On 28-11-2009 21:09, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>> I am rather sure that you have never been to Germany so your remarks 
>>>> about that country are simply inappropriate.
>>>
>>> There's nothing wrong with Germany. I'm sure lots of people *love* 
>>> living there. It's just that *I* don't want to live there. I'm 
>>> allowed an opinion aren't I?
>>
>> Are you sure it is "aren't I"? Anyway, yes you are allowed an opinion, 
>> my problem is prejudice. This was just that, a negative opinion based 
>> on no facts at all.
> 
> Foreign people make me nervous. Fact. 

When you live in another country you'd be the foreigner. ;)

More seriously: why do we make you nervous and where do you draw the 
line? non english speaking? Scots? people from outside MK?

> Living in Germany would mean that 
> I am surrounded by such people constantly. Fact. So I probably wouldn't 
> like Germany. Not a fact, but a reasonable supposition, I'd say.
> 
>>> Still, most of the populous of MK are employed. If everybody else 
>>> manages it, there seems no particular reason why I can't.
>>
>> AFAIK you are employed. Do work below your capacity, hate it, and are 
>> not prepared to change your job for fear of the unknown.
> 
> Who says I'm not prepaid to change my job?
> 
> Did you miss the part where I actually went to an interview for another 
> job? 

yes. How many miles from your home was that?

> Would I do that if I wasn't prepaid to change?
> 
>> Put another way: normally I am prepared to accept anybody's statement 
>> on what they feel and think, but in this case I think you are simply 
>> scared to death by the idea of change, no matter what you say.
> 
> I'd say I'm more scared of the idea of *not* changing - that what I have 
> now is all my life is ever going to be. But you presumably aren't going 
> to believe me.

Not really, not as long as you persist in having totally unrealistic 
requirement for a new job, like being able to commute from his mother's 
home.

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