Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Now this is a CORKER OF A FACT and eye opener............

Public spending overall went up in cash terms every year under Lady Thatcher, generally keeping up with inflation. In 1982/83 the government was spending 48 per cent of GDP, more than in any year under Blair or Brown.

YES INCLUDING BROWN.

Right off to feed the trout, I hate them pellets and then watching 2nd half of Madrid match.

When I was growing up in this country we didn't need to have all these statistics and surveys about why young people behaved badly. I was given a good smack on my backside if I put a toe out of line. Too many parents today pass the responsibility of bringing up their children on to teachers or child minders. One of my friends recently went on a holiday cruise with her husband and said their holiday was completely ruined because children were running up and down the corridors outside their bedroom door late at night while their parents were getting pissed at the bar. No "class barriers amongst the young" gf and you have a huge class barrier chip on your shoulder for whatever reason.

Quicky DB yes you are so right above, its the birth of Thatchers latch door key kid that has created the present no respect society.

ps, so sorry to hear of all the noice outside your house last night. I hope you get a good nights sleep tonight. Try some boveril, always works for me.

Laters after footy.

The term "latch key kid" originated in the 1940's during World War II.

I did try to reason with the mindless muppets who were celebrating last night gf, but most of them were totally pissed - courtesy of our benefit system. You just cannot reason with drunks, especially left-wing anarchist drunks. I probably need to move to a more civilised part of the country, one of the few parts of this country which is left, where upper class toffs know how to behave and respect their neighbours. Does that place exist anywhere now in Britain?

You are right skinny the term "latch key kid" originated long before Margaret Thatcher became PM.

goldfinger - 09 Apr 2013 17:39 - 23176 of 23210

Greekman ....what job did you used to do?. You havent answered my question yet.

Not managed to catch up with all today's posts, been busy bossing the lowly paid, riff raff into shape.

But anyways, I see the mighty goldfinger is applying his double standards with both barrels today. You could answer a few questions yourself goldfinger, like, how you managed to expose Maxwell when you were five years old or perhaps Cynic's question as to how you were going to expose him?

Then we have you repeatedly posting MoneyAm's T&Cs as if they were your own, whining about posts you considered insulting and then quite happily throwing insults at other posters. I mean come on, there's twats and hypocritical twats, which two are you?

Hays,

Would like to be more explicit about where you think my daughter escorted me to?

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Skinny,

I hope you owned up when you saw your photograph.

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3 m.

I will explain to you later.

But her favourite course was Eggs Florentine, we both still enjoy this dish.

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Just had a text message from Australia.

Ding Dong,

The witch is dead.

We have started the day with Champagne.

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"She" seems to have been loved everywhere.

Fred
I meant my son and friends. It was not a restaurant.

goldplunger seems to be getting quite pompous about MoneyAM's rules. I am sure we all know the rules and they rarely appear to be broken and certainly NOT by any of the people that goldwhinger points his finger at.

Yes you guys are right about the lacth key kid, but Thatchers was remamed the latch DOOR key kid. Gentleman please lets have it accurate.

Fantastic 2nd half of football from the Turks.

Chuckles no problem old cock ....just wait on a second.Illbe back.

What on earth is a

latch DOOR key kid.

as opposed to a

latch key kid?

I looked for that exact phrase on Google and there are only a handful of matches. Almost every one is a use mentioned over the last 2 days. That suggests that the phrase was NEVER used in or after Thatcher's time. Yet another invention of the left.

There will be more than a few bottles of champagne drunk when you shuttle of this mortal coil Fred, you sad, bitter, left wing, commi old fart. (thats being polite).

Here we are chuckles Ill flog it you for the knock down price of £17.99 youl get to know evertyhing you ask in your post above.

And for good measure Ill sign it for you.

Now I cant be any more generous than that........

ohhh and by the way second point terms and conditions of site, yes thats still with Ian and more importantly your re-posted squelched post, which is covered by the terms.

I do hope to see an out come tomorrow.

Haystack, I was probably a latch door key kid, but that was long before Thatcher's time. During all of my primary school years, I toddled off to school on my own and returned home in the afternoon. No parental supervision, one parent family and he was out working. So I looked after myself, as did many of my school mates. The point I make is that Thatcher was not responsible for somehow inventing generations of kids who became latch door key kids, they were already well established.

Getting to be a nice little coumfy thread this, shame its politics and Maggies death that has brought us so close together. Never mind not long now before local elections and total tory annihilation.

I was a latch key kid in the 1050s as well as my mother worked as well and my father. It was certainly never called 'latch door key kid'.