flag of convenience Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I wondered when you'd come along? Your mate needs you! Unlike you, he hasn't got the vocabulary to answer posts seemingly, intelligently, so carry on and do your stuff lol! My forte is standing up for and supporting the disposed, marginalised down trodden and vulnerable. Further I do not consider Paul, for one minute to be any of those things...But carry on I shall never fear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest26012 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Instead of wondering personal issues about another poster wouldn't the time be better spent addressing the issue at hand. The subject is not the pro and cons of Paul, but Perth. Does it somehow make a small group of Perth lovee posters feel in some sense superior to denigrate another's genuine comment? How strange. Just a reminder the thread is with regards the pro and cons of Perth, so why not allow the person the right to comply with what the thread is actually asking? As always flag, you have swallowed a dictionary! Why you need to answer Paul's posts is a mystery tbh! You defend him, he doesn't need it? Don't have to remind me what the original thread was about, I know? I think Paul is a an ok person deep down tbh! I think a lot oz his posts are a wind up. You do not need to get on your high horse to defend what others have written about his posts. Not necessary, he's an adult and can defend himself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incata Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I find it very strange when people say how boring Perth is and how little there is to do. I think other people must have had very interesting lives before they came here. We didn't. Before we had children we went walking on Dartmoor every weekend, or my husband worked on his car. Some evenings we had takeaways and some evenings we went to the cinema. Then we had kids (now aged 2 + 4). At the weekends we went to the local country park and paid a fortune for parking. We occasionally had take-aways and went to the cinema when the in-laws could babysit. Neither of us have ever been big on pubs or clubs. The best we did was the odd extortionate meal in a Dartmoor pub, but that was about it. We moved to Perth. At weekends we go to the local country park, or the beach or the husband does work on the house while the kids either help, play outside on their bikes or play with the kittens. We have the odd takeaway and my husband occasionally takes an afternoon off so we can go to the cinema while the kids are at school/daycare so we don't have to pay for a babysitter. Within the next 6 months we will ship our Landrover over here, so at weekends I will either find the husband working on the car again (with kiddie help - both can identify virtually any tool in his tool box already), or we will go offroading and camping, much as we would have done in the UK. Our lives are no different from the UK, either before or after kids. The big differences for us are the weather is much better and parking at the country parks and at the beaches is free. Did everyone else have really exciting lives before coming here? I feel like there must be something huge that I am missing. I see people say they want a better quality of life, and then a few months later, claim it is boring here. What is this better quality of life you talk about? People talk about how isolated it is. Did you not look at a map before you came? Did you really spend every weekend in the UK doing different things, travelling round the country or going to Europe? Most people I know in the UK spend the weekends with family, shopping or tidying the house. I don't recognise the stories of people swanning off to Europe, spending their lives in theatres or museums or enjoying the culture. It is a once a year thing at most (some could afford 2 or 3 holidays a year but they had large incomes which we did not have). Most of the people I know who talk about the culture can't tell me when they last went to the theatre or to a museum. I grew up in a historic town in the south of England. All the people I met who were doing the sites were foreign tourists. I've been to Stonehenge several times over the past few years (as I like my history) and all the people I have met there again have been foreign tourists. I just did not meet many people from Britain who spent their evenings and weekends doing the culture bit (much as they might have talked about it). I am genuinely bemused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul1977 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I'm going to shut up now... Back to the post please people... Had my rant ( again ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest26012 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 My forte is standing up for and supporting the disposed, marginalised down trodden and vulnerable. Further I do not consider Paul, for one minute to be any of those things...But carry on I shall never fear. Ahh! But do you know him personally? I too defend the group you highlight! It's in my nature and my profession. The problem on an Internet forum is that, it's just typed messages with no background! I try to look beyond the avatar,user name, if I can? Perhaps you are a nice person in real life? Who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I find it very strange when people say how boring Perth is and how little there is to do. I think other people must have had very interesting lives before they came here. We didn't. Before we had children we went walking on Dartmoor every weekend, or my husband worked on his car. Some evenings we had takeaways and some evenings we went to the cinema. Then we had kids (now aged 2 +4). At the weekends we went to the local country park and paid a fortune for parking. We occasionally had take-aways and went to the cinema when the in-laws could babysit. Neither of us have ever been big on pubs or clubs. The best we did was the odd extortionate meal in a Dartmoor pub, but that was about it. We moved to Perth. At weekends we go to the local country park, or the beach or the husband does work on the house while the kids either help, play outside on their bikes or play with the kittens. We have the odd takeaway and my husband occasionally takes an afternoon off so we can go to the cinema while the kids are at school/daycare so we don't have to pay for a babysitter. Within the next 6 months we will ship our Landrover over here, so at weekends I will either find the husband working on the car again (with kiddie help - both can identify virtually any tool in his tool box already), or we will go offroading and camping, much as we would have done in the