No Robbo! Not you too! Don't fall for this fear culture that permeates the modern press!
We may be in the biggest recession since the 30's but just look at the standard of living!! I have one wage, live in an affluent area of the country and have a job just above the national average wage, I have 3 small kids and a wife that gave up her career to look after them. I come from a working class background and get no help from my family what so ever. but I do it, and it's feckin hard work! But then - why shouldn't it be? where does is say though shalt win the lottery? In fact the only thing I lament is not playing ball anymore, I miss that sometimes it hurts
I can pretty much walk anywhere I want in my city, go into any pub and not feel like I need a stab proof vest on. Read the Daily Mail and it feels like I should have boarded up the windows, and shot anyone that comes to the door if they are not white-British with a placard clearing showing their reason to call.
Unfortunately things like the internet have give EVERYONE a voice - and the irony is not lost on me there, and as the truism goes you can't please all the people all the time... so what happens? the world is full of disappointed people.... and they bitch about it!! In the papers on the news, internet forums, it's pervasive. Then you get something horrible happen - you mentioned the Soham murders in a previous thread, or knife Crime in London.. Not too sure why there is this sudden revelation that the world is full of ****. 100 years ago, an Englishman would have been allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb, he was legally allowed to rape his wife, children could be used as workhouse slaves, and that's just for starters.
Robbery, murder, theft are not new crimes. The countries leaders be they politicians or Kings have always been sleazy megalomaniacs. When was it not like that?
That's why you wont get your "Critical Mass", in reality, people know that they do actually have to pretty good. **** will always happen, but whilst you can still feed your family people aren't unhinged enough for riots, or civil unrest. We have modern constitutional process (refined over 2000 years of history) to put right perceived grievance. And the system does work. That's what surprises me about the knife crime in London. You hear about the stabbings and the murders, but you don't hear so much about the scroats that get caught and banged up for 30 years. What fecking idiots.
Don't believe the hype, don't succumb to this fear culture that's exactly what Big Brother wants, to control you. There has been such progress, in such a short time. The world rally can be a decent place. You just can't let yourself jump at the shadows because it feels different.
If you want a good example check our newswipe with Charlie Brooker on bbc IPlayer. sums it up well.
Matski's first post is spot on IMO.
We may be in the biggest recession since the 30's but just look at the standard of living!! I have one wage, live in an affluent area of the country and have a job just above the national average wage, I have 3 small kids and a wife that gave up her career to look after them. I come from a working class background and get no help from my family what so ever. but I do it, and it's feckin hard work! But then - why shouldn't it be? where does is say though shalt win the lottery? In fact the only thing I lament is not playing ball anymore, I miss that sometimes it hurts
I can pretty much walk anywhere I want in my city, go into any pub and not feel like I need a stab proof vest on. Read the Daily Mail and it feels like I should have boarded up the windows, and shot anyone that comes to the door if they are not white-British with a placard clearing showing their reason to call.
Unfortunately things like the internet have give EVERYONE a voice - and the irony is not lost on me there, and as the truism goes you can't please all the people all the time... so what happens? the world is full of disappointed people.... and they bitch about it!! In the papers on the news, internet forums, it's pervasive. Then you get something horrible happen - you mentioned the Soham murders in a previous thread, or knife Crime in London.. Not too sure why there is this sudden revelation that the world is full of ****. 100 years ago, an Englishman would have been allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb, he was legally allowed to rape his wife, children could be used as workhouse slaves, and that's just for starters.
Robbery, murder, theft are not new crimes. The countries leaders be they politicians or Kings have always been sleazy megalomaniacs. When was it not like that?
That's why you wont get your "Critical Mass", in reality, people know that they do actually have to pretty good. **** will always happen, but whilst you can still feed your family people aren't unhinged enough for riots, or civil unrest. We have modern constitutional process (refined over 2000 years of history) to put right perceived grievance. And the system does work. That's what surprises me about the knife crime in London. You hear about the stabbings and the murders, but you don't hear so much about the scroats that get caught and banged up for 30 years. What fecking idiots.
Don't believe the hype, don't succumb to this fear culture that's exactly what Big Brother wants, to control you. There has been such progress, in such a short time. The world rally can be a decent place. You just can't let yourself jump at the shadows because it feels different.
If you want a good example check our newswipe with Charlie Brooker on bbc IPlayer. sums it up well.
Matski's first post is spot on IMO.
