"harry" wrote in message
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On Jun 8, 9:01 am, "David WE Roberts"
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*Nobody much is interested in manual work. Thet seem to think they can
*make a living sat in front of a screen. We have a generation thinks
*not to go to "uni" is failure. When they get there they learn useless
*crap. Political studies. Psychology. Television studies.

*Most of them are so fat/unfit they will never make it to seventy.

A mixed response here.

Yes, most people make a living sitting in front of a screen.
That's the way of the modern world.
It's the way I made my living and I'm sitting in front of a screen now.

I can't agree with your definition of crap, given that my lad is doing his
PhD in politics at the moment and it seems to cover a lot of useful and
relevant stuff. Psychology is also a useful profession.
I could be with you on the television studies, though.

Again, very few of the people who I saw at University when visiting my kids
were fat and their friends now are relatively lean.
My lad is underweight, if anything, and has completed an Olympic Triathlon
so he doesn't class as unfit.

I think you may find that the overweight people may come predominantly from
the 50% who didn't go to University, but that may just be my biased view.

I think you would be hard pressed to make a living at manual work these
days - there aren't that many jobs anymore now we don't have a manufacturing
industry and agriculture is so highly automated..

All of which has little to do with gardening. :-)

Cheers

Dave R

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[Not even bunny]

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