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Why we have riots
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People behaved like Tamara centuries ago, often treating others badly in order to to achieve their objectives.
Now, we preserve their versions of the crystal bath and call them 'National Treasures.'
Where would our heritage be without the filthy rich nutters of the past?
Today I'd like to disagree with myself, because it's plainly ridiculous to compare a crystal bath with something like a Canaletto, no matter how rare that piece of quartz might be.
On the other hand, a Canaletto is an imitation of reality, and still a pale one compared with the views we can all enjoy, completely free of charge.
Appreciating the view from a tower block in East London might wear a little thin though, especially if one has been brought up to value only material possessions and learned no skills to aquire them by legal routes.0 -
I doubt it. The more authentic version seems to beAlthough he later said:
"though many of the men were the scum of the earth; it is really wonderful that we should have made them to the fine fellows they are".
"The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth -- the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards."
which seems a little more backhanded. But that was after he'd been a Tory PM, during an era of political unrest. Tory politicians have to learn to dissimulate, because their undiluted private views would be unfit for public consumption."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Today I'd like to disagree with myself, because it's plainly ridiculous to compare a crystal bath with something like a Canaletto, no matter how rare that piece of quartz might be.
dh loves Canaletto. Leaves me cold to be honest. a crystal bath however....art is in the eye of the beholder. A crystal bath is a bit of a plunder of a resource if that resource is raree, but that art is also providing new employment.
moral vacuum. Its an interesting concept and feels somehow surreal in this media. I'm quite happy that a resonable part of our disposable income, in addition to the amount we pay into the pooled pot of Britain goes into support of ''moral endevaour'' or cause.0 -
I forgave people who put their wealth to good use. I may have to pretend that those few who patronised great artists knew what they were doing, and were not merely being self-indulgent, like all the rest, who filled their houses with tasteless tat.Where would our heritage be without the filthy rich nutters of the past?"It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
I forgave people who put their wealth to good use. I may have to pretend that those few who patronised great artists knew what they were doing, and were not merely being self-indulgent, like all the rest, who filled their houses with tasteless tat.
I just lost a brilliant post about art history, modren tat of its time, Leonardo and the Sforzesco, then a brief dip into the mass production nature of ''great art'' and the David and modern equivalants, things costing £1 million and things made in child exploitative situations for £100. it touched on buying into art now for the average person, through retail, architecture, fashion design and prints and whether art has to be original to be ''worth it''
It was probably my best ever post and I cursed when I lost it. And then remembered it doesn't matter. 0 -
Sit down everyone, the Home Office have today published some really unexpected figures:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15426720The most comprehensive statistics published so far on the August riots in England show that those who took part were poorer, younger and of lower educational achievement than average.
Who would have predicted that?!I think....0 -
i just rolled my eyes when i saw that on the bbc website and didn't even bother clicking on the link.0
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Without checking out the story, a pound to a penny they're still only looking at people who've been charged, and trying to pretend they're a representative sample.Sit down everyone, the Home Office have today published some really unexpected figures:
Without a proper independent inquiry, we'll never get the true story, we'll only ever get what fits the message the government wants to sell."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
That's exactly what I mean. But then they're drawing conclusions as if those people are a representative sample.You mean, they're only including the statistics of people they know were involved, rather than guessing at who the others might be? :eek:
That's like taking Hitler [I know] as a representative sample of pre-war Germans on the grounds that I don't know enough about anybody else."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0
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