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Old 07-08-2007, 00:03   #9
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Re: What the hell have we done to our lives???

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
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.
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