Wow, that’s almost half of a tenth of one per day! It’s surprising you could find a thread I didn’t start.
Oh you, be nice.
What are you weirdos doing up so late?
I work third shift. I don’t know what their excuses are… :dubious:
Grad student, off for the summer, just got back from Berlin. Boredom begets late nights, I find.
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Now that everobody else showed theirs…I’ve got an important business meeting I need to attend to. Money to be made, my good men. Er, something like that. 
Heyz I asked you a question up thread 
I don’t know if I’d pit someone for saying that, but it does certainly indicate that he hasn’t travelled widely. You just have to step off the train at Gare du Nord in Paris and realize in two seconds that there are a huge number of immigrants in that city.
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But, as Dead Badger notes, that’s not really an accurate indication. The article talks about British citizens, which encompasses a whole range of people.
My mother is a British citizen who emigrated to Australia in 1974. While she did, indeed, leave England for distant shores, her departure hardly tells us very much about current rates of emigration.
My sister and i both also hold British citizenship and British passports, but not only did we leave Britain over 30 years ago, and had no say in the matter (thus making our departures largely irrelevant to current discussions about emigration rates), but we both spent virtually all our childhood in Australia, speak with Australians accents, and consider ourselves Australian, rather than British.
All three of us would be included in those figures you cite, but my mother has now spent over half her life in Australia, and my sister and i spent virtually our whole lives there.
I live in the US now, and i tend to consider myself an ex-pat Australian, not an ex-pat Brit.
Yup.
Right. “Shock/suprise/horror”. Random idiocies are so staggeringly rare in life from citizens of any country, much less mindless blather on a message board. I can see how this would upset your balance of mind, delicate violet that your are.
Hey, you’re right, it was a stupid comment, you called him on it, welcome to the board and all that but this Pitting is beyond lame.
Of course, coming from Jimmy Carr, who is himself a bunch of cunts (yes, plural), this is a bit pot/kettle.
<snip>but to register for the SDMB specifically to do so.
Hey, however we can get 'em!
As one of those ~6 million Britons living abroad, let me just say I’d move back in a second if global warming would hurry up and make the weather more Floridaish.
I’ll probably have to once the whole state is underwater anyway…