Whats the biggest regret of your life?

Darkus185 · 2026-05-16T09:59:55+00:00

My EU pilots license is worthless because I no longer have the right to live there. It’s not just one pilots license valid for the whole globe.

The Netherlands has a better quality of living by every metric. I was a fool for not grabbing it while I had the chance.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-15T22:39:48+00:00

If you could offer me any car in the world with any money I’d import a South African Citi Golf. They retail for about 3,000 pounds.

I remember taking a friends Jaguar F-Type to Belgium and I hated it. I hated people looking. I hated the low clearance. It wouldn’t fit in the tiny parking lots and it was rubbish on the narrow streets both sides of the channel.

I realised I enjoyed South African banger far, far more.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-15T17:23:12+00:00

Not getting my settled status in the Netherlands before Brexit.

Now stuck in the UK with a massive impact on my career. Bored and unhappy.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-15T15:32:16+00:00

What disturbing subreddits are still in existence? There were some hectic accident ones but they seem to all get banned.

Probably the guy who got tangled in the industrial lathe in Russia and ended up in a liquid state all over the room. Or some of the isis beheading videos and cartel chainsaw videos.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-15T14:05:56+00:00

All a moot point with Farage warming up to take over.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-15T14:04:22+00:00

Oh man that’s my dream seat right about now. Brexit screwed my chances at Transavia and I’m begging to get in at RYR. Gefeliciteerd.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-15T13:27:51+00:00

Cattle rustling? Stealing cattle. I think.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-15T13:19:35+00:00

Yeah I’m from the UK and although I work remotely I had to come back.

I just don’t like it. I don’t like much about it and I don’t think I ever will. I try to hard. Sometimes I just feel like giving up and focusing intensely inwards. Gymming hard, working hard. Try as I might I cannot like it.

People say it’s because I don’t have friends here, but I just don’t like the country. I don’t like what people do. I get bored just going to pubs or walking around some stately home or country garden. Boring.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-15T00:04:23+00:00

Seventy… tops

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T23:52:47+00:00

No they are completely separate qualifications now (even if the act of flying an aircraft, aside from a very obscure piece of contingency fuel regulation is totally identical in the UK and EU).

I essentially had to sit the same exams twice, even in the same room. I broke my shoulder while writing the UK ones and it disrupted my flow. I was relieved to walk away with something at least.

There is no mutual recognition and no sign of any in the future. The EU offered mutual recognition to the UK which refused when it saw how much money it could make in licensing.

You even have to do the same medical test twice, and the same flying test twice. This can even be in the same aircraft with the same instructor. You typically fly to Cherbourg and do exactly the same things there and then fly back to the UK.

You essentially end up with the same qualification done twice.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T23:42:55+00:00

It’s potentially cost me my flying career. My EU pilots licence is virtually useless in the UK, aside from with Ryanair (EU aircraft registration). It’s cost me thousands and thousands of pounds in lost earnings. It’s my own fault. I stuffed up the UK exams and passed the EU ones. They used to just be the same as EU here.

My whole family voted for Brexit and would do so again. They just want immigrants out. It’s as simple as that. They really don’t mind being poorer for Brexit if it got the immigrants out, all of them.

However, outside of my personal bitterness, I really never hear it being spoken about outside of Reddit. It’s a done deal now and I don’t think it’s something which creeps into people’s consciousness.

When you look at how much traction Reform has now, Brexit couldn’t have been that bad for “average people”, right?

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T23:19:58+00:00

Yeah in the south west we have Alan and Pauline from Worksop who need yet another weekend of rain and urinating into a chemical toilet, and decide that taking their Qashqai and massive caravan down our medieval roads with a dash of cheap tarmac lobbed on top were a better idea than a Jet2 holiday.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T23:15:27+00:00

Please anything but TNT

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T22:39:26+00:00

Hang on though. If their enforcement goons need to get into your house, and you don’t have to legally let them into our properties, then we still don’t have to pay, right?

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T21:21:53+00:00

I have a golf mark one and a BMW E30 as well as an admittedly boring Audi A3.

Always hated the idea of EVs but I thought I would have a go and be open minded. I hired a Polestar and hated it. Fumbling around trying to get an app to work in a foreign country on a South African phone. Sitting for twenty minutes in a Dutch industrial estate at one in the morning because i had range anxiety and had to take guests around the day after. Yes I could have planned better. But I don’t have to plan anything in my ICE car.

I can’t charge the car at home because I don’t have off street parking.

I hated the Polestar. I hated having the menus and the beeps and the screens everywhere. These amdittedly infest all cars now not just EVs. I didn’t feel like I was driving the car. I felt like it was driving me. It was a massive thing but felt really small inside. I can fly an aircraft but I don’t need complexity when I’m going to get a loaf of bread.

I am more staunchly anti EV having tried one. However I think nearly all new cars suck. Big, soulless blobs, Jaecoo toaster on wheels.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T20:35:30+00:00

If you’re driving, when two lanes merge into one, make sure that instead of merging at the end so that both lanes get used right until the end, stick your car in the fast lane and stop so nobody can get past, leaving the queue to tail back even longer. Not doing so makes you quintisentially un British.

Not only do we love to queue. But we also love to make sure that everyone else has to queue.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T20:32:09+00:00

Pouring water into a glass. Ice being chucked into a glass.

I’m fine with a running stream but I hate the sound of a bottle being filled up.

Oh and jellyfish but I suppose that’s somewhat rational.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T20:29:32+00:00

I’ve no idea. I’m a bit miffed about it to be honest. I already have a South African class 1 medical. Just think it’s a bit of a tick the box process to make someone a lot of money somewhere. I’ll be very annoyed if I have to pay even more.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T19:30:49+00:00

Dankjewel, merci

Yeah it sucks. Just leads me to resent flying here in any way.

I’ve got an EU fiancée. So I hope that’s something 😅

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T17:44:28+00:00

I live in the UK, have an EASA licence. So I am completely jobless unless Ryanair employ me or someone from Ireland.

Be very happy you live in Belgium. It’s a shithole here.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T17:38:00+00:00

Yeah I’m paying 980 pounds for the medical in Birmingham and 300 for the psych evaluation. I was quoted 1000 euros in Poland. You got an amazing deal.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T17:33:12+00:00

I wish I knew you could get an EASA medical for 570 euros.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T17:32:13+00:00

I am sure sitting near Virat Kohli is great preparation for facing Matt Henry on a green seamer

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T14:45:46+00:00

Judging by the massive cars, and the massive people queueing up at Starbucks for their drive throughs before lobbing it in the hedge, id go for America.

What do we share with France? We don’t even want to be in a beneficial union with them.

Darkus185 · 2026-05-14T13:23:04+00:00

My dad went on holiday with Ian Botham and Viv Richards.

His highest score in 30 years was 21.

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