How those times they are a changing

[kellyegg]

During the war family stuck together including large extended families, they didn't get handouts so they got off their arses and did something about it. The relied on hand me downs for kid's clothes and were grateful if their child got any type of education and they respected the teacher that was giving the education to their child.

Cut to today

Income support
Housing benefit
Family tax credit
Child benefit
Crisis Loan
Caring allowance
Disability (for depression and bad backs)
Council; tax credit
Excuses made for every naughty behaviour of their child under the sun
When the little bleeders get in trouble the first word many parents say is not responsibility but claim. We may as well hand over the whole country to Oxfam. However credit to Cameron who has limited housing benefit in London to 400 quid a week because he thinks spongers shouldn't be living in homes that working people can only dream of affording. Well at least it'll keep the riff raff out of the nice areas.

but cann you BBQ one?

In Australia, they can BBQ anything - pasties, patsies, eggs, TESs....

Barbequed Mars Bar might not work as well as fried, though.

well done kellyegg....

what is it tomorrow? Immigration or Eugenics?

They have a point on the compass.

I'd be happier if we couldn't find them on the compass to be honest

But, the horror of it, if we got rid of them, we'd become Northerners.

no the term northerner would become a non word

Oh, come on, get a bit creative - what about Eastern Europeans? I'm from Holland, so relative to the UK I'm one of those.

I heard something amazing on the radio yesterday that I need to share! According to records, 30% of inter-war babies were born within 9 months of the wedding! 30%!!

I know, prematurity was a real problem in those days. It was the stress of the wars that did it.

ps what's a wedding?

I think you would find a strap or cane in every classroom which might explain more about why children were better behaved.

kellyegg... is that a bit like a kinder egg?

Only a bit less fun and you don't get to break it into two clean pieces?

The obvious solution is to have another marvelous war.

It would help with the riffraff problem too.

I live in a 675000 detached house

wouldn't know riff raff if I fell over their cardboard box

Cost you 675K or would fetch that now?

Ahh not Kelly egg you've fallen a notch, to be so vulgar as to boast talk about money! Don't undersell yourself love, it must be worth at least £1million, especially if it had your stamp of approval, we'd all be clammering over each other to buy such a bargain with so much class - just like you.

Your biggest fan xxx

All the children I know are bright and happy and confident and talented and well-cared for and occassinally a little bit cheeky. That is the way it should be. 70 years ago life was a lot different for children, and it certainly wasn't better than it is today.

kellyegg something for you

and may whatever deity you deign to worship protect you from depression or a bad back

I bought my degree online from Salford University (the guy who sold it had an Australian accent)

you was robbed then!

I'd demand my money back if i was you....

This was a brilliant thread. Merry Christmas to everyone