Mucker1884 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 22 minutes ago, jono said: Language is the most wonderful tool .. it saddens me and impoverishes us when rigid forms of speech and terminology are forced on us. Street patois and jargon that exclude the majority to the benefit only of those who are in the know, the hip cool or the self appointed “important” ones. True shizzle, Bro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jono Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 4 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said: True shizzle, Bro! I wish I’d said that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 32 minutes ago, jono said: I wish I’d said that ? Reminds me of the best quote ever.... Michael Scott - "That's what she said" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariotofmyown Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Mostyn6 said: If you want to know who is in charge, work out who you’re not allowed to criticise That is a terrible quote, but that is in no way a reflection of you sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Mostyn6 said: If you want to know who is in charge, work out who you’re not allowed to criticise I hope you're not slagging off my thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding it's way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge". Isaac Asimov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 "Logic is the beginning of all wisdom, but not the end." Mr Spock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essential est invisible pour les yeux" [See only with the heart. What matters is invisible to the eyes] The fox to The Little Prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book, Le Petit Prince. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anag Ram Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 7 hours ago, Carl Sagan said: "Logic is the beginning of all wisdom, but not the end." Mr Spock He's obviously never met Andre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigfella Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Disraeli on Gladstone “A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.” Reminds me of a few on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaaLocks Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 "If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." From Rounders, and it's the American meaning of sucker, we're not in Bubbles now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 “We hate it when our friends become successful”. - Stephen Patrick Morrissey *also “you’re the one for me, fatty”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean (hick) Saunders Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 “You’re not very good.... You’re not very good... you’re not very, you’re not very, you’re not very good.... shi1t” (The POP Side) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Do you know the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. Lad at Celanese Spondon, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuffLuff Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 “In show business, there’s a saying that you play (name of venue) twice in your career. Once on the way up. Once on the way down...It’s good to be back” A comic called Ian McPherson wrote it in the eighties, loads of comics have stolen it/used it since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted December 10, 2020 Author Share Posted December 10, 2020 Spoken by a UK politician about the Lib Dems in the 2010 election, but could also be said of many other smaller party, or indeed anyone with an opinion but not no responsibility. 'It's easy to promise the Earth when you're never going to inherit it'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeponacid Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 “Fight war, not wars” “There is no authority but yourself” Quotes from Crass “A disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in governments & big business” Tom Robins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean (hick) Saunders Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 “Heaven knows I’m miserable now”. (That Morrisey bloke) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramit Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Mikill vill meira - Great wants more Icelandic saying - Unknown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramit Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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