Do you consider yourself an immigrant?

[Wage Slave]

he was pissing about so she lost her rag.

[yanpa]

She lost her rag 'cos she couldn't get any fags.

[Russell]

Hey guys, getting yourself into a pissing contest?!?

Or just trying to make a moon circle?

[yanpa]

Or just trying to make a moon circle?

Yo, Dutchboy, gee that's a goddamm bigäss mutherfuckin' Americanism you got there, beyotch (I believe this is how our erstwhile cousins from "across the pond" would attempt to phrase it in our fine language).

Moon circles are usually best seen on an asphalted road.

See, in the true home of English we'd say "tarmac" or "metalled" road.

[matsuki]

How about "paved road" as I have never hard an American say "an asphalted road?"

Do you really say "macadam road?"

[Wage Slave]

I've heard macadamised road from my father - But I don't think its very common. He just liked things like that. Sealed road or all weather road or tarmac road are all more likely I would say. In any case, its only out in the countryside that it is even necessary - in the vast majority of cases it is just a road.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I've heard macadamised road from my father - But I don't think its very common. He just liked things like that. Sealed road or all weather road or tarmac road are all more likely I would say. In any case, its only out in the countryside that it is even necessary - in the vast majority of cases it is just a road.

For some reason we only use "tarmac" at airports.

[Coligny]

I've heard macadamised road from my father - But I don't think its very common. He just liked things like that. Sealed road or all weather road or tarmac road are all more likely I would say. In any case, its only out in the countryside that it is even necessary - in the vast majority of cases it is just a road.

For some reason we only use "tarmac" at airports.

Yup... That made me check the wiki, and it seems to be an unproper use too...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarmac

[matsuki]

I've heard macadamised road from my father - But I don't think its very common. He just liked things like that. Sealed road or all weather road or tarmac road are all more likely I would say. In any case, its only out in the countryside that it is even necessary - in the vast majority of cases it is just a road.

For some reason we only use "tarmac" at airports.

Yup... That made me check the wiki, and it seems to be an unproper use too...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarmac

Speaking of improper use...

macadam and tarmac pavements can still sometimes be found buried underneath asphalt concrete or Portland cement concrete pavements, but are rarely constructed today.

[legion]

apparently when they were tarmacking rural England children were encouraged to stand around the barrels of molten pitch and inhale the healthy fumes

and lest we forget the king of Rohan in an earlier definitive role

[Coligny]

apparently when they were tarmacking rural England children were encouraged to stand around the barrels of molten pitch and inhale the healthy fumes



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Old trick... Good is bad, war is peace, ignorance is knowledge....

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And we have always been at war with eastasia...

[matsuki]

apparently when they were tarmacking rural England children were encouraged to stand around the barrels of molten pitch and inhale the healthy fumes

Reminds me of...

[American Oyaji]

I never wanted to leave Japan.

[wangta]

I saw that article as well, and think the author is an idiot. I know plenty of non-whites who are expats.
I think it completely depends on the individual and how they feel about the place they've chosen to live. Expats don't necessarily repatriate (or intend to someday do so), they choose to live outside of their birth/citizenship country. Some country hop, some stay for 5-10 years or more. Expats don't generally integrate/fully immerse into the society they're residing in. Immigrants make a decision to establish a permanent life somewhere.
In Kenya, I am an immigrant. In Denmark and Japan, I'm an expat. I'm here to do a job and have no intention to make this permanent. If I decided to stay here for love or because I develop an attachment to the culture/society that I feel has become part of my soul, then I would immigrate.

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The author gets a pass because she is non white but her angry tone and bitchy generalisations about 'whites' irrespective of how different a Northern European's circumstances are from a Southern European's circumstances are, from somebody who comes from a British Commonwealth country and whose ancestors moved to Oz, NZ etc late in the 18th century or in the 19th century from Britain or Ireland make this article inaccurate.

Like many other whites who have lived abroad and worked in Asia, we can't be immigrants because the systems of those countries set it up so that is much more difficult to do than for many who come to our own countries. And anyway, I'd like to live and work in Europe and the UK/Ireland but contrary to the assertions of the so called 'writer' of the article, it is more or less impossible for white Australians from Oz, NZ and Canada to name three countries, to live and work in Europe, the UK/Ireland unless they marry somebody from Europe and the UK.

I know plenty of white people including myself who would like to have residency in the land of their forefathers and foremothers but we can't whereas somebody from the Middle East, somebody from the Levant (Lebanon and Syria) somebody from the Indian Sub Continent, somebody from Africa has more chance whether by immigrant intakes or by refugee status which has until recently allowed large extended families to settle in western countries without any financial contribution unlike those who move there through migration visas and have to pay a lot for the privilege..

Despite having an unbroken line of good ol Norman and Saxon ancestry on my mother's side with church records going back to around 9 centuries ago, I can't live or work in the UK. Likewise the Irish side on my father's goes back even longer but again no return permitted. You can only do that through a grandparent or parent born in either country. And yes, of course there is unfair stereotyping of non European people in the UK, Europe and the Commonwealth but let's be honest, the asylum seeker and refugee intakes are the only way many of them could have residence and citizenship in western countries.

That explains why nearly all the Dutch Somali community could move to the UK. They entered through ties to the Netherlands and then to the UK. Nice privileges if you can get them and the trouble with this kind of access is that they are heavily or just about totally subsidised by their new countries for a long time or permanently. In Oz, the great majority of Lebanese in Australia used to be Maronite Christian families who paid their way to Oz and became integrated with Australian society in a fairly short time. Some of these successful families were in Oz in the 1920s and 1930s.

The later Lebanese started to come in the 70s as Shia 'refugees' who were allowed into Oz under dead cunt Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership. Those Shias were part of militias run by warlords, often were part of the drug trade, and found a wonderful way to migrate to Oz without meeting migration or refugee standards as they controlled who was allowed to leave under the UN's refugee programs in their areas. They imported their drug selling and war honed 'skills'. Later their extended families came out under 'reunion' programs. Under normal migration criteria not one of those people would have been able to obtain a visa.

[Samurai_Jerk]

She is a he.