The day that Thatcher died

More people than were born afterwards.

In the WHOLE world?

Are you a retard?

What are you on about?

Exactly?

Van Uden is not a troll, he does advertising for a living - you know - manipulating people's reactions to carefully crafted stimuli to make them do certain things like buy a packet of biscuits or adopt a tree.

[QUOTE=Gonzo Muppet;3521865]23. She invented Quangos
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Smashing 80s drink. Had no idea about that!

People who work in advertising...

It would be interesting to know who was born before 1979 to 1990 however?

Does it matter who lived through it?
We all live in a more selfish less caring society . (Yes society does exist). The state/people provided essential services such as power, health, housing then. I was born in 1960 and society had reached a point where ownership of stuff did not dictate your value. Sure there were issues around class and gender around which we have becomes more progressive but belief in a society which provided essentials to those who needed them is much better than this free market dog eat dog world we live in. where profit rules and basic needs we all share are controlled by people who are in it for the money not for betterment of everyone and all this is to the detriment of people who don't own stuff.

Came out of the effra after a few beers and wondered why there were cop cars and an ambulance outside the cinema area. Approx 100 idiots celebrating magpies death by climbing up onto the cinemas awning and flying banners that read ' the bitch is dead' etc. Such a bunch of sad fucking losers. Which pretty much sums up,anybody who is into politics that much they can be bothered to write a banner and climb up onto anything. If ever there was need for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Does it matter who lived through it?
We all live in a more selfish less caring society . (Yes society does exist). The state/people provided essential services such as power, health, housing then. I was born in 1960 and society had reached a point where ownership of stuff did not dictate your value. Sure there were issues around class and gender around which we have becomes more progressive but belief in a society which provided essentials to those who needed them is much better than this free market dog eat dog world we live in. where profit rules and basic needs we all share are controlled by people who are in it for the money not for betterment of everyone and all this is to the detriment of people who don't own stuff.

Fuck me its the ragged trousered philanthropist

Er. I was doing exactly that before I met you at the Effra, Tim...
#quandary

Had I known that I wouldn't have spilt my heart out to you

Does it matter who lived through it?
We all live in a more selfish less caring society . (Yes society does exist). The state/people provided essential services such as power, health, housing then. I was born in 1960 and society had reached a point where ownership of stuff did not dictate your value. Sure there were issues around class and gender around which we have becomes more progressive but belief in a society which provided essentials to those who needed them is much better than this free market dog eat dog world we live in. where profit rules and basic needs we all share are controlled by people who are in it for the money not for betterment of everyone and all this is to the detriment of people who don't own stuff.

I'm having a go at VanUden who when to the biggest demo and stole stuff.

I would be interesred in who else on this thread are in their early 40's and have lived through it. I'm not having a pop at anyone younger than me.

In fact I'd love people younger than me to have a pop at people my age. Most don't...

I'm in my late 40s... Tim, fuck off... X

Came out of the effra after a few beers and wondered why there were cop cars and an ambulance outside the cinema area. Approx 100 idiots celebrating magpies death by climbing up onto the cinemas awning and flying banners that read ' the bitch is dead' etc. Such a bunch of sad fucking losers. Which pretty much sums up,anybody who is into politics that much they can be bothered to write a banner and climb up onto anything. If ever there was need for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The fucker is dead, good.
Have some >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yourself.

Tedious nugget thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I was born in 75 so all i really remember was my Dad shouting at the tv. Im not just going to repeat what he says.
I dont have an opinion on her apart from;
She went where no woman has been since. In a time where sexism was alot worse than today.
She was in for 11 years? Revoted twice?
It is history.

Thanks Oliver, I guess the forum has changed more than I realise. Both you and MarkyBoy are officially owed pints but I only make it out around Camberwell or Brixton these days - not Finchley ;)

Let me know when :)

The forum has changed massively now.
If you do not go with the masses and share their polarised views on all subjects and or have the balls rto stand out you get called a cunt/twat/wanker blah blah blah....
And people are so fucking quick to take offense now and sense of humour has gone about as far South as those dodgy Islands in the middle of nowhere

Woke up this morning, turned on radio, still dead, still happy.

Ahh. I bet she's looking up at us now, thinking what an ungrateful set of bastards. After all she did for us.. Heaven turned out to be a furnace of a Yorkshire coal mine.

I lost my first ever job aged 10 as milk monitor while she was in government. Within days painted on the school walls in three feet high letters. 'Thatcher the milk snatcher'.. she certainly divided opinion, even in our household, extended the wealth-poverty gap, oversaw the miners strike, race riots across the country and poll tax riots in London, united Scotland.

I suppose I should credit her for inspiring some of the best music this country has produced though.

But then he started arguing.

Oh no, I didn't.

The way Thatcher fucked this country is the reason it's still fucked up, rot in hell ......

For
The miners
The shipbuilders
The steelworkers
The old that froze to death
The old that couldn't afford food
For the thousands made homeless

For
The North
The disenfranchised black youth
The lost generation of young
The Hillsborough families
The men dead in a conflict designed to win her an election
The men traumatised from the Falklands War
For Northern Ireland

For
My Mam and Dad
My Grandparents
My brother
Every LGBT kid who committed suicide due to Section 28 in schools
The teachers
The victims of gaybashing which were never investigated due to pressure from her government
For the gay men stitched up and banged up for being gay

For
The women of Greenham Common who were beaten and had their kids forcibly taken into care for no reason
For the men and women assaulted in the Battle of the Beanfield
For the men and women consigned to the scrapheap
For the services that used to belong to all of us and now are badly run in the hands of the rich
For the country that used to stand for social justice and created the National Health Service
The mentally ill thrown out on the streets
The children abused in care homes and ignored or worse abused by some in her government
I celebrate the death of a woman who caused so much pain

all valid points.. a nation's individual greed, inspired to own homes, cars and earn loadsamoneh!!!

Grunswick happened on my doorstep, so this was definitley my first memory of how divisive things were about to become - sources - (wikipedia + conservative home). The Grunwick dispute was an industrial dispute involving http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union (NAFF) and the Conservative Party, rejected the recommendations. The TUC subsequently withdrew their support and the workers' strike committee announced the end of the dispute in June 1978. The repercussions of the strike for British industrial relations were far-reaching, significantly weakening the British trades union movement. For the Conservative Party and the right-wing this was seen as a major political and ideological victory, preparing the ground for their success in the 1979 general election and their subsequent curbing of the unions' power in the 1980s. The victory helped Margaret Thatcher on her way to Downing Street.