Posts by Jackie Clark
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For an 11 year old, this kid has a sound grasp of the issues
Superb, Stephen. Great logic he has.
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Even more disappointed when you meet me in the cardigan-shrouded flesh, trying not to get cigarette ash in my sweet milky tea. Confuse everyone thoroughly enough and they never see the poison-tipped umbrella coming...
You are a delight, Mr Ranapia. An absolute treasure trove of imagery, and your words often make my lips do that little thing........what is it again? Oh, yes. You make me smile.
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Very sweet of you to offer yourself a a role model Jackie, but I do wonder about always taking the time to answer these things. For example, if you happen to have guests at the time they must be very understanding.
Me a role model? No. And I never have guests. For a variety of reasons. I appreciate that others may have busy lives inside their homes, as well as out, and that phone calls can be an unwelcome intrusion. I like surveys, that's all, and I've done it many moons ago, so I always do them. Charity callers ? Always nice to charity callers, interrupt their stream at the beginning with a concise " I don't have any money but thankyou for calling". People selling products are the people that get the shortest shrift from this household.
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I always try to do the phone surveys when they ring (rarely), because, as a researcher, I know how difficult it is to get responses. And if you don't answer the survey some other shmoe gets called.
Which only goes towards proving that data collected by such surveys is inherently misleading - only those who don't have a life, i.e. have nothing better to do, take the trouble to answer them.
I have a life. It's a pretty nice life, all up. Fairly busy and full, but not too much so. And I answer every telephone survey because.........yes, telephone surveys was one of the many part time jobs I had at varsity, and I remember the unpleasant people, and how hard it was to get anyone to do the bloody things. So, I always always answer them. And the people doing them are always surprised. And I always end up having a satisfying conversation with the person doing them because they are so surprised at how nice I am that they reveal a weeny bit of themselves, and I find out a bit about them. They feel happy, I feel happy. Everybody happy. Good job.
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Jackie and Craig, I'm sorry but having your head in the sand won't stop this recession.
No, but I'd asphyxiate in fairly short order. :) You're right, using your head as a butt-plug isn't a smart move and it's not happening in this house. But neither is being Chicken Little. I've got as my desktop a picture of a British WW2 poster that just has the text "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON". And as Theodore Dalrymple so neatly put it, information without context is just a higher form of ignorance.
No heads in the sand in our house, either. I suspect we're not feeling it because we've had to tighten our belts as far as they will go for the last couple of years anyway. But I would agree with Craig that there's no point in the big panic either.
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Let's just cut the shit and get real about the politics of this. In nine days we go to the polls against the backdrop of the most severe financial crisis to hit the global economy since the Great Depression.
I keep hearing that, and you know what? I don't feel it. And there's no point quoting figures at me, I just don't feel like understanding them. It all sounds vaguely histrionic to me when people say it, and I realise that if I were to believe coming out of anyone's mouth, it would be yours, Craig. You are fairly nous-ey about these things, it is true. Still don't buy it, but. Maybe I'm a sheltered leftie, but I don't see this recession as being anything more than the financial universe righting itself after all these "bullish" years of overspending and flash harryness.
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I know it goes against the spirit of the thread, but isn't Mucking In a much better show than the yank equivalent you're discussing. All the warm fuzzies but none of the big talking and overacting.
It's way better, Sacha.
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Pop-culture snobs. You know, just because I happen to like watching completely ridiculous TV shows does not give you a licence to snark about what an idiot I am. I am capable of analysing and enjoying both high and low culture, you know.
Yes, yes. It always makes me feel better that one of the friends I share ANTM love with, is a professor of archaeology, and goes on brainy expeditions to Outer Mongolia, and everything.
Ty Pennington from Extreme Home Makeover. This screaming faux-nice emotionally manipulative maniac deserves to be beaten to death with a bag full of navel oranges. Get that fucking loudhailer *away from me*, you TOSSER.
I watch it out of the corner of my eye, cos I quite like some of the families who get fab new houses. Ty, not so much. The most recent episode was particularly painful. A lovely man who saved the last couple of people buried alive at Ground Zero. You can imagine Ty Pennington. In his element he was.
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I haven't started cutting the lime slices yet, but I do feel a G'n'T coming on...
Make that a rum and coke, lots of ice, and you're on.
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How learned you all are. Me, not so much, owing to the speed with which I read, and the amount of books I read. Can never remember a thing about most of them. As testament to this, I have lived in Harry Potter land for the last week and a half, reading 1-7 for the 100th time. Don't ask me what happens in most of them. I couldn't tell you. I'll have to read them again before the next movie comes out, and so on and so on. Carry on with the erudite discussion.......