Brian Sabotage is alive. Still jacked up on opiates in the hospital. He's very accustomed to psychedelics though, so a little bit of smack isn't gonna freak him out. They say he might come home tomorrow, but I know that is just a linguistic game doctors play with patients and their families to keep the horizon close enough to not fall into despair.


Peace,

kowalski

That's awesome. It would have genuinely hurt me a bit if your pussy had died.

Now for other stuff..

Either I missed it, or I can't remember it, but what are you on trial for? Why the fuck you being blamed without justification? How's that going so far?

Haven't you been in Spain for at least the guts of 4 years? In which case, how come you've suggested language barrier as an obstacle?... My point here being, I thought you made a decision to only speak Spanish about..... fucking ages ago I dunno, so how does a clever enough cunt like yourself not possess fluency in Spanish having lived there for so long?

I'm not suggesting it's easy to learn a new language. I myself intend to learn Spanish myself as a hobby when I've my studies done. There's a product called fluent in 3 months (you'll have heard of this product when reading the 4 hour work week) that the guy who made the product speaks 12 fucking languages or something fluently (probably more now) by throwing himself into the language by only speaking in that language.

My point is you've been there 4 years, and maybe a year or up to 2 years ago you posted that you decided to only speak in Spanish over there. So are you almost fluent in Spanish? Are you still shit? In the middle maybe?

I would suggest that guy has a brain unlike most other people's brains and his achievements will be about as reproducible by the average person as the achievements of Usain Bolt are. Do the course and give me a call in 3 months time. I promise you won't know what the fuck I'm saying.

Italians can learn Spanish in 3 months because they're so similar, going on to learn French and Portuguese as an Italian who speaks Spanish would also be piss easy. Then if you moved on to one of the Germanic languages it would be not too much effort because your understanding of grammar would be next level and most of the vocabulary would exist in one form or other in another language you speak. Honestly, the bar of 'fluency' isn't that high and is really far away from mastery.

I speak Spanish with fluidity. Any native would call me fluent. I speak it better than any Brits here I've met. Nevertheless I make tonnes of errors and there's whole groups of tenses I just don't use and my vocabulary has gaps. So if someone tells me "I should have had a spanner" I wouldn't know what the fuck they were saying because I don't know the Spanish for spanner and then because phrases like "I should have had..." are rather more complicated and nuanced than we realise when only speaking our native tongue. Like, for sure, no one reading this can give an off the cuff explanation as to why the construction "I should have had..." comes to be understood the way it is.

So, despite being what is called fluent, I don't have mastery over the language. In normal discourse this is hardly problematic. However, things like reading legal documents is a real chore involving dictionaries and multiple rereadings and after a few paragraphs you get mentally burnt out. In this way it narrows your scope because certain tasks slow you down considerably and time is not an infinite resource, nor is mental effort and so on.

Or in a more basic example, it's not like I could just go work in a random call centre for a month or two if I got into financial difficulty. After a few weeks I'd probably have tidied up enough and got used to the things customers say and so on... but that's not how employers hire. In the UK, I'd walk into any such role even if I was half asleep, in my PJs, insulted the interviewer and was visibly drunk.

Not that I want such a job.


Peace,

kowalski

What about Brian tho

Either you're overestimating it, or you are clueless.

I've experienced both sides.

I think it's because Spain is different. Over in the UK you got a 4% unemployment and everyone receives free money from the state. Over here it's just coming down to 16% and hardly anyone receives free money from the state. So, even shitty job openings receive untold numbers of applications from competent, intelligent, uni graduates, with experience.


Peace,

kowalski

In the UK it's not really that rosy.
The official unemployment rate is a sham, plus there are a high number of "zero contract", part time and crap "poverty wage" jobs now.
"Free money" from the state doesn't really exist. You pay in when working , then when you can't, you get some back... and even that is being restricted, tightened, means-tested etc. More and more.
Yes, there are lots of other issues to factor in, but it's definitely not too good at the moment, and inflation is threatening to spike again.

You're an idiot.


Peace,

kowalski

What you describe as happening in spain - happens here - where even crap jobs get decent science graduates applying. I work in the NHS and without going into too much detail, I get to see who applies for various jobs - the amount of qualified, some even experienced, people applying for the very basic level jobs is a real eye opener.
90% of their reasons for applying is there are no "proper jobs" out there.

But yeah, I'm obviously the idiot for replying with facts, reasoning and co prehension of the wider picture.
Don't just throw "idiot" in there man, gimme some proper arguments if you disagree. I could at least respect that.

The only facts were posted by me. Unemployment: UK 4%, Spain 16%. Bring other stats, almost all of them will be worse here. And that shit accumulates.

Zero contract, part time, poverty wage. Here too but worse.

Minimum wage stats - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ges_by_country - add in cost of living... still worse here.

Firemen evict whole families and retirees from homes out to the street with no option of shelter. That happens here not there.

Fom UK gov website. Look who gets free money - https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/eligibility - yep, everyone!

From Spain gov website. Look who gets money - https://www.sepe.es/contenidos/perso...de_un_ano.html - yep, hardly anyone.

Look at whatever stats you want. Do it. It'll be good for you.

You comment demonstrating that you don't not even know Spain is totally in the shit since the financial crash. You talk too much and listen to little. That is the calling card of an idiot.

Bring your anecdotes about the UK. I'm from there, all my family and friends are there. I also have uk anecdotes. And, I have Spain anecdotes. And, can and do combine both comparing and contrasting them. Just how I did when I quoted unemployment figures from both sides and on and on and on...

Thinking the UK can win in a game of poverty top trumps, lol.
You'll be trying to win warm weather top trumps, busy beaches top trumps or free food with your beer top trumps next.

And, everything you've posted on the forum so far has been equally as retarded. Listen more, talk less.

Now that you've got your explanation and have been utterly destroyed in the process - dejarme en paz, gilipollez.


Peace,

kowalski