Collapsing

[cuttsie]

1 hour ago, trastrick said:

Wonder how many of these posters, ever waited for the Wimpey, Finnigans, Boots, or Longdens bus in West Bar on a frosty morning to take them to a building site?

King Street , for Ackroyd and Abbots  Bedford Lorry , no luxurious bus for us lot stood on the back 20 deep all the way to Mosbro .

Then the DC M because the weather stopped the job .

[trastrick]

5 minutes ago, cuttsie said:

King Street , for Ackroyd and Abbots  Bedford Lorry , no luxurious bus for us lot stood on the back 20 deep all the way to Mosbro .

Then the DC M because the weather stopped the job .

There's probably a lot of Wokefolks living in the houses and flats we put up, Cuttsie, who never did a day's work in their lives, rent paid.

 

Way too "smart" for that nonsense! 

 

[RJRB]

3 minutes ago, trastrick said:

There's probably a lot of Wokefolks living in the houses and flats we put up, Cuttsie, who never did a day's work in their lives, rent paid.

 

Way too "smart" for that nonsense! 

 

Well that’s taken a strange turn.

What can it mean from the plain talking son of Sheffield.?

[Mister Gee]

11 minutes ago, RJRB said:

Well that’s taken a strange turn.

What can it mean from the plain talking son of Sheffield.?

Don’t get him going, he’ll be telling you tales about big Trinidadian George next.

[cuttsie]

15 minutes ago, trastrick said:

There's probably a lot of Wokefolks living in the houses and flats we put up, Cuttsie, who never did a day's work in their lives, rent paid.

 

Way too "smart" for that nonsense! 

 

Still no idea what a Woke is , its a bit like kids being called a chav . A bank manager once called me a carpet bagger that was over my head as well . Now tosser or crack pot thats easy and straight to the point but woke????????.

2 minutes ago, Mister Gee said:

Don’t get him going, he’ll be telling you tales about big Trinidadian George next.

Who is that ????

[trastrick]

4 minutes ago, Mister Gee said:

Don’t get him going, he’ll be telling you tales about big Trinidadian George next.

That would be Frank!

 

Go back to my post from years ago and read it again!

 

But I'm flattered, anyway!

 

 

 

 

Edited September 5, 2023 by trastrick

[trastrick]

11 hours ago, cuttsie said:

 

Who is that ????

Frank was part of the influx of British Empire colonials from Africa, India, Asia  and the Caribbean, who decided to come to their Mother country to see their Queen , back in the mid 50s.

 

They were the parents and grandparents of today's generation of Brits, who today , except for skin color, have the same accent, and are indistinguishable from "traditional" Sheffielders.

 

They brought with them the taste for exotic foods, Indian, Asian to the locals raised on fish and chips, and bread and treacle.

 

But at first they weren't popular with the local workers, especially Union types. 

 

The government, with subsidised wages, leaned on all "patriotic"employers to hire them in droves, as labourers, most of whom couldn't speak English. My firm was happy for the cheap labour, and assigned one to me, although I was only a 17 year old apprentice. We worked together for a few months at Steelo's and became pals.

 

He'd bring curried goat for his snap, which I couldn't stand the smell of, but he insisted I try it. I liked it. Better than my pilchard sandwiches. So he had his wife cook a little extra for me. 

 

My little story concerns the time when I invited him to join me for an afterwork pint, in a working mens pub in Fitzalan Square. He wouldn't go in as he sensed the usual slagging from the locals. I said "f 'em, and insisted. It wasn't a good reception in there, but all we got was dirty looks. A big guy, Frank could have wiped the floor with 'em.

 

 

 

 

[Chekhov]

15 hours ago, Mister M said:

>>Chekhov said:
When you say the "kids education wouldn't have been affected" what you actually mean is they weren't really being educated at the time so it could not have been any worse....<<

 

Well they were. My niece and nephew has their lessons on Google Classroom, and were able to use resources online, or their textbooks under the direction of the teacher.

Seriously ! ? !

You are trying to persuade yourself that keeping kids off school for 7 months wasn't so bad after all !

This has got to be just about the worst example of self deception (so as to "prove" suppressing society didn't really do that much harm) I have ever read.

I would suggest you read up on the very negative effects of all this. In fact, just yesterday I was reading that there are huge issues with increased absenteeism from school (10% higher than before the lockdowns) and that NHS stats reveal that the number of kids with mental health disorders has gone up from 1 in 9 in 2017 to 1in 6 now.

 

The Times 20 Sept 22 (p24)

2020 hit the young hard

Young adults found 2020 so traumatic that they may struggle to develop lifelong relationships and careers, research conducted in California suggests. Social development has been stunted amid higher stress and anxiety in the turmoil of the pandemic and politics, Dr Janina Bühler wrote in the journal Social, Psychological and Personality Science.

 

Even allowing for academic exaggeration this is surely obvious to anyone. It is backed up by the head master of our local secondary school who told me they have far had more problems with the "pandemic cohort" * than any other. He implied all schools were finding similar issues with that cohort.

This is also confirmed by :

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-recovery-in-schools-autumn-2021/education-recovery-in-schools-autumn-2021

 

* The one which lost the last half of their final year in primary school, and much of their first year in secondary. Then, when they did finally get back to school, they all had to do so with no socialising and to wear masks for the most of rest of the year