Sinking ship countries vs lifeboat countries

[@twosix5444]

Do a video of that shopping centre and interview some locals. Visit some interesting local stuff and film that. I don't know anything about where you are now. Us poor sods who are still stuck on ole blighty need a bit of escapism. Seeing what you had for dinner would probably be interesting.

[@MrOpaquelens]

That's an idea. I'll think about it.

[@snarnok]

I would find that interesting as well. There are also lots of wrecked Japanese aircraft and other artifacts from WW2 in the jungle.

[@ralphwinter6421]

Nice one Niall, gud vid...

[@rogerbraintree9552]

Certainly relevant, I'll have to think about asking you if there is any property around there I can move into if I was to leave the sinking ship. But, I think the only way I could survive there is if there was a model engineers club in the vicinity. If there is a growing middle class, a natural development would be a model railway club where members could go and build model engines. Great for family days out where the kids would get to ride around the track being pulled along by grandad's miniature steam locomotive. It would be quite a challenge to set one up or maybe not depending how keen the locals were. It must be interesting seeing the west from the perspective of living outside of it. Certainly interesting seeing your videos and hearing the various topics you debate.

[@MrOpaquelens]

That may be a real novelty for them here because they don't have trains. I think there's a few in Manila but there's no rail network on all the other islands. It's one of those ideas that either the locals wouldn't grasp or would flock to because of how unusual it is.

[@snarnok]

Have you tried durian fruit in the Philippines? I did not like it! It tastes like the smell they put into cooking gas (it is odourless and they add a chemical so you can smell if there is a gas leak), combined with the smell that comes from the bin lorry when it goes past. Lychees are one of my favorite fruits, I'm sure you can get them over there.

[@MrOpaquelens]

I have no memory of trying the durian fruit, but I like the jackfruit. However I really like the yellow mangoes. They're far better than the green and red mangoes you get in supermarkets in the UK, which are what you also find in Costa Rica.

[@snarnok]

Have you been following the current Irish backlash against immygration?

[@MrOpaquelens]

Yeah I think it's good they're standing up. The English couldn't take their cultural identity after 800 years. The globalists don't stand a chance either. The Irish never oppressed or colonised anyone. This bollocks about white privilege and white supremacy doesn't apply here.

[@lemsip207]

I wish I could leave, but I feel trapped in the UK. If I was in my 20s or 30s, I definitely would. But I would probably go to another European country as I did once. I hate the way the UK has become, but that's because people vote for idiots. Theresa May was relatively a good PM compared with Cameron and Johnson. I was sad when she stood down. But that doesn't say much about her. I didn't vote for her in 2017. Norman Baker said he preferred her, Gordon Brown and John Major to Blair, Cameron and Johnson, and he had worked under her in the Home Office and found her prickly. Norman Baker was once a junior minister in the Home Office in the coalition Government. Those three Prime Ministers he preferred were all state school educated while the others attended private boarding schools. I want to see boarding schools banned or changed into private day schools. Even boarding from 13 can affect you. Many of them are in rural areas so would be too far for day pupils to commute to. They could be repurposed as hotels or residential colleges running short courses for adults. I heard Gemma Cooper on Sonia Poulton's show on TNT Radio this morning. I never thought I would agree with her on some things but she criticised the cabinet members for being mostly boarding school educated and Childline being set up to cover up pedophiles among the elites and celebrities.

[@lemsip207]

The good news is that Humza in Scotland has resigned and probably because of the new Hate Crime Bill and his racism towards white people. Hopefully the SNP would lose seats in forthcoming Scottish and General elections. People were voting like sheep for them in 2015 especially in poor parts of urban Scotland. Then the Conservatives won back a few of their seats.

[@MrOpaquelens]

I went to one of those naughty boy's maladjusted boarding schools after the social services talked my parents into it. Eight and a half years of my life. I think the elite public schools are just posher versions of that tyranny. I put my inability to adapt to normie world and the amount of time it took me to find myself down to that. I think I agree with you on banning them.

[@MrOpaquelens]

Humza Useless is a twat. They're making jokes now about him complaining his P45 is white.

[@lemsip207]

@MrOpaquelens Feel so bad for you. I had friends who attended boarding school, were day boys in schools with boarders or married ex boarders. Fortunately, I only attended day schools in the state sector. My mother was too busy cooking dinner and watching TV to take much notice of me, but at least she was there in case of emergency or being needed, and I was safe at home from other kids at school. Until I went to the park but I could easily go back home again. A child is better off in a children's home and attending a local day school than being sent to a boarding school. The staff to child ratio is better in a children's home than in a boarding school as the teachers aren't around in the evenings and at weekends. They have marking and lesson preparation to do. So it's left to the matron and maybe a few house masters to look after them. Day pupils in private schools would get picked on by the boarders out of envy for being day pupils and having to become hard to survive there. Many of the boarders suffered from emotional neglect by parents before even attending a boarding school. A friend of mine was a day pupil in a private school. His elder sister blames his brother's weird behaviour for them being picked on, but they never got picked on in the local primary school. I think his brother became selfish and weird as a way to survive in that school, not because he was born or raised to be like that. Maybe he was, but the private school made it worse. My friend was a happy and popular child in primary school, but in the private school, he developed a school phobia. He would have been better off attending the nearest grammar school as he had passed his 11 plus exam. Piers Cross has interviewed a lot of former boarders, including women who had attended single sex and coeducational boarding schools. It wasn't great for them either, though the accommodation a little less spartan. Girls in coeducational boarding schools reported sexual harassment from the boys and were expected to be a calming and feminising influence on the boys yet were often emotionally neglected themselves. They often had to act as pseudo mothers or big sisters to these boys. They felt that they were allowed into those schools not for an education but to help the boys. I had one female friend who is an ex boarder in an single sex school that took both boarders and day pupils and she was far more toxic, manipulative and controlling than any of my male friends and former boyfriends who had all attended day schools or were day pupils in private schools that took boarders. She would take a friend on holiday but demand that friend stick around all the time. It was so suffocating for that friend who was forbidden from talking to men. I refused to go on holiday with her for that reason. Even if they went on a night out together, they weren't allowed to talk to men. The ex friend was on the take the entire time. Even the boyfriends I had let me chat with their male friends. I had another friend who married a man on the rebound from a failed relationship, and he is an ex boarder. At the time, we thought our friend had turned into a nagging and materialistic shrew in the marriage, but I think there was something deeper going on, and he was making her unhappy so she acted out like that. She became a compulsive eater and spender. Three years after she got married we went to Berlin together for the day from London Gatwick travelling up the evening before to stay in a hotel near the airport and then travelling back from London on a sleeper train. I noticed strange behaviour in her then. The Tory Government wanted to replace the small council run. children's homes with boarding schools to shut looked after children away from the community for 12 months of the year and with fewer staff members to look after them. On those boarding schools, they wouldn't be able to have the benefit of a children's home and local day school keeping tabs on each other. There would be no checks and balances as they would be shut away in one place 24/7 all year round. Even if you lived in the Outer Hebrides or the Australian Outback, it's no reason for sending your children to boarding school.

[@lemsip207]

@MrOpaquelens Do you think even more than Sturgeon? The SNP should be finished after this. The majority of the Scottish people don't want these laws. They only voted SNP because Labour, Conservative, and the Liberal Democrats were doing so badly in Scotland in 2015.