From: T Wake on

"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

"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
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
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
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.