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unless you had access to the same media as today mate , by media i mean the internet, rolling 24 hour television news channels as well as newspapers, you just cannot say that it wasn't as prevalent as when you were a kid in the sixties there.
I can say perfectly well it wasn't because I was there.Were there kids going around on bicycles excecuting kids from different gangs? Was there virtually a kid a week being shot dead in London? Anyone who says nowts changed either weren't there or simply don't know what they're talking about.
 
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I can say perfectly well it wasn't because I was there.Were there kids going around on bicycles excecuting kids from different gangs? Was there virtually a kid a week being shot dead in London? Anyone who says nowts changed either weren't there or simply don't know what they're talking about.

You have a very narrow view on what people are qualified to comment on, the logical extension of which is how do you know how much crime is being committed now, and how much there used to be, unless you personally witnessed it all?
 
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It was a response to the second part of the question and followed quite logically in consequence to that statement. That too complicated for you?

Look, you got me. I made a cheap joke that was unworthy of your comment. I apologise unreservedly and to save you the trouble, will throw a brick at my own face as punishment.
 
I can say perfectly well it wasn't because I was there.Were there kids going around on bicycles excecuting kids from different gangs? Was there virtually a kid a week being shot dead in London? Anyone who says nowts changed either weren't there or simply don't know what they're talking about.

This is no argument at all I'm afraid. Were you everywhere? Is your memory perfect? Is there no chance that these things could have gone without you knowing them or not being reported? Your memories, and those of someone living in London in the sixties would vary quite markedly I'm sure.

Cultural histoires of the period reveal that far from what most people "who were there" think things vary quite abit from what people remember. It's just that more things were hushed up or not talked about, and as a result people hadn't nearly as good an idea as to what was going on in some places as they do now.

For example, most people looking back remember Britain as still being quite religiously observant in the early sixties, and for all that numbers have decreased since then Britain was more or less entirley secular by then in terms of Church attendance, hardly anyone went regulalry.
 
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I can say perfectly well it wasn't because I was there.Were there kids going around on bicycles excecuting kids from different gangs? Was there virtually a kid a week being shot dead in London? Anyone who says nowts changed either weren't there or simply don't know what they're talking about.

Can't argue with that. There were no gang-related killings in London in the 60s.
 
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