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Originally Posted by garinda
We had bear baiting and dog fights.
We had gin palaces were you'd be stabbed for a farthing.
We had brothels employing 25,000 children in our great capital city alone.
We had poverty, rickets, and a life expectancy of 40.
Happy, bygone days.
Where the hell did we go wrong?  |
But he is not talking about some mythical Golden Age, some Arcadia, that can be obliterated by well chosen statistics, but of a time remembered, one that did exist.