The world is full of stupid people who I do not like . I don't need a venn diagram for that , just their voting intention
Well, right there you have created an intersection, so am implied venn diagram.
The intersection between "stupid people", "People you don't like" and "people who vote tory". I guess you will just redefine stupid to mean the same as voting Tory. But to most of us, we know that many of the people who vote Tory are by no means stupid.
Whenever an honest man discovers that he's mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or he will cease to be honest.
Daniel Quinn wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 1:27 pm
Tory =stupid . Quite simple really
The above is a trite statement - the sort of stupid, smug, uninformed & divisive comment that fuels Trump's rhetoric. There are plenty of intelligent (and even honest) Tories, they just don't align politically with you.
I've met true plonkers from most parties. Being a dickhead isn't exclusively a right-of-centre characteristic.
I think they are misogynist and racist, more than stupid. Big bird of Sesame Street had a better chance. The worry now is Farage is going to become important for the next 4 years. Time to buy all IC’s etc, as Taiwan may be the first casualty of the new insular American policies.
It could be racist, stupid, misogynistic or a bunch of other things however elections can be about record and maybe, for many Americans, the Democrats have done a bad job. Like "it's the economy stoopid", giving money to "non-Americans" while folk suffer at home etc. It was theirs to lose and ....
Some years ago, one autumn weekday I was having lunch with a friend in a very smart (Michelin starred) restaurant in Covent Garden...
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move - a mouse running across the floor. Folk at several other tables had noticed it too...
We summoned the maître d'. He explained that all the buildings were listed, so they couldn't change the external doors and they weren't a sealed fit to the ground outside... and Covent Garden, especially in the winter months, was over-run with mice - they just couldn't stop them getting in...
He did however promise that they couldn't get into the kitchen and storage areas as those doors were sealed.
My office in Adam Street overlooked Embankment Gardens. An older building, again listed, we had massive issues with mice coming in in winter and living under the false floors. It was an 8 story building and the mice used to travel between floors up and down the lift shafts and utility risers. We had to stop folk keeping any food in the building outside the fridges in the kitchens - one person opened a drawer to find that all the bits of chocolate in their pack of biscuits had been eaten with the rest of the biscuits untouched...
The main issue was that they chewed through the fibre optic cables linking all the IT kit & trading floors etc. Stuff would randomly go off-line and it was a nightmare to locate the faults.
Eventually I had everything under the floors and in the vertical risers switched to armoured cable - a hugely expensive and time-consuming exercise, but it solved the problem of outages.
pre65 wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:39 pm
I was sitting in my chair watching a video and, to my surprise, a mouse walked across the living room between me and the TV.
The little bugger came within 2ft of me.
Time for traps.
I got him !
I set two traps using chocolate wafer biscuit. He (it) took the wafer from one trap but the second trap got him.
I'll put some more traps out tonight in case he had any mates.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Daniel Quinn wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 1:27 pm
Tory =stupid . Quite simple really
The above is a trite statement - the sort of stupid, smug, uninformed & divisive comment that fuels Trump's rhetoric. There are plenty of intelligent (and even honest) Tories, they just don't align politically with you.
I've met true plonkers from most parties. Being a dickhead isn't exclusively a right-of-centre characteristic.
Yep, agreed, all of this stuff is just inter-subjective imaginings, If people can bring themselves to explore it a bit can I suggest this book as a starting place.
pre65 wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:39 pm
I was sitting in my chair watching a video and, to my surprise, a mouse walked across the living room between me and the TV.
The little bugger came within 2ft of me.
Time for traps.
I got him !
I set two traps using chocolate wafer biscuit. He (it) took the wafer from one trap but the second trap got him.
I'll put some more traps out tonight in case he had any mates.
Not just me then.
I caught one in the bathroom, after a whole bait block disappeared from the bathroom, and another block I put outside disappeared. Hopefully that's it for a while.
"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
