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Posted around 2004 in ukresident.com by me.  Vernacular English, Rejoinder to Welshman and AttilaBy the time I came back I find that both the threads: What I really meant as well as Feudal languages having gone through a route which again has nothing to do with my contentions.I wish to answer to Wel...
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Chinese School Janitor attacks nursery school kids (in China)
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This was an article that I posted on UKResident.com many years ago. My articles were removed from that site later. Many websites do not allow me to post on their sites. Recently Huffingtonpost removed my membership to comment, for bringing out such themes to ther view of American readers. However, s...
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Leaving School at 16
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Posted many years ago on UkResident.comQuote: OldfredNow we offer our children what....car-washing and the fast-food trade and the like. This is hardly what our youngsters deserve. :naughtie: �FredI know that I am being presumptuous in jotting out my feelings on education over there. But reall...
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Disinterested musings on formal scholarships
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Posted many years ago on UkResident.comDoes just academic brilliance mean anything?What made the English different from many others was that their mental brilliance was not an entity in itself, but was part of a group of many other capacities. For example, one may think of many persons who discove...
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The asylum
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Posted many years ago on UkResident.comI find the debate in this thread very remarkable, to say the least. And what surprises me is the level of indignation, agony and wonderment, it might be causing the many of the readers. Especially when reading the contentions of Ms. Khan. For many, it might be so...
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Black police quotas
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�Posted in the UkResident.com many years agoQuote:MorgRacism in reverse for the sake of political correctness.Please dont package everything in the term racism. It goes much beyond the definitions of that term. Actually, it is the infection of other nations political and social, mediocre expe...
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Hijjab - Religious dress code
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My discussion in the UkResident.com many years agoQuote:Phoenix Risingespecially if it is part of their culture. as long as it is not the cause of religious confrontation then i see absolutely no reason why� I am forced to quote from my own writings:�QUOTEMany persons may come with exclusive symb...
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Whatever Happened to the UK
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Posted in the UkResident many years agoQuote: capt_buzzardWhatever happened to the UK - Britain We Once Knew?Is it possible that Britain has changed, for good or for bad? �Qoute: candypantsQUOTEI think they are all common problems throughout the world!!Its just a case of times changing. If the c...
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Gibraltar & British Rule
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Posted in UkResident.com many years agoQUOTEModern Gibraltarians are neither British nor Spanish but are a curious hotch-potch of Italians (mainly from Genoa), Maltese, Portuguese and North Africans brought in by the British to colonise Gibraltar and provide a work force. They have no right to...
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The foreign worker and economic prosperity
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Posted many years ago in UkResident.comQuoting lizthese job seekers are coming here to work and theyre doing jobs that the average brit would not be caught dead doing. theyre here because its lucrative for them. they send money back to their families who are very poor and live a substandard life wher...
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English Classical Writers
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�Posted on UkResident.com many years agoThere are a lot British writers who have infatuated me in a most enduring manner. Of these, Oscar Wide and Somerset Maugham do stand in very supreme positions.Their styles of writing do differ, yet what impresses me is that they both did have a level of insight...
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Séance
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Posted on UkResident.com many years ago?Quote:CricketSomething really scary.A hell of thing to see, no doubt.I personally do believe that minds can communicate, and can even affect. The so-called evil eye; there are persons who might augur ill effects, and persons who can usher in good luck also...
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Smacking Children
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My writings on a debate on UkResident.com done many years ago�Quote:MikeIm sure if corporal punishment was used in schools and smacking was used more by parents people would have a healthy fear of commiting crime.This presupposes that parents are models in many matters. Usually parents who are co...
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When the princess died
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This post was first posted on ukresident.com on 14th August 2004
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Cricket’s thread
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?Posted on UkResident.com {Reply}QUOTE.Justice in mine and many other countrys is based on innocent until proven guilty....that is the reason they are still alive.- Oldfred?QUOTEYou have been tortured and generally abused simply by having been kept in detention for no more reason than the fact...
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Britain Really Did Rule The Waves
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Posted on: Apr 16 2004 in UkResident.comGentlemen: May I add to your debate: I come with no intention to shower praise on England. Yet in your postings here, there was something that had a sharp level of resonance to an introductory chapter in my book.Part II. Chapter 4:(The International Effect-a p...
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Business Process Outsourcing
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Posted on UkResident.com many years agoWhat do you think of outsourcing of business processes, back office jobs, manufacturing, research etc. to less developed nations, and also the allied issue of bringing in of low paid, immigrant workers to English nations? Does it help the nation, economy, a...
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Financing the Royal Family
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Posted many years ago in UkResident.com {Reply}Not a dictator, not a murderer, not a tyrant, not a source of corruption, not a destroyer of tradition or heritage, and never unpatriotic; then why remove your monarch?There are a million times worse persons running nations, with less much claim to th...
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Will Saddam have a fair trial?
