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mmoa_writes at 11:48pm on 05/10/2006 under aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr
mmoa_writes at 11:48pm on 05/10/2006 under aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrThis just in from Question Time: Boris Johnson vs John Prescott - SUMO!!!
On a more serious note...
I really think we've lost all sense of proportion. Boris Johnson makes some silly but rather funny comment about Jamie Oliver that happens to be in contradiction to what the leader of his party happened to say on the same topic and everyone starts making a huge fuss of it as if he was actually talking about something important or the Conservative party is about to split up because, shock, horror! Boris Johnson doesn't care what Jamie Oliver has to say about school dinners! What is wrong with us? At least the Americans get to have real debates (oh what a choice: staunch creationists or crappy news editors... I'd take the crappy news editors, to be honest). We just have to put up with idiotic tabloids and unsensational sensations.
It's just SCHOOL DINNERS, for goodness' sake. I couldn't care less if the kids were obese or not, so long as they can read, write, (preferably in at least three languages, one of which must be dead), and thus pay back to the public services (eg, the NHS and yes, I know that's what everyone keeps on going on about, thank you...!) they are helping to cripple because they couldn't be bothered to get hypnotised/gastric surgery or something equally ridiculous.
Furthermore, I do not care if the Conservative and the Labour parties are becoming too alike. The whole business is ludicrous anyway. Liberal vs Conservative - what tosh. It's ridiculous when you have a society to run. How these politicians can let themselves waste precious time on name-calling, I don't know.
Just do your best to run the country, for goodness' sake. If it's the labels that is such a problem, scrap the big parties and then we'll just deal with voting for a new oligarchy every four years. See, choice! w00t!
Look... all I know is that having two or more parties who all sound the same is practically no different from electing a different party to rule every four years because eventually it's just going to seem as if the country has been run by a single party all along. Each party undoes the work of the one before and so does the next party. And the beat goes on. In fact, you don't even need a different party, these days: the same one will do what was once the work of the former foe, without a General Election. Whoopee!
OMG. Today's debate was so embarrassing. I hope everyone who attended will obliterate it from their memory. Then I can die in peace...
And a little bit of ridiculous trivia: does no one else find it worrying how alike Daniel Dennett and the current Archbishop of Canterbury look? Like two father christmas' on pot or something...
On a more serious note...
I really think we've lost all sense of proportion. Boris Johnson makes some silly but rather funny comment about Jamie Oliver that happens to be in contradiction to what the leader of his party happened to say on the same topic and everyone starts making a huge fuss of it as if he was actually talking about something important or the Conservative party is about to split up because, shock, horror! Boris Johnson doesn't care what Jamie Oliver has to say about school dinners! What is wrong with us? At least the Americans get to have real debates (oh what a choice: staunch creationists or crappy news editors... I'd take the crappy news editors, to be honest). We just have to put up with idiotic tabloids and unsensational sensations.
It's just SCHOOL DINNERS, for goodness' sake. I couldn't care less if the kids were obese or not, so long as they can read, write, (preferably in at least three languages, one of which must be dead), and thus pay back to the public services (eg, the NHS and yes, I know that's what everyone keeps on going on about, thank you...!) they are helping to cripple because they couldn't be bothered to get hypnotised/gastric surgery or something equally ridiculous.
Furthermore, I do not care if the Conservative and the Labour parties are becoming too alike. The whole business is ludicrous anyway. Liberal vs Conservative - what tosh. It's ridiculous when you have a society to run. How these politicians can let themselves waste precious time on name-calling, I don't know.
Just do your best to run the country, for goodness' sake. If it's the labels that is such a problem, scrap the big parties and then we'll just deal with voting for a new oligarchy every four years. See, choice! w00t!
Look... all I know is that having two or more parties who all sound the same is practically no different from electing a different party to rule every four years because eventually it's just going to seem as if the country has been run by a single party all along. Each party undoes the work of the one before and so does the next party. And the beat goes on. In fact, you don't even need a different party, these days: the same one will do what was once the work of the former foe, without a General Election. Whoopee!
OMG. Today's debate was so embarrassing. I hope everyone who attended will obliterate it from their memory. Then I can die in peace...
And a little bit of ridiculous trivia: does no one else find it worrying how alike Daniel Dennett and the current Archbishop of Canterbury look? Like two father christmas' on pot or something...
disappointed
(no subject)
Your speech was the only point of interest is a sea of banality - so you need not hide your head in shame.
What was shameful, however, were the comments along the lines of: when I was little I really loved my teddy and it gave me comfort and, and they're nice to hug and they're fluffy, and, and...
Lord give me strength
The mighty Florence intellect lives to fight another day, my dear, this, ahem, debate has not tainted its shiny and impressive glory.