Off Topic The Politics Thread

[Star of David Bardsley]

I know you do: "I am deferential to wealth"

http://www.not606.com/threads/the-e...ry-meltdown-thread.304544/page-8#post-8075822

Like I said, ambition is fantastic. But again, like I said, that is entirely different to what you covet. I don't expect you to get the nuance but Stan - as always - immediately noticed the error in what you were saying and I don't think its at all healthy for an individual to have such a thing as their supreme God. It is laced with pitfalls and immorality (again, note the nuance between it and genuine ambition).

Please reconsider your values Sir. You'll thank me for it one day.

I'm deferential to wealth. It just means I respect wealth and most of those who have it. To become wealthy, unless you have exceptional luck, you need to be talented in some way.

That doesn't mean wealth is my "supreme God" but it's bloody important. Life isn't half easier when you don't have to worry about money.

 

[Swords Hoopster.]

Life isn't half easier when you don't have to worry about money.

True

To become wealthy, unless you have exceptional luck, you need to be talented in some way.

Untrue

I'm deferential to wealth. It just means I respect wealth and most of those who have it.

Nauseating

 

[Big Ern]

I'm deferential to wealth. It just means I respect wealth and most of those who have it. To become wealthy, unless you have exceptional luck, you need to be talented in some way.

That doesn't mean wealth is my "supreme God" but it's bloody important. Life isn't half easier when you don't have to worry about money.

then you start to worry about people taking your stuff.
Fact is there's too many people, not enough stuff and everyone has their hands out for more but don't want to do anything for it.
A roof over your head and food in your belly, everything else is a bonus. British people really have no idea how lucky they are.

 

[QPR999]

Good grief Swords, this is a football forum, not a court of law. You're like the CIA where you hold everyone to account on what they've said or done in the past. Do you keep dossiers about the folk on here or summink?

Say what you have to say and stop targeting poster's. Now you've bought bloody 'Miggins' back on here! Can you give him some of your 'Aboriginal Analogy' so we can gather enough evidence to bid him farewell?

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Good grief Swords, this is a football forum, not a court of law. You're like the CIA where you hold everyone to account on what they've said or done in the past. Do you keep dossiers about the folk on here or summink?

Say what you have to say and stop targeting poster's. Now you've bought bloody 'Miggins' back on here! Can you give him some of your 'Aboriginal Analogy' so we can gather enough evidence to bid him farewell?

I'm curious as to what's wrong with my view in the world of Swords.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

then you start to worry about people taking your stuff.
Fact is there's too many people, not enough stuff and everyone has their hands out for more but don't want to do anything for it.
A roof over your head and food in your belly, everything else is a bonus. British people really have no idea how lucky they are.

Not really. I have plenty of stuff now and I don't worry about anyone taking it.

 

[rangercol]

I'm deferential to wealth. It just means I respect wealth and most of those who have it. To become wealthy, unless you have exceptional luck, you need to be talented in some way.

That doesn't mean wealth is my "supreme God" but it's bloody important. Life isn't half easier when you don't have to worry about money.

I take your point. However, I tend to judge someone on the kind of person they are and not on how much money they have! Wealth is absolutely no guarantee of the kind of person someone is.

 

[rangercol]

They created the welfare state and nationalised most of our core industry Col, all the things that Thatcher wanted to deconstruct, none of her predecessors dared to, and bizarrely the current charisma free bunch are finally completing the job. I can have no criticism of what Osborne is doing, it's pure, hardcore Toryism. He has a good chance of genuinely changing the shape of the State, some of which is well overdue. And I suspect he's trying to get the pain over with quickly to give him the chance to start giving stuff away before the next election. Bet they won't touch the most expensive and desperately in need of reform area though - the NHS, a great concept dying on its feet.

Osborne's problem is all the stuff he can't control, especially the international stuff.

I obviously knew what the Labour Party had done historically, I was trying to point out that, perhaps Corbyn is more left wing than today's British people would accept.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

I take your point. However, I tend to judge someone on the kind of person they are and not on how much money they have! Wealth is absolutely no guarantee of the kind of person someone is.

Of course not. Swords just seems to think it's wrong that I aspire to be wealthier than I am, which I'd have thought is quite a normal goal.

 

[Swords Hoopster.]

Can you give him some of your 'Aboriginal Analogy' so we can gather enough evidence to bid him farewell?

Don't tell him about that post. He'll put a fatwa out on me


(Wats is a bloody cool poster. Top bloke imo )

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Don't tell him about that post. He'll put a fatwa out on me


(Wats is a bloody cool poster. Top bloke imo )

Love you too.

Bloody boring this injury lark. Was alright with the golf and cricket on.

 

[Swords Hoopster.]

Get well soon my man.

I've been getting my footie fix through the "Gah". It works out perfect. As soon as the Soccer season finishes the Gah & Hurling begin. Then as soon as they're over, the Soccer's back on!

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Get well soon my man.

I've been getting my footie fix through the "Gah". It works out perfect. As soon as the Soccer season finishes the Gah & Hurling begin. Then as soon as they're over, the Soccer's back on!

Yeah I reckon I'd be into it if anyone cared about it here. My ex's brother-in-law plays for the England Aussie Rules so saw a bit of that and always looked like something I'd be good at as someone a bit slow and overly strong and violent for football but bored of rugby after seven years of public school

 

[GoldhawkRoad]

LBC leadership debate tonight may be interesting. Corbyn out ahead on 43% according to latest poll.

 

[Stroller]

LBC leadership debate tonight may be interesting. Corbyn out ahead on 43% according to latest poll.

Corbyn winning the leadership election could the best thing to happen to politics in this country for a long time. His great advantage over the other contenders is that he is a conviction politician - the others don't really know what they stand for. This is why he comes across better in the hustings, and why he has gained support.

Vote Jezza.

 

[GoldhawkRoad]

Corbyn winning the leadership election could the best thing to happen to politics in this country for a long time. His great advantage over the other contenders is that he is a conviction politician - the others don't really know what they stand for. This is why he comes across better in the hustings, and why he has gained support.

Vote Jezza.

He's being interviewed on LBC (with video) now, with the other three. I agree he's a conviction politician, Strolls, but I'm going to have to use all my imagination to see him as a prime minister

 

[rangercol]

Corbyn winning the leadership election could the best thing to happen to politics in this country for a long time. His great advantage over the other contenders is that he is a conviction politician - the others don't really know what they stand for. This is why he comes across better in the hustings, and why he has gained support.

Vote Jezza.

I always have the deepest respect for politicians who have conviction. I seldom agreed with Tony Benn but I found him fascinating to listen to.

 

[Stroller]

He's being interviewed on LBC (with video) now, with the other three. I agree he's a conviction politician, Strolls, but I'm going to have to use all my imagination to see him as a prime minister

He won't be PM, but he might just trigger a realignment which could see a left-of-centre successor come through who could win an election.

 

[GoldhawkRoad]

He won't be PM, but he might just trigger a realignment which could see a left-of-centre successor come through who could win an election.

Ah, clever thinking! You should be a political strategist

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Was Corbyn a serious candidate? I guess that will push a lot of Labour support near the centre to other parties, at least in theory.

Burnham still the bookies' fave.