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Posted on UkResident.com many years agoI feel deep apprehensions. There is a severe level of mediocrity in understanding Asian social mental mood, in the way US is handling the Saddam trail.What it is giving to Saddam is not fair trail, but actually a perfect platform for propaganda and focusing of...
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Non-English social systems in English societies
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Posted on UkResident.com on Jun 19 2004I believe that most Asian languages are very feudal; and possibly many European languages also have very strong personality contorting features, in them.To put in a comparison, may I take the communication towards the British royal family? They have to be ad...
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Now, what might happen in Iraq?
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Posted many years ago in UkResident.comIt is not easy to predict on what all incidences would take place there. Yet, in a way the new government would be more effective in dealing with the terrorists. For, US is running a war campaign as if it is a picnic party.Actually, wars are times when no quarter is...
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Royal Navy sailors arrested by Iran!
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Poste in UkResident.com many years ago�In many nations, one of the easiest technique to achieve a sense of glory is to give a feeling to others that they had given the British a bloody hiding. It gives a feel of a David verses Goliath story.And it satiates ones fellow countrymens ego.In many nations, p...
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The compulsions of Robert Clive
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?Posted on UkResident.com many years agoI have an enduring interest in Robert Clive, for a variety of reasons. A Google search on him reached me at this link.The article found there on Clive was strangely fascinating for its resounding meagreness of understanding, as well as its equally resonatin...
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Achieving equality with the English: By going up or by bringing down?
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?Posted on UkResident many years agoI have been following the Daniel Smith case in Philippine with a certain level of interest. For, like so many other incidents that are becoming very common in connection to the English nations, this also is a theme on which my mind had more or less visualised events...
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The impending suffocation
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This was ?posted on UkResident.com many years agoOne. One South Indian businessman with small time enterprise in the Middle East told me that the British would be forced into recluse status in UAE social scenarios.? For, they will not be able to bear our culture, which is now the overwhelming force i...
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MUTHAPPAN: Standing on a different frame of reference
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I am writing here on a phenomenon that may initially seem to have no connection to the general mood of my other writings. Yet, there is a link, which may become visible later, much later.It is my experience with a phenomenon which may be descri...
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The Timer, the Knell, the Codes, the Encryption
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There is four of them. One O Clock high.They are coming around. Watch em.Too bad. Its 6 O Clock up, coming in. Better watch, chief.B 17 in trouble, at 2 O Clock. Watch it.Theres an engine on fire.There is two more diving through the 94.Three planes, 9 O Clock, coming around.Keep your arm aboard.Coming a...
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The tragedy of being Saddam Hussein
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This was a post I made on UkResident.com, a few days before Saddam Hussein was hangedThere shall be a haste to arrange a short shrift and a long jump for Saddam Hussein. Whether it is a befitting departure for a person who had the attributes of handsomeness, leadership and focus of power in him, may not b...
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Can someone please explain, UK doctors working abroad
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QUOTE(evansthespy @ Apr 23 2007, 11:58 AM) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=449818&in_page_id=1774?We import doctors to prop up the NHS, then tell our jobless junior staff to work abroad for charity?It was a tragedy in the off...
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Quality of Knowledge: The aura
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Posted on UkResident.com many years agoMany, many years ago, when I joined in the state syllabus schools over here, in my 5th class, I came across a story in the vernacular language textbook. It was a story the underlying sense of which I couldnt get at, at that time. I do not think even the teachers had a...
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Macaulay and Bollywood, Dispeller versus the distributors of poison
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?Posted many years ago in UkResident.comWhen East India Company was ruling India, there was an intense debate as to what was the medium of education for the Indian population that should be supported by the government. There were the orientalists among the English officials who saw a lot of intelle...
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Reply to: Multicultural contributions, how much can we withstand
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Posted on UkResident.com many years ago?What evansthespy is focusing on is an issue that was fully clear to me years and years ago. I may even say that it was not a difficult thing to envisage.I deeply regret that England is changing. Yet, it cant be otherwise. For, England carries a guilt conscience f...
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Envisaging the future, Enlarging on Evansthespy�s misgivings
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�Posted on UkResident.com many years agoPerceiving the futureWhen the Y2K issue became known, I happened to contemplate on the clever encodings inside.� At a superficial glance it was only a deficiency in a computer programming; to be addressed at a competitive tariff by using low cost computer p...
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If I were
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?This article was written many years ago in UkResident.com?I feel that UK has come to a cul-de-sac sort of situation with regard to immigration. It was in the coming for long years. I could see it with growing apprehension many, many years ago. My own feeling is that the personnel in UK who are in charge...
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Virginia University Campus shooting
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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?This was a writing that I made many years ago in ukresident.com ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? More than 30 persons were killed in a Virginia University Campus shooting. It was a shocking incident. A lot of mutual recriminations, and blames and many debates will e...
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Gandhi and his 'Ji'
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