State of the nation

[DaveB]

I don't claim that either. I just think it can be a whole lot better and that it is those in charge who are preventing it from being better by constantly pandering to the lowest common denominator.

Which is what politicians have always done and always will do regardless of which party they are in. The lowest common denominator is what gets them elected.

[DodgyAgent]

My point is that this country isn't the tuliphole that you lot constantly claim it to be.

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Thanks to Maggie

[Dundeegeorge]

Whoops, I stand corrected

Quite wise really, since the first functional H bomb exploded in 1952...

Atom bomb then.
Honestly you bleeding giant alien lizards are so picky.

[Dundeegeorge]

Not so my huge green alien f(r)iend

To be even more picky, it would have been August 9th 1945 for Nagasaki...

Hiroshima was attacked on the 6th, so up until that point the mayor's of any Japanese cities would not have been desperately concerned about Atom bombs. I suspect they were a bit worried after that date though.

[wendigo100]

When the factory had Japanese visitors, management had to hide him away somewhere... he wasn't very keen on them for some odd reason.

My dad used to call them nips.

The Japs, not management.

[Dundeegeorge]

Sons of Nippon

My dad used to call them nips.

The Japs, not management.

Being what they are. Japs that is, not management, who are generally sons of bitches.

[wendigo100]

When I was a kid, the father of a lad who lived near me fought the nips in the war.

All this lad ever wanted to play was war, and if there weren't enough kids to play that, he'd hole himself up in the woods nearby to ambush japs if they came past. I last saw him when I was about 11. Perhaps he's still there.

[wendigo100]

Lived in the Philipines did you?

At that time, Elstree.

Borehamwood actually, but Elstree sounds posher.

Not many nips in either of them.

[Fungus]

After Thatcher engineered a recession by cutting public spending across the board there was only one way for it to go.

You don't have a clue about economics do you?

[Fungus]

It's great bringing the finest minds together to thrash these things out don't you think?

Yes but how do we get them to post and not just read?