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...lately, is it indicative of the UK generally right now? I’ve been in Spain for a couple of years and looking at some of the recent threads I can’t imagine some of the outcomes cited happening here 🙂
Piss off back to Spain then! 😉 🙂 😆
Sexual tension innit.
Mostly Flashy and Binners,
You talkin' to me?
Hypertension or...
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Hippotension?
BE THE HIPPO!
It seems focused around entitlement of sorts, presumably from general exposure to bitter experiences?
Like a beer festival?
Some sort of alement?
More like an upset at the village tea party 🙂
Turning into a giant circle**** of middle class handwringing
Turning into a giant circle**** of middle class handwringing
Turning into?
The cockwombles are revolting.
Buenos noches senhors et senhoritas.
Que tal? Mal, eh?
Just had a look around for some tensione. But, no. Nada tensione aqui.
Bueno! Muy bien. A luego todos nosotros.
Hasta manana.
Apologies, not turning into, just more obvious at present
cockwombles
Great Uncle Bulge Area?
Cockwombles - Bungo party
It's like being visited by the Speaker...
Sometimes we let the old ones speak
YOu mean on STW or in the UK?
In the UK there is IMO increasing tension that manifests in violent crime, racist attacks road rage, that sort of thing. Its what happens when people have a dropping standard of living and insecurity in their lives
Brexit innit!
Definitely an “us” and “them” feeling.
Nobody expected the Spanish inquisition.
I still work and pay tax in the UK so am not being entirely alloof. I guess it’s all the road/school rage threads that highlighted it, just me perhaps?
Chill Winston.....have a toke.
Duggie hug
I’m wondering just how long the OP has been hanging around on here, ‘cos I can remember when things on here used to get a little... touchy? And that was often a reflection of what was going on elsewhere. Certainly things in the wider world are causing tension, and one or two things within the U.K. are as well. I’m surprised that Spain doesn’t have its own areas of tension, the Catalan separatist vote recently I’m sure is on a par with some of the political tensions here, but when you look back to when the IRA were active here, and Spain had the Basque Separatist movement operations in Spain, things are far more settled now than for some years.
cockwombles
Great Uncle Bulge Area?
😆 How long have you been waiting to use that?
How long have you been waiting to use that?
About two years since bearnecessities said it the first time 😉
The UK is affectionately referred to as "the toilet" within the Copperpot Compound.
I’ve been on STW for many years and use it multiple times a day, but don’t always get involved with some threads, more an observer of sorts I guess...
Yes there are issues in Spain for sure, not least the ‘tension’ in Catalonia, however where I am in the south, and many of the people’s views from other areas of Spain I meet tends to be one of indifference to the matter.
My point was, there seems to be a more obvious level of tension arising in peoples lives in seemingly simple areas and somewhat trivial aspects, albeit subjective of course, eso es todo...
I spent a week in the UK for the first time in three years a couple of weeks back. I've done no more than dip in and out for 30 years. My main contact with the UK over the last 15 has been BM then this place. So what changes are most noticeable:
Cars, they're everywhere, I don't need to look for statistics to know the cities are a continuous flow/crawl of traffic most of the day and even in rural Devon you're normally driving in a queue. People seem more stressed and aggressive behind the wheel and gun away from the lights to rejoin the queue just up the road. Bikes are now all but inexistant and the driving around them is dreadful, close passes, cuting up at the new chicanes and road obstacles. Someone offered to lend be a bike and I declined choosing a jog on pavements instead. There are very few zebra crossings and crossing the road can take an eternity, when there is eventually a gap to jog actross cross drivers don't slow and make aggressive gestures.
Old people, the ****ers are everywhere, but mainly driving their cars. The population has aged and people live longer but the main difference is that they no longer sit at home watching TV but take a drive to walk dogs, sit in cafes, sit in their cars looking out, walk around supermarkets... .
Dogs, again I've no idea what the statistics say but it's every (old) man/woman and his/her dog. If people aren't in a car then they are very often trailing a dog. And given the number of dogs in cars there must be a lot of (old) people driving around taking their dog somewhere it can foul without anyone seeing other than fellow dog walkers who've taken their dog out to foul.
The people, and what they are nattering about in those cafes: surprisingly little about Brexit, lots about immigrants, the government, their dogs and cars
Business as usual then.
'Lack of Tension News':
Beginning the bizarre and unlooked-for uptake of a previous musical life after a thirty-year gap in Germany at the weekend, I found myself able to have a conversation with an American religiously-minded person from Texas who had travelled especially to see the band.
Over breakfast at the local 'Hotel das Rock und Roll', I was able to explain evolution and change by the action of creative chaos that didn't need a guiding intelligence to make it work, without coming to blows.
