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Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
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kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "You can't expect Cod'ed to be clever enough to understand that!! These lefty idealists are pure as driven snow.'"
Here's a clue: the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has little to do with comparing the relative benefits of Fruit Gums over Fruit Pastilles.
Now back in your box, I whistle when I need you
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| Quote: Standee "The Rowntree Foundation are hardly unbiased Minty.'"
And Cameron isn't?
At least the Foundation do the legwork.
Quote: Standee "Have you ever worked directly with them. I have, agenda driven idealists.'"
And Cameron isn't an agenda-driven dogmatist?
Quote: Standee "You can't expect Cod'ed to be clever enough to understand that!! These lefty idealists are pure as driven snow.'"
And Cameron?
Where are his stats and findings?
Predictable responses from Standee and Sal ... i.e. if you don't like what you are hearing and it goes against the grain of your own dogma but you have no evidence to the contrary, shoot the messenger eh?
Come up with any real counter-argument and I'll be listening.
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| Quote: cod'ead "Here's a clue
Again Mr Fish - once again - shows his total inability to read and comprehend.
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2051.jpg The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy
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kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
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"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan:2051.jpg |
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "Again Mr Fish - once again - shows his total inability to read and comprehend.'"
Look numb-nuts, have you any contribution to make to this discussion, or are you simply on yet another flaming exercise?
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| Quote: El Barbudo "And Cameron isn't?
At least the Foundation do the legwork.
And Cameron isn't an agenda-driven dogmatist?
And Cameron?
Where are his stats and findings?
Predictable responses from Standee and Sal ... i.e. if you don't like what you are hearing and it goes against the grain of your own dogma but you have no evidence to the contrary, shoot the messenger eh?
Come up with any real counter-argument and I'll be listening.'"
Cameron is a politician - he is agenda-driven - that is his job. The problem is us we don't want our government to be honest if we did we would demand a higher level of debate. Cameron is a complete empty jacket, so was Blair, so is Milliband - style over substance, don't blame them blame the electorate.
JRF is one of the very best charitable trusts around who do lots of good work - but suggest they don't an agenda to push is niave. It is like the views on the Guardian on here - to some everything they say is gospel, we all know they have every much of an agenda as the DM.
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icons077e_files/5454-3678dentheman-msnicons.jpg Your job is to say to yourself on a job interview does the hiring manager likes me or not. If you aren't a particular manager's cup of tea, you haven't failed -- you've dodged a bullet.:icons077e_files/5454-3678dentheman-msnicons.jpg |
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| Quote: cod'ead "Look numb-nuts, have you any contribution to make to this discussion, or are you simply on yet another flaming exercise?'"
Grow up - you silly little man
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1977_1349889235.jpg "You are working for Satan." [i:2886spie]Kirkstaller[/i:2886spie]
"Dare to know!" [i:2886spie]Immanuel Kant[/i:2886spie]
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive" [i:2886spie]Elbert Hubbard[/i:2886spie]
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." [i:2886spie]Oscar Wilde[/i:2886spie]
[url=http://thevoluptuousmanifesto.blogspot.co.uk:2886spie][color=#4000FF:2886spie]The Voluptuous Manifesto[/color:2886spie][/url:2886spie] – thoughts on all sorts of stuff.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_1977.jpg |
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "Cameron is a politician - he is agenda-driven - that is his job. The problem is us we don't want our government to be honest if we did we would demand a higher level of debate...'"
Some of us would dearly love that. Unfortunately, obsession with the market and chasing ratings etc are two factors in the ongoing dumbing-down of the media in the UK, and the subsequent dumbing down of the public discourse.
Quote: Sal Paradise "... It is like the views on the Guardian on here - to some everything they say is gospel, we all know they have every much of an agenda as the DM.'"
At least the [iGuardian[/i doesn't profit from the sexualisation of underage girls.
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1136_1263489772.jpg Freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice.
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "Cameron is a politician - he is agenda-driven - that is his job. The problem is us we don't want our government to be honest if we did we would demand a higher level of debate. Cameron is a complete empty jacket, so was Blair, so is Milliband - style over substance, don't blame them blame the electorate...'"
Agreed.
But the Rowntree have at least put the effort in to finding out.
Quote: Sal Paradise "JRF is one of the very best charitable trusts around who do lots of good work - but suggest they don't an agenda to push is niave. It is like the views on the Guardian on here - to some everything they say is gospel, we all know they have every much of an agenda as the DM.'"
Again, at least they have done the research.
p.s.
Please don't include me in the all-approving Guardian readership.
I do read it but there's plenty in there that's ephemeral and woolly.
I also regularly read the Telegraph, the New Statesman, the New Yorker, Private Eye, Land Rover Owner and the Nauticalia catalogue.
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icons077e_files/5454-3678dentheman-msnicons.jpg Your job is to say to yourself on a job interview does the hiring manager likes me or not. If you aren't a particular manager's cup of tea, you haven't failed -- you've dodged a bullet.:icons077e_files/5454-3678dentheman-msnicons.jpg |
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| Quote: Mintball "Some of us would dearly love that. Unfortunately, obsession with the market and chasing ratings etc are two factors in the ongoing dumbing-down of the media in the UK, and the subsequent dumbing down of the public discourse.
At least the [iGuardian[/i doesn't profit from the sexualisation of underage girls.'"
The problem is Clinton - a truly incredible individual, his presentational skills are second to none, all the rest are very pale imitations of the master. He showed the way - sadly.
On the Guardian - not disputing your point - but the fact still remains it has every much an agenda as every other daily paper. Much of their stuff is very agends-driven, poorly researched and poorly written allbeit in words beyond one syllabul.
