Thatcher has Dementia - Page 5

Joe Spinebuster · 26th August 2008, 12:13am

WITH A SLIPPER~!!! Pure howlin', here. This is Beano / Dandy material. I'm now assuming your parents refer to each other as "Mum" and "Dad" as well, and that you didn't stop getting slippered until you admitted to what a "rotter" you had been.

**Ghostsuit** · 26th August 2008, 12:18am

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Originally Posted by LesMTS

I got smacked occasionally when I was wee.
Usually with a slipper on the back of my legs, but I had to have done something pretty bad.

My mum tried that on me when I was about 14, I couldn't stop laughing which just made her madder. Eventually when and told my Dad I was laughing cause she was hitting me with a slipper he burst out laughing as well.

¡Punk! · 26th August 2008, 1:09am

I only got hit with a slipper once because I was laughing at my mum for hitting me in the first place. I can't remember what it was I just remember it being ludicrous. So then got a slipper purely because that was what the dad done in the Beano as tho' it would have made more of an impact but it just made me think I was amazing just like Dennis the Menace.

Goth_pixie · 26th August 2008, 1:20am

Smacking didn't work in my family. My mum tried it, and I just walloped her back.

*LesMTS* · 26th August 2008, 9:52am

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Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

My mum tried that on me when I was about 14, I couldn't stop laughing which just made her madder. Eventually when and told my Dad I was laughing cause she was hitting me with a slipper he burst out laughing as well.

When you were fourteen?

0x21 · 26th August 2008, 10:52am

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Originally Posted by endless psych

As a means of reducing social housing stock.

I have to agree with this; the selling off of social housing (and privatisation of everything else) was a completely stupid idea and could only have been done to make some quick money without any thought to the consequences.

Yes people could afford to buy their council house for next to nothing and then sell it a few years later for several times what they paid for it, but doesn't that completely defeat the point of social housing? If the houses were replaced or people were helped to buy private housing, then fair enough, but that didn't happen.

I'm not going to laugh at Thatcher; finding out repeatedly that your husband of 50 years has died is just horrific (Happened to my grandfolks as well), particularly for her weans since she doesn't remember it. I'd like to think she'd be treated the way she'd want everyone else to be treated but I can't see that happening either, and I'm also marginally dissapointed that she won't remember most of what shes done, but at least that means she'll probably go peacefully.

MarkMono · 26th August 2008, 10:56am

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Originally Posted by Joe Spinebuster

WITH A SLIPPER~!!! Pure howlin', here. This is Beano / Dandy material. I'm now assuming your parents refer to each other as "Mum" and "Dad" as well, and that you didn't stop getting slippered until you admitted to what a "rotter" you had been.

Definitely more prevalent among the middle classes than in the hood.

Zippy · 26th August 2008, 10:56am

This being dissappointed that she won't remember what she's done is a strange one to me - even if she could remember I very much doubt that she'd have any kind of remorse.

0x21 · 26th August 2008, 10:58am

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Originally Posted by Zippy

This being dissappointed that she won't remember what she's done is a strange one to me - even if she could remember I very much doubt that she'd have any kind of remorse.

I think some people hope that eventually it'll occur to her that some of what she did was wrong, and have a bit of remorse about it, even though it was pretty unlikely anyway.

MarkMono · 26th August 2008, 11:00am

She was very much anti-sympathy. Your sympathy for her now would be regarded by her as an insult if she still had the mental capacity to percieve it.

And, as I'm sure I mentioned, she has been quite literally demented since leaving office. The idea that she wasn't in charge of the country anymore was the only thing I ever saw which visibly hurt the woman. And any time I've seen her since she's appeared as physical and mental cripple.

*LesMTS* · 26th August 2008, 11:20am

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Originally Posted by MarkMono

Definitely more prevalent among the middle classes than in the hood.

When I was wee my dad was a mechanic, my mum a part-time bank clerk, and we lived in a council flat then a council estate. If anything we were a blue-collar, 'working class' (whatever that means) family until I was about thirteen or fourteen, and I wasn't getting hit with a slipper any more by that age (not that it was a remarkably frequent event previously).

MarkMono · 26th August 2008, 11:24am

I can see exactly how you would've thought so, but I wasn't deliberately casting any aspersions on your social status while growing up.

Was a tongue-in-cheek comment replying to his Beano/Dandy one.

Hilarious watching you get all puffed-up about it though.

Rio Ohki · 26th August 2008, 11:26am

Slipper?
I just got smacked round the face.

crazydiamond85 · 26th August 2008, 11:26am

maybe we should have a split thread, did your parents smack you, and do you think it's right for them to do so, esults could be interesting I'd imagine

*LesMTS* · 26th August 2008, 11:26am

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Originally Posted by MarkMono

I can see exactly how you would've thought so, but I wasn't deliberately casting any aspersions on your social status while growing up.

Was a tongue-in-cheek comment replying to his Beano/Dandy one.

Hilarious watching you get all puffed-up about it though.

Bleugh, I'm in a disagreeable mood today. Taking everything as a personal slight for some irrational reason.