Ridiculous number of Sussex homes with swimming pools

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

I flew into Gatwick airport yesterday for the first time in absolutely yonks. Cracking descent across the channel on a sunny day, over Eastbourne, and the Uckfield-Plumpton sort of area before landing. But what STAGGERED me was the number of places with swimming pools in the back garden. Even some of the smaller houses in villages had them. I have NEVER known ANYONE in this country with their own PRIVATE swimming pool. Do you?

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Yes....

 

[ILOVEBHA]

yes.

 

[Icy Gull]

yes.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

Well the question I ask, then, is this.

What on EARTH is the POINT? Surely you can use it for about ONE WEEK every year?

I tell you, it's OSTENTATION gone MAD.

 

[tedebear]

Everyone I knew had a swimming pool when I was growing up - except us

 

[Publius Ovidius]

we had a swimming pool in SA...and a little african chap to clean it

 

[hans kraay fan club]

We never had one, even in Dubai - we just went to the Country Club.

 

[Gwylan]

An ex-girlfriend had a swimming pool at home: it was horribly slimy,


(The pool that is - not the GF)

 

[Hampden Park]

could you have been witnessing the aftermath of the torrential rain we have been having lately. i understand that the river Uck was a little full

 

[tedebear]

I do however think its weird in the country to have a pool... unless you've got more money than sense and a little dwarf man to run across the lawn shouting "the plane the plane"....

 

[Barrel of Fun]

we had a swimming pool in SA...and a little african chap to clean it

Did he look like this?

 

[Starry]

I flew into Gatwick airport yesterday for the first time in absolutely yonks. Cracking descent across the channel on a sunny day, over Eastbourne, and the Uckfield-Plumpton sort of area before landing. But what STAGGERED me was the number of places with swimming pools in the back garden. Even some of the smaller houses in villages had them. I have NEVER known ANYONE in this country with their own PRIVATE swimming pool. Do you?

Yep, lots of people.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Did he look like this?

remarkably not

we had a gardner, maid, and some bloke who was a handy man/swimming pool / floor cleaner.

Looking back it was effing scandalous, but when in Rome and all that...

 

[tedebear]

Did he look like this?

Blimey Milton Keynes has gone downhill lately.... and why didn't the kit manager take leons shirt off him when he left?

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

Did he look like this?

don't make me, bof.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

remarkably not

we had a gardner, maid, and some bloke who was a handy man/swimming pool / floor cleaner.

Looking back it was effing scandalous, but when in Rome and all that...

I stayed with a hispanic family in the centre of Havana and they had a black maid and treated her very badly. They even warned me not to leave any valuables about as she would steal them. The maid was quite possibly the nicest woman I had ever met and treated me like a long lost son.

I don't think it is scandalous. Alas there are many people in less developed countries that are destined to only work in no skill jobs or not work at all.

I climbed Mount Mulanje in Malawi and we had porters to carry our bags. We stayed in a log cabin owned by a naturalised White Malawian. He refused to give the porters much food and refused to supply them with blankets (as they would make them smell, apparently) despite being sub-zero temperatures. I did, however, manage to get some food and blankets out to them in the end.

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

Alas there are many people in less developed countries that are destined to only work in no skill jobs or not work at all.

and where does this destiny come from?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

don't make me, bof.

I am not making you do anything.

and where does this destiny come from?

Lack of opportunities? Poor education? Poor health services? Land stripped of natural resources? Natural resources privatised? Civil war? Third World debt? Famine? Disease? Over population? Lack of basic infrastructure? Lack of support from developed countries?

 

[Publius Ovidius]

I am not making you do anything.




Lack of opportunities? Poor education? Poor health services? Land stripped of natural resources? Natural resources privatised? Civil war? Third World debt? Famine? Disease? Over population? Lack of basic infrastructure? Lack of support from developed countries?

I meant scandalous as when we lived there it was in the days when appartheit was in full swing. The only jobs africans would have was manual labour like miners in the goldfield, or as servants/cleaners etc.

This was a policy enacted by the state NOT the lack of oppertunity etc

It was great living there if you were white, .....