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It 's not that S.F. is heavily right-wing-----it 's just that it 's only the right-wingers who can string sentences together.

I was already feeling suicidal before I read Frank 's dire missive-----and now he 's put the tin lid on it. We have just lost North Korea 's Beloved Leader and we still see Balls on the t.v. nearly every day. I didn 't think things could get worse. The only problem is deciding how to ' move on ' before the financial typhoon overwhelms us all in our beds ? The pills ? The gas ? A double-decker bus ? It 's tempting to go into a pub, light up a ciggy, refuse to leave.......and then have a ' stand off ' with some armed police. Goodbye cruel world.........

Was the Cossack a gay pub ? I 've an idea it was------shaking hands was the second most popular way of greeting friends [ or strangers ! ].

One thing 's for certain :-we cannot blame those young folk----- who were smashing things up, nicking things and setting cars on fire----for starting the riots.Since birth, these poor little mites have been seeing rich bankers driving their Rollers straight into crowds of widows and orphans, begging for bread or a bowl of gruel. These same youngsters have also been victims of a fascist police force who have been beating them up twice daily as they nip into Morrison 's for the baby 's milk. No wonder they took a few trinkets when they saw they at last had a chance to own something worthwhile ! These youngsters need our love and understanding. If you have any spare rooms, please let the Social Services know......and YOU too could be helping a desperate youngster.

I think the penny dropped as Sheffielders realised with a sudden shock how much of their money has gone down the Council drain over the last 30 years ; enough to make anyone have a huge wobbler !

If Sheffield is the City of Culture. Mexborough is the Cote d ' Azur, Barnsley is Paris and Rome together...........and......er......Rotherham is the Garden of Eden

Generally speaking, I have always found ' the Left ', both in everyday and professional life possess practically no sense of humour whatsoever. Even the Left-leaning ' comedians ', to me, are a very unfunny, infantile bunch------with very obvious, easy targets and a reliance on ' shock ' words to raise a laugh from gormless audiences. No doubt if Mr. Clarkson had recommended shooting bankers or even just rich businessmen, the Left would be in stitches and perhaps even wee-ing themselves ? One joke for the Holier-Than-Thou 's another joke for the rest of us ?

Yes, CorkerSWFC, being an old 'un, I need all the help I can get. I could do with somebody to drive me to the pub every day......and more important to take me home again and prepare me some supper [ No junk though ]. I could also use a 24 /7 cleaning lady who can also prepare large Eng.Breakfasts. Would it be a bit cheeky do you reckon to also ask for a live-in lap dancer.....or similar ? Any additional help would also be most welcomed. Cheers !!

Yeah, great days indoors......and out ! One feature of Sunday lunchtimes back then was to see little knots of men standing outside pubs from about a quarter to twelve onwards. As soon as the landlord started to unbolt the door, on the magic hour, there 'd be a sort of crush as everybody tried to be first at the ' fountain of youth ' ! The perfect set-up, I suppose, was to have your share in the pub and then go home and join in the family meal. Naturally, that routine all depended on the ' devil in an apron ' who usually ruled the roost with an iron fist [ so to speak ! ].

Who 's REALLY bothered what the young will have to face ? Throughout history, people have inherited far, far worse conditions [ just to give 2 examples, 1918 and 1945 ]. How did we overcome the dire problems ? By re-organising ourselves and hard work. That 's why the Germans are so well off and the Greeks are in a mess------and we are somewhere in-between. You can only live in Cloud Cuckoo land for so long. So, let our Youf work it out for themselves. It might mean smaller cars, smaller tellies, holidays in Cleethorpes rather than Spain........and less instant food......but I 'm sure they 'll get over it .

