Sorry, was confusing you with knockout (who along with the illustrious Mr McNeilly attended the same university as me), often happens.KO Artist wrote:I agree with your point James, but I didnt go to university. I did grow up on a council estate and thoroughly enjoyed it. Though I was lucky enough to work in businesses where I got a good commercial education.jamesmcdonnell wrote:don't call it a comeback wrote: I havent got a british title either. Does this mean I have to throw out my silk jimjams?
Yes it bloody well does. I expect to see a link posted on here with a picture of you burning said Pyjamas.
KO, your point about the people who own these flash motors is of course often the case. However, people who live in said council estates, often do not have the background which allows them to believe that they could get a mortgage on a property, or the knowledge of finances to make those informed decisions. I seem to recall you are not from an affluent background, much like myself, but we both had a university education and moved in circles which are not directly related to our original environment. The apple does sometimes fall further from the tree.
It's not to do so much with where you are born, but how you are brought up. Sad to say, but if you have thick ignorant parents, (and that is not something confined by any means to council estates), then there is a greater chance that you too will grow up thick and ignorant.
Poverty and desolate surroundings have a way of stifling the reach of young people. Thus, they look to the instant gratification of designer labels, cheap bling jewellery, drug money, stupid rotating rims on their cars wheels etc. Which is easier, making a 10 year plan to buy a property, or buying a snide Ralph Lauren from the market?
I was having an argument with this daily mail reading twat in my office who is a staunch and idiotic tory, always banging on about immigration etc, Indian call centres, blah blah blah. I tried to point out to her that the tories and the idea of a free market economy is what led directly to the call centre phenomenon, the freedom of companies to employ labour around the world. All these young hoodlums out robbing and selling crack are just living the capatalist dream, unfettered by any moral obligation to anyone but themselves and those closest to them.
In essence this get rich or die tryin' generation is a direct descendent of the thatcher era yuppie. The idea that the pursuit of wealth, it's trappings and the damnation of any idea of a common weal and the good of the community is the creation of those evil bastards who ushered in the era of global capitalism as the sole god in our country.
The Daily moan must be the most paranoid and depressing paper in the uk.
The times is more balanced, but a little leftie at times.
I read the time on a daily basis, I find it fairly neutral compared to the Guardian and the Independent, though still a liberal newspaper.
The Mail is the worst rag out there in my opinion, it fans the flames of hatred, paranoia and xenophobia whilst masquerading as a 'serious' newspaper. The sun is at least sometimes tongue in cheek and irreverant, but the Mail has a clear and unswerving agenda, and is extremely dangerous. It gives such a dangerously biased view of reality which warps the mind of pigshit thick people all over the UK, most of whom are middle class aspirants who think that voting Tory makes them posh.
true.
Khan seems like a decent kid to me, too much focus on what he does outside the ring, shit he's still only 19. Any mistakes he make, he will learn from. Just hope the money & fame don't go too his head.