Quote by Dave__Notts
Who is that protester? Did someone say he was a lad? I have squinted at it and thought it was a young girl. I really need to get to specsavers if it is a lad
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You and me both.I originally thought it was a female.
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Quote by GnV
Repudiate what debt? You didn't answer my questions Guls because you really don't have a. clue, do you?
and he now shouts just to make sure you hear him... he must be getting through a keyboard a week with all that keyboard stabbing. I can picture him now, a plaster cast on his index finger sticking out like a sore thumb whilst killing the keyboard with his middle finger! He'll find it more difficult with his ring finger when he's worn the other two out pmsl.
He really needs some anger management sessions as well as a basic course in economics!
Guls doesn't have a credible solution other than to shout off the odds like an Alf Garnett drone whilst thumping his keyboard, innit.
Just think what he will be like when his bollocks drop, and all that testosterone will flow through him!
Quote by Mr-Powers
Probably for the best, we don't exactly have a world class football team!
That has nothing to do with bidding.
Fantastic!...so we'ed make great hosts...shame we're not exactly serious contenders to win the world cup!
When World Cups are awarded to countries, team performance is not one of the criteria, so I am not sure what your point is?
Quote by chris19802
Yeah, I reject that mentality too - not sure where you got it from. You should try reading posts more carefully in the future to avoid making more mistakes like that. I never gave any hint as to what my mentality is; I just said we shouldn't generalise and characterise a nation with one statement.
No mistake on my part, I read the following:
Quote by chris19802
It doesn't really matter though, I reject the notion of any 'national spirit'
The comment of 'British spirit' is not generalising or characterising a nation, it is referring to one particular element to a character. By being so dismissive of it and calling it a myth I feel you are the one doing the generalising, by saying we are individuals, and can't engage in collective feeling.
I feel like we're having two different conversations; you referred to my comments as "the selfish every man for himself I'm all right Jack mentality.", which I have pointed out I never alluded to. And you don't generalise by dismissing a generalisation, that doesn't make sense. Also I never said we can't engage in collective feeling at all...
You need to read what I'm actually saying rather than what you think I'm saying, because they are two different things.
You are right, I am wrong, I apologise.
Quote by chris19802
Yeah, I reject that mentality too - not sure where you got it from. You should try reading posts more carefully in the future to avoid making more mistakes like that. I never gave any hint as to what my mentality is; I just said we shouldn't generalise and characterise a nation with one statement.
No mistake on my part, I read the following:
Quote by chris19802
It doesn't really matter though, I reject the notion of any 'national spirit'
The comment of 'British spirit' is not generalising or characterising a nation, it is referring to one particular element to a character. By being so dismissive of it and calling it a myth I feel you are the one doing the generalising, by saying we are individuals, and can't engage in collective feeling.
Quote by chris19802
And "British spirit"? Really? I think such a thing is a myth...
Depends on your definition.
Yes it does, but I've never heard a definition I'd recognise yet.
So what is your definition, and why is it a myth?
I've always considered it to be what the 19th/20th Century propaganda told us it was; steely determination, not giving up, etc.
It doesn't really matter though, I reject the notion of any 'national spirit'; we're all individuals with our own ethics and shouldn't generalise like that.
And that, in a nutshell is why that spirit is diluted - the selfish every man for himself I'm all right Jack mentality.
Quote by neilinleeds
Or are you going to be like these people who watch these 'talent' shows, and whinge/moan/rant incessantly if it does not go the way they want it, without realising they don't have to watch it, they aren't forced to.
Now look you! I am forced to watch them, cos Gem insists on putting it on the telly so she can then brag to her friends about I got a bit teary eyed watching the audition stages cos they was only doing it for their dear departed *insert dead relative here* and some such . . . . :uhoh:
;)Uh-huh, do you really expect me to believe that? Gem is far too sweet to bully you into these things.
Quote by neilinleeds
The question is, how chuffin' desperate am I gonna wanna be to go back to work by round about day 4 given previous telly coverage of these kinds of national celebration and / or national mourning type events?I'm not sure I actually get paid enough to sit through this kind of hour after hour, day in day out, and here's what you may have missed of it yesterday type thing?
:?
The question is, are you able to muster the ability to either change the channel, or even do something away from the telly?
Or are you going to be like these people who watch these 'talent' shows, and whinge/moan/rant incessantly if it does not go the way they want it, without realising they don't have to watch it, they aren't forced to.
