Why trains put me off

[AnotherPaul]

home of getting beaten up as i remember it.

[*Bob*]

AnotherPaul Wrote:

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> home of getting beaten up as i remember it.

Is that what it says on the sign as you drive in?

WELCOME TO LETCHWORTH

The home of getting beaten-up

[AnotherPaul]

http://www.oneanother.ltd.uk/i/letchworth_signage.jpg

let's pitch it

[*Bob*]

Hee hee..

Twinned with..?

[AnotherPaul]

to be fair it was only twice in five years which should make me incredibly fearful of all things Letchworth.

But I like mockney.

Can't square that, maybe The Daily Fail can help with such dilemmas.

ap

[AnotherPaul]

Twinned with West Dulwich

The home of rail fear

[*Bob*]

HA HA HA

I like it. A lot.

[mockney piers]

Ha ha, genius, love it Paul!!

[citizenED]

It so happened that I read the copy of the Daily Mail that Louisa read. I was at my mum's, and every time I'm there i fall into the trap of scouring it just to check whether it has changed. I end up feeling completely morose.

Trouble is that my mum lives in a genteel Essex seaside town where there is virtually no crime. All the old folks who live there could probably leave their front doors open, let alone there back doors. They are certainly the types who would like to. Yet they all read the Mail or Express or Torygraph and I can only deduce that they all lock their doors as a direct consequence of reading those papers. It makes me sad, and then it makes me angry.

When the govt recently suggested that the police gave a more detailed breakdown of crime in their area so that locals could make a better-informed decisions, I saw an old lady from Cambridgeshire being interviewed on TV. The journalised worked out that this woman's chance of being a victim of crime was so low as to be negligable. Yet that poor woman was so frightened by the reporting of crime that she never went out after dark. The lady reminded me of my mum. It made me feel so bitter towards the press that peddle this disproportionate guff.

citizen

[SeanMacGabhann]

eloquently put CitizenEd

[Brendan]

Have you noticed this week?s hobby horse? Underage drinking! Actually the BBC is also guilty of this one. Apparently the solution is to up the legal drinking age to 21. Surely doing that will just increase the amount of underage drinkers? :-S If it were up to me I would drop the age to 16 and hey presto most of the problem goes away.

I really should go into politics.

[*Bob*]

I think 21 is the answer. I mean - it seems to work well in the USA.

Like the gun laws.

[Brendan]

Yeah give kids 5 years to learn how to use their guns while sober before they start using them while drunk. Makes perfect sense.

[SimonM]

>>If it were up to me I would drop the age to 16 and hey presto most of the problem goes away.<<

Nah - drop it to 12 and make it compulsory until 16: that'd sort it. And why anyway is it such a problem here and not across the Channel? Nothing to do with starting the kids on wine when they're about 7 I suppose?