Dibbsy

[Pervert]

Officer, old bean, you are beginning to resemble a tabloid newspaper with your constant emphasis on the negativity of life in the UK and trying to instil fear into the lieges. Good news sells no papers, but fear sells a shitload.

If the situation were as hopeless as you and the meeja constantly claim, the Samaritans would need to have three times the workforce of the armed forces to prevent wholesale suicides.

Good things happen here. Gangs of teenagers help old folk with their shopping and raise money for charity. Large groups of east Europeans come to this country and do honest work. And single mothers on council estates work rather than receive benefits because they were taught and brought up to do so.

Not newsworthy, I agree---and no doubt you could cite hundreds if not thousands of examples for your argument. But society exists. If it's broken, I don't know how to fix it. If I was a dictator, I'd give it a damned good try, but I'm not and don't want to be, and people aren't sheep to be led in whatever direction "we" want them to go (though what gives us the right to lead anyway . . .).

Lighten up. Watch some old comedy shows. Is our society imperfect? Yes. But it could be a hell of a lot worse.

[Officer Dibble]

"Officer, old bean, you are beginning to resemble a tabloid newspaper with your constant emphasis on the negativity of life in the UK and trying to instill fear into the lieges. Good news sells no papers, but fear sells a shitload."

You know me - can't resist stirring the old pot.


"Good things happen here. Gangs of teenagers help old folk with their shopping and raise money for charity. Large groups of east Europeans come to this country and do honest work. And single mothers on council estates work rather than receive benefits because they were taught and brought up to do so."

Yes, indeed they do. And I promise I do have some feel-good anecdotes, regarding chavs and the like, up my sleeve. It's just that I never get round to relating them, since the negative ones seem so much more pressing.




Officer Dibble







Officius Dibblus est amplus amor deus

[Officer Dibble]

By the way Carac, I'm curious. How come you're frequently abroad at this ungodly hour? Can't sleep? Shift worker? I thought it was only creatures of the night like my bad self that caressed the keyboard by the light of the waxen moon?




Officer Dibble







Officius Dibblus est amplus amor deus

[Deuce Bigolo]

Or put on some cheerful theme music while reading about the daily horrors

[Pervert]

Backshift worker, so I tend to be needing to unwind when all the rest of the world is at rest.

I'm a creature of the night anyway. What beautiful music I make!

[vp002]

Well it is a british thing to say everything smells of sh1t !

hence the aussie term whingeing poms !!!