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Drog

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Can't stand modern attitudes.
 

Drog

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Modern attitudes? Example this morning on the news.
Apparently shock horror poor people have poor personal habits because they cant afford shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, shower gels and sanitary towels . So what? Right through the evolution of man none of those things as such were in existence until approx after WW2. No idea what the women did back then but whats wrong with good old fashioned soap for washing hair? I've never used anything else most of my like, shower gel is wasteful and a greater pollutant than soap, it should be banned and whats wrong with table salt for brushing teeth? Might not taste nice but it makes a better job than toothpaste.

Example 2. Re: Grenfell Tower fire. Shit happens! Always has and always will. Dreadful death for the victims but as for survivors seeking to cash in they should recall much worse incidents occurring daily in London and across the nation during WW2. People back then lost families were made homeless and had their kids evacuated to the country for 6 years and I'm not aware that each and everyone of them were hugely compensated, rejected ready made alternatives and demanded brand new luxury homes in Kensington and/or long stays in luxury hotels. What I do recall being told was that Londoners then were hugely grateful when they awoke every morning that they were still alive as they looked forward with trepidition to the next nights firestorm.

Oh!.... and Pink no one had ever heard of some fabricated rubbish which now comes under the heading of 'Human Rights'. Reason being there can never be any such thing.
 

Drog

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Staff member
Sounds like a GOOD plan.
 

Barmitzvah Boy

Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz πŸ‘ŠπŸ€©πŸ€©
Modern attitudes? Example this morning on the news.
Apparently shock horror poor people have poor personal habits because they cant afford shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, shower gels and sanitary towels . So what? Right through the evolution of man none of those things as such were in existence until approx after WW2. No idea what the women did back then but whats wrong with good old fashioned soap for washing hair? I've never used anything else most of my like, shower gel is wasteful and a greater pollutant than soap, it should be banned and whats wrong with table salt for brushing teeth? Might not taste nice but it makes a better job than toothpaste.

Example 2. Re: Grenfell Tower fire. Shit happens! Always has and always will. Dreadful death for the victims but as for survivors seeking to cash in they should recall much worse incidents occurring daily in London and across the nation during WW2. People back then lost families were made homeless and had their kids evacuated to the country for 6 years and I'm not aware that each and everyone of them were hugely compensated, rejected ready made alternatives and demanded brand new luxury homes in Kensington and/or long stays in luxury hotels. What I do recall being told was that Londoners then were hugely grateful when they awoke every morning that they were still alive as they looked forward with trepidition to the next nights firestorm.

Oh!.... and Pink no one had ever heard of some fabricated rubbish which now comes under the heading of 'Human Rights'. Reason being there can never be any such thing.

As for recycling toilet roll: Wash it, dry it flat and then a light iron.
 

Drog

Administrator
Staff member
My old economics teacher was stationed in Egypt with the army and they used to brew their tea and then dry the tea leaves in the hot sun on top of a wall before swapping them with the 'locals' for eggs.

 

Pinkrover

Senior Member
Lol when I used to drink tea and my daughter was maybe 5 or 6..i would put tea bag in her cup after made mine..but wasn't to save on tea bags it was just so it was really weak for her..lol can't believe people would dry them out tho..:eek:
 

Barmitzvah Boy

Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz πŸ‘ŠπŸ€©πŸ€©
Lol when I used to drink tea and my daughter was maybe 5 or 6..i would put tea bag in her cup after made mine..but wasn't to save on tea bags it was just so it was really weak for her..lol can't believe people would dry them out tho..:eek:
Oh yes. It is a bit of a pain in this wet weather though. I have a dozen or so waiting to hang out to dry.
 

davebirch

Senior Member
Lol when I used to drink tea and my daughter was maybe 5 or 6..i would put tea bag in her cup after made mine..but wasn't to save on tea bags it was just so it was really weak for her..lol can't believe people would dry them out tho..:eek:
It still happens, even on the other side of the world.
When I make my mrs a cuupa, I'll pour the water over her teabag, and when the cup is full, whip the teabag over to my cup and leave it for several minutes.
I'm stuffed when it come to loose leaf tea though.
 

Pinkrover

Senior Member
It still happens, even on the other side of the world.
When I make my mrs a cuupa, I'll pour the water over her teabag, and when the cup is full, whip the teabag over to my cup and leave it for several minutes.
I'm stuffed when it come to loose leaf tea though.
Haha ye loose tea would be tricky
 

Barmitzvah Boy

Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz πŸ‘ŠπŸ€©πŸ€©
It is easier to read your fortune with loose tea than it is with tea bags.
 

blueandwhitehalves

Senior Member
The thing about political correctness as worshipped by the left is that it isn't politically correct. It's a vehicle for defending everything they like and attacking everything they don't like with no consideration of basic rules or consistency.

Record attacks on the shrinking Jewish population of this country year on year should be a matter of utter outrage yet the likes of the BBC never bother to mention it. Likewise hundreds of British muslims joining I.S. to participate in the slaughter of Christians in the middle east. The increasingly sexist adverts on TV also never get a mention (or outright attacks in the case of MTV), where white men are increasingly represented as either arrogant oppressors, clueless dads or moronic eye candy.

But pick something the left don't like, Trump, Brexit, Islamophobia, msyogony and we literally never hear the end of it. If only it was political correctness. It's something much more flawed and self-serving than that. It's the left's tactic for getting the right to shut up.
 
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