Nostalgia (1 Viewer)

[4th Hussar]

Terms of your generation not mine but not sure how this thread digressed from the nostalgia comments to bashing baby boomers.

 

[nmrocks]

PS.
Before I start getting shouted down....No, I'm not entirely in favour of punative punishments for the criminal fraternity. But surely the punishment ought to fit the crime?
Last time I was home at the beginning of this month there was some serious discussion on Brit TV about the police being made to refer to arrested criminals as their "CUSTOMERS" (I kid you not). If this isn't PC run mad, then I don't know what is.
Certainly, there was a massive amount of crime in the UK during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and sure the punishments were awful, 10-year old hanged for stealing a loaf of bread......but we seem to have gone too far the other way now, to the point where OAP's and kids can't go out in the streets without being mugged or molested in some way.
Right - I'm off to the bar for sure now.

Cheers
H

Harry,
although it's nearly impossible to hear the truth in this country unless it fits the agenda of the media, I heard some story saying the recent elections in Britian they swung heavily to the conservitive side of things??
Ray

 

[Harrytheheid]

Harry,
although it's nearly impossible to hear the truth in this country unless it fits the agenda of the media, I heard some story saying the recent elections in Britian they swung heavily to the conservitive side of things??
Ray

Hi Ray,
There haven't been elections as such in the UK, but by all accounts the Conservatives are showing well in the opinion polls. Mind you, with Gordon Brown as PM (and he was never elected while leader of the Labour party remember), the Tories have a head start anyway.
I didn't start this thread as an attack on lack of Law and Order in the UK, although I myself seem to have spun it off in that direction. I really just wanted to remind the majority of members here of the innocent (and sometimes maybe not so innocent) fun we had when we were kids compared to the spoiled brats we see so much of these days.
Maybe I'm turning into my Dad right enough. (Shock, horror........).

Cheers
Grumpy Ol' Heid