tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post6820928747751189127..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Another Exilezmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-7020491449833218822011-07-25T09:46:25.397+02:002011-07-25T09:46:25.397+02:00Skiving and getting pissed don't seem new to m...Skiving and getting pissed don't seem new to me, or particularly dreadful, but prurience, if that's the right word, and thuggishness seem, if not new, much more dominant than they once were. And manners have virtually vanished, but that's true throughout the English-speaking world (listen to me, you'd think I was on the pension already)zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-73963192397254249902011-07-25T06:57:59.341+02:002011-07-25T06:57:59.341+02:00It's always hard to analyse a country's ch...It's always hard to analyse a country's characteristics, particularly when it's one's own country. Tony Hancock's radio shows have always been a guide for me in this: it seems that even back in the 1950s people were trying to skive off work, going to the pub to get pissed, etc. Of course, back then there was an element of shame supposedly attached to such behaviour, which maybe kept a limit on it. I suppose that element has gone now. Mrs Thatcher rather burst her own 'traditional values' balloon by stating that there was 'no such thing as society'.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.com