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Memory Lane the '50s
WARNING this is a Youtube video from a cybermate in UK an ex matelot of a similar vintage to me . I found and recall the '50s as a wonderful time when the world still had a degree of decency , almost virginal until fdekcu up by the likes of Bliar . It may be booooooooooring to many and it is a lengthy show . However , some of those who lived through these times may find it pleasant and for those , enjoy .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZFi...related&search =>" How often, in the quiet of the darkness, does each of us ask himself;' What the hell does it all mean? What's it all about'?"
25-06-07, 09:48 #2Re: Memory Lane the '50s
Poor old Tone getting the blame for everything these days??
Thatcherism fukced up more things than anybody else I know!!BEAM ME UP SCOTTY! THERE AINT NO INTELLIGENT LIFE DOWN HERE!!!
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thanks hobbit, brought back some fond memories.
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At least she got rid of two left feet and his bunch of no hopers, whohad managed to take a country f*cked up by Wilson and make it even worse
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25-06-07, 10:27 #5Re: Memory Lane the '50s
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I know who I would rather have in charge right now! A Lady with guts, rather than the tart Bliar,with no principles whatsoever.Thatcherism fukced up more things than anybody else I know!!
I don't go much on his replacement either.
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Excellent Hobbit
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25-06-07, 12:55 #7Re: Memory Lane the '50s
What, like transporting children in children's homes and orphanages off to the colonies where they often received brutal, dehumanising treatment and in too many cases were systematically sexually abused? In the 1950s violence and sexual abuse (including rape) in the home was treated by the police as a domestic matter. Is it any wonder that we are still reaping the consequences of this social disaster today? Originally Posted by hobbit
Illegitimate children were still blamed for their parents actions and were denied civil rights, with the full support of the Church of England in the Lords (right up until the 1980s for the record) in the 1950s. It may have been a golden age for some, but for many it brought only misery. For example in the early 1950s my relative who had been a POW in a Japanese POW camp spent time in one of the old psychiatric hospitals where containment rather than treatment were at the fore. The reason for the electric shocks, etc? Because he was waking up screaming at night and waking his neighbours in Plymouth. The attitude of many at that time was that people suffered disability and psychiatric problems because of some sin they or their family had done. Perhaps his sin was joining the RN at the age of 15 in the 1920s, or boxing for the G Spot during his time there?
26-06-07, 08:53 #8Re: Memory Lane the '50s
I was on the Albion February 1959 .....one of the LROs on FO2FES staff on the Aussie cruise....ahhhhh memories
.....hell was it nearly 50 years ago?
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Still a great place but has lost a lot of its innocence Originally Posted by alanbach I was on the Albion February 1959 .....one of the LROs on FO2FES staff on the Aussie cruise....ahhhhh memories .....hell was it nearly 50 years ago?
Iechyd da" How often, in the quiet of the darkness, does each of us ask himself;' What the hell does it all mean? What's it all about'?"
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ah the golden 1950s, sorry Hobbit, have I missed something?
Hobbit said "I found and recall the '50s as a wonderful time when the world still had a degree of decency , almost virginal until fdekcu up by the likes of Bliar"
With hind sight, my view of the 1950s is:
The Korean War, Suez conflict (major humiliation for the UK by the government before Blair), the Cold war, The Mau Mau began their terrorist attacks against the British in Kenya. This led to concentration camps in Kenya, the retreat of the British, and the election of former terrorist Kenyatta as leader of Kenya, the start of the Vietnam conflict. London smog kills over 2,000 in 1952. Popular rebellions in East Germany in 1953 and Hungary in 1956 were brutally put down by Russia and nothing done by international community. State of Emergencies in Cyprus. UK bankrupt after years of World War, relying upon funding from the US. The loss of the Empire. Rationing still in force. Racial attacks in Nottingham and in Notting Hill, London in 58. Chinese Red Army forces invade Tibet. South Africa's Department of the Interior colour-classifies residents and issues cards to prove that they are white, black, or coloured as the government moves to enforce its apartheid policies. Great Britain no longer a superpower....the list goes on and on. Im sorry, but the 1950s dont seem wonderful to me.Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum!
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