Thread: New guy from Lyon, France

Originally Posted by MickR

Welcome to the forum. HA! Birnando thinks he's a foreigner! Me 'n' Eddy are more foreign than him!


Mick

By foreign you mean odd don't you Mick
Sorry aggelos, I have to rip Mick at every opportunity, it's my job here at SRP. Welcome to the forum, please feel free to ask away.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

By foreign you mean odd don't you Mick
Sorry aggelos, I have to rip Mick at every opportunity, it's my job here at SRP. Welcome to the forum, please feel free to ask away.

Odd yes...English No And what's this I read on the first page about someone not being too far from aggelos in France?!...C'mon! It's France. It's just another European country, you could stand at one border and sneeze on the blokes on the opposite border! Everything is close! Come to Australia. My nearest family are two hours away doing highway speeds on reasonably straight roads, 200kms from signpost to signpost, longer from house to house. The next ones I visit are just a days drive away, 743kms signpost to signpost. I would have to drive almost all the way across Frances 962kms just to get to the edge of outback Queensland...

And don't take any offence at any of this. I'm just making a statement about distance and how lucky you blokes are sometimes for being so close to everything else in the world. I'm in a country almost the size of Europe, with the only diversity being in the amount of wildlife that can kill you. language, culture...Nope. Just can't find much variety in either of those. It's pretty much the same with hardly a change in accent.


Mick

And don't take any offence at any of this. I'm just making a statement about distance and how lucky you blokes are sometimes for being so close to everything else in the world. I'm in a country almost the size of Europe, with the only diversity being in the amount of wildlife that can kill you.

And populated by the descendants of thieves, killers and rapers, yes thank you very much I would not trust an australian with a knife, let alone a razor Ok, JK mate, put down that blade.

That being said, while indeed we have to be careful sometimes not to step in another country by mistake, you have to take into account that the old continent is like an old man's face : wrinkled all over. 200kms is more like a 3h30 trip in some places
Mind you, I feel your pain, if you walk the 200kms, the most dangerous animal you may cross is a wasp. And if you have to cross some water, you can go swimming without writing your last will and testament prior to it. So there's that

Originally Posted by Aggelos

And populated by the descendants of thieves, killers and rapers, yes thank you very much I would not trust an australian with a knife, let alone a razor Ok, JK mate, put down that blade.

That being said, while indeed we have to be careful sometimes not to step in another country by mistake, you have to take into account that the old continent is like an old man's face : wrinkled all over. 200kms is more like a 3h30 trip in some places
Mind you, I feel your pain, if you walk the 200kms, the most dangerous animal you may cross is a wasp. And if you have to cross some water, you can go swimming without writing your last will and testament prior to it. So there's that

Yeah but that lot are all right if you just get to know 'em a bit. I'm not one of those ex pat POHM's, so you can say what you like. I won't care .


You just need to drive it like you stole it...


Mick

Mick