Oi. Mate. Got 10p?
Jan. 19th, 2005 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hirezSome amusements:
'Volumptuous'
'Cylon tea'
Ringtones. (Sorry. Easily pleased.)
O2. Well, I say 'amusement'. It's probably closer to 'resigned lack of surprise'. For the last year-and-a-bit, they've failed to make MMS work for me. This morning I demand a PAC from them. I have just been in receipt of MMS spam. What a useless shower of crap.
[FX: Fiddling]
Lj2me works now. And Azure. Bastards!
Not amusing:
The continuing legacy of Thatcherism. People now emit thatcherite dogma as if it were 'the way it's always been'. This is terribly sad. Not just because this is the point where The Youth do things I find impenetrable and repugnant.
'Volumptuous'
'Cylon tea'
Ringtones. (Sorry. Easily pleased.)
O2. Well, I say 'amusement'. It's probably closer to 'resigned lack of surprise'. For the last year-and-a-bit, they've failed to make MMS work for me. This morning I demand a PAC from them. I have just been in receipt of MMS spam. What a useless shower of crap.
[FX: Fiddling]
Lj2me works now. And Azure. Bastards!
Not amusing:
The continuing legacy of Thatcherism. People now emit thatcherite dogma as if it were 'the way it's always been'. This is terribly sad. Not just because this is the point where The Youth do things I find impenetrable and repugnant.
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Date: 2005-01-19 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 04:24 pm (UTC)They can't be mithered to make MMS work in the general run of things, but as soon as paying punter makes it obvious he's going to up-sticks, everything bursts into life... FFS!
Dear O2,
If you want me to continue to use your shoddy excuse for a mobile service, you can send a kilo of assorted psychadelics round to the usual address. If it's not delivered by latex-clad totty piloting a Holden Monaro, the deal's off.
Love, JH-R.
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Date: 2005-01-19 04:29 pm (UTC)I missed most of the Thatcher years (it seems like a long time ago now) so am not sure which comments you mean and am curious to know now! ;)
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Date: 2005-01-19 04:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 04:36 pm (UTC)(this is my "feeling old" icon)
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Date: 2005-01-19 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 04:45 pm (UTC)I will email you now...
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Date: 2005-01-19 04:46 pm (UTC)"How about a cuppa?"
"By your divine command."
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Date: 2005-01-19 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 04:59 pm (UTC)fiat has failed its mot due to welding
can sell it now
know anyone?
still drives just not legally
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Date: 2005-01-19 05:09 pm (UTC)See, we have (or had) this implied social contract where in return for your tax, the country will look after you when you're poorly, make sure you're not going to starve or go homeless if you're unable to earn a living wage and supply you with the standard of education you think you'd like. The theory goes that you get a set of people who are happy to live where they do and go off and have happy and productive lives and feel empowered to do the right thing for the current and following generations.
If you go off and run a country like a grocer's shop ("You can't have that. It wants paying for. D'you think I'm made of money? More'n my job's worth. Etc") then you'll end up with people understanding little more than some twisted version of money, because that's all they've got time for. Personal pension. Value-add. Brand awareness.
Bollocks to that.
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Date: 2005-01-19 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 05:22 pm (UTC)Also known as "Why can't I buy a f#cking house without auctioning a brace of limbs on eBay?"
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Date: 2005-01-19 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 05:26 pm (UTC)I want to pay for other people's education, in the faint hope they'll become interesting. Otherwise I'm living in a country populated by ignorant chavs and "educated" junior clerks with degrees in tourism management.
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Date: 2005-01-19 05:27 pm (UTC)Indeed, my parents (who are very much ex-Tories) were desiring to own a house when Maggie was still Education Secretary.
In my case, the desire to own a house boils down to the desire to be able to decorate and furnish the place in which I dwell according to my tastes, and not have to suddenly up sticks because the landlord wants it back.
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Date: 2005-01-19 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 05:35 pm (UTC)Are you going to break the news to her?
Most commentators would have us believe that Mrs. Thatcher deliberately pushed home ownership as something that we should want. Policies such as selling off council houses cheap (criminally cheap some might say) and "the right to buy" encouraged the belief that owning your own house was the thing to do. Home ownership rocketted in the UK throughout the Thatcher era and is much higher in Britain than in mainland Europe.
Indeed, my parents (who are very much ex-Tories) were desiring to own a house when Maggie was still Education Secretary.
That's an anecdote, not data.
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Date: 2005-01-19 05:42 pm (UTC)Or have I just been brainwashed by Thatcherite dogma?
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Date: 2005-01-19 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 05:47 pm (UTC)*laugh* It's pretty damn thorough in your case -- it's not the first time I've noticed it.
Getting past the knee-jerk "that can't be a thatcherite policy I agree with it" why don't you consult a history book. One of Mrs. Thatcher's lasting legacies, rightly or wrongly, was to strongly promote the idea that the free and independent person should own their own home. Clearly with some remarkable success.
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Date: 2005-01-19 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 05:58 pm (UTC)Entirely coincidentally I'd been up to Chavland to engage in Commerce and see about a new phone.