UK. Our lives are no different from the UK, either before or after kids. The big differences for us are the weather is much better and parking at the country parks and at the beaches is free. Did everyone else have really exciting lives before coming here? I feel like there must be something huge that I am missing. I see people say they want a better quality of life, and then a few months later, claim it is boring here. What is this better quality of life you talk about? People talk about how isolated it is. Did you not look at a map before you came? Did you really spend every weekend in the UK doing different things, travelling round the country or going to Europe? Most people I know in the UK spend the weekends with family, shopping or tidying the house. I don't recognise the stories of people swanning off to Europe, spending their lives in theatres or museums or enjoying the culture. It is a once a year thing at most (some could afford 2 or 3 holidays a year but they had large incomes which we did not have). Most of the people I know who talk about the culture can't tell me when they last went to the theatre or to a museum. I grew up in a historic town in the south of England. All the people I met who were doing the sites were foreign tourists. I've been to Stonehenge several times over the past few years (as I like my history) and all the people I have met there again have been foreign tourists. I just did not meet many people from Britain who spent their evenings and weekends doing the culture bit (much as they might have talked about it). I am genuinely bemused. Whilst I appreciate that WA has wonderful beaches .. we're not a beach going family and manage to fill our weekends with other activities, like you our lives in the UK (as they are here) were very ordinary but I have to say that we do more here and far more socialising than we did before. None of our friends (although reasonably affluent) swanned off to Europe every weekend - like us it was a couple of holidays a year which were planned .. We did visit a castle (ruins) every year on our UK holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul1977 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I find it very strange when people say how boring Perth is and how little there is to do. I think other people must have had very interesting lives before they came here. We didn't. Before we had children we went walking on Dartmoor every weekend, or my husband worked on his car. Some evenings we had takeaways and some evenings we went to the cinema. Then we had kids (now aged 2 +4). At the weekends we went to the local country park and paid a fortune for parking. We occasionally had take-aways and went to the cinema when the in-laws could babysit. Neither of us have ever been big on pubs or clubs. The best we did was the odd extortionate meal in a Dartmoor pub, but that was about it. We moved to Perth. At weekends we go to the local country park, or the beach or the husband does work on the house while the kids either help, play outside on their bikes or play with the kittens. We have the odd takeaway and my husband occasionally takes an afternoon off so we can go to the cinema while the kids are at school/daycare so we don't have to pay for a babysitter. Within the next 6 months we will ship our Landrover over here, so at weekends I will either find the husband working on the car again (with kiddie help - both can identify virtually any tool in his tool box already), or we will go offroading and camping, much as we would have done in the UK. Our lives are no different from the UK, either before or after kids. The big differences for us are the weather is much better and parking at the country parks and at the beaches is free. Did everyone else have really exciting lives before coming here? I feel like there must be something huge that I am missing. I see people say they want a better quality of life, and then a few months later, claim it is boring here. What is this better quality of life you talk about? People talk about how isolated it is. Did you not look at a map before you came? Did you really spend every weekend in the UK doing different things, travelling round the country or going to Europe? Most people I know in the UK spend the weekends with family, shopping or tidying the house. I don't recognise the stories of people swanning off to Europe, spending their lives in theatres or museums or enjoying the culture. It is a once a year thing at most (some could afford 2 or 3 holidays a year but they had large incomes which we did not have). Most of the people I know who talk about the culture can't tell me when they last went to the theatre or to a museum. I grew up in a historic town in the south of England. All the people I met who were doing the sites were foreign tourists. I've been to Stonehenge several times over the past few years (as I like my history) and all the people I have met there again have been foreign tourists. I just did not meet many people from Britain who spent their evenings and weekends doing the culture bit (much as they might have talked about it). I am genuinely bemused. Proberbly the fact that you cannot go anywhere but perth.. That's the con of it.. You can't visit another another village, town or city.. Your trapped.. Think that's a big problem people find coming from the uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyHeart Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I find it very strange when people say how boring Perth is and how little there is to do. I think other people must have had very interesting lives before they came here. We didn't. Before we had children we went walking on Dartmoor every weekend, or my husband worked on his car. Some evenings we had takeaways and some evenings we went to the cinema. Then we had kids (now aged 2 +4). At the weekends we went to the local country park and paid a fortune for parking. We occasionally had take-aways and went to the cinema when the in-laws could babysit. Neither of us have ever been big on pubs or clubs. The best we did was the odd extortionate meal in a Dartmoor pub, but that was about it. We moved to Perth. At weekends we go to the local country park, or the beach or the husband does work on the house while the kids either help, play outside on their bikes or play with the kittens. We have the odd takeaway and my husband occasionally takes an afternoon off so we can go to the cinema while the kids are at school/daycare so we don't have to pay for a babysitter. Within the next 6 months we will ship our Landrover over here, so at weekends I will either find the husband working on the car again (with kiddie help - both can identify virtually any tool in his tool box already), or we