The Way to the stars.

nicensleazy
nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
edited January 2010 in The bottom bracket
Just watched this great British classic film....................what ever happend to dear old Britian.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdipXd3pdOs

Comments

  • we were bankrupted by the war, lost our empire, underwent successive waves of immigration and the cultural upheaval that was the 1960's and have struggled to define ourselves as a result. the interesting, dynamic, diverse and forward looking nation we are being the result.
    ...the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon...
  • just watched death drums on the river,thank god we got rid of colonial britian.
  • craker
    craker Posts: 1,739
    oh c'mon anything depicted in a film is just myth, for alot of people in pre-war Britain it was a time of unemployment poverty and the fear of another war with Germany.

    Rose tinted spectacles and all that. We've never had it so good :-)
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    VinceEager wrote:
    we were bankrupted by the war, lost our empire, underwent successive waves of immigration and the cultural upheaval that was the 1960's and have struggled to define ourselves as a result. the interesting, dynamic, diverse and forward looking nation we are being the result.


    Bankrupted and at War - what's changed ????
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    VinceEager wrote:
    we were bankrupted by the war, lost our empire, underwent successive waves of immigration and the cultural upheaval that was the 1960's and have struggled to define ourselves as a result. the interesting, dynamic, diverse and forward looking nation we are being the result.


    Bankrupted and at War - what's changed ????

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Up ... Atrocities

    You'd be unlikely to see that from UK forces now. I hope!

    There is some progress...
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    teagar wrote:
    VinceEager wrote:
    we were bankrupted by the war, lost our empire, underwent successive waves of immigration and the cultural upheaval that was the 1960's and have struggled to define ourselves as a result. the interesting, dynamic, diverse and forward looking nation we are being the result.


    Bankrupted and at War - what's changed ????

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Up ... Atrocities

    You'd be unlikely to see that from UK forces now. I hope!

    There is some progress...

    You'd be surprised.........