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by **Lindsey Gray** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:58

Palmolive or Pears?....for your soapbox! Not the same really when you have to explain! :cry:

by **Ken Malone** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 13:35

Oh!

Sorry did the original post come across as preachy? - like Sarah Teather at the Lib Dems this week!
If so ...sorry folks. It struck me as something worthy of 'thought' but maybe only to me :cry:

(goes out of door - puts on sackcloth & ashes and 'This ain't the place for serious posts' hat and comes back................)

Hi!!!! :bounce:

NEITHER Lindz..... it was DOVE.. and it came from the first floor so it's the Dove from above :multi:

by **Lindsey Gray** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 14:13

Not really soapboxy at all, I was just teasing you at the time....but now the moment has passed and the fat lady has worbled her last note.

by **Ken Malone** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 14:51

no she's got great breath control..........

by **Lindsey Gray** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 15:47

She's still going then?

by **Ian Linden** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 16:18

Ken Malone wrote:Sorry did the original post come across as preachy?

Not at all - it was a welcome elevation of the tone, and much to be commended :wave:

by **Ken Malone** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 19:49

Do I detect one of your wry grins Mr L

Rev Ken

by **Ian Linden** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 22:55

If there was any suggestion of wryness, you may be sure it was prompted by posts other than the subject :wink:

by **Ken Malone** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 23:16

I am very glad to hear it

by **Lisa Balsom** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 23:56

The problem isn't when a society stops reading, but when a society stops thinking.

We are constantly bombarded with images of what to buy, what to eat, what to wear, what to say and what to think.

People generally take the line of least resistance, it's easier for people to believe everything they see and hear because it doesn't require people having to question anything and therefore think about what the truth might really be, and usually things are wrapped up beautifully with good serving of popular spin.

When people start thinking, people start reading.

Anyway, must go, I've got to pop on my Pradas , jump in my Cooper S and get my ass down to McD's, later! :lol:

P.S. without a credible opposition party, you could say we're almost there.

by **Ian Linden** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 23:58

Lisa Balsom wrote:P.S. without a credible opposition party, you could say we're almost there.

Sometimes I think I am the opposition party

by **Lisa Balsom** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 00:50

But opposed to what? And would you be the Tories, libdems ,or greens?

by **Ian Linden** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 08:04

Lisa Balsom wrote:But opposed to what? And would you be the Tories, libdems ,or greens?

None of those - perhaps the "Commonsense and Solid Values Party".

Fat chance

by **Ken Malone** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 09:06

Lisa Balsom wrote:The problem isn't when a society stops reading, but when a society stops thinking. When people start thinking, people start reading.

It's difficult to know what comes first - like the chicken & egg debate.

In the final analysis I think both re-inforce each other. Sadly I feel the age of the book is dying out and the age of the 100 minute Bible and the Internet will inevitably take over. With the academic community seemingly greatly reduced in potency, no direction evident from organised religion and most students seemingly showing none of their former moral outrage & 'rebelliousness' (apart from in the area of alcohol overuse) - the future often seems very bleak to me.

I agree about the lack of a credible opposition. Someone described Labour yesterday as being like a team with their goal wide open and undefended - but with no attacks coming from the other team.

But that's another story......................

Right where's that Screwfix catalogue..............

by **Ken Malone** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 09:09

Ian Linden wrote:"None of those - perhaps the "Commonsense and Solid Values Party".

Count me in Ian - especially if your membership cards are as nice as the ones you did for SCORE

by **Ian Linden** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:44

Ken Malone wrote:
Ian Linden wrote:"None of those - perhaps the "Commonsense and Solid Values Party".

Count me in Ian - especially if your membership cards are as nice as the ones you did for SCORE

Wow, a REAL party :?:

Now there's a challenge :!:

by **Ken Malone** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:05

It'a very tempting to use current SCORE members and 'place' them in positions in the shadow cabinet etc :wink:

I bagsy being the party SpinDoctor

by **Lisa Balsom** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 13:15

I'd love to read your manifesto!

by **Ian Linden** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 13:56

Lisa Balsom wrote:I'd love to read your manifesto!

Aye, there's the rub!

If we have a "broad church" approach to embrace a wide spectrum of commonsense views and solid values, we risk being ineffective, but if we are narrow and proscriptive, we risk McCarthyism.

Alas, poor Yorick!

by **Ken Malone** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 14:34

There's a certain Mr Galloway whose oratory and directness is quite appealing and worthy of Respect :wink:

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