Budget Cut Protestors - Help Me Understand

[MikeH]

In Victorian England, they did (eventually).

Much of the housing in my town is Victorian housing built to house workers at the local factory.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

well I believe at that time UK toghether with the Netherlands had the longest living expectancy in the world... so comparing to the rest of them the rich in the UK were paying the poor to be be well fed and healthy for generation of greater profits...

once the rest of the world caught up to that trick in the 20th century, British domination soon faltered

[OneFootInTheGrave]

In Victorian England, they did (eventually).

Much of the housing in my town is Victorian housing built to house workers at the local factory.

do I need to add that those houses are better built than the contemporary ones

[molly bloom]

I could come up with a long, scathing rant about how retarded you are for thinking that anything in that paragraph even remotely resembles intelligent thought,

'Scathing'- by whose standards, yours ? Beware of self-aggrandizement. Especially when it comes to imagining that you are good judge of what 'resembles intelligent thought'...

but I already did that in English class last year

Could we see your teacher's comments ?

and you are much less interesting to talk to than my classmates

Well, I'm just so hurt by that devastating put down. Are you in any way related to James Thurber or Dorothy Parker ?

so I'll summarize

If only. We might be spared prolixity. Let me: you mistakenly think puerile insults are a substitute for argument and thought. They aren't.