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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 28, 2016 13:58:24 GMT 1
And here is a delightful explanation of wealth redistribution
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Post by mrsonde on Mar 30, 2016 18:33:42 GMT 1
Ermmm...no, not particularly, I don't find it so. Given the current foreign entanglements the US finds itself in, you could see it as quite reassuring. The "Argabah" thing is silly rather than anything else. I doubt whether even more then a few percent of people even registered the name. It's like when I go to the shop and buy my tobacco. These days it's too much for the person behind the counter to deal with. I've learned from countless occasions that you have to take it stage by stage - nobody seems able to cope with more than one or two pieces of information at once. You can;t just say, hello, I want three 25 gram packets of Golden Virginia Smooth, please. They just about manage to nod, open up the security doors, then come boack with god know's what - anything but what you asked for, that much you can guarantee. So, you have to say: I'd like some tobacco please. That gets them going - they open the safe. Once they've almost finished that task, you can safely say: Golden Virginia SMOOTH, please. They've then got the conscious attention to find the right place. Now, before they lose concentration and ask: what size would you like (that's a very confusing hurdle for them), you interject at this point: 25 grammes please. Right, their groping little fingers locate the right section. Then you can say: three of those, please! And hey presto, job done. Then you have to go through the same rigmarole getting across the correct papers order. No ; NOT effing blues, I said SILVER, and five of em - thus is this fairly simple negotiation concluded satisfactorily. You have to watch them like a hawk, and guide them through it as if they were blind and moronic. They're not - they're just ordinary human beings, trying to do a decent job. In other words - they can only take in so much information at any one time, and conduct one task at any one time.
The it's no surpise at all, and certainly not "frightening" in the least. America is currently conducting three wars, and on the verge of another couple at least. Who knows what the barely registered noise "Agrabah" triggers off at such stressful times? Is it Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria, North Korea? Wtf did you say? Osama? Obama? Those Allah Akhbar people?
Yes, of course. The BBC is on the whole, in most ways, at most times, though it has its severe weaknesses - largely because like Alan its collective consciousness doesn't realise how biased towards one particular political viewpoint it is. Sky is remarkably good, on the whole. C4 is not - its agenda is too strong and directing, and I think Jon Snow far too powerful and distorting an influence. I never watch ITV. Paper wise, the Telegraph is excellent, and getting better with every year. The Times is still good. For American media, the only wise strategy is to shop wide, getting as much variety as possible - that's not a bad strategy wherever you are, of course, but in the US since Reagan's and Clinton' reforms it's essential.
A great blessing against all this depressive decline in journalistic standards is the internet. That allows a wide selection of voices, and it's now virtually impossible to so distort coverage that it becomes buried.
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Post by aquaculture on Mar 30, 2016 23:41:44 GMT 1
Yes, they're only human beings, like all of us. Including you, I presume. I've never seen/read you so humble. Good on ya.
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Post by mrsonde on Mar 31, 2016 8:19:56 GMT 1
Yes, they're only human beings, like all of us. Including you, I presume. I've never seen/read you so humble. Good on ya. Why, thankyou, Lord Aqua of Royal Tunbridge Wells, VC, GC, KG, DSC bar, Professor Emeritus of the National Liberal Conscience, coming from you I almost feel like Uriah Heep, if I may dare to be ever so bold, your worship.
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Post by aquaculture on Mar 31, 2016 12:07:49 GMT 1
Glad to be of service.
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Post by mrsonde on Mar 31, 2016 12:19:24 GMT 1
Not the heavy metal band, you fool; he was a character from Dickens (and he was a Victorian potboiler author, still very popular with readers of little literary discernment or taste.)
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Post by aquaculture on Mar 31, 2016 12:49:52 GMT 1
I'm going off you. Oh - I was never on, was I?
Chuck D (no, not that one) suffered from bouts of insomnia, so walked around London from midnight to sunrise and picked up a lot of grist for his mill.
A bit like us, I suppose.
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Post by mrsonde on Mar 31, 2016 13:07:18 GMT 1
I'm going off you. Oh - I was never on, was I? I try so hard not to offend anyone, too, like the Donald. I don't understand it, I think it must be this board, there's some sort of zombie-vampire-ghastly-leftwinger type infection. So "mrsonde has failed" yet again... That was Gladstone's excuse too. A lot of milling grist about in those days.
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Post by jean on Oct 8, 2016 8:55:21 GMT 1
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Post by alancalverd on Oct 9, 2016 0:40:15 GMT 1
(Someone's had this tape for ten years. I wonder why it's only surfaced now?) Because it's too late for the republicans to field another candidate. The best time to shoot your enemy is when he is at his highest altitude - the crash is more spectacular. Advice to Hillary (who I am sure reads this forum avidly): at the next debate, just say "the reason you should vote for me is because I am not a rapist, misogynist, paedophile, or pottymouthed peabrain" then walk off the stage.
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