Austerity - myth or reality?
Nov 8th 2019, 2:02 am
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Re: Austerity - myth or reality?
There was a comedy skit, may have been Monty Python, may have been something else.
Dad calls in son to give him the sex ed lecture.
Dad chickens out - he tells him a woman gets pregnant by sitting down in a chair that’s still warm from her husband sitting on it.
Son is v. concerned - says he just sat down in a chair still warm from the cat ....
Nov 8th 2019, 3:46 am
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Re: Austerity - myth or reality?
As a fairly serious question, who started using the term Austerity? I know it's a word and I know it's meaning but why did it suddenly become one of the words to use all the time? Just curious.
Nov 8th 2019, 8:35 am
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Re: Austerity - myth or reality?
I believe the term was common in Britains post war period - I don't know if that was the first use.
Nov 8th 2019, 1:11 pm
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Re: Austerity - myth or reality?
Nov 8th 2019, 1:21 pm
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Re: Austerity - myth or reality?
Here it is, different in an important respect from my memory..
Nov 8th 2019, 2:54 pm
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Re: Austerity - myth or reality?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit...rity_programme
On 26 April 2009 David Cameron declared that "the age of irresponsibility is giving way to the age of austerity"
Nov 8th 2019, 3:08 pm
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Re: Austerity - myth or reality?
I think the answer is that it was official Conservative Government policy, introduced by the Cameron government in 2009.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit...rity_programme
On 26 April 2009 David Cameron declared that "the age of irresponsibility is giving way to the age of austerity"
Nov 8th 2019, 10:23 pm
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Re: Austerity - myth or reality?
Now I have to wash the mouth with a cracked years old sliver of carbolic soap.
Nov 8th 2019, 10:41 pm
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Re: Austerity - myth or reality?
I'm very late to this and seem to have missed all the fun. Can I tend the herb garden and be the chief taster of the champagne cellar? I have my own cloak, so I won't need a habit or whatever monks wear.
Nov 9th 2019, 1:05 am
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Re: Austerity - myth or reality?
Listen here missy, I already have dibs on the wine cellar but I'll save a seat for you. I'm intending to sneak a couple of bottles of vodka in for when we get tired of wine (tired of wine, ha!), so bring mint for our mojitos.
