GB: No Freedom of Speech Anymore

Antoli said:
That’s strange, because I clearly remember being kicked out of a youth hostel in Amsterdam back in November 1961 and having the police called on me when I was still in my teens. My offense? Practicing silence. I had been reading a book on Zen Buddhism and in a fit of youthful idealism I had decided to stop speaking for several days, under the misguided belief that it would somehow enrich my mind.

Anyway, never before or since have I encountered people in positions of authority in a Western nation who struck me as so petty and tyrannical.
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No way! Really? Yeah there are loads of tyrannical assholes here.
 

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Antoli said:
That’s strange, because I clearly remember being kicked out of a youth hostel in Amsterdam back in November 1961 and having the police called on me when I was still in my teens. My offense? Practicing silence. I had been reading a book on Zen Buddhism and in a fit of youthful idealism I had decided to stop speaking for several days, under the misguided belief that it would somehow enrich my mind.

Anyway, never before or since have I encountered people in positions of authority in a Western nation who struck me as so petty and tyrannical. That being said, I did very much appreciate the ladies in the windows, and once I discovered them, I was like a kid with a sweet tooth running amok in a candy store.
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final note to you. Someone once told me that I was too detailed. Too obsessed. To much! Their final comment was that "you bore me!".
My final comment to you is the same.
 
Antoli said:
Oh no! Please don’t say such terrible things about me. I’m very sensitive, and you’ve hurt my feelings.
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I have been upset about my previous response. Regardless of whether your resent response is sincere or just sarcastic matters little to me. I apologize for my comments. Very Inappropriate and uncalled for. Again my, apologies.
 
Antoli said:
Anyway, never before or since have I encountered people in positions of authority in a Western nation who struck me as so petty and tyrannical. That being said, I did very much appreciate the ladies in the windows, and once I discovered them, I was like a kid with a sweet tooth running amok in a candy store.
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This made me laugh, and it's time for a confession. Growing up in the 60's and 70's, the Soho area of London was very very seedy. In fact, it was in turns disgraceful and hilarious. It was an area rife with stores selling pornography, prostitute dens, and alcohol. Amsterdam, with its windows, was seedy, but knowingly so. Quaint even, when compared with Soho.

Through the years Soho has become completely gentrified, clean even. Sanitized. What was is gone. But man, do I miss those days when it was a entire culture unto its own. In breaking through the criminality, it lost all its luster and meaning to be.
 
VaughanJB said:
This made me laugh, and it's time for a confession. Growing up in the 60's and 70's, the Soho area of London was very very seedy. In fact, it was in turns disgraceful and hilarious. It was an area rife with stores selling pornography, prostitute dens, and alcohol. Amsterdam, with its windows, was seedy, but knowingly so. Quaint even, when compared with Soho.

Through the years Soho has become completely gentrified, clean even. Sanitized. What was is gone. But man, do I miss those days when it was a entire culture unto its own. In breaking through the criminality, it lost all its luster and meaning to be.
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That's sounds exactly like what happened to Times Square in NY. It used to be like what was depicted in the movie Taxi Driver. Now it's a place where you can bring the whole family for a vacation.
 

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