tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687504.post113267986703670197..comments2024-03-23T22:14:24.292-04:00Comments on Wisdom Weasel: All You Need To Know About ConservatismWisdom Weaselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18216020315074987565noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687504.post-1133114501110275972005-11-27T13:01:00.000-05:002005-11-27T13:01:00.000-05:00A tonne is a ton avec pomme frites et moutarde, se...A tonne is a ton avec pomme frites et moutarde, served en croute.<BR/><BR/>Ahh, the miner's strike- I got my head filled with some very biased information, watching that on TV news with my ex-police grandfather. It took me a couple of years and a couple of Billy Bragg albums to understand that Arthur Scargill wasn't a Soviet agent intent on killing all the red-haired pre-teens in England.Wisdom Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18216020315074987565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687504.post-1132710988713520922005-11-22T20:56:00.000-05:002005-11-22T20:56:00.000-05:00When the coal miners were on strike, coal producti...When the coal miners were on strike, coal production fell by tens of thousands of tonnes. Was there some correlation?<BR/><BR/>p.s. what is a tonne?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687504.post-1132689683008656232005-11-22T15:01:00.000-05:002005-11-22T15:01:00.000-05:00She stole my free milk and devalued my pocket mone...She stole my free milk and devalued my pocket money by 50% when she abolished the 1/2p coin. I think I hated her even before I knew who she was.Wisdom Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18216020315074987565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687504.post-1132686139487102702005-11-22T14:02:00.000-05:002005-11-22T14:02:00.000-05:00I still remember (as I know you do, we were at sch...I still remember (as I know you do, we were at school together) where I was when she resigned. Along with the fall of the Berlin Wall, collapse of East European socialism and the ultimate decline of the Soviet Union those high school years were pretty heady times.<BR/>I do recall pretty much most of our peers being quite excited, we had no memory of any other Prime Minister and, quite frankly, Mondalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12626899685299810412noreply@blogger.com