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Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s

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Spike <Aero.Spike@mail.invalid> wrote:
> On 16/06/2019 09:19, Brian Reay wrote:
>> Spike <Aero.Spike@mail.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 15/06/2019 18:41, Brian Reay wrote:
>>>> On 15/06/2019 08:03, Stephen Cole wrote:
> 
>>>>> Thing is, the Boomers have got far less excuse for it than their parents,
>>>>> IMO, what with coming of age through the 60s, counter-cultural revolution,
>>>>> etc. Bigotry has always been a choice, but with the Boomers it’s so much
>>>>> more of a choice than ever before. It’s been the 21st Century for two
>>>>> decades now.
> 
>>>> You seem to be the one with the bigotry towards those who worked, saved, 
>>>> showed some prudence etc and are now enjoying the fruits of that.
> 
>>>> As for "counter-cultural revolution" etc, you've not got a clue- any 
>>>> more than you have about austerity. I doubt you ever lived in a house 
>>>> without central heating, let alone not having an inside toilet. As for a 
>>>> bathroom etc, forget it. Plenty of baby boomers did.
> 
>>> He has no concept whatsoever of the state of bombed-out cities, tight
>>> rationing, lack of any kind of luxuries; he wouldn't know what austerity
>>> was if it ran him over in the street. It's just something that
>>> Socialists bang on about because they can, but it doesn't mean they know
>>> anything about it.
> 
>> Spike, you didn’t fight in the war. Nor did you see the worst of rationing.
> 
> Now I know you're making things up.
> 
>> I carefully avoided those areas because they didn’t apply to those born
>> even in the later stages of WW2, let alone after it.
> 
> Ah, I see. You didn't mean 'austerity', you meant 'austerity'. You twerp.
> 
>> Keep your stolen valour activities to dressing up and playing with your 19
>> set in the garage. 
> 
> Keep your valour-substitute dressing up for your useless-twerp,
> socially-deficient,  pinny-donned, Billy Bunter Lodge Nights.
> 

Burt, when you checked up on Paul, Burt, did you use your contacts at the
Ministry to dig up the dirt on him, Burt? 

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M0TEY // STC
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Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-06-16 10:18 +0000

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