Why do the British still love yahs?
Alain Quay
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Tory party MPs, people on the Apprentice & Big Brother, pop stars, etc seem to be elevated because they are yahs. To a foreigner living in Britain, the class divide and inequality of opportunity are the nation's biggest problems, strangling the economy and causing anti sociall behavour, etc. These people born into privilege should have no favours, and not be fawned over. No wonder social mobility in Britain has completely stalled. Posh schools claiming charitable status, etc etc. Get rid of it all I say. :twisted: That doesn't make me a socialist. I just believe in meritocracy and a level playing field.
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The finest piece of anal ventriloquism I've read on these boards for many a month!
Let's reduce the entirity to the level of the oiks in the gutter!Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.0 -
What is a 'Yah' ?The UCI are Clowns and Fools0
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I take it that your prefer your estuary English.0
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Maybe we like them because they are not loud, opinionated and hang out in huge drunken groups between stints of bar work?
Seriously most Toffs seem to be more pleasant than the bulk of British society. They might be stiffing us but they do it in a polite way
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Alain Quay wrote:Get rid of it all I say. :twisted: That doesn't make me a socialist. I just believe in meritocracy and a level playing field.
sounds like someone who expects everything to be given them on a plate for free.
If you can't have it then no one else should be entitled to have it. is that right ?
It must be difficult for people born in countries with no History or culture to understand a country like Britain which has a 4000 year history and has been the most powerful and innovative nation on the planet.
Britain's power stems from our immense pride in our countries historical and current achievements. This national pride is being erroded by foreigners who come here to live and take advantage of our freedom of speech, free NHS and social care system, free education system and every thing else then find fault with us or bomb us0 -
Alain is a right wing AND a bigot. What an enticing combination!
I assume "yah" is because a certain section of posh society (most famously the original 80s upper-class yuppies) say "yah" instead of "yes".0 -
redddraggon wrote:
yahoo. A loutish male personOld hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
Joseph Gallivan0 -
I have no interest in social standing, but have never been threatened or abused by a snob/yah/ whatever. As long as they leave me be, i don't care where they are from or what they do.
I think that some of the replies on here are extremely offensive. The Australians I have met in Europe have been for the most part a bright adventurous group who have added to the country and are most welcome (aside from a certain smug sporting supremacy). I do find it wrong that groups of people make little effort to integrate, and seem to prefer a siege mentality, gladly taking the bits of europe which benefit them whilst rejecting the rest. Australians always seem to make an effort to mix. I pay a lot of tax and am happy for them to benefit. I would hope that they would reciprocate.Dan0 -
Australians always seem to make an effort to mix with all the best-looking English girls, the bastards
Fixed your post.
(but, you're right, I may be jealous of the Australians but they're mostly decent people - and when you have a superiority complex like they do you just ignore the natives, rather than hate and/or envy them!)0 -
[quote="peanutBritain's power stems from our immense pride in our countries historical and current achievements. This national pride is being erroded by foreigners who come here to live and take advantage of our freedom of speech, free NHS and social care system, free education system and every thing else then find fault with us or bomb us[/quote]
Got to take exception to this - the vast majority of the "foreigners" that I encounter on a daily basis are decent hard working folk actively contributing to society. The parasites living off benefits they don't deserve are usually of British descent.0 -
Normally linked to OK - as in OK Yaaay.0
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Peanut ? What on earth are you talking about ?
Everything is the fault of 'foreigners' ?The UCI are Clowns and Fools0 -
I hate bigots; they're all the same. 0
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Its much more interesting that the OP seems to think that contestants in The Apprentice are in some way upper class. I watched the last part of the series last night and was amazed that nobody mentioned the fact that all the applicants seem to be galloping psychopaths.The gear changing, helmet wearing fule.
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Given up waiting for Fast as Fupp to start stalking me0 -
I've read all this and still don't really know what a Yah is. I'm past caring now so please don't explain, I'm off.'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.0
