Comments on: Oh, and another thing http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Frederick http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-51761 Frederick Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:19:44 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-51761 This thread is total crap. Just an excuse for people who like booze and smoking to vent out a load of pseudo-psychology and a fantasy version of 1950s social policy. Why no mention that shitty consumerism, consumer credit habits and the culture of 'cheap' everything has a disastrous effect when coupled with a crooked economy and the dismantling of useful work? This has been going on so long, unchecked, that the population of "feral" people has exploded. Just a point about Holland. I have lived here for twelve years and it matters which circles you move in. If you mix with middle-class and even "working class" arseholes in bars, you learn nothing about the country. I had the misfortune to end up in a homeless hostel and the fact is, the people in that country are just less predisposed to violence, even the jailbirds. In a hostel in England I saw someone get their throat cut, an stabbings on a regular basis. The only thing killing the underclass here is a life spent in weed and hash shops. There's plenty of media coverage on crime here, if you open your eyes. Just less of a media circus. Any idiot who doesn't look at underlying causes is just pretending to know what's going on. This thread is total crap. Just an excuse for people who like booze and smoking to vent out a load of pseudo-psychology and a fantasy version of 1950s social policy.
Why no mention that shitty consumerism, consumer credit habits and the culture of ‘cheap’ everything has a disastrous effect when coupled with a crooked economy and the dismantling of useful work?
This has been going on so long, unchecked, that the population of “feral” people has exploded.

Just a point about Holland. I have lived here for twelve years and it matters which circles you move in. If you mix with middle-class and even “working class” arseholes in bars, you learn nothing about the country. I had the misfortune to end up in a homeless hostel and the fact is, the people in that country are just less predisposed to violence, even the jailbirds. In a hostel in England I saw someone get their throat cut, an stabbings on a regular basis. The only thing killing the underclass here is a life spent in weed and hash shops. There’s plenty of media coverage on crime here, if you open your eyes. Just less of a media circus.
Any idiot who doesn’t look at underlying causes is just pretending to know what’s going on.

]]> By: chanchan http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-27137 chanchan Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:34:01 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-27137 Zcorpio, ya rebel ya ! Zcorpio, ya rebel ya !

]]> By: Zcorpio http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-27103 Zcorpio Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:06:57 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-27103 oh and yeah...anyone who reckons the Gardai don't give you a hiding when you're arrested for any sort of affray are mistaken. In Spain they most certainly do; in Ireland, the Uk, Australia...a good deal of coppers are heavy handed thugs itching for an opportunity to dole out a hiding safe in the knowledge they'll get away with it. In my experience it ain't much of a deterent it just makes ya hate cops. oh and yeah…anyone who reckons the Gardai don’t give you a hiding when you’re arrested for any sort of affray are mistaken. In Spain they most certainly do; in Ireland, the Uk, Australia…a good deal of coppers are heavy handed thugs itching for an opportunity to dole out a hiding safe in the knowledge they’ll get away with it. In my experience it ain’t much of a deterent it just makes ya hate cops.

]]> By: Zcorpio http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-27101 Zcorpio Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:53:11 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-27101 Who knows? Do know as someone who has lived in Spain for near six years that one can get in as much fisticuffs here as home but the escalation is not the same, few weapons or implements are employed and when it's over it's over. Young Barcelona/Madrid/Valencia lads in numbers will jump on lone foreigners as quick as anyother teenagers with no concept of the consequences of their actions. This has happened to me a couple of times in Spain but left me with little more than a bruised ego, at home I probably wouldn't have been so lucky. Of course there are sadists everwhere but the only real example I can recall of over the top street violence like I hear of from my friends back home have been when I've seen football hooligans in action in Barce & Valencia, and that's got nothing to do with drink. Who knows? Do know as someone who has lived in Spain for near six years that one can get in as much fisticuffs here as home but the escalation is not the same, few weapons or implements are employed and when it’s over it’s over. Young Barcelona/Madrid/Valencia lads in numbers will jump on lone foreigners as quick as anyother teenagers with no concept of the consequences of their actions. This has happened to me a couple of times in Spain but left me with little more than a bruised ego, at home I probably wouldn’t have been so lucky. Of course there are sadists everwhere but the only real example I can recall of over the top street violence like I hear of from my friends back home have been when I’ve seen football hooligans in action in Barce & Valencia, and that’s got nothing to do with drink.

]]> By: O'Reilly http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-27033 O'Reilly Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:36:49 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-27033 Aye Barcelona's great and in Madrid you could have a beer in the butchers. Aye Barcelona’s great and in Madrid you could have a beer in the butchers.

]]> By: Mastaa http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-26990 Mastaa Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:03:53 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-26990 I love alcolhol and hate the retarded morons who cant control themselves on it and as a result give it a bad name. I think 20s solution is the best, put all the animals on an island off the coast. Have it patrolled by snipers, boats, sharks and spray lead at anything that tries to get off the island, no questions asked. I love alcolhol and hate the retarded morons who cant control themselves on it and as a result give it a bad name.

I think 20s solution is the best, put all the animals on an island off the coast.

Have it patrolled by snipers, boats, sharks and spray lead at anything that tries to get off the island, no questions asked.

]]> By: Pat http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-26962 Pat Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:30:05 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-26962 Ha ha ! Your cover's been blown. I have it on the best authority that you are a sweet gentleman. So Sam says:) Ha ha ! Your cover’s been blown. I have it on the best authority that you are a sweet gentleman. So Sam says:)

]]> By: DogsCock http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-26961 DogsCock Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:58:45 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-26961 Medbh, you homer statement is duff amigo. Medbh, you homer statement is duff amigo.

]]> By: OneForTheRoad http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-26960 OneForTheRoad Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:27:31 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-26960 I don't remember that from the Odyssey. Must have been in the Iliad. I don’t remember that from the Odyssey. Must have been in the Iliad.

]]> By: Medbh http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-26959 Medbh Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:59:08 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/2008/03/19/oh-and-another-thing/#comment-26959 Didn't Homer famously describe alcohol as "the cause of and solution to all life's problems"? Hope I quoted that correctly. Didn’t Homer famously describe alcohol as “the cause of and solution to all life’s problems”?
Hope I quoted that correctly.

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