Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Warsaw, Earth, 1 AU
I thought she was already dead, she has been so removed from public life. Anyway RIP to an important person in Polish history as well
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Apr-09-2013 13:18
colonelcrisp
Isn't Batshit Crazy
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Ottawa
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Originally posted by Lagrangian
And always remember...
FREE MARKET CAPITALISM IS THE BEST PATH TO PROSPERITY
yeah, if you think prosperity is defined by a society clamoring for the almighty dollar completely void of any kind of social ethics......
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
I have 3 hobbies: gaming, DJing & correcting maladjusted fools on the internet.
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine?
Apr-09-2013 20:10
Zharen
Put down the plate
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: On a spit of sand we call Earth
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Originally posted by colonelcrisp
yeah, if you think prosperity is defined by a society clamoring for the almighty dollar completely void of any kind of social ethics......
Apr-09-2013 21:16
Lews
Platipus And Prog Addict
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Hugging Whales And Saving Trees
First she came for the milk. Then she came for the mines. Then she ran out of things to come for, so she went after the football fans arranging recreational punch ups and acid house.
It might sound unlikely in an age where there are a pair of decks and TV screens showing Sky Sports in every pub, but if you wanted to go toe to toe with the establishment at the tail-end of the Thatcher years, the fast track to getting filled in by the police was to watch football or listen to a series of repetitive records with the intention of dancing.
If you were looking for a measure of how the country has adjusted since Thatcher's reign, you could do worse than consider how two constants of the modern mainstream – football and electronic music – were once painted as folk devils by a regime fast running out of new things to point its police horses at.
Granted, football fans had been under few illusions about where they stood in the perceived scheme of things since the 70s, and anyone with industrial or union connections would have been aware of Tory policy well before Thatcher came to power in '79. But for anyone younger, and especially anyone younger and southern, the harshness of the establishment’s war on the twin evils of football and dance music came as something of a surprise.