actually remember living under a Thatcher government? I was very far from being her biggest fan, but posting things like this is disrespectful and ignores the positive things that she did for the country. Flame away but at least be over 45 if you want me to take you seriously.
It led to double digit inflation, interest rates at 15%, and the second boom and bust recession in a row.
Show me a positive, and get slapped with a tirade of negatives (including how neighbors became enemies due to her policies)...( and something still not recovered from )
because I'm not prepared to jump on the hate bandwagon? Perhaps you have forgotten about the winter of discontent and the preceding disastrous labour governments? Three million unemployed sound like a Labour success story does it? I haven't and I don't cherry pick what aspects of Thatcher to attack. Like I said, I'm no fan of hers and never was, but she did turn the UK around. She did stand up to Europe, she did defend the UK's interests and she did eventually put more people back to work and bring inflation down to very low levels. You can hardly blame her for what went before. If you thought that seemingly endless strikes were really what Britain needed then you were as much a part of the problem as the 'evil' Tories.
So you must be 80 or over to have an opinion on Hitler then?
(Guy Incognitowas last seen SLAM DUNK'N HOES on,
Wed 10 Apr 2013, 6:13,
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I know that calling me an idiot
does nothing to legitimise the outpouring of hatred against Thatcher, especially by people who weren't even born when she was PM. If it makes you feel better to call those who disagree with you stupid names then feel free to do so.
It's exactly the same cheering on your dad's team as it is celebrating the death of an elderly woman who went through a long and undignified illness and finally died to dementia.
I've given up on Facebook for today the amount of absolute bollocks being posted at the moment.
(JahledThree shades of black,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:26,
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I just involuntarily signed up for FB.
I might be one of a few places where real stuff is happening. I don't get the idea of clicking on a "like". I post things like repairing a circuit board.
(mediocreha ha ha, you're reading this,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:48,
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So
People who are born after a particular time are completely disqualified from having an opinion on it?
(Coin Operated Boyis reading the new Bravissimo catalogue on,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:27,
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They're disqualified from having a kneejerk opinion on it
(The Silent Channelis getting his recommended 5-a-day,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:31,
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Everyone's disqualified from that, shirley?
(Coin Operated Boyis reading the new Bravissimo catalogue on,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:37,
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Aye, but I was wondering how many of today's teens know much about her
I'm 31 and could only tell you the key moments of her time in office as it all took place before I turned 10. so I don't know if people born in, say, 1994 would be able to hold a balanced discussion on her...
(The Silent Channelis getting his recommended 5-a-day,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:49,
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yeah, go on, make me feel old
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:50,
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they could if they´d discovered some phenomena called writing or speaking
whereupon information encoded into symbols called words can be deciphered, revealing data about the past that extends even more that 20 years back. You can find words in human speech, books, and even websites. It can allow you know something about an event you didn´t even personally witness
(cumquat maywill not be commenting further on the allegations,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:58,
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Yes, yes, yes
But would 'yer average teenager' have taken it upon themselves to learn about Thatcher, i.e. if I'd asked a 17 year old yesterday what they thought about Mrs T, what response would I have got?
(The Silent Channelis getting his recommended 5-a-day,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 18:07,
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(The Great Architectis still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 19:40,
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I don't see what living through an experienece has to do with it
If you stopped a random person on the street and asked them to explain what caused the current recession you're likely to get little further than "bloody bankers innit?". In twenty years I'd far rather have a discussion with someone who has recently studied the recession in school/uni, even if they werne't born at the time, then that same person on the street - especially after time has entrenched the bias in their views and dimmed their memory.
(Cassius Krayfloats like a butterfly, stings like a trout,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 18:17,
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and early. he's going in in a few days to have it removed before he starts on chemo.
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:51,
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early is good
I went through 3 months chemo......My neck tumour shrunk in 48 hours.Then they zap the area with radiation ......Amazing advances in treatment over the last few years.And the Macmillan nurses who dish it out are meticulous.He'll be in good hands.
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:57,
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I'm one of those people who hates to hear the phrase "good morning".
But even with the power out for the last 8 hours, and having only a couple of hours of sleep, this is one of the first days in years when I honestly am walking around saying good morning.
I personally believe she did as much good as bad - at least she had conviction and beliefs unlike any pm since that i can remember - most of which have made terrible decisions usually mostly upon political vanity and short term poll ratings.
(knockear- I socialise with x-ray eyes. Jam on it!,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:45,
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She was extremely divisive....
and I don't like how she vilified her opponents, but she did break the union thugs, and she was in favour of freedom. Sadly New Labour gave it all back to the corporations when they arrived, but most of Thatcher's mistakes still exist.
of people complaining about young people having an opinion despite not being alive in the 80s than I have of young people having an opinion despite not being alive in the 80s.
Looking back, my pic seems more curmudgeonly than it did yesterday
but really my point was about the worth of a teenager's opinion rather than their right to one. (hence why I used the word 'qualified' and not 'entitled')
(The Silent Channelis getting his recommended 5-a-day,
Tue 9 Apr 2013, 11:34,
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except all the comments I've been reading seem to be saying nice things about her. Clearly, they weren't there.
Morrisey called it correctly as far as I'm concerned : "Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership"
(finnbarhas officially retired,
Sat 13 Apr 2013, 9:13,
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(The Silent Channelis getting his recommended 5-a-day,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:11,
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Brill!
Hang on, does this mean he gets to start all over again?
(The Silent Channelis getting his recommended 5-a-day,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:05,
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Suppose I ought to jump on the bandwagon...
...especially as I posted it on FB hours ago. It's a sad day indeed when FB gets my 'shops before b3ta :(
(Doctor WhenMay your wife shat and chipper,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 16:33,
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Facebook is the big smelly elephant of hatred that spoiled the internet party with it's pissing and shitting and throwing of buns and stepping on Johnny Morris' feet.
Everyone goes to Facebook and nowhere else. I liked the internet better when out was lots of small pockets of weird. Webrings and odd sites on Geocities and Angelfire. And dancing hamsters and under construction gifs.
"To all you vile peopel with nothing but vitriol to pour out. She was a human being who died. Someone's month, grandmonth wife, daughter." R.I.P. someone's month.
(The Silent Channelis getting his recommended 5-a-day,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 17:01,
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terrible spelling, you can blame Thatcher's education cuts and fucking around with the curriculum for that :D
my mate lives close to liverpool's ground, it's a nightmare when they play at home. we won't even go to the pub when the derby's on, it's always full of fighting wankers
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Mon 8 Apr 2013, 16:36,
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I used to live quite close to Old Trafford
Moved out to the 'burbs now.
They will still have had doormen outside all the pubs, and no glass crossing the bar all day.
I have to say I really question the wisdom of an evening kick off - even on a monday. Large swathes of the city will have been on the keg since lunchtime. It won't be a pretty sight.
In fact with that in mind I think I'll scarper and try for an earlier train...
she'd have died sooner on the nhs - there's her fucking efficiency. When's the funeral...I need a piss, I'm bursting now but for this I'll clench! Ha Ha Fucking Ha I'm so happy!
Thatcher announces privatization of Hell. Thousands of daemons fear for their jobs. Spokesperson of devil union claims: "If things go on at this rate, Hell might become a place worse than Great Britain".
(Wurst Puns Inc.Back in the future.,
Wed 10 Apr 2013, 17:24,
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Given their old lyrics, i guess this is about Maggie too