QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL
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I paraphrase Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz.... "Politics is a continuation of war by other means". That being the case, anything is permissible.
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Will Self on the radio this morning quoted an architectural consultant who said: "There are people living in Kensington & Chelsea with kitchen worktops that cost more than the insulation specs for Grenfell tower".
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We listen to the same programmes Tiz, I heard that and thought how good it was. Quite possibly true as well! I think I saw a figure of 10% increase in material costs for non-flammable cladding and of course that is a minor part of the contract cost.
Did you hear the woman refusing to move who said "We stayed in our homes when they did all the refurbishment work, why not now? What's different?" Well done that lady!
Did you hear the woman refusing to move who said "We stayed in our homes when they did all the refurbishment work, why not now? What's different?" Well done that lady!
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From a caller to LBC Radio tonight. . . .
Evidence is not the plural of anecdote.
Evidence is not the plural of anecdote.
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I like that!
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"‘The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime’. "
Lord Edward Grey on this day in 1914.
Lord Edward Grey on this day in 1914.
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A lady on the radio this morning commenting on the banks: "They're too big to fail; too big to jail. How many other businesses are given so much financial support?"
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I heard her as well and the phrase struck me too. Was she from the US?
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I don't know, I missed the start but the comment caught my attention.
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Anon -
I was wrong once - I thought I'd made a mistake, and I hadn't.
I was wrong once - I thought I'd made a mistake, and I hadn't.
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I like it David....
Here's one I quoted in another place this morning.
Applicants for a place at Oxford were asked to define the difference between transparent, translucent and opaque. The best answer was "The windows of this examination room were once transparent, they are now translucent and if not cleaned will soon be opaque".
Here's one I quoted in another place this morning.
Applicants for a place at Oxford were asked to define the difference between transparent, translucent and opaque. The best answer was "The windows of this examination room were once transparent, they are now translucent and if not cleaned will soon be opaque".
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I'd have failed them with that answer, on the grounds of using the common word windows and not the posher fenestration. Why does Jacob Rees Mogg keep entering my thoughts here?
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Fenestration - since when has it been "posh" to speak French? Though in the context of dirt French is appropriate. ( - A Francophobe.)
OOPS! It's actually from Latin! I took it to be French "la fenetre" but they also stole it from Latin.
According to Collins E.D. fenestration is the arrangement of windows in a building and not the windows themselves.
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Quite right China, much favoured by the posh end of vernacular architecture.....
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From the website of Noah Smith (me neither)
15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world.
Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.
I went for a haircut today - Whilst waiting - I was the only customer not gazing at a screen.
15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world.
Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.
I went for a haircut today - Whilst waiting - I was the only customer not gazing at a screen.
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Very true David. That's why I love my shed and books.... But I am old fashioned!
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I got some comfort this morning when I heard that a North Korean ambassador had used this quote....
"dogs bark, but the caravans move on".
"dogs bark, but the caravans move on".
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
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From a candidate in the forthcoming series of 'The Apprentice'.
'Women are like tea bags –
you don’t know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.'
'Women are like tea bags –
you don’t know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.'
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I like it.....
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I liked the phrase used on the Costing the Earth programme when they were talking about the problems of consumerism. One of them said we have too much and we now suffer from `stuffocation'. Also, `we have reached peak stuff' and are turning looking for experiences instead of buying more stuff.
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If that's true the whole model of Western consumerist capitalism will crumble..... Come to think, it is! Perhaps that's what is happening.....
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P G Wodehouse -
"It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Barlicker with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
"It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Barlicker with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
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True.....
"I don't do enthusiasm." SCG.
"I don't do enthusiasm." SCG.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Lord Owen this morning on the Today programme referring to comments that Jeremy Corbyn is a Trotskyite: `The thirteenth law of politics say that you can't be both a Trot and an allotment holder at the same time'.
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I heard that as well and like it..... I always thought politics was the poorer when we lost Owen.....
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!