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@lighthouse - as this is something i do happen to know something about i can tell you that it is an indisputable fact that there is a link between low socioeconomic background and boxing. there is also a link between ethnicity and boxing with many young men from african caribbean backgrounds seeing professional sport, in particular football and boxing, as a means to improve their social mobility. ...
ahh Sniper - as usual your articulate, intelligent, wise, thoughtful, thoroughly considered, well reasoned, insightful, and helpful intervention is a lesson in integrity to us all. Your posts are such a joy .......
Hey hey hey - less of the snobby please - you asked and I dont agree - that doesnt make me a snob anymore than you encouraging boxing makes you a yob
no @fannyann - since you asked, i dont agree with you. watching 2, usually underpriviledged, young men beat the crap out of each other for the entertainment of others strikes me as being repulsive. i cant see that boxing is a noble sport nor do i think that its participants make good role models for other (again, usually underpriviledged) young men.
I cant imagine that the good burghers of Dawlish would be keen to have a 'bomb scare' all over the news in the week before Easter. Hardly conducive to family friendly holidays.
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oh i thought it was mordor @Lynne - i think southwold is twinned with narnia
Frivalities? I mean frivolities!
lighten up @Sniper - i'm suggesting that a police helicopter, at a cost of several thousand pounds to us, in order to pursue, and then not even apprehend, a dogger for goodness sake is the equivelent of a sledge hammer to crack a nut and a complete waste of public money. the police are answerable to us and i'd like an explaination about the reason for this overkill because i suspect its a case ...
Absolutely correct Sniper - I'm not - your point being?