The addition of body language, voice tone and facial expression were a great help, unlike the equivalent forum exchange. 😎
I’ve been in Spain for a couple of years and looking at some of the recent threads I can’t imagine some of the outcomes cited happening here
English polling station:
Spanish polling station:
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Increasingly rarely that we go back to the UK but I generally really enjoy it. Doesn't seem that much has changed in 10 or so years, though fake tan and vaping levels are through the roof.
What does seem telling is that we have an AirBnb flat next to ours. Generally the guests are pretty quiet but the troublesome ones are always... you guessed it.. Brits. Dragging their unconscious mate up the stairs at 6am kind of troublesome.
Make of this what you will, but there was a lady absolutely mortalled outside in the street this morning at 4am trying to get into a car. It wasn't hers, it belongs to a retired bloke over the road. I think she thought she was opening the door to the apartment or something, she was shouting "[Insert bloke's name here], I just want you to let me in and * me. Just * me and be happy. Just **** * me you **** *", to an empty car, making less and less sense until she collapsed and the police came. Smartly-dressed southern English woman, absolutely no one else around. Translating her monologue for my OH was quite interesting.
Over breakfast at the local ‘Hotel das Rock und Roll’, I was able to explain evolution and change by the action of creative chaos that didn’t need a guiding intelligence to make it work, without coming to blows.
Who are you and what have you done with the real Woppit?
Evil twin.
My four year old exhibits a lot of tension when she needs to do a poo.
Once she has done the deed she's back to her normal happy self.
Everyone should just have a poo.
Beginning the bizarre and unlooked-for uptake of a previous musical life after a thirty-year gap in Germany at the weekend
Although the whole post was enjoyable and indeed tension-free, I am especially interested in this bit. Care to tell us how it came about, Woppit? Either way, I'm glad to hear it.
Jokingly asked a singer (Dutchman Carlo van Putten) by msngr, that I saw he was solo supporting a screening of the documentary, if he fancied a drummer for it. Instead of going "Yeah, hohoho" he said "Yeah sure". We added 3 of his band "The Convent" and it all just sort of happened. More gigs to come.
'The Convent with Mike Dudley play The Sound'.
Thanks for the interest. Don't want to hijack the thread or anything.
Carry on. 😊
Yes, it’s not a great time right now, but I’m sure Spain has had its own problems.
We’ve had a 10 year lack of financial confidence, we’ve only avoided recession with some pretty brutal austerity and crippling economy stimuli. Which has meant flat wages but rising costs coupled with legislation under the cover of ‘protection of the green belt’ designed to keep house prices high (and rent prices with it) means most people have less disposable money then they had in the decade previous. Except those below the poverty line who are genuinely on their arses at best and those in the 1% who are, of course, richer than ever. In the history of the west Heads have been taken off shoulders for narrower gaps between rich and poor.
Add to that rising crime and especially nasty crimes like acid attacks because of falling police numbers and poverty.
A broke NHS being eyed up by every PLC in land whilst they lick their lips.
A policital landscape more polarised than I remember in my lifetime leaving the majority in the middle left choosing between a Marxist Nut who thinks he can be PM, but not on Fridays because he’s rather be at his allotment backed up by his KGB in Hemp Skirts and a Women who stands with her legs far apart because she thinks it makes her look powerful being who isn’t backed by anyone who I suspect is under control of the Sith.
And yeah, that ****ing referendum.
It might seem a slightly odd idea, but I’d recommend a long warm summer and the complete ban on ‘news’ until October - basically unless there’s an escaped Tiger heading towards your house it’s not important for the moment.
Beer Gardens and Cider, that’s what we need. Not another 10 years of this bullshit.
@bob_summers - sounds no different to the average Brit on a Med holiday any time over the last twenty-five years. Honestly, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Are you just saying you want to relieve my tension by giving me a massage op? 🙄
Probably depends if it's dynamic or not...
I'm back in the UK for the first time in a year or two in July so I'm interested to see how the UK is bearing up. I've got a feeling that 99% of people are just getting on with getting on.
As to the tension on here. I find there are lots of fantastic contributors on here but, like in life, a few weapons in amongst them. Simply not engaging with this minority does wonders for one's state of mind.
That and avoiding political threads at all costs!
The Past, the Present and the Future walk into a bar.
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The atmosphere was tense.
A policital landscape more polarised than I remember in my lifetime
You were not around in the 70s and 80s I presume....
It seems focused around entitlement of sorts, presumably from general exposure to bitter experiences?
More likely from general exposure to, in a world sense, an unbelievably easy existence then finding out that the slightest adjustment feels like the end of the world.
Of course ‘accepting our place in the world’ would be a damned sight easier sell if the effects were felt evenly across our society. However, due to lack of imagination, seeing that the only way we think we can do this is open everything up to spivs and opportunists then bitterness ensues.
It’s funny how some people are getting up tight telling me how there’s no tension in the UK 🤪