Margaret Thatcher is dead.

[snoopy369]

That I don't understand at all. 1990 is when people should've gotten drunk (or when the Tories lost power a few years later). Why are they celebrating someone dying? That's just dumb.

Edit: That looks rather like a British Onion, also

[Sava]

most rural areas

Yeah... America is ****ed up because of rural dwellers too

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

That I don't understand at all. 1990 is when people should've gotten drunk

We did. It was quite a night.

[Sava]

That I don't understand at all. 1990 is when people should've gotten drunk (or when the Tories lost power a few years later). Why are they celebrating someone dying? That's just dumb.

Hopefully they won't start any celebratory riots. Some of the lefty types in Britain seem to think starting fires and smashing store windows is how to bring about positive change.

[Dinner]

Wait, isn't it the southeast that's tory, not southwest?

"Bottom right hand corner" is the southeast. The southwest corner doesn't have much in it though Cornwall is home to the native British wine industry and I hear land's end is a nice place to visit. Devon also is known for its scrumpy and that is a fact which makes it near and dear to my heart even if that love has occasionally damaged my ceiling.

[Berzerker]

The Shia resistance was not a capable force. That's why they got crushed. Look at Syria.

The 2 are not analogous, Syria's infrastructure was intact and Schwarzkopf got snookered (his words) in the cease fire negotiations allowing Saddam the use of his helo force to bypass downed and destroyed bridges and roads. We let Saddam put down the rebellion after encouraging it, that is not the action of a President who had decided to get rid of Saddam.

[Dinner]

http://www.devon-calling.com/food%20and%20drink/cider.htm

That was the recipe I used. It's enough to bring a tear to my eye.

[Dinner]

You're 'assuring me' that something that didn't happen could have happened and I'm supposed to just go 'ok then'? I lived under every year of Mrs Thatchers government, and she never made her decisions based on attacking enemies. No matter how much people disagree with her policies, she cared about Britain and was willing to face the consequences of doing things that were endlessly difficult. Personally I think she went too far on various occasions,

France managed it so did Sweden and Holland and Spain and Italy so don't tell me it couldn't have been done.

[Hauldren Collider]

As an anecdotal point on society, in the UK I didn't know any of my neighbours even after living in the same house for five years.

In London, people get in the lift with you and look at you funny if you say "hello". In Geneva, people look at you funny if you don't say "hello".

Even here in Pittsburgh (not the friendliest of cities) you are expected to hold the door for the guy behind you, ask the person on the elevator "what floor", basic common courtesy stuff

[Ben Kenobi]

We just got out of a bloody war we shouldn't have fought and Carter not only avoided getting us into more wars, he got the Russians to invade Afghanistan and started arming the resistance. Reagan followed Carter's lead and the Soviets collapsed within a decade due in large part to the Afghan war - Carter and Reagan were better at foreign policy than the 7 presidents before and after them. The last 2 decades have been a disaster and it began with Maggie and Bush. And the 2nd Bush was dumb enough to follow the Russians into Afghanistan.

Harder to keep up with a nation that believes in strengthening itself than one that believes in 'managing the decline'. The US had a large economic recovery under Reagan. For the Russians - it was the last straw.

Russia was pretty much doomed when their abortion rate was so high. Far higher than it was in the west. We're seeing the results right now - as scary as Putin is - he's a shadow of his former self.

[Dinner]

Pretty sure Oerdin doesn't like her for the simple reason that her party is called the "conservative" party.

I'm pretty sure you're an idiot who has no idea what he is talking about.

[kentonio]

France managed it so did Sweden and Holland and Spain and Italy so don't tell me it couldn't have been done.

The situation was very different to those countries. You can't just say they all had periods of poor economic performance and assume that means they were all dealing with identical problems.

[regexcellent]

I'm pretty sure you're an idiot who has no idea what he is talking about.

This under the maxim of it takes one to know one?

[Dinner]

No, this from the guy who can definitively tell you that, no, that is not my motivation for my posts in this thread. You're just wrong so you need to get over yourself.

[Dauphin]

Even here in Pittsburgh (not the friendliest of cities) you are expected to hold the door for the guy behind you, ask the person on the elevator "what floor", basic common courtesy stuff

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19846214

Now we are in uncharted territory. New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively. Once in, for most people the protocol is simple - look down, or examine your phone.