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Most people who don’t vote choose not to vote. They choose not to be part of the democratic process. Electorally they are null, void individuals.
Fuel and food going up, house prices and second-hand car prices going down.
With fuel, prices will probaly rise as a general trend. Food price rises are possibly connected with shortages that might correct themselves with this year’s harvest.
House prices look like they can only go down, down and down, since that’s what the experts are mostly saying and the forces that tended to support a rising market have become very weak.
Since my original post the property slump has gone mainstream and the only way now looks to be down, down down.
Bassingbourne55 wrote:
Can’t remember if I replied to this but in case I haven’t, I’ll do so again.I prefer the slim, graceful athletic look for women, not too curvy, about 5’5″ tall, long dark hair….. I could go on and on but……….
You’re not asking for much really, are you?
That’s my preference – doesn’t mean I’m likely to get LOL!
Can’t remember if I replied to this but in case I haven’t, I’ll do so again.
I prefer the slim, graceful athletic look for women, not too curvy, about 5’5″ tall, long dark hair….. I could go on and on but……….
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I hope he recovers and wish him well. I’m not a monarchist but illness and suffering is the same whether you’re rich or poor.
He took up where Blair left off over ‘make poverty history’ by sending bulldozers into the shanty towns.
Most despots, when they’re gone, however evil they might heve been, leave one or two things that might have been seen with hindsight as benefits – Saddam Hussein (stong unified state of Iraq), Tito (strong unified state of Yugoslavia), Hitler (the VW company) etc, etc. In the case of Mugabe I can’t think of anything positive that the world will remember him for, except perhaps his colourful shirt.
I’m in my fifties so my twenties were in the 70’s/80’s.
I was a bit aimless in early 20’s but went to got my degree in mid 20’s and settled down.
I think my 20’s were happier than my teens. Or maybe I had my teens a few years late!
I don’t think people or society has changed all that much, we just complain about different things.I think public space has become more hostile, though, and people a bit ruder. I put that down to the legacy of punk, which taught a generation to be that it was OK to gratuitously unpleasant for the sheer hell of it.
I’ve been lucky in that through my adult years I’ve been young for my age and not fuddy duddy (except I gave punk a miss). Only in the last few months have I felt myself starting to slow down emotionally and a voice telling me ‘you’re not young any more’. It’s difficult but it comes to us all.
Being a wishy-washy leftist republican atheist pinko liberal, I am vehenmently opposed to radical islam.
A thought occurred. All around the world there are independence movements – people re-discovereing their pre-colonial roots. Tibet, Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, Basques, Corsicans and even the Cornish!
So how long before Indonesians, Afghans, etc. start to awaken from their ‘colonisation’ by islam? (Afghanistan was a buddhist land until about 800 years ago.)
