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  1. Once youngsters forget or never learn history, we're doomed. When I hear some of the answers given to questions on quiz programmes, I nearly throw up. They know the latest 'star' to give birth to some wretch, but the most basic of history facts..... Forget it.
    7 points
  2. Jill Sparrow I have just read your previous comments, will you please stop talking common sense , you are now classed as a trouble maker and you will be put on the list. If you carry on as you are people might start thinking for themselves, that will never do. Corporations have to make rubbish for the masses to eat to make a profit, they don't want to waste money on education , heavens forbid the masses might start thinking, how then can we get them to fight wars we start ,so we can sell weapons to make a profit. You said you might be cynical, well I admit I am, and I fear for the future of m
    6 points
  3. If I was being cynical, and I often am, I suppose that the majority of people who have fought in this world's conflicts didn't really understand why. If you can prevent people thinking about things and understanding situations, you can control them with ease. Providing them with access to lots of addictive food and drink helps, as do social media sites and brain numbing rubbish on 24 hour a day tv channels. Life is cheap, always was, probably always will be.
    6 points
  4. Bring me my sword of burning gold/ Bring me my arrows of desire/Bring me my shield, oh clouds unfold/Bring me my chariot of fire!/ I will not cease from mental flight/Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand/Til we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land. We used to sing it regularly in morning assembly at The Manning and I love it still. Good old Hubert Parry!
    5 points
  5. Question is though, Fly. Are they really to blame or has the system been dumbed down so much that they never really learned any independent thinking? I think back to some of the history in particular that we were taught. For example, we were taught that Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament and King James in the early 1600s. We were not taught why he did it, who was behind it etc.. So most light their bangers on Nov 5 with no real idea of what they are celebrating or why. The winner of wars writes the history. The loser is demonized and so it goes.
    5 points
  6. The thing I don't get about football is 22 rich men all chasing one ball, why don't just............................buy one each they can afford it
    5 points
  7. Just love it Jill..............every morning all through infants,Juniors,and Padstow sec.mod...........don't think todays kids would know it.............. Still remember the school Pianist....Mrs Gernell,,
    4 points
  8. Tell him to play Jerusalem’ at high volume from a roof mounted speaker. Argue the toss when he’s served with an ASBO. It’s still England’s Green and Pleasant Land isn’t it? I hate everybody east of Calais on principle - when are they going to lock me up?
    4 points
  9. And I read somewhere the other day that many schools are banning young girls from wearing skirts as part of their school uniform ! Not gender neutral the lefty hand wringers say. The world is going mad & I want to get off.
    4 points
  10. My cousin lives 2 hundred yards away & from 5 am all he & his neighbours hear are cars parking up ready to drop their occupants off for morning prayers. Many complaints have been made to the council but to no avail. In today's diverse multi racial / cultural non gender specific hand wringing tree hugging beam me up scotty society if anyone complains it's classed as a hate crime. I think I'll join Ben & Loppy along with FLY & ride off in to the sunset too.
    4 points
  11. I'll join too. Got me reb cap, and squirrel gun.
    4 points
  12. Sometimes I come home at night not having understood a word I've heard all day, not to mention feeling that mindless trivia has taken over the planet. It's time I retired!
    4 points
  13. Have you noticed the pinstrip in the soon to be Sir Gareth waistcoat?
    3 points
  14. I protest, young Trogg. I've always been a trouble maker. I come from a very long line of trouble makers. Its in my DNA. The head mistress at The Manning once told my father during parents' evening that his daughter was a troublemaker. "Of course she is," he replied. "She's my daughter and she's been brought up not to follow the herd which automatically means she's a troublemaker!" I'm almost 61 and I'm not going to change now...and, anyway, I don't want to!
    3 points
  15. A bit of banter, Nottstalgia at it's very best.
    3 points
  16. Just for you Loppy ! Dip yer bread in youth ! No one can stop us being patriotic.
    3 points
  17. I've got to gerroff 'ere and do me practice. Enjoyed the banter Ben. Have a goodun. Talk to yer later. I'll have to get the music for that, Jerusalem. I don't have it. Reminds me of the last night of the Proms. Unforgettable.
