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@forumhostpb wrote:
There’s a lot of heartlessness circulating around eh minim?
I nearly choked you git! You need a government health warning!
Having said that, perhaps its Gazlan’s puns that need a health warning!
I’ve never seen a turkey limp! mind… by the time I have them they are usually lying on their backs with their legs akimbo
Boom Boom
To be fair, turkeys normally only get stuffed for a few hours.
Did your fan base just move up a gear Susie? pah…..been there done that…. shot the fan base!
*hugs Susie*
What rivalry? Did I miss something?
It is very interesting when people look at comments on a board and read into them the worsts possible scenario. It reminds me of those pictures that people get shown by psychiatrists. You know the kind of thing, where it looks like two people kissing to one person, and a devil on horseback to another! The insight can be fascinating. Glass half full people vs glass half empty. Oh isn’t that dreadfull lets all beat our chests and wail vs yes its terrible, but hey bad things happen and a funny thing happened to me on the way to the pub last night wanna hear about it?
People deal with bad stuff in different ways. It doesn’t make someone heartless just because they try and inject a bit of wry humour.
If you carry on in that vein.. you will get banned!
@forumhostpb wrote:
Notwithstanding your New Year’s rant pikey, I suspect that Pete makes a good point. In reality, the winner(s) of a conflict are usually the ones whose view get recorded in history as the so-called ‘truth’.
Generally, they are able to minimise (or even airbrush out) any of their shortcomings and maintain focus on their righteousness etc. Nobody pays much, if any, attention to the loser’s point of view.
The prime example of this is when the Tudor’s fought the Plantagenets and took over the English throne. They were a murderous lot, but history has been re-written … mostly during the time of Elizabeth I, and Shakespeare was guilty of doing most though not all of the rewriting. Henry 7th murdered the princes in the tower and married their older sister to secure the throne. Richard III was written into history as the villain of the piece, when in fact he was a gentle, kind and a very well thought of intelligent man. A bit of demonising and he becomes an evil hunchback who murdered small boys.
As for the topic of this thread, the English have a very chequered and bloody past. They could not have formed an empire without being ruthless. Concentration camps are a relatively modern concept. Prior to that, people were just killed.
some people just don’t get irony