Shooter-----I think what you remember was probably all true------certainly, they had the waiters in white jackets [ Going off on a slight tangent-----a pub that definitely had the bells AND the waiters , at least up to the 1970 's [ ? ] was the Porter Cottage on Sharrowvale Road. This was before the students dominated the place and a lot of the regulars were roughly the same mixture as the Nursery at the same time----old and young, rich and poor, beautiful and ugly. bad and good------plus a fair number of eccentrics to round it all off-----great places ! ]

If we had to stand up to the Teutonic Hordes, yet again, no problem ! In fact------bring it on, man ! First of all, the old 'uns and the millions of our disabled and those too immature to fight [ i.e. those under 25 years ] would form a modern version of Dad s Army. Subject to Health & Safety regs. we would grapple with Merkel 's marauders as soon as they set foot in Dover. Our heroic Youf who proved so gallant and heroic in the recent War for London would be attacking from the air and sea with all of our 3 aircraft and 4 ships. There would be no mercy shown. Of course any deaths or wounding would be immediately investigated by the U.N. Committee on Human Rights & Playing Fair in the Battlefield. Our tough lads, raised by the i-pod and trained in Dismissal Procedure, Equality for Everybody and non-competitive Sports would make mincemeat of the enemy. Our super-dooper computers and fantastic levels of education would ensure smooth communication and 100 % co-ordination, such as we have seen in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yes, so, let 's get to work lads and lasses and others too. Get those uniforms pressed, polish those boots and those baldy heads, kiss Mr. Cameron 's Photograph and let 's get it over with ! Rule Britannia !!

Those of you who have to remove shoes or who do so voluntarily, beware-----socks ! At one place I visited, my socks were so worn and dirty, Mine Host asked me to put my shoes back on ! Then, about a week later I received, anonymously, a pair of socks through the post. Cheeky chuffs

Whenever I do get any guests I ask them to remove everything. Needless to say, these days I don 't get many visitors but when the odd one does drop in, at least it 's always interesting.

Could it lead to this ? ' Spokesperson required for Help the Homeless. Must have slept rough for minimum of 2 years. Experience of aggressive begging and raw alcohol an advantage. Hang around in town somewhere tomorrow for interview. No time-wasters or cowboys !! '

Old ' Red 'Ead ' always looks to me like the general assistant in a men 's outfitters store. Somehow, he lacks gravitas. I can 't imagine him sitting down with Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta. [ We 'd have only ended up with Isle of Wight ! ]. Might he ' grow into ' the job ? Yeah, might do if he 's still around in 2040

Well, thank goodness murder remains extremely rare ! It wouldn 't be very nice, after all, to stumble across one every time one went to the shops. However, how rare is rare ?. If there were 5 a year in Sheffield, I 'd call that ' rare ' but I 'm not sure what any upper limit might be ?? Any suggestions ? The important aspect about this though is the effect that murders and acts of violence have on all the community. How many vulnerable people, elderly people, meek and mild people.......or just ordinary people sit at home with a calculator, going, " Oh, well, number of murders and acts of violence......etc.......XYZ.......population of Sheffield, about 550,000. Oh, great, not much chance of getting done up tonight. Yippee ! " ? No, they probably sit and wonder if they might be next It 's one of the reasons our city centres look like a drunken Hell on Earth on Friday and Saturday nights. Most law-abiding people over the age of 21 don 't want to risk getting ' infected ' by the louts, drunks, punch-up merchants and psychopaths who rule the streets. Hey, one thing though, dudes----it 's safer than Mexico City !!

Trying to make a workable economic [ political, social ] unit with somewhere so huge and diverse as Europe was always a 99 % non-starter. If the original members had been content to leave it as a free-trade area, on a modest scale, it may have worked. Now, they 're lumbered with a gigantic Frankenstein mixture of an organisation that is trying to streamline not only its economy but its political, social, legal, cultural and even military systems too. It has become hopelessly complicated and ruinously expensive. The people ' in charge ' don 't look like they could organise a scrap yard........but would cheerfully sell their grandmas for 5 Euros. The solution ? Dunno ! And such is the size of the problem I don 't think anyone else has a solution either !

