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Chat => General => Topic started by: oldspice on April 09, 2013, 12:17:37 pm
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I am sure you all know to whom I am referring!
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:)
The Wicked Witch Is Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jn8K8EA7-Q#)
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There's a lot of arguing on social networking sites at the moment about 'respect' (the most overused and misunderstood word of our times) - the main argument being that apparently we should show respect for Thatcher because a) she's dead and b) she was a mother.
First of all, there are only two things in life that absolutely everyone does - we all get born and we all die. If death erases any bad behaviour in life, surely everyone should be remembered as a saint? Secondly, giving birth alone doesn't make a woman above criticism either. Thatcher got to the top as a woman in a man's world - people who genuinely admired her are only letting her down by asking that she be judged as a mother rather than a Prime Minister. Had Tony Blair died on Monday instead, would those who despise him for his part in the Iraq war have kept quiet out of 'respect' for the fact that he's a father?
I'm not one of the people saying 'I'm glad she's dead', because the death of an 87 year-old woman with senile dementia changes nothing. But as I've already said, her age, her death and the fact she had children also did nothing to change the terrible mess she made of things in this country. In short, don't be glad she's dead - be sad she lived.
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I'm sure my parents are rejoicing at her death, but if it wasn't for her, they wouldn't have been able to buy their council house. Also, if it wasn't for her, there would be lots of housing going, but everyone bought them up when they had the chance, which means I have nowhere to live.
And people wonder why I'm bitter...
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There's a lot of arguing on social networking sites at the moment about 'respect' (the most overused and misunderstood word of our times) - the main argument being that apparently we should show respect for Thatcher because a) she's dead and b) she was a mother.
First of all, there are only two things in life that absolutely everyone does - we all get born and we all die. If death erases any bad behaviour in life, surely everyone should be remembered as a saint? Secondly, giving birth alone doesn't make a woman above criticism either. Thatcher got to the top as a woman in a man's world - people who genuinely admired her are only letting her down by asking that she be judged as a mother rather than a Prime Minister. Had Tony Blair died on Monday instead, would those who despise him for his part in the Iraq war have kept quiet out of 'respect' for the fact that he's a father?
I'm not one of the people saying 'I'm glad she's dead', because the death of an 87 year-old woman with senile dementia changes nothing. But as I've already said, her age, her death and the fact she had children also did nothing to change the terrible mess she made of things in this country. In short, don't be glad she's dead - be sad she lived.
I totally agree Smurfy, and if she did get to the top in a man's world it says much more about the crappy system than it does about her. When did you ever hear her talk about a single woman who inspired her? When did she ever mention her sister or her mother? It was all about her father. She called feminism 'poison' and did absolutely nothing to advance the cause of women.
I once heard someone say 'you should always speak good of the dead'. Well, Thatcher's dead. GOOD!
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Hooray the bitch is DEED, nasty woman, I have yet to found anyone who liked her. I understand things needed to change but she could have done a HELL of alot better job....
Gusses what going to number one:
margaret thatcher dies ding dong the witch is dead. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3dvb567v4s#)
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A legendary p**s take
margaret thatcher vs john major (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyU8qmzGsEg#)
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Thatcher Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=957seBBqy-A#ws)
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There's a lot of arguing on social networking sites at the moment about 'respect' (the most overused and misunderstood word of our times) - the main argument being that apparently we should show respect for Thatcher because a) she's dead and b) she was a mother.
First of all, there are only two things in life that absolutely everyone does - we all get born and we all die. If death erases any bad behaviour in life, surely everyone should be remembered as a saint? Secondly, giving birth alone doesn't make a woman above criticism either. Thatcher got to the top as a woman in a man's world - people who genuinely admired her are only letting her down by asking that she be judged as a mother rather than a Prime Minister. Had Tony Blair died on Monday instead, would those who despise him for his part in the Iraq war have kept quiet out of 'respect' for the fact that he's a father?
I'm not one of the people saying 'I'm glad she's dead', because the death of an 87 year-old woman with senile dementia changes nothing. But as I've already said, her age, her death and the fact she had children also did nothing to change the terrible mess she made of things in this country. In short, don't be glad she's dead - be sad she lived.
She called feminism 'poison' and did absolutely nothing to advance the cause of women.
I hadn't realised until this week that she never appointed a woman to a senior cabinet post.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/27/economics.oil (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/27/economics.oil)
More info here - http://scriptonitedaily.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/there-is-no-alternative-debunking-the-greatest-myth-of-thatcherism/ (http://scriptonitedaily.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/there-is-no-alternative-debunking-the-greatest-myth-of-thatcherism/)
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So, shadowing my post on here, Ding Dong... is now in the UK charts. Radio 1 are refusing to play it, however. Censorship lives on.
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Doesn't stop us from SINGING it though!!
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Here is the so called PRO Maggie song, I think some people have not clicked what the song is really about, its from Oct 1979.....
not sensibles, I'm in Love With Margaret Thatcher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnToK3kSKKg#)