nail on head. Most have an alcohol/drug problem and can't stand the idea of staying somewhere that stuff isn't permitted. Some just have a mental health problem and can't handle being told no you can't do that.
yes, there are always ones that can win out.
NT
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So many people making such lousy buying decisions. I'm not sure there's any solution, if they cared they'd get themselves informed about the products & the value of money. Poverty wipes all that away but creates bigger proble ms. Maybe as the world gets better off financially it will just fill up wit h junk.
NT
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And then a lot of the idiots run off to the store and buy lottery tickets. So, the bottom dregs end up paying way more in taxes than we do, because two or three lottery tickets in, and they have paid several times the percentage of their income that any of us do.
And yes... it is just another form of tax, because that is where the money ends up. In that state coffers.
We should all have gold plated schools by now filled with the best computers money can buy for our kids' educations.
Can't even invent his own insults. Not that NT is a perfect example of a prat - the underlying conceit that he thinks knows more than most other people introduces an element of egomania which isn't entirely prat-like.
A prat is perfectly satisfied with what he is, and NT wants to be seen as superior sort of person, which takes it a bit further.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
This has been mentioned earlier in this thread - back on the 25th December - but NT wants to score brownie points for recycling the obvious.
What a helpful observation.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
As the undisputed master of patronizing condescension here, Bill, I don't think you're in any position to lecture others on how to be civil.
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"When constituencies are small their elected representatives must concern themselves with the local interests of their constituents. When political representatives are distant and faceless, on the other hand, and represent vast numbers of unknown constituents, they represent not their constituents, but special interest groups whose lobbyists are numerous and ever present. Typically in Europe a technocrat is an ex-politician or a civil servant. He is unelected, virtually impossible to dislodge during his term of employment and has been granted extensive executive and even legislative power without popular mandate and without being directly answerable to the people whose interests he falsely purports to represent."
- Sir James Goldsmith (Member of the European Parliament) 1933 - 1997
I see. So you're a Marxist who's happy to dabble in Capitalism when it suits you. Typical two-faced champagne Socialist: "do as I say not do as I do." Try leading by example, Bill. You might come across as less of a phony.
Yes, any employer seeking someone to work on their nuclear reactor in "fits and starts" will find you an ideal candidate for sure.
-- "When constituencies are small their elected representatives must concern themselves with the local interests of their constituents. When political representatives are distant and faceless, on the other hand, and represent vast numbers of unknown constituents, they represent not their constituents, but special interest groups whose lobbyists are numerous and ever present. Typically in Europe a technocrat is an ex-politician or a civil servant. He is unelected, virtually impossible to dislodge during his term of employment and has been granted extensive executive and even legislative power without popular mandate and without being directly answerable to the people whose interests he falsely purports to represent." - Sir James Goldsmith (Member of the European Parliament) 1933 - 1997
as places where he can show off his inflated self image (including his del usions of competence), and has missed the part about exchange of informatio n, probably because he hasn't got any to exchange.
He is so full of crap that he would explode, if he ever stopped spreading h is manure online.
as places where he can show off his inflated self image (including his del usions of competence), and has missed the part about exchange of informatio n, probably because he hasn't got any to exchange.
Cursitor Doom has all kinds of silly opinions. This is just one more of the m.
This may be an example of patronising condescension, but while the proper w ay of dealing with Cursitor Doom would be to ignore him, this is an opportu nity to ilustrate where patronising condescension is pretty much obligatory .
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
income (most of it from the UK) but get as much again out of investments.
Typical Cursitor Doom uninformed idiocy. I'm a socialist, not a Marxist.
As I remind Cursitor Doom and similar right-wing nitwits from time to time, Karl Marx and the proto-communists got thrown out of the International Soc ialist movements in 1871 because their silly ideas about the "leading role of the party" were undemocratic.
It prompted Mikhail Bakunin to produce this remarkably prophetic comment.
