Claire Short - Question Time

[jj]

....you forgot selling the other poor nations useless bits of crap like Air Traffic Control systems which even WE can't get to work properly.
What's next? Sand to the Arabs?
Oh, we've already done that.

[jj]

Have you ever TALKED to any kids recently? Half of the Law that I know has come from some 8-year olds.
The South Park boys seem like pussycats in comparison.
And I'd rather children saw the world as it really is, than being 'cotton-wooled' and thereby rendered more vulnerable to all the scrotes out there.
Innocence is a wonderful thing, but so tragically transient and vulnerable.

[Phil McC]

JJ, I have no problem with the labeling system if it says adult/offensive don't buy it. South Park is an adult cartoon it is classified as that, why then do they market pencil cases and school bags from WH Smiths etc. Thats what I find offensive. Telling your kid about nasty men in the park is correct (even if we should not need to) and guiding them away from other evils is cool. But from my personal circumstance I don't know that all this worldly knowlege is so great. I feel I was robbed of most of my teen years by being to street cred. I always had a deal on the go, and my name on a door card (which was blue).
Phil McC

[jj]

Deep down, I think we agree on all the essentials.
Kids should be allowed to be just THAT, and I find the cynical merchandising tactics or these turkeys as offensive as you obviously do.
My parents would NEVER have let me watch something like SP, and my father resolutely refused to allow me to have any sort of toy weapon as a Xmas present, etc....he was of the generation that went through TWO World Wars, and had had quite enough of mindless violence by then.
I still feel, in my Twilight Years, that I could have done with much more childhood.
Signed: JJ, aged 407 and three months.

[jj]

Thanks: now I remember.
Just a wild guess, but are you a fan of Troma vids?

[Matt]

Humility, JJ.

All that stuff about students is untrue.

I'm the most humble person I've ever known.

[Siddhartha]

Yeah, I know.......
.....if wit was shit, I'd be constipated.
Back to the Bo-tree, now,
(REALLY good shit from those leaves.......)

[Tessa Jowell]

BTW, chaps: only 475 more posts and we get the prize for the 'Longest Ever Thread'.....
....and we can finally consign the dreaded 'Did "Someone" Ever do h/c?' thread to the obscurity it so richly deserves.

[joe king]

posssibly Claire Short is in the same category as Mary Whitehouse (she thinks she is doing good) - Claire Short seems to have more 'intelligence' and power (not always a good mixture).

[jj, and it's all Joe's fault.]

......I'm sorry, Joe, I can't possibly answer sarcastically or otherwise.
I'm still pissing meself at the 'TV Schedules'.
And trimming my beard.