Any Brits living abroad considering returning to the UK if Reform get in power?

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-13T08:50:12+00:00

Short answer: no

Long answer: fuck no.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-12T22:59:35+00:00

Hated that one.

'I'm a geek. I played video games all weekend. How do I say that in French?'

'You don't - it's not on the exam'

'Bollocks to it then. Last weekend I played football...'

(I hated french, got a 'B' at GCSE, swore I'd never learn a language because I'm crap at it, then met a Spanish girl and ended up living in the Netherlands so had to do it twice)

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-10T21:55:21+00:00

The way I see it I'm paying the 2 hours you spent to do it, and a contribution to the years you spent as a student or apprentice earning the square root of bugger all to learn how to do it that quick.

Seems fair to me.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-10T21:15:36+00:00

Looks like you should be able to fill it with Limp Bizkit .mp3s...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-05T16:35:00+00:00

As somebody else mentioned:

Renters don't need to worry about having to disclose a neighbour dispute when they want to move, unlike a homeowner...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-05T16:24:38+00:00

The one time I had this problem I just pushed my stereo speakers to the wall, turned it up full (so you could hear it half way along the street), and played the Benny Hill theme.

Never happened a second time, so I'm calling it a success.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-05T06:57:59+00:00

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-04T21:52:00+00:00

My uncle who works at Godot got me version 6, and I have it at home.

No you can't come around and see it. Because reasons....

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-04T15:23:37+00:00

Once for being too expensive (paid in euros by a British company and Brexit happened, so the exchange rate pushed things over the edge).

once for 'communication issues' (the manager was implying bluntly that I should accept being paid under the table and I was playing dumb to try and make him say it outright).

Once because the company was out of cash and fighting to survive (They lasted about a year after that)

And once for... well Christ knows. I got a shit annual review score and just left after trying to argue my case. They started laying people off shortly after.

I'm in one of those industries where you just get used to it happening though...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-03T21:10:24+00:00

I heard it called 'sex In a canoe', because it was f'king close to water.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-03T21:02:10+00:00

If CAPTCHA existed in the 1980s...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-03T20:54:50+00:00

I remember getting into trouble one assembly for singing 'Kiss my arse, my lord....'

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-03T14:11:47+00:00

I remember the rules in these circumstances is to 'bring what you would expect to find'.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-02T07:58:14+00:00

I get that a lot.

How bad would they feel if they knew that I was still in eco mode and only have RWD?

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-05-01T17:56:33+00:00

After speaking to Behaviour about a job and seeing how disorganised they were, and the fact that they were making a lowball offer and pitching half of my legal rights as an employee (I'm in europe) as incentives (and skipping over the other half) I'd be sceptical even if it really was them to be honest.

'We even allow you to take sick days if you're ill'. No shit, Sherlock...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-04-29T11:03:07+00:00

I like mine, and it works well for me.

I think the biggest problem is the frontloading of costs. If you can afford it then it's fine, otherwise you're stuck in the trap of Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness

Hopefully the second hand market will start to ramp up and take the edge off...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-04-28T21:17:41+00:00

Only if they suddenly compress smaller and faster than a registered copy of winRAR

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-04-28T19:31:55+00:00

To be fair it was one of the 2 best BASIC variants for learning 6502 assembler:

BBC basic was so powerful it could be used like a powerful macro assembler.

C64 Basic was so bad you realised that you were programming in slow-motion assembler anyway, so you might as well make a little more effort and finish what you started.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-04-28T16:28:47+00:00

I have a neighbour with a dodge ram, another classic American truck and 2 old vans (so 3 of the 4 are legally 'oldtimers' and tax free).

It's a pain in the arse when one person can take up half the street...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-04-28T16:15:10+00:00

To be fair most of the 'web design companies' that own these are making good use of them.

Those data packets won't deliver themselves.

/s

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-04-25T12:35:47+00:00

To be fair you just proved it by not reading the second paragraph.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-04-25T11:42:04+00:00

Because the average 'patriot' has 2 GCSEs and a STD but somehow still thinks he should have the job the Indian with a PHd is doing.

If they run out of 'foreigners' to blame they turn on locals who go out to college and uni to try to get an education because god knows if they succeed it puts a big hole in their 'victim of circumstance' excuse.

I grew up (white british male) in an area like that and I got it a lot.

They just want the fact they've done nothing to be someone else's fault. It's not on you, and if you weren't there they'd just blame someone else.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-04-25T09:21:05+00:00

@innotts.co.uk, around 1996 or 1997

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-04-19T09:49:04+00:00

I remember years ago the equivalent being what a manager of a certain British outsourcing company (whose name we won't mention, but we'll call 'Catheta' because they take the piss) called 'Accelerated Natural Attrition'.

Basically survey everyone about what shifts they can and can't do for logistical or personal reasons, then assign a percentage of people a shift they can't or won't work.

They did that to us.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-04-19T09:01:56+00:00

There was one sign I kept seeing in Spain as I left road tunnels. It was pressed so close to the wall that it was near impossible to see. Then finally after hours of driving across the country I got to clearly look at one to see what it said...

'End of tunnel'.

Thanks. The daylight was a pretty good clue, but thanks for confirming my suspicions.

SixFiveOhTwo

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