'what Would My Old Dad Make Of The Country We've Become?'

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2624678/Richard-Littlejohns-lost-world-The-Mails-incomparable-columnist-born-welfare-dependence-immigration-elfnsafety-asks-What-old-Dad-make-country-weve-become.html

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.

[emmie]

dreadful, and heartbreaking.

[pixie373]

Yes, this little girl did too, but some were inoperable (too far in) and then it spread down her spine. Cruel disease.

[tonyav]

It was terrible and heart breaking, my brother and sil noticed something was wrong when Claire was about five, she stated to lose her balance when walking.

[pixie373]

How horrendous- still the last thing you'd expect it to be. Sorry, tony and i hope i haven't upset you x

[tonyav]

We all thought it would turn out to be a problem with her ears due to the balance problem, pixie. She died in 1986, you haven't upset me, pixie, it's nice to think of her sometimes.

[pixie373]

Bless her xx

[tonyav]

Thanks, pixie.

[askyourgran]

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.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh for chrissakes askyour gran - there were race riots in 1958
so no- it wasnt until the 1970s

incredible wiki article in support of Littlejohn
thank you ZM

[Peter Pedant]

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 )

[anotheoldgit]

Peter Pedant

I don't know about anyone else but I find it very hard to read your posts, it seems as if they are written in a completely different language, your text seems all broken up so it doesn't flow smoothly.

[viv38]

askyourgran - GREAT post.

[DrFilth]

not just bullets whizzing past their heads they also had knife crime in the old days

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2cgym9h&s=8#.U29YICjaXbo

[kvalidir]

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.

[anotheoldgit]

kvalidir

Just stick to the issues that Little Joan actually put, he never said all these other things that some of you continuously put up in augment never happened.

[vulcan42]

There's a lot of truth in the saying,Progress is changing one nuisance for another. We have gained all the advantages that Kvalidir has listed but we have lost others, perhaps the most important, an humane society.

[kvalidir]

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.

[anotheoldgit]

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.

[DrFilth]

looking for a teacher being stabbed aog but got stuck reading about the postal dispute and then spotted this knife crime sorry


tripe

when was the last time you had a nice bit of tripe for dinner another thing that you don't see anymore tripe cafes

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/its-offal-but-we-like-it-1012083

[anotheoldgit]

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"?