This insanity is endless...

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I personally never experienced that and was certainly never a subservient moron ---and never have been. Perhaps you went to a poor grammar school or one that was tied to some religion or other because that would explain a lot.

Ouch!

[Supersub6]

Ouch!

Thanks BT ---I was meaning that the religious aspect would explain a lot and not anything to do with how 59_60 thinks or his politics.
Never could get away with many who went to religious oriented schools.

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didn't matter which indoctrination centre I was sent to..as I got no pleasure from "their" idea of (words) curriculum based compartmentalization....I thought it best not to waste my time on it.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

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didn't matter which indoctrination centre I was sent to..as I got no pleasure from "their" idea of (words) curriculum based compartmentalization....I thought it best not to waste my time on it.

That is exactly the same reason I spent almost all of my time either playing football or chasing lasses up the High Street.

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That is exactly the same reason I spent almost all of my time either playing football or chasing lasses up the High Street.

well, you can't have it all BT.......It was the lasses chased me !

[1959_60]

I personally never experienced that and was certainly never a subservient moron ---and never have been. Perhaps you went to a poor grammar school or one that was tied to some religion or other because that would explain a lot.

No super, not religious. But it was a very strict regime in those days and you did what you were bloody well told...or else. There were some brutal teachers in charge.

No room for free thinkers in the classroom in those unenlightened days, you had to listen to what the teachers told you without question.

Thankfully society has moved on.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

No super, not religious. But it was a very strict regime in those days and you did what you were bloody well told...or else. There were some brutal teachers in charge.

No room for free thinkers in the classroom in those unenlightened days, you had to listen to what the teachers told you without question.

Thankfully society has moved on.

Really 59er?

[Supersub6]

No super, not religious. But it was a very strict regime in those days and you did what you were bloody well told...or else. There were some brutal teachers in charge.

No room for free thinkers in the classroom in those unenlightened days, you had to listen to what the teachers told you without question.

Thankfully society has moved on.

My time was from 1957 to 1964 and I never experienced any of that, in fact, I had a great time playing lots of sport and following my musical ambtions and learning languages. Perhpas I was just lucky.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

And we are still listening to Blow Job and his corona rubbish who has just done away with foreign aid. What a phucking world we live in...

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Emotive and may not be true.

There is a broad international commitment that wealthy countries should provide annually 0.7% of GNP to assist poor countries. Five countries (Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, and the U.K.) exceed that benchmark.
The average for all wealthy nations is around 0.3 %. The U.S. ranks near the bottom at below 0.2 %.



A third cut in ours will take us down to 0.49% double the US amount.

The top five countries receiving UK aid in 2018 were Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Syria and Afghanistan. Many of the people living in these countries face conflict, extreme poverty and unstable climates.

A study by three economists published in February found that billions of pounds of aid allocated to the most in-need nations ends up in tax havens.

The study, Elite Capture of Foreign Aid, tracked the flow of aid money to 22 nations, finding that as much as a sixth ended up in tax havens like Switzerland.

Cutting the UK’s foreign aid budget has long been a clarion call of the right-wing press, as well as a sizeable number of MPs. As spending across government has been cut or stagnated over the past decade, the foreign aid budget has more than doubled.

And specific examples appear to have riled observers. The Daily Mail reported earlier this year how a mosque in Egypt has been rebuilt using British aid as “millions of pounds are lavished on arts and culture projects abroad”.

The paper adds that “Britain has also increased aid spending in China and India – even as both plan to send missions to the Moon”.

Of course all this ignores money donated by the public in the UK to many aid Charities like DEC, Oxfam, Save the Children