From: T Wake on 25 Nov 2006 13:52 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:456854AD.9A3C62D5(a)hotmail.com... > > > Phineas T Puddleduck wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Have you ever read anything modern ? >> > >> > Thatcher was quite mad btw. >> >> "Quite" - barking towards the end. There is no love for Thatcher in >> Wales, for example. Less then for Beeching, in faact. > > Her idea of running the economy using 'corner shop' economics was a total > disaster. Don't let /BAH hear you say that.... She is convinced Thatcher was the great saviour of UK economics. /BAH wouldn't for one second think that Thatcher's meddling caused all manner of long term problems.
From: T Wake on 25 Nov 2006 13:55 "Phineas T Puddleduck" <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:phineaspuddleduck-0ABB15.16213825112006(a)free.teranews.com... > In article <45686CC4.DA2FE2C9(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > > Although one could argue that the coal mining industry in Wales was >> > > reaching the end of the line in the 70's and 80's, due to cheap EU >> > > imports of coal - what was more galling was the fact that there were >> > > no >> > > contingency plans set up by government. Her government simply shut up >> > > shop in Wales without any investment in replacement/alternatives. >> > >> > Good Lord! You mean the cradle to grave gravy train ended? >> >> Mining was hardly a gravy train. >> >> Graham > > Of course it was, those miners went down in fur-lined elevators to > recline in comfy settee's and watch daytime TV. > > Ignoring the fact that Welsh coal and steel built most of the British > Empire, of course. > > > > (quick rule of thumb - Unsettled is an idiot) A massive understatement. Unsettled registers 5.8 Porats on the idiocy scale.
From: unsettled on 25 Nov 2006 13:58 T Wake wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:456854AD.9A3C62D5(a)hotmail.com... > >> >>Phineas T Puddleduck wrote: >> >> >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>>Have you ever read anything modern ? >>>> >>>>Thatcher was quite mad btw. >>> >>>"Quite" - barking towards the end. There is no love for Thatcher in >>>Wales, for example. Less then for Beeching, in faact. >> >>Her idea of running the economy using 'corner shop' economics was a total >>disaster. > > > Don't let /BAH hear you say that.... She is convinced Thatcher was the great > saviour of UK economics. /BAH wouldn't for one second think that Thatcher's > meddling caused all manner of long term problems. > > LOL it wasn't as though you had none when she became Prime Minister.
From: unsettled on 25 Nov 2006 13:58 T Wake wrote: > "Phineas T Puddleduck" <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message > news:phineaspuddleduck-0ABB15.16213825112006(a)free.teranews.com... > >>In article <45686CC4.DA2FE2C9(a)hotmail.com>, >>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>>>>Although one could argue that the coal mining industry in Wales was >>>>>reaching the end of the line in the 70's and 80's, due to cheap EU >>>>>imports of coal - what was more galling was the fact that there were >>>>>no >>>>>contingency plans set up by government. Her government simply shut up >>>>>shop in Wales without any investment in replacement/alternatives. >>>> >>>>Good Lord! You mean the cradle to grave gravy train ended? >>> >>>Mining was hardly a gravy train. >>> >>>Graham >> >>Of course it was, those miners went down in fur-lined elevators to >>recline in comfy settee's and watch daytime TV. >> >>Ignoring the fact that Welsh coal and steel built most of the British >>Empire, of course. >> >> >> >>(quick rule of thumb - Unsettled is an idiot) > > > A massive understatement. Unsettled registers 5.8 Porats on the idiocy > scale. > > Burp.
From: Don Bowey on 25 Nov 2006 13:59
On 11/24/06 7:57 PM, in article MPG.1fd189542fe9ec36989c7e(a)news.individual.net, "krw" <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > In article <45675408.11C7C33E(a)hotmail.com>, > rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... >> >> >> krw wrote: >> >>> rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... >>>> T Wake wrote: >>>>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>>>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> It [China] can't be communism if they encorage capitalism can it ? >>>>>> >>>>>> They are not encouraging capitalism in lieu of their brand >>>>>> of communism. They are trying out pieces of it. Their >>>>>> field test site is usually the area next door to Hong Kong. >>>>>> If something works, they move it to Shanghia. I am assuming >>>>>> that the pieces that merge nicely with their political methods >>>>>> will creep throughout its economy. >>>>> >>>>> Which is why it isnt considered a communist economy (any more) by normal >>>>> people. >>>> >>>> It's more like a mixed economy run by a party that still calls >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ >>>> itself communist. >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> >>> Too funny! Dumb donkey. >> >> Pray tell what amuses you here. > > If you can't tell, you are a far dumber donkey than anyone here > ever suspected. ...and that's going a far piece! You have a very closed mind - even for maybe having completed the 8th grade. |