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   Jim GM4DHJ ... to Spike   
   Re: Radio Society of Great Britain - Mai   
   25 Jun 17 08:33:56   
   
   XPost: uk.radio.amateur, rec.radio.amateur.policy   
   From: kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Spike"  wrote in message   
   news:er972hFoj43U1@mid.individual.net...   
   > On 24/06/2017 18:02, mw/3/qro@gggg-mail.com wrote:   
   >> (Roger Hayter) wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I doubt it.  Knowledge of history should help him understand the   
   >>> inevitability of change, and the futility of living in the past.   
   >   
   >> just before the farce foundation licence came in, the present was the   
   >> r.a.e + a failable morse test  and the future was the farce.   
   >   
   >> now, the farce is the present and the futility is putting up with it   
   >> when everyone knows that it's a farce.   
   >   
   > Well said.   
   >   
   > It's the same with elections, and the dazzling future the candidates and   
   > parties promise you. The mess that they want to get you out of is the same   
   > dazzling future you were promised last time they wanted your vote.   
   >   
   > The young buy in to the far-reaching promises, the 1000-yard stare and the   
   > sweeping hand gestures from the charismatic leaders, not knowing any   
   > better. 20 years of being kicked in the teeth changes their views, but too   
   > late - there's another crop of youngsters out there blinded by the light   
   > shining out of someone's backside.   
   >   
   I would go for a benign dictator save all the farting about...you just did   
   what they said and got on with it .....   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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