Thatcher has Dementia

[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.

[Ghostsuit]

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!]

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]

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

[LesMTS]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Slipper?
I just got smacked round the face.

[crazydiamond85]

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]

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.