There 's Binge Drinking every Friday & Saturday night in the city centre-----no special location-----just follow the noise of shouting and sirens. You can also go to the bottom of The Moor or around the Barker 's Pool area and have a look where the new developments will be, sometime in the future. Many fine, take-away and fast food places, full of cultured, interesting people, in many ways re-creating the cafe society of old Vienna or modern-day Left Bank Paris. Meadowhell...................er, that 's it really..........oh, and Rotherham is not far away if you want a nice change.

Well, it was great in about 1993 when I was there for about 3 days and it still seems great now ! What everyone says [ above ] is true-----a great city. If my memory 's correct, in the big square in the centre there were about 9 pavement cafes and gypsy musicians passing from one to the other without being obtrusive. A great mixture of the ancient and modern-----good jazz clubs, for example. Apart from Auschwitz, in the other direction [ I think ? ] is the Plaskow camp, made [in]famous in the Schindler 's List film. I visited only Auschwitz and that was enough to think about for a life-time !

Yes, the vast majority of idle louts, posing as children should be evicted from home at the age of 16...........or in special cases 14. These hulking brutes [ male and female ], drift round the house, grunting and scratching when they ought to be digging holes in a field or doing rifle drill 12 hours a day. Their poor parents would then have some respite from the empty fridge, the smelly bedrooms, the loud rap music, the bad manners and general boorishness of their offsprings. They would be able to have a meal in peace, sit back with a drink and a smoke and watch Newsnight instead of BigBrother. Most of the world 's species kick their young out at a certain age. Our only problem is that American Child ' Experts ' via the media have persuaded or conned most people into thinking that we humans ought to be responsible for our brats for ever ! [ In fact in some societies, young people ARE much more responsible for their old Mums and Dads than in Child-Centred Britain. ]

Most of today 's children should be locked in cages for long periods and if they choose to fight, so be it. Their worn-out parents would then feel free to sit back, have a drink and a smoke and discuss the world 's events in peace and quiet. Our parents were glad to see the back of us for hours on end by sending us ' out to play '. We were glad to see the back of them too, for a few hours. It was a great system where everyone seemed more relaxed. These days parents have been conned by American Child Psychiatrists via the Meejia, to spend every free minute poking their long noses into their children 's lives. Likewise the children have been conned into thinking this is normal. These days, we can 't easily let children ' go out and play ', mainly because mad motorists have clogged up the streets or are speeding round knocking people over. Hence the need for cages .........or something similar.

I would imagine a good few take the ' quick way out ' once they realise the ship is heading back to the U.K. With the latest financial shocks and stupidity [ N.H.S. Computer Systems, the newly re-organised Fire Service a la Prescott and the hospitals being built expensively via Private Enterprise ] they would be better sailing to N.Korea or northern Greenland. Only when we ban return tickets on ships leaving the U.K. will more people jump ONTO the ship instead of jumping off in a panic, into the briny. Rule Britannia !

Could we stand a long, deep recession ? Sell the car ! Blackpool, not Miami ! Cut down on fast food and convenience food ! Economise on electricity and gas ? OMG to the power of 4 !! Hey, hang abaht.......a lot of us have been through all that-----and had even less than that ! And History is full of similar examples Nearly everyone in the 1930 's had less than they did in the 1920 's...........and so life goes on-------------------up and down, down up, down. You have to learn to be flexible and learn NOT to spend money you haven 't really got. I just wonder if the experience will do us any good psychologically or spiritually ?

Actually, I think there 's quite a lot of sympathy for Spiff smokers in the U.K. .......and rightly so ! I only wish there was as much sympathy towards us nicotine smokers. Advertisements for food and drink show happy, healthy [ ? ] little kids stuffing their little faces with all kinds of unhealthy crap in vast quantities. They show shiny, middle-class know-alls knocking back the booze at a rate of knots. [ Obesity and alcohol problems nowhere in sight ! ] Then we see fast, expensive cars whizzing round-----aahhh-how wonderful ! [ Accidents, pollution---forgotten ! ]. But if you smoke within about a kilometre of a school you 're likely to be subject to a Dawn Swoop by the SAS.........strange world innit ?