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Tory cuts could be mighty unpleasant

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  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    History's not quite caught up with that one, yet, as they're still there, but yes, rest assured they will get the full pucture on that in due course too.

    We frequently have political conversations in front of the kids, so they know now that all politicians are nasty, grasping little !!!!!!....

    Edit: Am I the only one astonished at the fact the spellchecker lets me put that in, when it won't let me type !!!!less? (That's
    fec kless, BTW).
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    carolt wrote: »
    My kids may be young, but I've already taught them that Maggie was Evil. :)

    and the Unions were Saints no doubt........ :rolleyes:
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Their education is well-rounded. We put on I'm Alright Jack on the video last weekend, which is genius, but sadly the kids got bored and walked off. When they're older, perhaps...
  • dopester
    dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite
    carolt wrote: »
    Even evening cleaners - the kind of thing that a year or 2 ago they would have struggled to find anyone to do.

    The post-office and newsagent windows I've looked in recently have been filling up with post-card adverts with new cleaners wanting to clean your home.
  • dopester
    dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite
    chaostheory wrote: »
    But - taking your medicine sooner rather than later is going to make your illness worse so why would you do that?:confused:

    Because if you wait too long to take it, you're likely to die.
  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    edited 12 October 2009 at 7:43PM
    carolt wrote: »
    Oh yes, we've taught them that jolly kids rhyme, Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher.... :)

    At my 1980s infant school in West Yorkshire it was (with stage directions):

    (draw a stick man on right hand and squiggle on left hand).

    Here's Maggie Thatcher (open right hand)
    Throw her up and catch her (self explanatory)
    Squiggle squaggle squiggle squaggle (rub hands together)
    Here's Maggie Thatcher (open left hand)

    Amazing the imaginations of six year olds!

    Also the nickname f**gy Thatcher was popular even though we had no idea what it meant!
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Now that's just scary.
  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    carolt wrote: »
    Now that's just scary.

    Out of the mouth of babes...:rotfl:

    Neither were my invention either I hasten to add! :eek:
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Sir_Humphrey wrote: »
    At my 1980s infant school in West Yorkshire it was (with stage directions):

    (draw a stick man on right hand and squiggle on left hand).

    Here's Maggie Thatcher (open right hand)
    Throw her up and catch her (self explanatory)
    Squiggle squaggle squiggle squaggle (rub hands together)
    Here's Maggie Thatcher (open left hand)

    Amazing the imaginations of six year olds!

    Also the nickname f**gy Thatcher was popular even though we had no idea what it meant!

    I moved from a primary school in North London where we all had to have school dinners to avoid stigmatising the kids who had free dinners to one in Surrey where half the teachers drove BMWs and were married to someone who was 'Somebody In The City'. Very confusing!
  • Optimist
    Optimist Posts: 4,557 Forumite
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    carolt wrote: »
    My kids may be young, but I've already taught them that Maggie was Evil. :)

    I hope you also taught them about the mess she inherited


    I would just like to wish Mrs Thatcher a very happy 84th birthday today. :D:D:D
    "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

    Bertrand Russell. British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
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