Gideon Gungeon said:i'm no expert mate on motives and the workings of the human mind mate but i reckon old weasel knees was being a bit facetious mate. imo there
My head hurts.
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Gideon Gungeon said:i'm no expert mate on motives and the workings of the human mind mate but i reckon old weasel knees was being a bit facetious mate. imo there
thats won the competition for what the bairns first words wereMy head hurts.
thats won the competition for what the bairns first words were
A lot of whooshing being done on this thread![]()
whats the prize mate?
i reckon you'd have won a prize for first mention of the sound the brick made as it flew through the old air there on its way towards battering that poor four year old bairn in its pyatt mate
More of a frooomp than a whoosh I'd have thought?
If someone did something like that to my bairn I would be getting sent down for murder
If someone did something like that to my bairn I would be getting sent down for murder
I'm not for one moment saying everything was a bed of roses then,it never has been.Some things are obvious though and you don't have to be brain of Britain to know the levels of crime and who is commiting it is more widespread now than it was then.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.
no expert mate but i'm sure violent crime compared to years gone by is down, maybe mate just maybe the reporting of violent crime and the awareness of said violence by ordinary decent folk is increasing there.
Seaham_FTM said:If someone did something like that to my bairn I would be getting sent down for murder
no expert mate but i'm sure violent crime compared to years gone by is down, maybe mate just maybe the reporting of violent crime and the awareness of said violence by ordinary decent folk is increasing there.
The level of reported crime may be down.
Why? Because people don't report to police anymore as they see it as pointless and a good many hidings are sorted out by victim (or relatives of victim) and few mates going to sort the assailant rather than call the police.
I guess I've repeated other's feelings on this as I've not gone through the thread (at work).
I just cant believe there was such a widespread lack of respect back 20 or 30 years ago as there is today, the rise of the 'charva' seems just to be on such a massive scale. Maybe's its just not part of my mentality, i was brought up knowing right from wrong and having respect for others and property, its drilled into me from my parents, and i'll be drilling it into my daughters.
f***ing hell mate, there was loads of grief 20 and 30 years ago.
Cars were knicked all the time, there was loads of fighting, bars were much more dangerous.
The country is much more law abiding now than in the 70s and 80s. IMHO.
As for the lass, it was an incident that went very wrong for the girl and the lad who chucked the brick.
I once hoyed a huge brick at my brother and the daft lad didn't duck. he had a canny few stitches![]()
I once threw our cat at my sister's face.
f***ing hell mate, there was loads of grief 20 and 30 years ago.
Cars were knicked all the time, there was loads of fighting, bars were much more dangerous.
The country is much more law abiding now than in the 70s and 80s. IMHO.
As for the lass, it was an incident that went very wrong for the girl and the lad who chucked the brick.
I once hoyed a huge brick at my brother and the daft lad didn't duck. he had a canny few stitches![]()
Crime has fallen substantially in the past twenty years. This country.
I can confirm this to be true as this picture from 1986 shows...
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