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Country heavily in debt, too many do gooders, no discipline in society, justice system favours criminals rather than victims, bankers pay, politicians only interested in their own skins, high price of fuel, etc etc. I love this country, but its absolutely f*cked - anyone agree or is it just me?
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ignore the media for a week, open your eyes to what surrounds you and then ask yourself the question again
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too many do gooders
Quite. I'd much rather have malevolent spiteful little oiks. :| |
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Good advice from The Magic Flea. Time to make your own opinion, ffs!
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Signing in...and I'm one of the ones who fecked off elsewhere...
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of course it is - we've just had 3 terms of Labour
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if you think it's that bad here, feck off
I'm happy with having a job, reasonable if modest lifestyle, food, warmth and a roof over my head. I've had a good education, I will be looked after in old age and if I'm ill in the meantime I've got the NHS to look after me. You might sl ag it off but you don't seem to realise how lucky we are here. |
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Come to Scotland - all great up here (apart from the football) ;-)
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Just for comparison, would the OP please give us a list of better countries than this one.
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I will be looked after in old age and if I'm ill in the meantime I've got the NHS to look after me
thats if we can afford it after todays news :D but i know what you mean at least here you feel like their is a safety blanket |
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if you think it's that bad here, feck off
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To be fair, I live on the edge of London and even at 55 years old, I return to the heart of this great City every week.
I would no longer be happy living in the heart of London as I would be an English minority in half the areas now but its still one of the 2 most stimulating and vibrant cities in the World and the choice is endless for most things. |
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Signed. This Labour administration ending in the same way as all the others: country flat broke, a run on sterling and unemployment through the roof.
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Grim view, GrimReaper, but true.
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WHEN WE WERE KINGS OF THE EMPIRE, YOU WERE LUCKY TO GET A BOWL OF SOUP LIKE OLIVER TWIST,
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS |
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words of wisdon. Do wah, words of wisdom
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Olly Twist was a greedy meherfecker, though...
Harry Secombe and Peggy Mount gave him food and boarding and STILL the**wanted m-o-r-e.. |
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NOBODY HAD TOILET PAPER,ONLY THE RICH WHEN WE WERE KINGS OF THE EMPI8RE
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they were only protecting olly for his own good so that he did'nt end up looking like themselves
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We used the poor, is we ran out, of course, Do Wah.
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THESE TODAY DONT KNOW WHAT POOR IS,THEY THINK THERE POOR IF THEVE NOT GOT AN X BOX,OR A NEW CAR,OR DONT HAVE A HOLIDAY
YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED ,NOT WHAT YOU WANT |
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From the mouth of a loon comes the truth. Well done Do Wah
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Yes you need to live and work abroad to appreciate what we have here.
Nice one Do Wah. The Rt Hon Do Wah Diddy M.P. has a ring to it as well imho. |
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OVERBOARD SAID IM A LOON,IF I AM WHICH OVERBOARD IS NO ONE TO JUDGE ME,IM ONE OF THE NICEST LOONS THERE IS
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I blame the media as they are always showing us what others have.
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Maybe a slightly more atomised, individualistic society is the price we pay for decades of societal and technological improvement. If it is then so be it. Ultimately stop paying so much attention to occasional stories of horror from whatever scaremongering newspaper you read. We have far better and easier lives than our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents did, people will sadly always be nostalgic for some better imagined past.
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Signed.
I know it's not as bad as some countries (okay most countries), but compared to what it used to be like, this place is going down the toilet fast. And nobody even mentioned the weather - that's really fuc.ked now :-( |
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Compared to what it used to be like when?
I'm sure in 1950 people born in 1900 probably thought things had been better in 1920. Of course people are going to hark back to the past being a better place, they were younger for example then, probably not tied down, with their lives ahead of them. |
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fecked yep. gonna get a lot worse imo.
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country is fooked
industry is fooked weather is fooked we are all doomed BRING ME A ROPE |
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70s and 80s
a time when kids could happily play outside a time when there was such a thing as community spirit, when neighbours were neighbours, and you were in and out of each other's houses a time when the roads weren't chock-a-block with cars for starters. |
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i agree we passed the peak a couple of decades ago.
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Plat, there are less cases of child abuse now than there were when we were kids, its just that the media have got everyone terrified of letting theiir children out of their sight.
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I agree with your point about the media, Hoss. They have a lot to answer for.
But I'm not convinced that there is less abuse now. It just didn't get reported as much back then. Plus the technology of today puts our kids (and everyone) at more risk than before. |
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People have always gone on about 'things not being like they used to be.' Annoyingly I can't remember his name, but there was some late 18th century essayist who constantly harked back to the 'good old days' of the mid 18th century.
People will always say it. Other people will then say that people have always said it in the past too. Then the first lot will say 'but this time everything really has gone to the dogs' and so on and so forth. Anyway, I for one am pleased the country ain't what it used to be, because if I want a bet I can do it from the comfort of my own home, then watch the race (almost) live, as opposed to have to go into a gloomy, smoke-filled bookies and try to listen to a cr*p commentary over the din of some moron shouting 'come on ya fecker' incessantly throughout the four minutes of the race. |
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Do wah Diddy 09 Dec 16:12
WHEN WE WERE KINGS OF THE EMPIRE, YOU WERE LUCKY TO GET A BOWL OF SOUP LIKE OLIVER TWIST, COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS Funniest thing I've read on here in ages! :D |
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70s and 80s also saw mass unemployment, massive industrial unrest, football hooliganism, overt racism and **phobia on a scale we don't have today. And you had betting tax.
I guess most people on here are in their 30s and 40s so the 1970s and 80s probably look a bit better in people of that age group's perspective. People probably don't think of those things I've listed above so much as teenagers and perhaps gloss over things a bit. I'm not trying to be deliberately antagonistic but I'm just saying things aren't so black and white. Agree with you though Platini on being able to play in the street. My dad always goes on about how there were less cars, more playing fields when he was younger (he's 52). |
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Platini 09 Dec 17:29
70s and 80s a time when kids could happily play outside a time when there was such a thing as community spirit, when neighbours were neighbours, and you were in and out of each other's houses a time when the roads weren't chock-a-block with cars That in bold, I disagree, there were a load of paedophiles in those days, but never got reported |
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Platini 09 Dec 17:29
70s and 80s a time when kids could happily play outside a time when there was such a thing as community spirit, when neighbours were neighbours, and you were in and out of each other's houses a time when the roads weren't chock-a-block with cars That in bold, why do I want my neighbours in my house?, it's my only private space, where I can do what I want |
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Platini 09 Dec 17:29
70s and 80s a time when kids could happily play outside a time when there was such a thing as community spirit, when neighbours were neighbours, and you were in and out of each other's houses a time when the roads weren't chock-a-block with cars That in bold, I bet the streets weren't chock-a-block with houses and kids at one point |