I Quit!Scaryduck writes, "I celebrated my last day on my paper round by giving everybody next door's paper, and the house at the end 16 copies of the Maidenhead Advertiser. And I kept the delivery bag. That certainly showed 'em."
What have you flounced out of? Did it have the impact you intended? What made you quit in the first place?
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chthonic, Thu 22 May 2008, 12:15)
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and you, brute?Is it really so nuts to suggest that economists should run the economy, historians should have an input on foreign policy, people who know about education should run the education system, that people who know about science should have something to do with science policy so on? And that fat-headed, xenophobic, pusillanimous, flag-waving, money-grubbing, semi-literate, kneejerk reactionaries with no concern beyond their ill-defined "rights" and how the're being taken away by the "liberal elite" - because perish the thought that we should think about things and consult anything so occult as evidence - ought to be kept as far away from politics as humanly possible?
Economists DO run the economy, etc - we're called "the public service". People whine about us.
And whilst I agree about the fat-headed, pusillanimous etc, I can't recall *your* efforts to run for your own rotten borough. What do you think the percentage of people who whine about corrupt politicians is, versus people who actually bother to either join a party or, glub bless them, run as an independent? I'm thinking maybe .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%.
I've pretty much stopped taking the whiners seriously. "Why aren't there more women in Parliament?" Well, have you put your hand up? "Parliamentarians are unrepresentative of the general population." Well, have you... screw this, I'm just going to go back to work after I finish this beer.
(, Thu 29 May 2008, 14:49, Reply)
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