StreetCowboy

I hate that; when your brother is bigger than you are, and you go through three years of secondary school with breeks flapping round your shoes and cuffs hanging over your hands. At least it hid the cigarette... SC

Disadvantaged people feeling left out because of commercial pressures applied to the affluent to make them spend more. The abuse of tradition by commercial enterprise. There are different ways of looking at the same circumstance, and Hallmark and the Salvation Army view Christmas differently. I hope I never have to rely on the Salvation Army, but I have much less confidence in Hallmark to help me out if times are hard.

Maybe it is because they do not live in trees. Or maybe because they do. Why are black people so creative and innovative? Why are priests and vicars so creative and innovative? Why are Nobel prize winners so creative and innovative? Why is the bloke that burgled my house so creative and innovative? Why is Jewish people singular, but other people are not? Why is the Jewish people singular when it is made up of so many individuals? If I had more answers than questions, I could have refuted my grandmother's allegation that people were becoming slower and denser, but as I decline into decreptitude, I cannot but concur that those younger than us, despite their tremendous scientific advances, are still unable to answer the most simple of questions, and the fault must lie with them. It is sadly unfortunate that there is not a young person that subscribes to this forum that could provide us with evidence of their increasing knowledge, wisdom and undensity. Or at least an antonym for density.

Back in the day, we did not have internet comments, and we had no way to plumb the depths of stupidity; we laughed when Einstein said “Nothing is infinite but space and stupidity; and we are not sure about space”. Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, and his observation about space, may be of little use in our mundane existences. But never under-estimate the depths of stupidity, quicksand or puddles. Or audits

And you would be worse off for it, because money will never give you the same self-righteousness as bitter resentments, no matter how ill-founded.

As I get older, I think the people around me are getting denser and dafter. My grandmother told me that forty years ago, but I was too dense and daft to understand. I expect I will have to go into a Home soon as well.

Everyone needs somewhere to sit

I would be drinking less; effect and cause are inextricably linked.

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£30 won’t even put a shilling in the meter nowadays.

You need to get out more; there is far worse twaddle to be read. Do you think you are short-tempered? Are you prone to sudden outbursts? Back in the day we tried to set up a thread for those that suffer from Tourette’s Syndrome, but I can understand how those lacking in patience may struggle to find it

Perpetrators are guilty. People who do not perpetrate crimes are not guilty.

It’s a new commuter railway built by State Railway of Thailand on their existing Right of Way. Back in the previous millennium, it was part of the super-ambitious Hopewell Scheme.

That's pretty evenly balanced

our modesty borders on the pitiful. SAS? Legionnaire? Why would you not claim it? The only time my bluff has been called was when I said I was a dalek, but I blagged my way through

We can be heroes I could be... You may ... As I said before, there is no point in speculation

Even when they've left the nest, they are still family, and we can rightly take pride in their achievements, even if they still decline to rejoin the Commonwealth.

For all that we might wish it otherwise, Australians are not like Paul Hogan, and, in my experience, those in Australia least so.

"Ruled by" The two nations were joined under James VI albeit unified later, for other reasons.

It's our way of getting back at the English - they can't understand us, and we don't understand them

Turn the sound off and lip read,

He said "Everyone trusts on you. Is that right?" "Depends"

Cardinals don't like to lose face

Back in the day … well, anyway, to cut a long story short, I thought “this could not get any worse” and I was completely wrong. Things can always get worse; much worse; suddenly. Knowing that, and your own close escape from horrific gross misfortune, will see you through life’s toughest gristle with pursed lips. You can search for “Always look on the bright side” yourself.

As with the Thai libel laws, truth is no excuse.