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| The government's Work Programme managed to get 3.6% of the people on the scheme off benefits and into secure employment in its first 14 months.
An unqualified success, shurely.
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| Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "The government's Work Programme managed to get 3.6% of the people on the scheme off benefits and into secure employment in its first 14 months.
An unqualified success, shurely.'"
Well, until you measure it against their own declared target of 5%, which wasn't the most over-optomistic of targets to start with
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icons077e_files/5454-3678dentheman-msnicons.jpg Your job is to say to yourself on a job interview does the hiring manager likes me or not. If you aren't a particular manager's cup of tea, you haven't failed -- you've dodged a bullet.:icons077e_files/5454-3678dentheman-msnicons.jpg |
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| Quote: El Barbudo "Agreed.
But the Rowntree have at least put the effort in to finding out.
Again, at least they have done the research.
p.s.
Please don't include me in the all-approving Guardian readership.
I do read it but there's plenty in there that's ephemeral and woolly.
I also regularly read the Telegraph, the New Statesman, the New Yorker, Private Eye, Land Rover Owner and the Nauticalia catalogue.'"
JFR - not disputing they have done the research but doesn't mean a slant isn't put on their findings, let's face it their's is not the only solution to the issues they raise.
On the Guardian - not suggesting for one minute you are a devotee just the higher esteem it is held on here than any other daily.
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1977_1349889235.jpg "You are working for Satan." [i:2886spie]Kirkstaller[/i:2886spie]
"Dare to know!" [i:2886spie]Immanuel Kant[/i:2886spie]
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive" [i:2886spie]Elbert Hubbard[/i:2886spie]
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." [i:2886spie]Oscar Wilde[/i:2886spie]
[url=http://thevoluptuousmanifesto.blogspot.co.uk:2886spie][color=#4000FF:2886spie]The Voluptuous Manifesto[/color:2886spie][/url:2886spie] – thoughts on all sorts of stuff.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_1977.jpg |
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "The problem is Clinton - a truly incredible individual, his presentational skills are second to none, all the rest are very pale imitations of the master. He showed the way - sadly...'"
One could suggest that that went back to JFK. Which to some extent may mean that what we're actually talking about is politicians in a TV age – and particularly those who have grown up in that TV age.
Quote: Sal Paradise "On the Guardian - not disputing your point - but the fact still remains it has every much an agenda as every other daily paper. Much of their stuff is very agends-driven, poorly researched and poorly written allbeit in words beyond one syllabul.'"
I'm far from the biggest fan of the [iGuardian[/i, and think some of their stuff very sloppy, together with also intensely disliking their (or at least Rusbridger's) obsession with giving so-called 'rad fem' bigots a platform. But you can have an agenda – or at least a philosophy – and still produce much better journalism than is being seen widely these days. As the late Robin Day once saidFinancial Times[/i, which has to tell the truth for the business community, and the [iMorning Star[/i, which has to tell the truth for the workers."
One of the problems has been the blurring between report and editorialisation. Should be a no no. But it affects almost all papers. I remember being introduced to the [iTelegraph[/i in the late 1980s – a really good paper. You didn't have to agree with all it's op-eds – which were clearly defined – to appreciate its breadth of reporting, for instance. But there's a reason that even regular [iTelegraph[/i readers are now calling it the [iMaily Telegraph[/i.
The obsession with celebrity is another problem that crosses boundaries and has now infected the broadsheets. And the petty crassness of some articles. In the [iGuardian[/i a week or so ago, because restaurant critic Jay Rayner had tweeted something about never having had a dishwasher, he was asked to pen a whole piece on that vital matter. FFS.
Although I will say, in the [iGuardian[/i's favour, this week it at least it managed to be the only one of the papers I caught up with that had not (deliberately or otherwise) misunderstood Hilary Mantel's [iLRB[/i lecture and then tried to whip readers into a storm over it. The [iMail[/i and the [iSun[/i were the worst for that, but the [iTelegraph[/i and [iIndependent[/i were not far behind.
And that – to me at any rate – also illustrates the dumbing down, where so many people read what the papers had said and assumed that that was correct, and then went and used the internet to blast Mantel, sometimes in downright abusive terms. It didn't occur to their dim little minds to actually find and read the original; their knees were a-jerking too much by that stage. And then, of course, you get both Cameron and Miliband feeling the need to add their fourpenneth. Now either neither of them had read the original and simply took the tabloid version at face value – or they had read it and didn't understand it; or they simply went with the populist approach. None of those options is remotely good.
And this is without considering the non-print news media.
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "In days gone by the rate of attrition for children was quite high - so that would also have to be considered. Regarding larger families if the welfare didn't exist as it does you would have significantly lower numbers of families with 6+ kids and I bet the numbers of young girls choosing single parenthood as a career would also fall significantly'"
And you base this notion on what exactly? As Minty pointed out the evidence points to the opposite. The more developed the society the lower the birth rate.
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "On the Guardian - not suggesting for one minute you are a devotee just the higher esteem it is held on here than any other daily.'"
Dismissing the Guardian because the editorial has an agenda, as all papers do, is lazy.
Papers like the Guardian tend to separate news i.e. fact based reporting from editorial opinion far better than tabloids (including the Mail).
I can't remember what thread it was on but I quoted some facts from the Guardian to which Robinson made his stock reply of "It's in the Guardian so there is no point following the link". I then found the exact same set of facts written in the Telegraph.
The "It's the Guardian so its no use" line is pretty pathetic really. It just shows the people who trot that line out can't dispute what is actually written in the paper.
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