[Vivo]

The Gimp, on 03 July 2016 - 09:00 PM, said:

I find goku post incredulous . I'm astonished by it.
If that post Is the general attitude of today's youth, I weep for the future of our nation, and also feel deep deep sadness that the loss of life by our young men from 100 years ago, and perhaps even more so in the later fight against Nazism, was utterly wasted. We may as well have given up and spent 100 years under the leather jackboot for all these silly kids care. Just what does our education system teach them?
This is a lad who said he cares nothing for politics, didn't ever bother voting, but bellyaches that the referendum voted leave. Oh my word is this what we will be handing the future of our country to?

A couple of years ago I went to one of the large war cemeteries called "Tyne Cot" near Ypres, we then visited Ypres itself. What an emotional trip. It really brings home to you what happened in the war. My wife and I both agreed that it would be a good idea for all UK school children to have a school trip to these places, at some point in their education. They are incredible places to visit and make you realise how very bad things were in the war.

[Ernie Ernie Ernie]

1970sVivoAgro, on 03 July 2016 - 09:47 PM, said:

A couple of years ago I went to one of the large war cemeteries called "Tyne Cot" near Ypres, we then visited Ypres itself. What an emotional trip. It really brings home to you what happened in the war. My wife and I both agreed that it would be a good idea for all UK school children to have a school trip to these places, at some point in their education. They are incredible places to visit and make you realise how very bad things were in the war.

All school children children should be sent to the holocaust centre at Ollerrton.

[Goku]

HistoricWarwick, on 03 July 2016 - 08:18 PM, said:

Explain?

They're footballer's earning ridiculous amounts of money, the likelihood is they simply don't care, they are primarily removed from aspects of this in society. They'd probably just be bored rightly or wrongly (wrongly).

[Goku]

The Gimp, on 03 July 2016 - 09:00 PM, said:

I find goku post incredulous . I'm astonished by it.
If that post Is the general attitude of today's youth, I weep for the future of our nation, and also feel deep deep sadness that the loss of life by our young men from 100 years ago, and perhaps even more so in the later fight against Nazism, was utterly wasted. We may as well have given up and spent 100 years under the leather jackboot for all these silly kids care. Just what does our education system teach them?
This is a lad who said he cares nothing for politics, didn't ever bother voting, but bellyaches that the referendum voted leave. Oh my word is this what we will be handing the future of our country to?

This is outrageously melodramatic and complete hyperbole. I haven't even whinged about the referendum voting leave? I said I wish I'd voted but I've also been speaking to ppl who voted remain (not on here) and telling them to stop being such crybabies that they lost so I'm really not complaining.

But alas, your idiocy doesn't stop there. You take one person's comments (that you've misinterpreted) and extrapolate it to an entire vague age group and you start crying about the future of our country. Look back and realise what a farcical post you have made, you donut.

[Goku]

The Gimp, on 03 July 2016 - 09:12 PM, said:

To quote the Spanish philosopher, poet and novelist George Santayana "those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it"

I hope the young man had been drinking, and that post wasn't his real view/opinion.

What? I didn't display an opinion on visiting the memorial? I said I don't blame THEM for not visiting based on them being footballer's, I never provided a personal opinion on it. What have you read into my post because I didn't write anything that should illicit this level of response?

[Mr Mercury]

Goku, on 04 July 2016 - 06:54 AM, said:

What? I didn't display an opinion on visiting the memorial? I said I don't blame THEM for not visiting based on them being footballer's, I never provided a personal opinion on it. What have you read into my post because I didn't write anything that should illicit this level of response?

We know you meant them, but in that case you would have said, they're footballers so I don't expect them to want to go, saying you don't blame them implies you wouldn't want to go. Poor choice of words at best.

[Goku]

Mr Mercury, on 04 July 2016 - 07:04 AM, said:

We know you meant them, but in that case you would have said, they're footballers so I don't expect them to want to go, saying you don't blame them implies you wouldn't want to go. Poor choice of words at best.

Point taken though it's clear that the aptly-named Gimp wanted to jump in two footed rather than clarifying what I meant.

This post has been edited by Goku: 04 July 2016 - 07:30 AM

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Goku, on 04 July 2016 - 07:12 AM, said:

Point taken though it's clear that the aptly-named Gimp wanted to jump in two footed rather than clarifying what I meant.

Bit like voting leave without knowing the full facts and that Johnson & Farage lied through their teeth!