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"Oppressive". "Unpleasant".Except what I've said isn't remotely contradictory. I am not Reynard.
I expressed indifference to Chavez's death (that's what a "shrug" is) and contained my criticism to his record. By the same measure, I have said that people shouldn't delight in Thatcher's death, but can absolutely criticise her record.
Please explain what is contradictory about my contribution here.
The man is dead for god's sake. Show some decorum for fucks sake. He's a human being!
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Morons
WHAM!
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Glenda Jackson on Thatcher. Oohyah!
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And yet, you worship it like a god. Weird.Paper money is a figment anyway unless it is backed up with something of value and without tangible assets you really have nothing at all.
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All of them. I don't discriminate.
It tells the story it purports to tell.
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Hates facts.
What story? It doesn't make especially pretty reading...
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What "facts" exactly are you wanting to emphasise?Don't you just hate facts?
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What? Please explain?
Today, the Tories finally managed to do something that was welcomed in Scotland. Its taken a long time to achieve. Normally, everything the coalition do turns to fail up here.
Well for once, the Tories accomplished something pro Scottish, and here you are, making it sound like a bad thing!
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Ad Lib is such a typical Lib Dem. He even makes the few good things that the Tories manage to do seem shit.
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Weren't you previously arguing that fetuses weren't human beings until they are born? At what point does a corpse stop being a human?Corpses are human beings. Dead ones. This isn't complicated.
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I'm not glorifying in her death. But it did perk my day up a bit. She did an awful lot wrong in her life, and she was never supported by my country. If anything, she did her very best to hold Scotland back in every possible way, and damn well near killed us. There is a reason the Tories were killed off in Scotland under her watch.At the point at which we denigrate human existence, whether in life or in its end, we attack the very idea that we share a common bond and should empathise with one another. The point of death is itself a manifestation of the experience of life.
Now of course I call politicians unpleasant things. But I never wish them to die. I never glorify in their death. In their political capacity, they are open to criticism. But their death has nothing to do with their politics. Their death has to do with their humanity. Once you deny them even that, we can scarcely complain when politicians don't act for the common weel.
So her death leaves the world no poorer. If anything, her death will help Scotland move on, and the untold misery she suffered on the world means that I feel no need to shed a tear. Apparently my wee sister made my dad a "Happy Margaret Thatcher's Dead Day" card.
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I've always found this argument ridiculous. She's dead. Surely the time for respecting her feelings and treating her with decency was when she was alive? I've heard you say some quite awful things about politicians (as do we all), so why is it okay when they are alive, but not when they are dead?Because she's a human being?
As it happens, I said awful things about her when she was alive, and I shall continue to say the same things now she is dead. A politician who did her very best to break Scotland. Hell mend her.
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Weird story to break on the same day...
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Isn't that something to do with the banking collapse?Goodwins law.
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Oh, and why is it okay to slag her constantly while she's alive, but as soon as she's dead, we're supposed to be all "respectful"? Wrong way round surely?
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We're not wishing death on anyone, its already happened. We're celebrating it! Plus, out of respect? She's dead!I'm just saying out of respect. Wouldn't wish death on my worst enemy...seems people on here are far too bitter.
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THere seems to be a spring in everyone's step this afternoon.
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I was fearing the worst after the first couple years of Moffat, but I'm delighted, Dr. Who just seems to get better by the week! Must be gutting for the "hardcore" fans.
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Is there evidence that Clara is "Post-Library" River???
1 - River is left in the Library computer as a "governess" of two children, a boy and a girl. Clara has had the role twice now!!!
2 - Clara is uploaded to a computer by humanoid spoonheads, People in the Library are uploaded by humanoid kiosks!!!
3 - River's name comes from a leaf, Clara believes her story begins with a leaf, when she first met the Doctor!!!
If the last series taught us anything, its that some Dr Who fans seriously overthink things!
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I haven't watched for a couple of years now, but I noticed that there was a real lull for a few years in quality, but it picked up again imo.Lot of resentment towards the new Simpsons episodes.
I think they're alright. Not as good as they were, but still worth watching.
It's hard to retain genius, which is what it often was.
A great moment indeed!Simpson...Homer SImpson,
He's the greatest guy in history...
From the, town of Springfield,
He's about to hit a chestnut tree...
AAARRRGGHHH!!!!
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Every time I walk to my office, I see this sign:
We are supposed to be a fucking university, and every time I see that sign, I die a little inside.
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Mr Gaiman is amazingly multi talented. Check out YouTube, enter Neil Gaiman and Psycho to hear him singing country and western! It is utterly brilliant...
He sings too? Whadda guy! Neil Gaiman gave us Neverwhere, for which I will be forever grateful.
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After a lull of a couple of years, the current series of Dr. Who (i.e. the first part and this one) is amazing again. I would go as far to say as it is at its very best now. The turning point for me was the Neil Gaiman episode, the Dr's Wife. This series, it has been like they kept the best of Moffat, and also added in some of the best bits from the RTD era. Fantastic tv, I want to watch the episode again already.
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Scottish people fucking suck. I wouldn't be surprised if their drop out rate was higher too, their attendances at lectures is noticeably poor.
I dunno. They seem to think it's a crime to speak...
I find it is particularly bad in law classes. These people have almost ALWAYS done the reading, and I can see the answer in their notes. But they won't speak. And when the tutor gets visibly annoyed that no one has answered even his opening question of the tutorial like "so what's the context of case x?" that they're just not trying.
Scotch students then? Supras is right, they're aye the worst. In my experience, scathing banter with the right students seems to get a positive response. Only with the right students though. Its a surgical job.
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Elicit, surely?Unsurprisingly, I am one of the few active participants in the seminars for both of my subjects. At times it gets reduced to a dialogue between me and the tutor, simply because no one else volunteers information. I hate the 20 second silence, especially when I know that other people in the room know the answer. I sometimes deliberately don't contribute to force others to volunteer an answer. It's painful.
Tutors should do what they can to illicit answers from quieter people in groups. There are typically two types of people who participate eagerly: those who actually know their stuff and those who bullshit. Everyone else, annoyingly, is mute. That completely defeats the point of seminars, which is to discuss ideas and test them against other people's understandings of the same material.
But seriously, I adjust my style depending on the class, but I tend to run quite relaxed classes (in some ways) so that people don't feel quite so unwilling to contribute. That tends to help things, as well as letting people answer what they can, and able to say that they don't know something. Of course, the flip side is that I expect people to have done at least a minimum of work in advance.
Edited to add, Supras, the expression you're looking for is "Scotch cringe".
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