined: 14/09/2009
Posts: 826

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 15:16

Msg 1

Your entitled to you opinion like everyone else on the forum, you hit the head of the nail spot on, guess that's why its a HOT spot



Good on ya sport

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 17:03

devon much nicer than cornwall and the people speak english

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 18:46

us does dun us cyprusairsoft, we talks proper us dus x

pollymarples


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Posts: 1778

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 19:16

I see DC has overdosed on his superiority pills again, quick give him a drink of salty water and he can vomit along with the rest of us dumb Brits.

parkey


Joined: 19/03/2012
Posts: 4

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 20:53

Hi martin d21





I find your statement about fitting in with Cornish hard to believe, after all we needed the English to educate us poor thick Cornish folk, and we are really grateful. As I have stated, my partner is from Stanmore, it took me a while to train her up.



She is up at 5.30am, brings me breakfast in bed, milks the cows, feeds the chickens, just in time to make me another cup of tea. Took good advice from the members and did a spell click. Dave.

ranger5


Joined: 29/03/2011
Posts: 151

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 21:24

Hans, good as you think you are, you do make mistakes. From now on I feel I must point them out.

For example - Loose and lose, do you know the difference? (Not on this post, but I can`t be bothered to

look it up!)

Ed1957


Joined: 03/09/2011
Posts: 377

Message Posted:
21/03/2012 21:28

Why do you let her lie in till 05:30? Lazy ta*t



plenty of jobs to fill the day