I hate Britain [Rant thread]

[Mikeus Caesar]

Disclaimer: before i start, this is a rant that i feel the need to post about the current situation in Britain, of people building houses everywhere when really they could just stick to the cities, where there are tonnes of places to build. It's getting me annoyed. Maybe it'll inspire debate among you guys about this subject, or just get a load of people telling me i'm a hypocrite/idiot/twerp. Anyway, on with the show.

I'm fed up of our stupid society. I live on the fringes of the country, in a nice village in Yorkshire. From some of the windows you can see the Pennine Hills in the distance. All of the houses here are 50+ years old, and generally very nice, with fields and the like pretty much in your backyard.

Well, now it's all going to hell in a handbasket, and my little village is slowly becoming part of the monstrous urban carbuncle that is the town of Huddersfield.

The first sign of trouble was when they built a massive mansion in the middle of the fields nearby my house. The only way to access it is through a small lane called Stretchgates. This lane was only ever meant for people, dogs and horses, and maybe the occasional pedal bike.

Well now, the idiots who built this house drive their massive American style pickups along this little lane at 20mph. The original road surface is gone, so it's down to bare-rock, which results in flooding at the bottom of the road due to there being no dirt for water to seep into.

Just out walking my dog, i nearly got run over as there was barely a foot of clearance on either side of the truck, and ended up having to run as fast as i could, because he couldn't brake his truck while on a hill with a crap road surface. To add to this ridiculous story of capitalism destroying everything, the ******** insist on lighting up the outside of their house with floodlights, which light up the fields and woodlands for about a mile around.

Now, the capitalist scumdogs have gone and decided to build more houses for rich *****. There's a massive plot of land near my house, the wastelands, which used to be the site of an old mill. The mill was demolished years ago, and since then nature had been reclaiming the area. It was even more green than it is on the satellite photo.

Now they have completely ripped it up, and it is a giant brown scar on the landscape. There is only a bit of greenery left, saved because of there being a telegraph pole and a natural spring there. The only tree left is a small spindly oak tree. There used to be an entire developing forest there.

I imagine that instead of building lots of good but small houses that fit in with the local area for people who aren't too well off, they'll build about 5 horrendous looking houses for rich people, in a gated community, for rich people looking to get away from the cities to live in the 'nice tranquil countryside' with their brat ******* emo kids and their giant American style pick-up trucks and they're expensive pedigree dogs.

And then they'll be building on the field opposite my house, to make yet another gated community, with even fewer houses. I remember when there used to be ponies in that field. Now it's fenced off and overgrown.

So now, these rich people who escape the cities to live in the nice tranquil countryside are turning the nice tranquil countryside into precisely what they were trying to escape from - a horrific urban sprawl, from which there is no humanity, no soul, no escape.

I'm glad i'm moving to ******* Australia. Sure, i won't have any friends, a good paying job or anything, but at least i can move into the middle of nowhere, safe in the knowledge that more people won't follow in my wake.

I hate Britain.

Handy map with key to locations mentioned



1) My haus.
2) Location of the lighthouse mansion.
3) An old farmhouse knocked down so that the lighthouse mansion could have a backyard.
4) The former wastelands. Compare it to the size of my haus, which is quite a big house, and you get a vague idea of the ridiculous amount of land that has been torn up. Think of the poor wabbits and pheasants who lost their homes!
5) The old pony field opposite my haus that will probably be torn up soon i.e next week.

[CrossLOPER]

Let me guess, 1000 hours in MS Paint?

Situations like this are common in the U.S., although not as hilarious. The Russian Rich seem to prefer living in the city. Can't imagine why. You could always curse the land with satanic rituals...

[Scurvy]

I have great sympathy - similar things are happening all over the countryside, and very little is being done about it...

but i dont think its really grounds for hating Britain, just for hating a certain group of people...

[Crazed Rabbit]

So....you want to control what other people can do with the land they own?

CR

[Adrian II]

So....you want to control what other people can do with the land they own?

CR

No he just wants to kill them all with an industrial size chain saw. So would I.

[ShadeHonestus]

I believe the same thing about my country home....I'm the only one who should be able to enjoy those surroundings...damn the rest of you.

In fact the rest of you should move to the inner city projects to rejuvenate growth there, refresh the community a bit.

[Ice]

So....you want to control what other people can do with the land they own?

CR

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Oh please.

If this was your view:



and someone built this:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

In front of it, you wouldn't be the slightest bit annoyed?

[Goofball]

So....you want to control what other people can do with the land they own?

CR

I think he just wants to rant about people who are acting perfectly within their rights of property ownership, but are still offensive in how they are exercising their property rights.

However, I'm curious CR. If my house was directly across the street from your kid's elementary school, and I decided that by way of exercising my rights to do whatever I wanted with my property I would erect (pun intended) a 30' tall statue of Mohammed doing Jesus doggie-style in my front yard, would you still be entirely supportive of my rights as a property owner? Or would you sign the petition that would surely circulate among my neighbors demanding that I get rid of my modern art masterpiece?

[Crazed Rabbit]

I think he just wants to rant about people who are acting perfectly within their rights of property ownership, but are still offensive in how they are exercising their property rights.

However, I'm curious CR. If my house was directly across the street from your kid's elementary school, and I decided that by way of exercising my rights to do whatever I wanted with my property I would erect (pun intended) a 30' tall statue of Mohammed doing Jesus doggie-style in my front yard, would you still be entirely supportive of my rights as a property owner? Or would you sign the petition that would surely circulate among my neighbors demanding that I get rid of my modern art masterpiece?

I'd oppose it on basis of obscenity and public display of indecent material to children. I wouldn't oppose a sign saying 'praise Allah', but pornographic material I will oppose.

Since Curry only expressed his displeasure with the situation, and didn't mention anything about forcing the people to his will, approaching the government, or whatever, I think CR's assertion that he wants to control what other people do with their land is the best candidate for a straw man in this thread.

Ajax

I asked only a simple question, which, given the vitriol Curry expressed for the developers, is only fair, methinks.

In the US, this attitude is widespread, especially among people who move to an area and then want all further development to cease, and the country people to change their lifestyles (I'm not saying Curry's guilty of this).

My family lives on a nice bit of country land, but the city is creeping closer. It'll spoil a bit (but not most) of the view - my main concern is bliss-a-ninny city idiots calling the cops should I happen to do some target practice with a shotgun ("OMG!!11! There's a man, and he's shooting a GUN!! GAH!!!1111!one ARREST HIM!!!!").

Crazed Rabbit

[ajaxfetish]

Since Curry only expressed his displeasure with the situation, and didn't mention anything about forcing the people to his will, approaching the government, or whatever, I think CR's assertion that he wants to control what other people do with their land is the best candidate for a straw man in this thread.

Ajax