will go offroading and camping, much as we would have done in the UK. Our lives are no different from the UK, either before or after kids. The big differences for us are the weather is much better and parking at the country parks and at the beaches is free. Did everyone else have really exciting lives before coming here? I feel like there must be something huge that I am missing. I see people say they want a better quality of life, and then a few months later, claim it is boring here. What is this better quality of life you talk about? People talk about how isolated it is. Did you not look at a map before you came? Did you really spend every weekend in the UK doing different things, travelling round the country or going to Europe? Most people I know in the UK spend the weekends with family, shopping or tidying the house. I don't recognise the stories of people swanning off to Europe, spending their lives in theatres or museums or enjoying the culture. It is a once a year thing at most (some could afford 2 or 3 holidays a year but they had large incomes which we did not have). Most of the people I know who talk about the culture can't tell me when they last went to the theatre or to a museum. I grew up in a historic town in the south of England. All the people I met who were doing the sites were foreign tourists. I've been to Stonehenge several times over the past few years (as I like my history) and all the people I have met there again have been foreign tourists. I just did not meet many people from Britain who spent their evenings and weekends doing the culture bit (much as they might have talked about it). I am genuinely bemused. :notworthy::notworthy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 As always flag, you have swallowed a dictionary! Why you need to answer Paul's posts is a mystery tbh! You defend him, he doesn't need it? Don't have to remind me what the original thread was about, I know? I think Paul is a an ok person deep down tbh! I think a lot oz his posts are a wind up. You do not need to get on your high horse to defend what others have written about his posts. Not necessary, he's an adult and can defend himself! I don't know as I suspect you don't what sort of person Paul is , or you for that matter. It is of no interest the personality behind the keyboard. Why would it be? I am as such not defending Paul as Paul, but just how the content that he and others,(including myself) chose to write is often slandered for an opinion relative to the subject on hand. Now if you want to address that as me on my high horse, do feel free. But I do assure I can perhaps manage a far higher horse than the donkey at present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyHeart Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 How the hell do you find stuff to do Ali, you have no young children who like playparks and you dont do beaches...you must be extremely bored indeed!:eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyHeart Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Flags been on the goon.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Ahh! But do you know him personally? I too defend the group you highlight! It's in my nature and my profession. The problem on an Internet forum is that, it's just typed messages with no background! I try to look beyond the avatar,user name, if I can? Perhaps you are a nice person in real life? Who knows? Please consult above post in context to the question posed on this post. Perhaps but you'll never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I'm going to shut up now... Back to the post please people... Had my rant ( again ) Do that Paul. Your silence is deafening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 How the hell do you find stuff to do Ali, you have no young children who like playparks and you dont do beaches...you must be extremely bored indeed!:eek: Gosh. Must be insanely bored. Just imagine with young kids on the go it'll be a wrist slashing job for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Flags been on the goon.... Nah. But the drugs are not working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest26012 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Please consult above post in context to the question posed on this post. Perhaps but you'll never know. Ill stick to my imagination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest26012 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Gosh. Must be insanely bored. Just imagine with young kids on the go it'll be a wrist slashing job for sure. Not a nice answer tbh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Gosh. Must be insanely bored. Just imagine with young kids on the go it'll be a wrist slashing job for sure. Not at all ... but I know some of the posters say they are ... we just lead different lives I'm guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Not a nice answer tbh! But then not a nice sort of guy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Ill stick to my imagination. I hope it is vivid enough.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest26012 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 But then not a nice sort of guy... wrist slashing never a joke tbh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 wrist slashing never a joke tbh! I'm not that PC as to refrain from making light of something on a forum, which I would not in the real world I am very aware of the seriousness of the subject, having dealt with it and the issues at hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyHeart Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 issues at hand...:dull: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobj Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Ah yes, siting out on a summers night covered in DEET (the only recognized replant for mosquitos and wondering if maybe your still going to get Ross River.) but, hey DEET is only associated with half a dozen cancers. But, in Perth is suppose it's worth it. Not like you can get a £25 return to Paris for the night. Sat in mosquito infestation staring at poor quality meat simmering on a BBQ is the highlight of the Perth summer what more could anyone want from life. But try and catch a marlin in your mate's boat in Paris...You can in Perth.:yes: Cheers, Bobj. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobj Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 News Flash!! Perth's Burswood Water Sports Centre was recently declared The World's Best Water Sports Facility. http://www.sail-world.com/news_printerfriendly.cfm?Nid=111453 Cheers, Bobj. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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