Changes would be difficult to believe
DEAR dad, well it's been about 20 years since you left us and it got me thinking what you would make of the country these days.
To begin, I have to tell you that the country is broken, due in no small way to crooked bankers and the complicity of the previous Labour Government.
There was a General Election about four months ago, which resulted in a coalition between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, who have told the electorate that there will be many years of austerity to put the country back in the black.
We have been engaged in two conflicts since you passed away, one with Iraq and the other still ongoing, with Afghanistan of all places.
Both these wars have cost the lives of hundreds of young servicemen and are very unpopular with the general public.
The jails are overflowing with the result that offences that in your day would have meant a custodial sentence now amount to no more than a slap on the wrist.
Last week, in Blackpool, a woman, yes, a woman, was convicted of urinating and committing a sex offence on the town's war memorial.
Her sentence amounted to nothing more than a good telling off from the magistrate.
I've saved the six medals you were awarded for giving six years of your life to the country in the Second World War, but I'm sure if you came back today you would wonder why you bothered!
Mr K Murray (address supplied).
The Telegraph says
Comparing life and society 20 years apart would always bring up stark comparisons. Will 2010 only be known as the bleakest of times?
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by Beth, Scartho
Sunday, September 26 2010, 6:20PM
“Oh god here he is again with his 'my comment touched a nerve' ZERO INTELLIGENCE and yet again i see that nobody on here even mentions your so called name. Have you maybe stopped to think that nobody actually cares what you have to say and unlike everyone else who comments your views are deleted because you are incapable of writing anything without being offensive....complete plank!!”
by Joshua, great coates
Friday, September 17 2010, 12:57PM
“I received this email yesterday from a previous work associate who has now gone back to uni in Pakistan to study for his Doctorship. Nothing has been altered thus the incorrect spelling, so don't blame me.
Ibrahim muhammad hassani wrote:
Quote "i m medical student here in pakistan from balochistan
i thanks to editor Peter Horrocks to elaborated on pakistan fload situation. i wanna tell that what internation community giving aid to this country for aid. only the minster,elder of that area,powerfull landlard and government people appoarch on these funds and keep the international funds like that international community just sending for them as they are of their family relatives. and i wanna tell u here they are registering affected people and make them fool that we will built your home and etc. and show you people that we have registered people affect in such number but when they registered them now they dont ask them are you human being or not .........so please kindly dont help this country bacuse all fund goes in their home and poor and affected people die from hunger and different kinds of disease.......if you people wanna help so tell the UN to send his own people to distribute the food ,drug and etc to effected people and never do mistake to give your aid to such corapet government"
This is the proof of our tax money being given in support of Corrupt govs, under the ruse of "AID".”
by Joshua, great coates
Friday, September 17 2010, 9:44AM
“dj, GY
commented on 16-Sep-2010 18:11
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You don't want to believe the truth so you never will.
This is how our once glorious country has sunk into a third world state.
Go help the believers cos the athiests won't”
by dj, GY
Thursday, September 16 2010, 6:11PM
“S~sigh~ Once more for the cheap seats.
You made the bizarre statement that rich black folk do not try to help impovershed black folk, even though 'saint' David Beckham does.
My evidence was names of rich black folk that do, and have helped in such a way. Proving your statement wrong. Again.
You simply state facts that you make up, or quote things that are 20-30 years out of date and not relevant anymore.”
by Joshua, great coates
Thursday, September 16 2010, 9:45AM
“dj
I provided evidence
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What evidence?”
by walt.a.meattie, GRIMLAND good fer a laff -- for once
Wednesday, September 15 2010, 1:05PM
“neil... you know d*mn well that it's '***** x gaslite'
do you think a well-known journal of record should be taken to task (semantically speaking) over gender prejudice? and, of course (politically correctly speaking), sexual prejudice?
dick's allowed; f*nn*'s not?
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p.s. check (out) today's gt offering here re p.s.'lincoln castle'!
p.p.s. standing up worrieresse? shame!!”
by Neil, Clee 2
Wednesday, September 15 2010, 11:49AM
“I know that film very well,Walt. Was it not called (expletive,deleted)...by gaslight?”
by walt.a.meattie, grimland HALF tolerant
Tuesday, September 14 2010, 7:44PM
“well. there U R then.
dick's o.k. now :-) but the lady by gaslight isn't :-(
i hope that was useful.”
by walt.a.meattie, grimland more tolerant?
Tuesday, September 14 2010, 7:41PM
“o deer.
last time I used tom dick & harry the middle man got censored. mebbe it only works when it's got a capitasl initial. let's try. the moderator may have moderated him/herself:
Tom, Dick & Harry and
Fanny by Gaslight”
by walt.a.meattie, grimland, no chance
Tuesday, September 14 2010, 7:36PM
“i reckon you should all stop diggin and get yor facts rite, insted of rantin' wiv prejudiss.
neil -- you know that irony and 'english' wit is invisible to some peeple even if you use a smily ::-) or a grumpy :-( -- even fightin peeple do'n' often gerrit, if ever.
jo -- it's mebbe the p-c gt that censored neil's 'lady by gaslight'. i'll try to demonstrate:
not every tom dick or harry needs the gt's protection from the use of good old english verbs, nouns and proper names!
let me try again. not every t o m, d i c k or h a r r y...
back to The Shed.
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p.s. jo -- i wish i'd written that 1st salvo on 08-Sep-2010 @ 10:44! i've been busy in The Shed trying to deal with 'the spanish question' (that you'll have noticed has reared up again) and missed it all -- but you KNOW that we're in the dead horse department when it comes to stopping or starting anything from our end of the cahin of command!”