s@int wrote:They have had "positive discrimination" in the USA for some time. In Hollywood if they portray a black person in a positive light in a film they get benefits for it. Thats why the judge, police captain and mayor is nearly always black in films.
Positive descrimination also means that they give jobs to the best black candidate not the best qualified applicant. Over here large companies have to have a percentage of handicapped people.
andy_g wrote:take your word for it about the parties, old man.but ours weren't too bad either. i wish i still fitted into your under 40 category as well!!
and for those doubting the merits of living in the back of an old truck; mine was a 8 ton 1663 bedford rl, ex military, 4 wheel drive with wheels nearly as big as i am. i'll bet some of the older ex squaddies on here will have spent many a happy hour in the back of one. i made mine a little more comfy. i took the back off it and built my own wooden house, complete with separate kitchen with gas cooker, it had a wood burning stove, fitted bed and plenty of storage. during the winter it was the warmest and most comfortable place i've ever known. and in the summer i just had to drop down the tailgate and i had my own deck before any of these interior design ponces even thought of it.
one of the biggest disappointments about old blighty is that its nigh on impossible to do that kind of thing anymore.
woof woof ! wrote:, It's all true, but back in the day you would have had to hitch hike with me from South Africa to the UK spending six months in India and three months on the "Marrakesh Express" along the way to fully comprehend how good the party really was.
Reg wrote:Judge wrote:our services in the NHS are suffering due to overload in demand from non-brits
Not necessarily, its also because we are also becoming a namby-pamby nation.
Pre-war there was no NHS, you paid if you went to the doctor. No one went to the doctor in Liverpool when my dad was a lad unless your leg was falling off. Your mother and grandmother knew how to diaognose problems and also knew cures or would spend money in the chenists, but no one went to the hospital etc..
Yes, the population wasnt as well loooked after and the life expectancy was lower as a result. Nanny might remember the fever hospital which you wouldnt have today, but used to be full of kids in the old days.
So, we´re in better health as a result of the NHS but at the same time people abuse it by going for every little ailment they can think of.
You have to find a balance.
Bad Bob wrote:andy_g wrote:take your word for it about the parties, old man.but ours weren't too bad either. i wish i still fitted into your under 40 category as well!!
and for those doubting the merits of living in the back of an old truck; mine was a 8 ton 1663 bedford rl, ex military, 4 wheel drive with wheels nearly as big as i am. i'll bet some of the older ex squaddies on here will have spent many a happy hour in the back of one. i made mine a little more comfy. i took the back off it and built my own wooden house, complete with separate kitchen with gas cooker, it had a wood burning stove, fitted bed and plenty of storage. during the winter it was the warmest and most comfortable place i've ever known. and in the summer i just had to drop down the tailgate and i had my own deck before any of these interior design ponces even thought of it.
one of the biggest disappointments about old blighty is that its nigh on impossible to do that kind of thing anymore.
Part round Andy's, circa 1991!
andy_g wrote:bamaga - i know some of your points are aimed at me by the 'white male' references. to be honest i agree with may of your points but i need to make one thing clear - i thought i already had, actually. i've never told anyone to stop complaining, in fact i think the british public have every right to complain and its a tragedy that people don't get out onto the streets as much as they used to. the majority are just rolling over and taking what the government serves up while others resort to daily mail style rants and completely lose their perspective. whenever a society feels threatened it will turn on its most obvious target of hatred and turn all the blame and anger on that. i just wish that sometimes people would have a wider perspective and also not lose sight of some of the advantages that they do have.
dawson99 wrote:The country is just in a bad way. People sue over absoltuely everything, people are off sick for absolutely everything. chavvy fat women with 6 kids and tracksuits are sucking the country dry. there is a fear over muslim extremists when most muslims are top people. there is racial tension like ive never seen before. Fear over gun and knife crime. Immigration concerns when as an island we cannot cope geographically speaking. the oil problems when there are just too many cars.
The thing is that as a country we need to be more selfish. We send millions to Africa when we have thousands without homes on our doorstep. Im all for helping out if i can, but if someone across the road is hungry, but someone in my house is just as hungry, the person across the street is gonna have to wait.
I have a very selfish attitude, but we arent the great nation we once were, and we arent the richest. Let Russia help out some people, they got some rich epople right? We need to sort out our own problems before wetry to fix those thousands of miles away.
Number 9 wrote:Good post Bam and all very true!
There are obvious things that need addressed as you mention,first and foremost i think the government need to re install national pride.A lot less seem to be proud to be British than they used to be,once the pride goes people care a lot less.
In the states for example loads of people fly the star and stripes outside their house,their flag is present in classrooms in schools!
But in England if you put this
outside your house you are told to take it down incase it offends non British nationals!Totally sick when you think around 70 years ago thousands of our people died fighting for that flag....they died in vain when people are threatened with court if they dont take it down.
Its small things like that which need to change first,the government should be making us proud to be British,not sucking it out of us in fear of upsetting foriegners!
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