What with the UK now being the 'nanny state', CCTV, anti-terrorism laws used to track innocent people, remote controlled dustbins and all the other amazing stuff I read in the papers, here is the latest in a long line of unbelievable acts confirming my belief that very soon East Germany will have looked like a holiday camp compared to what the UK is becoming.
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“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.” -
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Originally posted by eliquant View Post"Tony Blair's got big ears, Tony's got big eaaarsss, nah- nah nah-nah naaah ..."My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostThat's because Noddy told Plod that Big Ears was plump enough to be wearing a suicide vest.
Then you can stand outside the school library for the rest of play time, not speaking to anyone.Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostWhat with the UK now being the 'nanny state', CCTV, anti-terrorism laws used to track innocent people, remote controlled dustbins and all the other amazing stuff I read in the papers, here is the latest in a long line of unbelievable acts confirming my belief that very soon East Germany will have looked like a holiday camp compared to what the UK is becoming.
Don't tell him Pike!Comment
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I suggest reading The Gulag Archipelago, being very afraid, and then emigrating. Oh, hang on. It's a daily mail link.
Nothing to see, move along.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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arrrrgghhhh my eyes my eyes, I didn't realise until it was too late that the link went to the Daily Wail !!!!The proud owner of 125 Xeno Geek PointsComment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostI suggest reading The Gulag Archipelago, being very afraid, and then emigrating. Oh, hang on. It's a daily mail link.
Nothing to see, move along.
When it comes to a truly awful read though - and a possible prediction of the future, past the Stalinist, sorry, Blair-Brown, regime I'd recommend another work by Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward, a novel which tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Uzbekistan in 1955, in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union and explores the moral responsibility — symbolised by the patients' malignant tumours — of those implicated in the suffering of their fellow citizens during Stalin's Great Purge, when millions were killed, sent to labour camps, or exiled.
One of the patients fears that a man he helped to jail, now released, will seek revenge, while others come to realize that their passive involvement, their failure to resist, renders them as guilty as any other. "You haven't had to do much lying, do you understand?" Shulubin tells the main character, Oleg Kostoglotov, who was in a labor camp. "At least you haven't had to stoop so low — you should appreciate that! You people were arrested, but we were herded into meetings to 'expose' you. They executed people like you, but they made us stand up and applaud the verdicts ... And not just applaud, they made us demand the firing squad, demand it!"
Toward the end of the novel, Kostoglotov — who, like Solzhenitsyn, was forced into exile under Article 58, which dealt with so-called counter-revolutionaries — realizes that the damage done to him, and to Russia, was too great, and that there will be no healing, no normal life now that Stalin has gone. On the day of his release from the cancer ward, toward the end of the novel, he visits a zoo, seeing in the animals people he knew: "[E]ven supposing Oleg took their side and had the power, he would still not want to break into the cages and liberate them ... [D]eprived of their home surroundings, they had lost the idea of rational freedom. It would only make things harder for them, suddenly to set them free."[2]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_WardComment
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I read somewhere that West Germany had four times the crime rate than East Germany. So clearly the Stasi were doing something right.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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I often look at these stories and try to see the other side of the coin. This one, however, is truly disturbing.Comment
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