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"Most of the English middle class are trained for war from the cradle onwards, not technically but morally."
This is true even now. Why else was there a junior cadet force at my senior school? Why else was I learning to camouflage myself and shoot a rifle at 13 years old?
— Jan 10, 2021 07:25PM
This is true even now. Why else was there a junior cadet force at my senior school? Why else was I learning to camouflage myself and shoot a rifle at 13 years old?
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"Well into this century it was usual for ‘free’ patients at the big hospitals to have their teeth extracted with no anaesthetic. They didn’t pay, so why should they have an anaesthetic — that was the attitude. That too has changed."
Ha! So you would think Orwell, but actually, I had a tooth drilled into without anaesthetic because I was on a pauper's health insurance. And it's the twenty-first century.
— Jan 10, 2021 06:33PM
Ha! So you would think Orwell, but actually, I had a tooth drilled into without anaesthetic because I was on a pauper's health insurance. And it's the twenty-first century.
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"Natural’ death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful. Even at that, it makes a difference if you can achieve it in your own home and not in a public institution."
— Jan 10, 2021 02:49PM
