History?

[bainbrig]

Well in French, une histoire is a story, and it seems the original meaning is creeping in here.

A journalist, Babita Sharma, has currently got her book ‘The Corner Shop” on R4, in which she bangs on about life in England in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

Now, as in 1970 I was in my twenties, I can claim some first-hand knowledge of all those decades, and unless I’m going senile, it weren’t like that!

Queues for paraffin at my local shop? Nah. The 70s, a decade plagued by power cuts? Not in London, anyway. The 80s, plunged into deep economic recession? Well, no worse than now.

Turns out Ms Sharma wasn’t born until 1977,

But it makes you wonder just how much history is bull.

BB

[douglas9401]

I remember Heron, Retrocop.
Don't know if that's a good or bad thing. :-)

[ToraToraTora]

judge 18:10, bang on, BB will probably think it's made up mind.

[ToraToraTora]

I remember Heron, Gulf, Jet, Elf, Amoco, Chevron etc I still see the odd Amoco now.

[Peter Pedant]

It amuses me how some men on here just can’t handle an intelligent woman.

er yeah - which one.....

Glenda jackson M) - our glend was asked which director she like best to work with and said
I dont ever recall working with people who directed films.... oh dear dear ....

have we got off the idea that history can only be written by those who were there ? yet

and as for memory is selective ( see above ) - of course it is, what is why we have written notes. Good bit in Denial when the survivors insist the case is all about them and they have such stories to tell
the QC says from chrisssakes of course it isnt - it is about how it is recorded
( David Irving and his selective memory over the Holocaust)

and retrocop what about HIS selective memory:
It amuses me how some men on here just can’t handle an intelligent woman.
oh lardy lardy it is a larf a minute on AB !

[naomi24]

I can’t decide whether Bainbrig is serially forgetful – or simply a man devoid of conviction – apart from the curiously irrational conviction that Communism works.

[ToraToraTora]

I suspect he's Arthur Scargill!

[naomi24]

Could be. :o)

[Peter Pedant]

Michel Bloch wrote a good book on History - histoire actually. reprinted
what it is etc
He was in POW camp 1940 and wrote a book on La Chute de France ( sozza Nigh!) and er Histoire
and when he got up to Ch 6 - they said you are wanted and ee said no I have seengs to do
the Germans said Nein Nein - and took him out and shot him !
so die all historians ( 1943 ) !

[bainbrig]

Thank God for Peter Pedant. I don’t care whose ‘side’ he is on, if any. I am just happy to breathe the same air.

BB

[naomi24]

Bainbrig, you didn't answer my question. Have you ever wondered why those who have lived and are living in the sort of society you promote are never reluctant to relinquish it?

[ABSpareEditor]

Please respect each others' chosen usernames.

[bainbrig]

The dialectic is one thing; point-scoring ‘debate’ is another.

On the whole I’d rather be in Philadelphia.

[naomi24]

Bainbrig, try again when you can support your claims.