Recent content by Swinglowandslow

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    The Footie Thread

    Sorry to hear of the passing of George Cohen, one of the 66 lads. Fulham first and last. a fine man, by all accounts.
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    Random Irritations

    Look,are you seriously suggesting that the writer and singer of the song was being racist..? Take a look at yourself.
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    Random Irritations

    Exactly…. At the moment(sic) it is “all right” to describe someone as White or Black. Because that is the colour they most closely resemble. There is no racist connotation to it . If you asked someone to describe in colour Chinese, Japanese , and other nationalities from that part of the world...
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    Retirement

    Now and again we get reminded to be a lot more mindful and appreciative of other people’s jobs. We tend to see them casually and think they’re easy or straightforward and we may therefore undervalue them, but the truth is that so many require skills and cares and expertise we know nothing about...
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    Retirement

    Yes, I retired early, but unlike BB I didn’t take a “little earner”. I had a load of hobbies, which looking back , might have well have got in the way of my career.?…but I ..couldn’t wait for the days off to go doing one or the other of the hobbies. Financially I was able to tick over, no big...
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    Breaking the class ceiling

    Well, obvious from that, its not what you know but who you know. Instances like that are still, unfortunately, far too common. I did say that we were becoming a meritocracy, which was true around 50s and 60s, but not fast enough, nor completely. The snobbery is still there, and the meritocracy...
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    First day of the week?

    oh, SR, if only I could. Tummy trouble! Dry Xmas? Have a good one yourself, though.?
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    First day of the week?

    And that’s an answer?. Perfectly good question, by Chris, and also asked by many, including Carl Sagan, who used it in context of offering some explanation of our origins.
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    Jeremy Clarkson

    I know what you mean, but don’t you think he has seriously gone over the line. To talk about someone he doesn’t know, and, like us, doesn’t know anywhere near all the facts, in those sort of terms is outrageous, what I believe to be nasty outrageous. If he had been talking about your daughter...
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    Breaking the class ceiling

    Offhand no, Not that bothered to look?, though from my observation of history , and portrayals of Victorian society, there are numerous residences in London ( streets of them) and the Shires where “ gentlemen of leisure” lived tended by domestic servants. They didn’t work, they weren’t...
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    Breaking the class ceiling

    Surely the boundary is ..Can you live a comfortable life on your Capital alone, not having had to work for it in the first place.? Probably handed down to your family from the nobility…..What is/was called ’old money’ Victorian England is where the boundaries were most obvious… now , of course...
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    First day of the week?

    History tells us is that most , certainly most of Christian,religion “moves” with the revelations of science , there being little choice. First Gid made Earth as the centre of the Universe… Everything else was Heaven or hell. Then of course, that error was conceded….and so on. Religion sees...
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    Breaking the class ceiling

    Well,it looks to me a matter of whether the definition has been modified over the years in that the Cambridge one is emphasising the modern view , I.e spectrum of earnings from work, whereas V’s ( and my ) definition is more historical where Middle Class had no need to work. In any event, it’s...
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    Jeremy Clarkson

    That’s a bit of a comment, …that middle aged and older men……etc. You believe that? Cos Clarkson says so.? Anyone….anyone …saying they hate some celebrity ,entertainer, royalty , sportsman etc, who they don’t know and have never met, ..needs to examine their minds. Even taking your time to come...
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    Breaking the class ceiling

    I think people are singing from the same hymn sheet, just looking in different places on it ?. Your first sentence indicates something like that. Is the “class you mean ,when someone is defined in commendable terms as being a good person, thoughtful ,caring and well mannered, as having “class”...
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