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Of course there have been forces at work who would very much like to break up the most successful union in the history of the world. It won’t happen, for all the reasons I stated above. There is (imho) a very nuanced dance played out every single day on the island of ireland, it has to tick a lot of boxes. Now it starts to get historical. We are still today paying for the massive own goal of the 1840s-1850s, we will never be forgiven for that and what’s more we can’t be seen to be forgiven. However, British money built this country and is still building it, we just don
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Imho the ones who will create agro at ports are the French. Ireland play a rather clever game of keeping the EU onside whilst realising that Britain is more important to them than almost any other country in Europe. They just quietly go along, not ones for grand gestures or big rhetoric the Irish.....it will be a case of keeping the EU happy while just letting things crack on as they did before more or less. Ireland won’t be creating any problems if it don’t have too, they can’t be arsed with all that.
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Yeah, that won’t be happening anytime soon ! Lol
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Don’t want to turn this into an Ireland thread but the fact is unity is a romantic notion. Again, it comes down to the every day things that people in the north take for granted. Sports facilities, broadband, health care, thriving towns and open shops, mobile phone signal........they would have none of this In its current form or at all depending on what it is if they were subsumed into the republic. Their house prices would loose 75 % of their value etc etc The republic couldn’t afford them anyway. When those realities became apparent it would all get shelved imh
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One interesting thing that I’m sure a few lads know is that Millwall is actually in East London, on the isle of dogs to be exact. Its just Millwall football club that is in south London, they moved over there in the early 1900s
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The supreme optimist in me would like to think they were always going to take out those 3 parts of the IMB and it’s a stunt to show willing and gain for both sides. Revenue officials at British ports is again window dressing, in reality it’s 3 blokes sat in a portacabin drinking tea and talking shit about Man Utd and Liverpool. I have absolutely no faith in politicians but let’s just wait and see, they may surprise us......but probably not ! Lol
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Kids benefit from having a parent at home, there is no two ways about it. Kids don’t give a toss if you have have a Rolls Royce in the drive or are eating beans in toast. They just want some love, attention and the stability of knowing someone is always there imho However, I don’t think you can be too hard on people. When a 3 bed semi is £400,000 plus £2000 a year in taxes it don’t leave a lot of room for manoeuvring. It used to be that the image of the housewife was promoted but that has changed, when was the last time you saw something promoting being a stay at home
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I don’t think it’s particularly a Millwall thing, working class areas have always had groups of lads. London, the Midlands, the north, Glasgow. Rough old areas, industrial areas, heavy industry, poverty (historically)........hard work, hard conditions. Boxers are normally street lads.......it’s just go’s with the territory so to speak.
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There was a time when they wouldn’t have got off the pitch alive ! Lol
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I agree with loads of that mate, however it’s a mindset that has been actively promoted imho as part of a wider thing. Again, creating the illusion of wealth and keeping people happy. All the change against empire in the last century came about because people had nothing to loose. Well, they have solved that by giving them everything to loose and as such they (governments) have gotten away with murder. There was no such thing as a “credit report” when I was a kid, now those adverts sell the message that it’s a passport to happiness and I think that is totally deliberate.
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Blimey, right here we go....... Society has been completely re-engineered in the last 70 years. Food spend used to be 50% of household budget and one parent could stay home no bother. Now food spend is 8% of household budget and both parents have to work like dogs and they still never have money spare (as a rule) None of that happened by accident. There has been a systematic transfer of wealth and the value of labour over to the state and its financial institution mates. This has happened at the expense of the family unit, the British village, the British town, t
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Just watched a two part thing on the Irish Famine. Very, very good and informative. Just to get an idea of the scale of the disaster was eye opening, the famine was Europe wide but they lost 100,000 dead on the continent of Europe compared to 1,500,000 dead in Ireland and 2,000,000 emigrated. Thats unthinkable. Also loads of little things like £8 million spend on Irish famine reliefs but £14 million spent on police & military in Ireland in the same period. A very interesting and unbelievable chapter in British history.
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Right, get ya ? All I have studied is Endometriosis and as I said before the amount of chemicals in a woman’s body is frightening, naturally men will be the same. I dont know if there is a proven link but I suspect proving anything would be hard and I’m not sure what you would win if you did prove something.
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Very, very good post that mate ?
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I agree mate
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There’s a massive question mate, everyone will have a different take on that one but the fact is some things are better and some are worse. The individual decides which is which in every single case imho
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My very abridged version is that I think the overwhelming majority of parents do the very best they can within the constraints forced upon them. Non starters will always be non starters and they have been around forever too.
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I dont think he was trying to antagonise anyone either mate and I fully understand the point he is trying to make. I also think it’s a fair question to ask, however where we diverge is when he frames it as a class/wealth/social thing.......I personally don’t think Autism or any other condition is a respecter of those boundaries. As I said, I think there is a conversation to be had about how we are living as a society but the issues are much bigger than just trying to say “it’s that!” edited to add: Re: MMR, now all my other kids had single vaccines but they wasn’t any
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Start another thread and I’d be happy to talk about it until the cows come home.
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But that is a whole other conversation isn’t it ?
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Class/wealth/social standing has absolutely nothing to do with the ability to eat well, everyone in the world knows it. Im just a common or garden guttersnipe but I have always eaten well, always cooked, taught my kids to cook. I like fresh food and fresh ingredients and always have, I like a Chinese take a way or an Indian now and again too. There are loads of parents in all different situations who have kids with Autism.....the link just simply isn’t there imho. As I said before, there is always a conversation to be had about what we are being fed and how that relates to
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Foods without additives and drinking plenty of water is good for everyone not just kids with autism. I don’t think there are going to be many parents of kids with autism feeding them can after can of red bull and sweets. However my boy will only eat certain things and those things can change like the weather. If one week he dont want to eat say cabbage and all you had was cabbage he would literally starve to death before he would eat any......his mind just won’t let him. So yeah, some study or the other can state the obvious but if that don’t work in practice then it’s usel
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Right, let me entertain you for a second. Say there was such a study and there was a difference......what then? What do you suggest ?
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I understand that mate but sometimes there ain’t a “why”, some things just are. Its looking for a why that drives people mad ?
