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Joan Collins fears "crime-ridden" London
Reuters ^
| September 1, 2002
| Reuters
Posted on 09/01/2002 6:28:36 AM PDT by ejdrapes
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:28:36 AM PDT
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ejdrapes
To: ejdrapes
"Yobbism in London is rife. In New York, people are more polite, more respectful," she said. Okay, I had to look it up: Yob = rude and loutish young man.
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:37:24 AM PDT
by
Schnucki
To: ejdrapes
She oughta hang in San Francisco instead </sarcasem>
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:47:27 AM PDT
by
Drango
To: ejdrapes
Yet another heavy hitter checks in....
To: ejdrapes
Joan ought to place the blame where it's at. All the bobbies' shiny badges, whistles and billy sticks just amuse the thugs no end, and an unarmed British populace provokes equal peals of mirth at the criminals' annual conventions.
Leni
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:50:42 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
To: ejdrapes
Wait... I'm so confused. B-b-b-ut... they don't have GUNS in England... so it's soo much safer than any old American city... could they be lying to us?
Seriously, though--I spent a wonderful semester there back in 1990 and felt extremely safe. However, every year I've gone back to visit, the place has just become more and more of a pit.
Just a stroll through the West End (where I lived as a student) is real walk on the wild side--what with the discarded hypos and condoms in the gutter (of which I've seen both) and the panhandling losers on every street corner...
Oh... but they have nationalized health care... and no guns...
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posted on
09/01/2002 7:05:23 AM PDT
by
RepoGirl
To: Schnucki
"Okay, I had to look it up: Yob = rude and loutish young man."
LOL...my 10 year old Franklin spellmaster missed that one.
Two facts neatly omitted in this story. #1...Strict Gun Confiscation of honest cicizens in Jolly Old England.
#2....no credit to Rudy Guliana for cleaning up New York city.
To: MinuteGal
YOU ARE 100% correct!!!!!!
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posted on
09/01/2002 7:17:13 AM PDT
by
buffyt
To: Schnucki
Thanks, I was fast on my way to the dictionary myself, when I read your post.
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posted on
09/01/2002 7:17:13 AM PDT
by
Puppage
To: RepoGirl
Seriously, though--I spent a wonderful semester there back in 1990 and felt extremely safe. However, every year I've gone back to visit, the place has just become more and more of a pit. When Margaret Thatcher started making her reforms, people worried about how it would create a permanent, disaffected under-class. Instead, she created a happy, healthy society which (as you saw in 1990) was safe and wonderful. But Thatcher left and her reforms have been whittled away. Now the place is not safe and not wonderful.
Gee, maybe reformers like Reagan and Thatcher have the right idea -- they get portrayed as cold and mean, but in reality they are the only ones who know how to build warm and wonderful societies.
Also, when Joan Collins says she feels safer in New York City, I think she's paying some (subconscious) tribute to Rudy Giuliani (a Republican, of course) who turned NYC around with his tough attitude toward petty crime.
Silly Leftists. All the evidence is out there: conservatives build good societies. Leftists destroy societies. But Leftists are "good" because they do it for the children.
To: MinuteGal
I thought that Madonna and Gwynneth Paltrow moved TO London because crime in America was so bad.
Now I am just perplexed.
To: Thud
ping
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Madonna moved to London to perfect her Brit accent.
To: All
Between 1976-1984 I visited England on 6 seperate occasions and spend an average of 3 weeks there each time . NEVER had a problem and always felt safe . The place has really gone to hell in a handbasket in more ways than one . The land of my ancestors , like my hometown in Willimantic , CT , is one place I have no wish to visit ever again . They share much in common ...
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posted on
09/01/2002 8:09:20 AM PDT
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sushiman
To: RepoGirl
It goes waaay beyond not having guns, if you are attacked on the street YOU DO NOT have the right to fight back & that includes using your bare hands, to do so is a crime that you may be prosecuted in court & be held civilly liable by the mugger that you fought with. the only folks that can thump a crook are officers of the crown ie the bobbies.
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To: The Card
"England swings like a pendulum do. Muggers on bicycles, two-by-two."
Sorry, Rog...RIP.
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