'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]

so do plenty of others who were born in Britain, who now live abroad, and many who were born abroad now live here, i wonder if their thoughts on their homelands are as selective as supposedly ours, rose coloured specs or not, things change and not always for the better.

[DrFilth]

jno if my health was better and i had the money i think i would like to spend some time there -)

[jno]

yep, the thing that's got better is your "freedom" to buy a car, chew up fossil fuels and get there yourself without using a socialistically imspired bus service for the proletariat.

[DrFilth]

jno you been reading george orwell again -)

[jno]

no, just my Tory manifesto

[DrFilth]

> In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell <

[pixie373]

Emmie- //always?//

yes- unless you know of anyone who accurately remembers every single part of their life since birth. I've only seen that on House. Otherwise, we only have select memories- and the longer ago they're from, the less accurate they're likely to be.

[emmie]

i can remember exact details of a number of experiences, they are etched on my brain like fire, i don't select, its just there.

[pixie373]

Yes- but they aren't all there- only select ones.

[emmie]

those few memories are intact, the others are not, i remember details of sitting in my pram as a little child, and once being abandoned by a sibling on the way to school.

[emmie]

life was tough, it was for most of us, life moves on, however not always for the better as i keep on saying. this is not selective memory, more the lamentation of things lost.

[pixie373]

I understand, emmie. I was saying that Richard Littlejohn's memories are not reliable - he can't remember everything and so is not completely objective- like everyone else.

[emmie]

i understand and didn't read the piece, but there are some things he has said in the past i concurred with.

[whiskeryron]

//there are plenty of examples before and after aog if you care to look inside the old papers and not just at the headlines with rose tinted specs on //

The thing that has changed the most is toilet paper, in ''the good old days'' at least we could have a good read whilst sitting in the outside lavvy.

[Brenden]

Until sans izal came along -

[emmie]

the vilest thing to wipe your arris with

[DrFilth]

a good negative answer would have been


you can only use one side -)

[emmie]

i remember that with great clarity, at school, at home, horrible stuff

[pixie373]

Was that the tracing paper-type stuff we used to have on school toilets?