On 08/05/2020 03:01, Recliner wrote:
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There can't be many people left who have personal memories of VE-Day. After
the care homes crisis, their number has probably halved in the last couple
of months. Not a great way of celebrating them.


Hyperbole has it's place but I don't think that was one of them. The
ONS estimated 2.4 per cent of the UK population was over 85. Even
after allowing for immigration that's over 1.5 million likely to have
memories of VE Day. And if you reckon 750,000 over 85s have probably
died in the past couple of months....

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Robin
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On 08/05/2020 08:14, Robin wrote:
On 08/05/2020 03:01, Recliner wrote:
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There can't be many people left who have personal memories of VE-Day.
After
the care homes crisis, their number has probably halved in the last
couple
of months. Not a great way of celebrating them.


Hyperbole has it's place but I don't think that was one of them.Â* The
ONS estimatedÂ* 2.4 per cent of the UK population was over 85.Â* Even
after allowing for immigration that's over 1.5 million likely to have
memories of VE Day. And if you reckon 750,000 over 85s have probably
died in the past couple of months....


sigh
similarly apostrophes have their place and that weren't one of them





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Robin
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Robin wrote:
On 08/05/2020 03:01, Recliner wrote:
snip

There can't be many people left who have personal memories of VE-Day. After
the care homes crisis, their number has probably halved in the last couple
of months. Not a great way of celebrating them.


Hyperbole has it's place but I don't think that was one of them. The
ONS estimated 2.4 per cent of the UK population was over 85. Even
after allowing for immigration that's over 1.5 million likely to have
memories of VE Day. And if you reckon 750,000 over 85s have probably
died in the past couple of months....


I was thinking of older people with wartime memories, who knew what VE-Day
was all about, not people who were just children at the time.