    3 points
  18. You should join the NS choir, Jill.
    3 points
  19. Glad you did Loppy.........cheered my day up.......with some good old banter...........
    3 points
  20. Nice one catfan......so its the four Amigo's..........you a bit young though,,but we'll look after you,, and Sue would come looking for ya''........lol
    3 points
  21. I never meant to start all this when I posted about Independence Day and the use of the word 'like'.
    3 points
  22. Oh, and my bottle of Southern Comfort for celebrating a coup !
    3 points
  23. Hit the trail Loppy.....we'll ride together........''with a dirty hat pulled down across your face'' Glen Campbell ,''gentle on my mind''...........lol
    3 points
  24. Over heard a young bint on the bus to the QMC on her phone & every other phrase she muttered was "You Know What I Mean" NO I bleddy don't & don't want to either !
    3 points
  25. There'd be some trouble if I still lived there and the mullah...or whatever he's called...woke me up at that time with a racket from the minaret!
    3 points
  26. July 4. Independence Day here! Not my favorite day. I (jokingly) tell folks I don't celebrate my country getting kicked out of here in 1776. . Bloomin'. Fireworks going off'till midnight. Me dog scared to death. What's to celebrate. Heard of a survey recently. Half the folks don't really know what it was about or when it was. Another third thought we separated from Virginia. I kid you not!
    3 points
  27. 100 years difference.
    3 points
  28. I'm happy that most of the country's population is happy, and as up to yet, there's been no trouble. Also that we play in red. C'mon England!
    2 points
  29. Nowt wrong with being a lefty, you just need to be fighting for the right causes, not crusading for some minority interest group just to make a name for yourself.
    2 points
  30. Jill Sparrow you have made my day, do you know how many years, no decades since I have been referred to as young Trogg and from a lady ten years my junior, you have a fan forever.
    2 points
  31. I'd just play'em some hymns on the organ with the windows open and the pedal to the metal. That ought to fix it. If they complained I'd just bark at 'em.
    2 points
  32. Mrs. C could cook us some Beans on toast.
    2 points
  33. Oh, give me a home where the buffolo roam........ Sorry, I'll get my tea.
    2 points
  34. Ok lads, that's enough, or we'll be accused of site domination !
    2 points
  35. Home on The Range eh Ben ?
    2 points
  36. Come on, Ben! You know that song wasn't about three amigos. It was about some guy living with his girlfriend without the benefit of marriage.
    2 points
  37. The three Amigo's........Loppy,,Fly and Ben..(well we all same age)....''its just knowing were not shackled by forgotten ties and bonds''....bit more Gentle on my mind,,...........youve got me going now got me Cowboy head on.................lol
    2 points
  38. Mind numbing rubbish Jill...... Now there's something we don't see much of ! I wish !
    2 points
  39. In your post about wars, Jill. You hit the nail on the head.
    2 points
  40. He ain't nothin but a hound dog, Ben!
    2 points
  41. They don't care, Loppy. As long as there's food, beer and fireworks...a lot of noise to preventing em thinking too deeply about things, they're happy!
    2 points
  42. I guess it just 'like' annoys you eh?
    2 points
  43. Sat dining in a fish & chip eatery at lunchtime with Mrs C & the number of customers (younger) who asked "CAN I GET" really does my head in, the same as "HI GUYS" GGGGGGRRRRRRR !
    2 points
  44. DJ360 I found your post of June 8 very interesting as it brought back many memories, but, there is always a but, it ends with " to be continued....". Would you please find the time to continue as it will stir some more memories in this old mind of mine, it would be very much appreciated.
    2 points
  45. Perhaps the lorry rolled back as the tram was approaching. None of us know what happened so stop guessing.
    2 points
  46. Watched it in with Grandson #1 in the local. Drank more than I usually do due to ET and penalties, It was the right result. Harry is gifted, Being so cool under extreme pressure of responsibility and being hacked by the opposition. Oh! buying a waistcoat tomorrow..............
    2 points
  47. Loppylugs I read about the boys wearing skirts to school, they asked as the weather is so hot could they wear shorts. They were given short shrift answer of no, they had to wear school uniform or they would be sent home, they then thought about it and decided to borrow skirts from the girls and wear them the next day , they complied with the school uniform standard. I have to admire them as they had a grievance and thought about it and out foxed the school within the rules. You cannot stop free thinking.
    1 point
  48. Still love ya Jill when ya 'dampers up'.........used to Dance to the Minaret........
    1 point
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  50. Did you know that if all the people who fall asleep in church each Sunday were laid end to end......... ..........they would all be a lot more comfortable.
    1 point
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