Will the Brexit steal his prestige? Let's ask an expert!
The Brexit! The Brexit! England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland shaken, not stirred, by a global kick in the nuts! What do they call nuts in the United Kingdom? Bollocks? Smashed in the bollocks by a bloody trainer! That’s what they call shoes, yeah? Trainers?
The British like to leave their country and live in other people’s but now that they have voted to brexit the European Union what will happen to them? Specifically, what will happen to the mighty British surfer?
Well it just so happens I know one! His name is Paul Evans and he helms Surf Europe and may be my favorite surf journalist in the world. Also, he is surprisingly handsome considering he is a British man. He lives in France and I feel he will know deep truths.
As an expat Brit in France does the Brexit hurt you?
I’m not sure if it’ll make that much difference. There are plenty of Swiss and Norwegians roaming free around here, breathing our EU air. They never had any truck with the European dream, for not wanting to share any of their plundered gold / oil wealth with the siesta-taking, Pope-bothering economies. So perhaps we can be the new them, only not as good as languages, but better at interesting.
Will a Frog mob descend on your property and grab it back?
No quite the opposite. I think Brits will head back voluntarily, thus leaving l’Hexagone entirely bereft of inhabitants willing to form an orderly queue or stop at pedestrian crossings. And then they’ll be sorry they burnt our lambs!
But if they do where will you go?
I’ve always fancied Bermuda.
Will British surfing lose prestige now or will the brexit make British surfing strong again?
Brexit will probably see British surfing go from strength to strength, similar to when English football teams were banned from European competition for hooliganism in ’85. After a few years in the wilderness, we came to the World Cup in Italy in 1990 with the best player (Gascoigne) and best official team song (New Order!!). Although actually, come to think of it… when the Romans left, Britons would spend the next five centuries living in ditches and dying at 25, while the grapes rotted on the vines and the underfloor-heated villas fell into disrepair. So, I see your point, it could actually go either way.
Any advice for visiting London now that it is as cheap as Tijuana?
My London advice remains unchanged. Definitely try to buy weed from outside Camden Tube station. It’ll be a very, very small bud, probably spray painted green and probably with no actual weed in it, but at only £50 a pop, who cares! That’ll be the equivalent of about 10 rupiah.
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Paul is an illiterate limey. to me .
Not a luscious limey. Women and men can agree on what a beautiful woman is. Not so easy for men to say what a handsome man is. In general I would say the men that play James. Bond are handsome men. Richard Simmons , the exercise guy is not a handsome man to me for example. Paul Evans fits Richard Simmons category and definitely not the James Bond category. I don’t understand why people think that he’s so handsome. I can’t understand what he says half the time. , he talks too fast and everything slurs together. . He prouncies a,s as r ,s and what is a boughom ? It’s bottom you illiterate idiot. It’s total not to-ul. When he talks I press mute . I can’t stand the idiot.
consult stewart lee
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I seriously think you need to see someone about your unhealthy hatred of the British Chas. What happened when you where there? Just point on the bear where uncle Britain touched you…
As an Englishman having sought asylum on the Gold Coast a few years ago, maybe this is my shot at being the greatest british surfer of all time. Do you think Potts will share his notes on how Turpel likes his tea in the morning?
As Scotland is going to split from the UK, the UK will lose all of her best waves. There might be the odd good day in Wales, Northern Ireland and England, but by losing Thurso and those Outer Hebrides breaks the UK is going to sink further down the gutter! And wasn’t Maradona the best player in 1990, or was it the flamboyant Jurgen Klinsmann?
86 was the hand of god. 90 was the year of the Klinsmann dive.
Yeah, like a lot of people were really looking into Scotland or England as their next surfing vacation to care about it.
What’s a “lorry” again?
You are lonesome now little island. You are no longer welcome to surf our river waves.
HASSLEHOFF.
Very accurate about Camden . . .
Like England doesn’t have enough problems….Now they have pulled a #Brexit from Euro 2016
Not only does Iceland have a better soccer team than England, but they also have better waves!
Aren’t most pommie surf expats the adult children of London bankers, Bath real estate moguls, or urban hippie chicks who hate their investor dads for moving the family farm to the Isle of Man?
You blew the opportunity to ask THE expert on the subject: ’89 World Champ, Martin Potter… “a risky maneuver in these tricky conditions”
Ha!
the only thing potter is an expert at is finding Turpel’s G-spot
Who cares what 5 wankers from Cornwall do?
Funnily enough the wankers in Cornwall are normally Australian.