Despite having spent most of my grown-up life in London, and most of my childhood in a mixture of Ghana, South Wales, and in and around Brighton, I am now an ex-pat of all of those places.
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| (When in Liverpool…live like a Liverpudlian) |
I am now a new Liverpudlian. This is my home.
As a new Liverpudlian, I take an interest in all things Liverpool, as is my right as a person living and working here.
I made the choice to move and to live here. I’m not here temporarily. If I had been forced to be here, or would soon be going ‘home’, then, quite correctly, I would and should continue to take an active interest in wherever I was ‘from’.
It makes absolutely no sense to take an over-active interest in where I am not. So, why do these annoying ex-pats that sit on their arses in far off lands crowing and harking on about places they’ve decided to not live in?
Of course, its not just ‘places’ that people feel the need to spout off about.
Take TV or radio. These damned illegitimate children of Mary Whitehouse will carefully watch a programme broadcast with a warning, “The following programme contains scenes of nudity, vomiting and the eating of dead people which some viewers may find disturbing. We strongly advise viewer discretion.”
Ten seconds after the programme has finished these bastards will be firing off their complaints to the Daily Mail or anybody who will help echo their shock, disgust and outrage.
They will say, “I was shocked, disgusted and outraged that this programme showed scenes of nudity, vomiting and the eating of dead people. I found it completely disturbing!”
Why the fuck are they watching in the first place?
It’s a programme not aimed at them, nothing to do with them. It even warns people like them not to watch it. So, why do they watch it?
Or, let’s use BBC Radio 1 as another example.
Radio 1 is not broadcasting for people over 30. It is not allowed to. It is quite strictly charged with the function of providing a service for those in their teens and twenties.
So, why on earth are over-30s getting involved in commenting about it? Annoying old people, the ex-pats of the teenage and twenties years, will slag it off, mimic or take the piss out of it, making all their negative judgement calls, when really they shouldn’t even be listening to it. Definitely, they shouldn’t be talking about it once they are in their 30s or older.
Yet, this is something they feel compelled to do. Because they don’t understand it (as in, they are too fucking old for it) they will pronounce that Radio 1 “is shit” as if they have any rights over judgement calls. They don’t have any rights to say a single word.
So, this is what we have. They watch TV programmes not suitable for their consumption. They become outraged. They listen to radio stations not suited for their old age. They say they can’t stand them. They no longer live somewhere. They constantly want to interfere or have their say about the place they’ve chosen not to live and has nothing whatsoever to do with them any more.
And, I don’t just mean the drunken alcoholic Irishmen or travellers who try to tap me for change and then say how my country is shit, whilst the sun shines out of the arsehole of ‘theirs’. Even though they’ve lived in my country for 30 years, they refuse to be part of it, preferring to just live off the benefits they can claim here, and constantly harp on about the ‘back home’ they’ve elected to no longer live in.
It’s all getting tedious.
So, hey, unless you live in England, what goes on here has fuck all to do with you. And if you do live in England, shut the fuck up about wherever it is you have chosen to no longer live. Thank you.
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