Cursitor Doom wants me to conform to his silly ideas about what socialism i nvolves. Modern socialism is alive and well in Scandinavia and northern Eur ope, but Cursitor Doom wants to be rude about communism because it's a much easier target.
des ago. I'm not so obviously unemployable that I don't get job interviews from time to time - the most recent one was from Australia's nuclear reacto r where they've got a 1990-built neutron diffraction set up which they are thinking about modernising. A 77-year-old might not be an obvious choice, b ut the job is going to have to be done in fits and starts and the fact that I don't need a continuous income makes me an attractive candidate.
I won't get to dictate when the work can be paid for - it's a government-fu nded research reactor which does all sorts of useful scientific work, but t he politicians who control it's funding have their own priorities.
Cursitor Doom lives in some kind of right-wing bubble which is a long way f rom the real world - where socialists are Marxists and must forego owning s tocks or shares.
Karl Marx himself sponged off Friederich Engels, as well as collaborating w ith him.
Engels was a successful capitalist (not that he enjoyed the work involved, but he did need the money it made to pursue his other interests).
This is a patronising and condescending response, but Cursitor Doom's pig-i gnorance doesn't really lend itself to any other kind of reaction.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
s" as places where he can show off his inflated self image (including his d elusions of competence), and has missed the part about exchange of informat ion, probably because he hasn't got any to exchange.
his manure online.
A description that fits Michael Terrell and Cursitor Doom remarkably well.
Both have fixed and remarkably silly ideas, and both have clearly lost the capacity to correct them.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Bill just seems to enjoy being provocative and obnoxious for the sake of it. You'd have thought someone of 77 years of age would want to make the most out of their remaining time on this planet, but... each to their own I guess. ;-/
-- "The BEST Deal is NO DEAL"
Enough that NJ complained.
It seems like a lot of the homes rented at NY taxpayers expense were substandard, even at $22k a year.
I don't think it helped much. But I read 2300 families were moved, but, I have no idea how many families were homeless.
Cursitor Doom has been provocative and obnoxious since he stated posting here.
Being a gullible twit doesn't make him intentionally provocative, but the twaddle he posts is such obvious nonsense that anybody with any sense is going to find it obnoxious.
He resents people who are unkind enough to point this out, but doesn't seem to have realised that he is generating a whole lot more resentment than the resentment his - limited - reading of the people he hasn't kill-filed yet lets him see.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
He is useless. That is why I scroll right past anything he posts. He's angry that he is a useless old man, so he wants everyone to be as miserable as he is.
Not strictly true. Michael Terrell's horizons are rather narrow, and the few interests he does have don't seem to over-lap with mine.
The fact that most of it goes straight over his head might have something to do with that, but he won't see it that way. Technicians resent enegineer, and Michael seems to be more resentful than most.
I can't say that I'm angry about being less useful than I might be. It wouldn't be a constructive reaction, and it doesn't take much of grasp of cognitive therapy to avoid that kind of reaction.
They should be so lucky. I've got a whole lot less to be miserable than Michael - the Australian health system looks after me a whole lot better than the veteran system looks after Michael, and they've got many fewer problems to attend to.
I'm afraid Michael is just projecting his own problems onto me, which the sort of silly mistake he is all too prone to go in for.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Indeed. I only see his posts each time a kill filter expires, but it's never very long before he ends up warranting another one.
-- "The BEST Deal is NO DEAL"
I'm still trying to work out what the job advert for which you thought you'd be the ideal candidate would have read like, Bill.
"Atomic Energy Research Facility seeks an irascible pensioner (75 or over) with Marxist proclivities to work on our nuclear reactor in fits and starts."
Hmmm. Doesn't sound very probable to me.
-- "The BEST Deal is NO DEAL"
Must be willing to replace fuel rods without protective gear, and mop all bathroom floors twice daily.
I'm sure that wouldn't be beyond "our hero" - LOL!
Ouch! Incontinence jokes are a bit below the belt. :-D
-- "The BEST Deal is NO DEAL"
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