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'what Would My Old Dad Make Of The Country We've Become?'
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There are many on AnswerBank who dislike Daily Mail columnist
Richard Little John, but maybe might still find this an interesting look back at how things once were.
There are many on AnswerBank who dislike Daily Mail columnist
Richard Little John, but maybe might still find this an interesting look back at how things once were.
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If you weren't around at the time that this Richard Littlejohn was writing about why don't you take more notice of people who were..Some of you on here are only too ready to mock and poke fun at the 40s/50s. God knows what some of you will have to look back on when you are old and grey! Well let's see ---You will have Twitter, facebook ,ipad, ipod, tablets, kindles...
20:27 Sun 11th May 2014
I've read some of it aog and I found it interesting, nostalgic even. Took me back to the days when life was simply straightforward, no play on words. My dad wore a shirt and tie even at work where he was a precision engineeer in a factory and at home, no lazy dress code. There was no mass influx of immigrants until perhaps the 70's. My Dad was a Labour supporter but today I think he would despair at the two Eds Minibrain and Balls, I hope I would have been able to change his mind about his vote.
Llittlejohn is re writing history - which he has done before
AND has recall bias - he is bias towards his memory and they will necessarily be more than the older ones.
hence - the sun always shone
there were no race riots until yesterday ( cos he has forgotten )
everyone says - "mern tarm" to his dead old grandad....
there is no narrative thread - such as he is kidnapped held to ransom, and dear old Tom his grandad signals to the kidnappers... no thank you.
or thesis. ( point to all the things he remembers )
AND has recall bias - he is bias towards his memory and they will necessarily be more than the older ones.
hence - the sun always shone
there were no race riots until yesterday ( cos he has forgotten )
everyone says - "mern tarm" to his dead old grandad....
there is no narrative thread - such as he is kidnapped held to ransom, and dear old Tom his grandad signals to the kidnappers... no thank you.
or thesis. ( point to all the things he remembers )
not just bullets whizzing past their heads they also had knife crime in the old days
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I think my Dad is pretty pleased that kids don't die of Polio here any more, women rarely die in childbirth, loving someone the same sex as you won't land you in prison and socially castigated, race doesn't matter, religion is no barrier to where you can work, rape within marriage is now illegal and mental illness is not something to hide as something to be ashamed of. But let's all go back to Richard Littlejohn's elysian 1940's where none of that was true instead. Seriously it's like the Monty Python sketch, utterley ridiculous.
Is that an order sir?
Seriously AOG I'm afraid you don't get to choose how other people respond to posts you make. Richard Littlejohn views the good old days as exactly that, it's not reasonable to assume that someone like me who finds him irritating and arrogant isn't going to point out his shortcomings and his selective memory.
Seriously AOG I'm afraid you don't get to choose how other people respond to posts you make. Richard Littlejohn views the good old days as exactly that, it's not reasonable to assume that someone like me who finds him irritating and arrogant isn't going to point out his shortcomings and his selective memory.
DrFilth
/// not just bullets whizzing past their heads they also had knife crime in the old days ///
One knife killing back in 1914!!!!!!!!!!
Why are you stuck in 1914?
A World War started in 1914, but we don't get such things happening today.
Just thought I would point that out, so no one can use it against what Richard Little John wrote.
/// not just bullets whizzing past their heads they also had knife crime in the old days ///
One knife killing back in 1914!!!!!!!!!!
Why are you stuck in 1914?
A World War started in 1914, but we don't get such things happening today.
Just thought I would point that out, so no one can use it against what Richard Little John wrote.
looking for a teacher being stabbed aog but got stuck reading about the postal dispute and then spotted this knife crime sorry
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when was the last time you had a nice bit of tripe for dinner another thing that you don't see anymore tripe cafes
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kvalidir
So it is a personal thing then, the fact that you do not like Richard Little John.
What he chose to write was I suppose 'selective thinking' because he chose to select some of his own thoughts, nothing wrong with that, isn't that what we all do from time to time.
If he had chosen to put down on paper all the gains and all the disadvantages from the 1950s to the present day, it would take him a lifetime and the volume would have been a collection of books enough to start a library, and still there would be some like you popping up to say "yer, but what about this and this and this"?
So it is a personal thing then, the fact that you do not like Richard Little John.
What he chose to write was I suppose 'selective thinking' because he chose to select some of his own thoughts, nothing wrong with that, isn't that what we all do from time to time.
If he had chosen to put down on paper all the gains and all the disadvantages from the 1950s to the present day, it would take him a lifetime and the volume would have been a collection of books enough to start a library, and still there would be some like you popping up to say "yer, but what about this and this and this"?
