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Says the guy pretending to be a dog.
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Does nobody want to argue about the royal family? I thought it'd help give the thread a bit of a boot.
I'd vote for the abolition of the royal family in a heartbeat.
A tail and ears is only about 20% furry.
Ooh I do, I do!
Pass me the sick bucket, the traitor-levels in this post are making me ill.
Actually I'd rather we suspended parliamentary democracy and gave absolute power back to the Monarchy. Then we'd have a government led by legitimately popular people that could pass social reforms quickly and decisively without the sluggishness and hand wringing of our current system which demands us to wait years for incremental changes to occur. The basis of decision making would be more solid as our leaders wouldn't be required to bend to the winds of populism to ensure they are re-elected. The Monarch could say and do what She/He wanted politically, without having to please a wishy-washy electorate or disgruntled back-benchers sowing discord and sabotaging progress. The lack of elections would also mean that long term plans could be pursued without the disruption of a change in government.
Ooh I do, I do!
Pass me the sick bucket, the traitor-levels in this post are making me ill.
Actually I'd rather we suspended parliamentary democracy and gave absolute power back to the Monarchy. Then we'd have a government led by legitimately popular people that could pass social reforms quickly and decisively without the sluggishness and hand wringing of our current system which demands us to wait years for incremental changes to occur. The basis of decision making would be more solid as our leaders wouldn't be required to bend to the winds of populism to ensure they are re-elected. The Monarch could say and do what She/He wanted politically, without having to please a wishy-washy electorate or disgruntled back-benchers sowing discord and sabotaging progress. The lack of elections would also mean that long term plans could be pursued without the disruption of a change in government.
Still think I need to do politics research for next year to defend my "voting is pointless" schtick since it usually riles people up.
russell?
He's an idiot.
I was thinking it before it was cool yo. But for what it's worth I think he's a thoughtful and interesting man and speaks a lot of sense underneath his florid Dickensian bluster.
Still think I need to do politics research for next year to defend my "voting is pointless" schtick since it usually riles people up. FPP is a good enough reason to begin with, but I need to be able to comprehensively shit on every party too. Will adopt some of your pro monarchy logic too.
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Usually, I'm right with you. The two main parties have spent the last twenty years edging closer and closer to the centre, making them fairly indistinguishable by anything but colour and education reforms; whilst the Lib Dems have unfortunately been in bed with the enemy and lost any good will they generated during the last election. It's all pretty pointless.
If it weren't for the fact that Mark Reckless jumped ship to UKIP, and they stand a chance to win with their policy-free, right wing, lowest denominator bullshit in the by-election, I would be sticking to my usual no voting policy.
Nah, man. The guy is a flighty prick who loves the smell of his own farts.
Wow. I read pretty grumpy today
I keep meaning to come along to one of these BritGaf meetups I've heard about but I never seem to have the money when you guys are having the meets. Is there going to be one in December before Christmas, at all? (my next payday is not till Nov 28th, and I'm away at parents' house 20 Dec - 3 Jan)
My current pet idea is that government should be much much more local. It should start at the street you live on and scale up from there. Currently our system is top down, with local politics being the purview of the dregs, the busybodies and the elderly. Scrap that. We have the technology now for distributed, casual involvement from everyone. Think like a forum but just for your road, and then your ward, and then your town, and then your borough, county, quadrant, country. A meritocracy of ideas, upvoted from the micro to the macro. No more bullshit political classes, best idea wins. People risen up from wherever they come from based on the strength of their ideas and character, not because of some false binary (trinary, lol) party system. Of course with this there is the danger that we could become some kind of totalitarian nightmare state because of the nature of some of our sirens, but I have faith that most people are sensible and moderate - it's the media that blow up extremists of all kinds and promote their views as being more important due to their prominence.
And Brand - yeah he's a narcissist and is probably a flawed human, but show me someone who isn't. He still has some great ideas and is trying to tell people about them and some books he's read. I respect him trying.
CHEEZMO;138246076 said:As an unironic AnCom I can just state my positions with full honesty and still wind people up. It's the best of both worlds imo.
Wow. I didn't expect that! XD
It's a nice idea on paper. How do you go about making decisions on the world stage? I imagine that top level politicians tend to have access to a lot of information that isn't widely known or have a wider view on things that would have an effect on high level decision making. Do we share state secrets with the public? How do we get that high level view down to the man or woah-man in the street?
You'll have to enlighten me on his great ideas. I can't listen to him directly without wanting to roll my nuts in ground glass and scream, which (weirdly) is exactly what his voice sounds like to me.
What is AnCom?
I think we could elect people to deal with the high up stuff and there will always be a place for the political classes, just there needs to be more bredth to the types of people allowed to participate in the decision making process. Cunts in suits do well at talking to other cunts in suits, we can make use of them too. The state secrets thing is interesting though, if there was a truly distributed idea of democracy then maybe this would need to be public information. But I can see the need for them still. This matter could go up for discussion and a vote for sure.
