Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

Hmm, it's not very stable where I live.
Then there's Brexit.

Brexit is a circus! I can't figure out how they're getting out because no~one seems to be able to agree on anything. I don't know what's going on there any more.

 

[Shadrach]

Europe has a distressing ability to kick off at very short notice. The last two world wars being the most obvious examples.
Then there are the problems particular to Southern Europe and the current problems with Turkey.

 

[Shadrach]

Brexit is a circus! I can't figure out how they're getting out because no~one seems to be able to agree on anything. I don't know what's going on there any more.

That's what happens when you let a bunch of public schoolboys try to run a country.

 

[Ribh]

Europe has a distressing ability to kick off at very short notice. The last two world wars being the most obvious examples.
Then there are the problems particular to Southern Europe and the current problems with Turkey.

Sadly that's far too true. It took me a long time to grasp why killing Ferdinand sparked a war ~ but I got there in the end. Unfortunately History as she is taught in our schools [if she is taught @ all now] glosses over a lot of important things.

 

[Ribh]

That's what happens when you let a bunch of public schoolboys try to run a country.

My Poppy, grand ol' Scotsman that he was, could be very vocal about the *landed gentry.*

 

[Shadrach]

My Poppy, grand ol' Scotsman that he was, could be very vocal about the *landed gentry.*

In that case, given I'm a Scott, I would probably have got on with the man.

 

[Ribh]

In that case, given I'm a Scott, I would probably have got on with the man.

Very probably. He ran dairy cows out here, always had a wonderful vegetable garden & kept some chooks. Rather cynically my mother always said he did better with his animals than he did with his own children. He must have got better with age. My own children adored him.

 

[Shadrach]

Very probably. He ran dairy cows out here, always had a wonderful vegetable garden & kept some chooks. Rather cynically my mother always said he did better with his animals than he did with his own children. He must have got better with age. My own children adored him.

He can't be a bad man then.

 

[Ribh]

He can't be a bad man then.

Well, I thought he was lovely... Not biased or anything.

 

[Shadrach]

Well, I thought he was lovely... Not biased or anything.

For some unknown reason my two seem to think I'm okay. Yup, it matters.
Having come from a family where none of the progeny thought the father was 'okay' it means a lot.