[Rosvanian]

Strange isn't it, my old man was born in 1934 and his memories of the war were of frequent bombing raids (aimed at the shipyards at Hebburn on the Tyne, visible from where he lived), playing on bombsites, and the desperate grinding poverty endured by his mother, brother and sister while his dad spent most of the war serving in north Africa. Perhaps it's why in later life and despite decades of health issues, he was the most laid back, contented, happy with his lot, un- gammon bloke you could ever meet.

[Andy McDandy]

While there's nothing new about "kids these days", what's never addressed in these sorts of pieces is who raises the kids and who teaches them. Youthful rebellion aside, it seems that every generation is determined not to repeat the mistakes their own parents made.

[Watchman]

Didn’t the “children of the Blitz” turn into teddy boys?

[Nigredo]

A batshit old biddy writes...

Woke please read! A love letter to a lost England of decency and respect MARGARET DOWNIE

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expre ... iption/amp

As a child of the last war - my primary school years neatly encompassed the whole of it - I (and everyone else) was exposed to wartime drama which built very close family ties as trips away any distance were a non-event. Ill-health was a given.

I, along with all others, acquired in sequence:

* whooping cough

* measles

* german measles (this left me hard of hearing while another child in our class actually died from it)

* mumps

* chickenpox

* meningitis (this acquired at 11 plus age left me even deafer - and the child who gave it to me died)

* and finally polio.

I did escape scarlet fever.

However as antibiotics were not available I also was riddled with infection and in 1940 sent to a makeshift hospital near the banks of the Thames called Goodmayes where my tonsils and adenoids were removed in one day.

Two days later most of my teeth were removed.

I was there for two months and parents could visit for two hours only on a Sunday, just two people as there was little room.

We were in the midst of fighting a war there and great flashes on the walls which lit up the rooms as the Luftwaffe's bombs dropped.

Strangely, I don't recall anyone being frightened...

Now read on, if you dare.


A lost England of decency and respect

NO BLACKS

NO IRISH

NO DOGS

Blimey, what a list of maladies. If my childhood had been that miserable I'd have wanted to be euthanized.

[Nigredo]

[Bones McCoy]

When you're the blatt for the dementia demographic, there's little requirement for consistency.

[Andy McDandy]

Sounds like they’ve given up and become the Star.

Apologies for revisiting this, but isn't every dildo a sex dildo?

[Bones McCoy]

Sounds like they’ve given up and become the Star.

Apologies for revisiting this, but isn't every dildo a sex dildo?

There could conceivably be purely decorative ones.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... g-backlash

[AOB]

It remains to be seen whether the Italian Grand Prix will be cancelled or postponed with Italy being a member of the Commonwealth along with several teams based in the UK.

I know the Express aren't big on research but come on.


www.express.co.uk/sport/football/166671 ... I-dies/amp

[Malcolm Armsteen]

After a 30 second Google:

After several minutes I could find no reference to Italy being part of the Commonwealth...

[AOB]

The Express journalist must have thought iItaly was in the Commonwealth and didn't bother to open a new tab to check.

[AOB]

I wonder if the Express will wait until after the funeral before they feature an article about her ghost being sighted somewhere. You just know they will do it. I'm still waiting for this hidden planet in the Solar System to crash into us like they said it would.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Disgraceful reporting from the Express, on a day when police have had to intervene because family and witnesses have received threats and random people have tried to force their way into houses of witnesses.

Nicola Bulley's partner questioned about ‘enemies and stalker' as kidnap fears mount

Nicola Bulley's partner, Paul Ansell has been questioned about the missing mother's "enemies or stalkers" as fears grow that she may have been kidnapped.

Paragraph 19:

Mr Faulding said: "I spoke to Paul last night and asked him if she had any enemies, any stalkers, the normal questions you would ask.

"And nothing, he said no. And she was totally normal that day when she left, nothing out of the ordinary."

Faulding is not the police, he is the diver who has been all over the papers.

I think that may have been one of the first questions the police asked, and presumably they got a sensible answer, but the express has spun this to suit a sensationalist narrative.

Utter and absolute cunts.

[Bones McCoy]

Disgraceful reporting from the Express, on a day when police have had to intervene because family and witnesses have received threats and random people have tried to force their way into houses of witnesses.

Nicola Bulley's partner questioned about ‘enemies and stalker' as kidnap fears mount

Nicola Bulley's partner, Paul Ansell has been questioned about the missing mother's "enemies or stalkers" as fears grow that she may have been kidnapped.

Paragraph 19:

Mr Faulding said: "I spoke to Paul last night and asked him if she had any enemies, any stalkers, the normal questions you would ask.

"And nothing, he said no. And she was totally normal that day when she left, nothing out of the ordinary."

Faulding is not the police, he is the diver who has been all over the papers.

I think that may have been one of the first questions the police asked, and presumably they got a sensible answer, but the express has spun this to suit a sensationalist narrative.

Utter and absolute cunts.

GB news have been stoking this sort of shit for over a week.

The comments on their YouTubes are as bad as you'd expect:
"Is there one of those refugee centres nearby?"
"What about the nearby caravan site, we all know who lives in caravans"

[AOB]

When I was in a supermarket earlier, I noticed that every single national tabloid today featured the Nicola Bulley alcohol issue on its front page. Cunts the lot of them.

Then the Express has the audacity to have this headline on its site;

Nicola Bulley’s reputation ‘destroyed’ by police after revealing alcohol struggles

Whilst I think the police could have handled the early stages of the investigation better, mainly in relation to not cordoning off the scene for longer, for a gutter rag to platform a headline about "destroying reputations" beggars belief.

[Abernathy]

The expected news that the body found in the River Wyre has, sadly, been identified as that of Nicola Bulley, poses more questions about the media frenzy that bizarrely attached itself to the police’s investigation of her disappearance.

It is, nevertheless, somehow rather gratifying to observe that “underwater search specialist” Faulding, a braggart who asserted that “If she was in that river, I would have found her”, desperately trying not to eat humble pie after Ms Bulley was nevertheless found in the fucking river.

[davidjay]

The expected news that the body found in the River Wyre has, sadly, been identified as that of Nicola Bulley, poses more questions about the media frenzy that bizarrely attached itself to the police’s investigation of her disappearance.

It is, nevertheless, somehow rather gratifying to observe that “underwater search specialist” Faulding, a braggart who asserted that “If she was in that river, I would have found her”, desperately trying not to eat humble pie after Ms Bulley was nevertheless found in the fucking river.

Ah, no. It wasn't in the river, it was in the reeds along the river. That's what he said and he, after all, is the expert.

[Rosvanian]

It's not just the Express though, is it. All of the tabloids have been an utter disgrace and the family statement highlightled TV and Sky News for being particularly appalling as well.

[Bones McCoy]

Might as well drop this here.
It's a fantastic sumary of the comment sections in all those tabloids and YouTube channels.

16 Signs of low intelligence

https://www.psychmechanics.com/signs-of ... elligence/

[Youngian]

What a bastard!