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Post by radge on Jan 22, 2009 16:40:44 GMT
Boris is the best thing thats ever happened to politics. Leave him alone  Minge...we havent changed for hundreds of years? How old are you? SS: Flooding? whats the issue? rivers will flood the best idea is not to buy a house thats been built on a flood plain!! then the floods wont affect you too much. |
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Post by Libby on Jan 22, 2009 16:42:00 GMT
It is a bit worrying Sky isn't it!  |
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Post by Tissue on Jan 22, 2009 16:42:37 GMT
The trouble with the floods is that there isn't a 600 year old bloke around with lots of wood needing to build something
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Post by minge tightly on Jan 22, 2009 16:44:23 GMT
Oooh oooh, the fact that we're trading on past triumphs is a bit scary.
Hard fought civil liberties, which took centuries to gain and cost a lot of lives, are being taken away as if they're not important, while we still stick our chest out as if we're the bee's knee's.
Our forefathers created the liberties that we enjoy and, aside from some good equality stuff, we're just riding on those coattails without any contribution.
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Post by minge tightly on Jan 22, 2009 16:49:31 GMT
Minge...we havent changed for hundreds of years? How old are you?
Well radge, we're still mistrustful of foreigners, we're still up for a punch-up, we're still pretty ignorant & superstitious, we're still cap doffers to the Establishment and riven with class, we're still rampant alcoholics, we're still baying for the blood of criminals, etc.
Nowt particuarly wrong with that since we're all humans and ultimately, as civilised as each latest generation believes itself to be, we're the same flesh, blood and brains as we were a thousand years ago.
It's just a bit of a downer really...
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VikingHumpingWitch
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 22, 2009 16:54:04 GMT
Hard fought civil liberties, which took centuries to gain and cost a lot of lives, are being taken away as if they're not important, while we still stick our chest out as if we're the bee's knee's. This gets my goat n all. Hence my rant about corruption. We just can't act like we're all fcuking high and mighty when our own government is systematically destroying things that have been basic civil rights for centuries. Or colluding with bribing the Saudis. God I hate this government. |
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Post by sushimo on Jan 22, 2009 16:56:36 GMT
Been out all day and just got back to find this lot - excellent!! I shall get this thread to him asap, and see what feedback he gives on it.
My 3 main worries/scares are
That I won't be able to get out of it before it implodes!!!
What sort of debt my kids and granddkids are going to have to pay back from this crazy Gov't borrowing.
That it's being murdered by the PC brigade and Yooman Rites.
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Post by policecar on Jan 22, 2009 17:09:39 GMT
what scares me most is that Labour have been elected 3 times and could conceivably still win votes at the next election. This is terrifying.
That and the dead wandering the streets - they make a lot of noise.
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VikingHumpingWitch
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 22, 2009 17:19:54 GMT
Can't you just get the local plod to slap an ASBO on them?
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Post by policecar on Jan 22, 2009 17:32:00 GMT
the plods are too busy doing outreach projects with the knife wielding feral yoof - that and planning for Pakistan to send over 20 guests to the Ritz armed with Kalashnikovs and martyrs belts.
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Post by Libby on Jan 22, 2009 17:36:12 GMT
Trouble is in some cities ASBO's are seen as "Badges of Honour" by the local yob culture. It is where i live! They are no deterrent. Neither's tagging!
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Post by Charles Martel on Jan 22, 2009 17:48:09 GMT
If I was British, I would include:
- Creeping Islamisation and the introduction of Sharia
- A legal system that is soft on crime, where protecting the rights of criminals and terrorists come before protecting the law-abiding
- Obscene levels of government intrusion into the private lives of ordinary citizens, cameras everywhere in public, even the suggestion of carbon ration cards
- A government that ignores the will of the people, for whom promises are meaningless, "spin" is practised to the highest level of perfection, deception is normal, and who is prepared to sell national sovereignty to another entity - the European Union
- A callous youth population devoid of a sense of personal and social responsibility
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Post by flatandy on Jan 22, 2009 17:50:14 GMT
I know you'd include that, PK, but that's because you're barking mad.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 22, 2009 17:51:33 GMT
Actually I think only the first two are barking mad.
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Post by flatandy on Jan 22, 2009 17:52:22 GMT
Incidentally, I'm a bit worried by the fact that otherwise perfectly intelligent people believe that there is some kind of "PC Brigade" desperately undermining common sense, despite all the evidence to the contrary. It's part of the same abrogation of responsibility to critical thinking that's become a commonplace. It's something we'd kind of like to believe because it makes us feel righteous, and yet there's really almost no evidence for it anywhere.
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Post by tarrant on Jan 22, 2009 18:48:32 GMT
One aspect of this country I love is our ability to accept we are wrong, even dead wrong.
The US for example, has, over the last few years been responsible for sponsoring one of the harshest terrorist states which regularly launches attacks aimed at causing maximum suffering to civilians.
It has lead two utterly pointless wars causing hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of deaths with destruction of once advanced infrastructure which will take years to rectify.
The civil liberties and justice it believes it has is now a joke. Applicable to most, but removed from those deemed politically unsuitable.
It has the highest rate of poverty per capita of any nation on earth, yet still claims to have a high standard of living.
Yet American still think they can tell us how we should manage things.
But on the bright side, at least we can have the laugh!
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Post by vania on Jan 22, 2009 19:11:54 GMT
Nothing.
There is genuinely not one thing that 'scares' me about Britain. There are things I dislike: The increasing intolerance of Britons, how relentlessly negative we and in particular our media are/is.
A total lack of personal responsibility which leads to envy of others.
And this f**k**g government and their obsession with eroding personal freedoms and liberties.
But nothing 'scares' me about Britain in the slightest.
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Rude Eric
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Post by Rude Eric on Jan 22, 2009 21:24:10 GMT
The big problem is terrorist's. Wee have to have tough new laws to Del with them. Wee may have to loose some of the freedom that wee had, but this is not muck when wee have better security.
A policeman is only going to stop you if you have done something bad. if you have not you have nothing to fear. Fear is what I get from the troys on this board. that have all done at least one thing Wong and are in fear of the police.
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Post by puffin on Jan 22, 2009 21:47:49 GMT
Wooooohhhhhhh there , eric. There are a lot of posts on this thread and I don't see any mention of being afraid of the police.
What flight of fancy did you pluck that one from?
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Post by Libby on Jan 22, 2009 22:04:12 GMT
Well said Puffin! I have to agree with you there. Very profound remarks from Eric there about the police!  |
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