Anarcho-Communist, I believe.
My god. Sign me the fuck up. Although I'm not joining if that cunt Brand is involved.
Brand's not a cunt, you know. Just a bit of a tosser from time to time.
Victoria coach station closed. I'm now sat outside till 8:30.
That was a bit much. I think I actively hate every comedian called Russell and I don't know why. It's exhausting.
I couldn't care less if it's cool, I think when they are great, they're Tony the Tiger Grrrreat. EDIT: I mean, Pink Floyd. Not Russell. There's this dual slide guitar bit on one of The Shine On... tracks (part 2, I think) that is just beautiful. Also, 'Careful With That Ax, Eugene' is utterly monstrous when it kicks in. In a good way. You know, like way kids do when they say "wicked", "sick" and "bear". Or is it "bare"? I don't know. What I do know, is that song is good. But in a bad way. Like the kids mean it. Yeah.
Sorry to hear the last bit.
I am having the longest day in work in a while.
Halo is waiting for me when I get home, but I have sooo much work to do.
So much my head is spinning and I don't even know what to start on.
Hate days like today.
Oh man, you and me both. Yesterday a problem came up at work and it's caused me around 7 hours of work when I could have sorted it in an hour. When something goes wrong here, management want to write a book about it. So stressful, I feel completely demoralised and unmotivated now. And I still have my actual work to get done. Sigh.
No Halo at home for me, but I might be able to swing a blowie if I'm lucky.
Wish I had work. Having all this free time has become boring fast, I just have more time to lapse into bad habits. Sending off applications only to get rejected time and again sucks the motivation out of you. I think soon before Christmas is a bad time to look really.
"When can you start?"
"Shortly before I stop."
But I can't get complacent because I'm living off my savings right now and I'll be damned if I hoarded my earnings for 18 months just to watch it bleed out.
No blowie for me but at least I have the hankerchief collection.
Oh man, you and me both. Yesterday a problem came up at work and it's caused me around 7 hours of work when I could have sorted it in an hour. When something goes wrong here, management want to write a book about it. So stressful, I feel completely demoralised and unmotivated now. And I still have my actual work to get done. Sigh.
No Halo at home for me, but I might be able to swing a blowie if I'm lucky.
Wish I had work. Having all this free time has become boring fast, I just have more time to lapse into bad habits. Sending off applications only to get rejected time and again sucks the motivation out of you. I think soon before Christmas is a bad time to look really.
"When can you start?"
"Shortly before I stop."
But I can't get complacent because I'm living off my savings right now and I'll be damned if I hoarded my earnings for 18 months just to watch it bleed out.
No blowie for me but at least I have the hankerchief collection.
Might put on some cool tunes 😄
You mean U2, don't you?
So I'm finally settled to read Dan Brown's Inferno. And we have an English born character who is now running around in Florence. And she's now recalling the nursery rhyme: ring a ring o' roses.
Except I didn't recognise the third line. Googled it. & it stems from the version more common to America.
Ring-a-round the rosie,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down.
The one more common to Britain, according to wiki:
Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.
#
My childhood agrees more with wiki than Dan Brown's character who use to recite it as a 'school girl in England'.
Edit: beside that wiki cites experts saying its being linked to the black death is tenuous at best.
So I'm finally settled to read Dan Brown's Inferno. And we have an English born character who is now running around in Florence. And she's now recalling the nursery rhyme: ring a ring o' roses.
Except I didn't recognise the third line. Googled it. & it stems from the version more common to America.
Ring-a-round the rosie,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down.
The one more common to Britain, according to wiki:
Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.
#
My childhood agrees more with wiki than Dan Brown's character who use to recite it as a 'school girl in England'.
Edit: beside that wiki cites experts saying its being linked to the black death is tenuous at best.
Welcome to the show Dapper, I have one thing to say. Get off Destiny and go out and get a job and stop drinking wine ya filthy bum.
Depends if she's found what she was looking for yet.
My fucking goodness no. What's the middle class equivalent of Jeremy Kyle? Put me on that.
And I've given up on Destiny. Haven't played it since October I think. It occurred to me that the only reason I was playing was so that some Raid gear might drop when I do a Raid I can only get loot from once a week, and the only reason I want that specific loot is so I can level up to 30 which gives me nothing whatsoever.
I've moved over to CoD AW which is actually fun/infuriating in the moment to moment gameplay. But that still is just a time waster. I want a big single player RPG so bad, but I've never played any of the Dragon Age games so would feel a little lost picking up the 3rd entry in a series. I have Persona 3 on my Vita and that's nearly finished. After that's done I may pick up Shin Megami Tensei IV. I don't own a 3DS but my housemate does and he's in the Himalayas and said I could use it. But can I justify the modest expense?. Quandaries everywhere.
Depends if she's found what she was looking for yet.