Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jul 8^th, 2013 at 4:03pm:


They offered us the courtesy and respect of asking us to help them when they were in dire straits.  I'd say that qualifies them as contributors to this once-great country where people took care of one another.

When I grew up in the fifties and sixties, every adult had been through a hard life, and as a result they had more time and care to give to others and had far greater respect than the Philistines who run the show these days from their education paper moral shacks built on sand and with glass walls.

But I suppose that could be because I'm far more Irish/Scottish than Sassenach - we Gaels/Celts do things differently, as I've said many times.  No wonder we rule the known world.....