Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Mojoworking wrote: »

Seconded x

Glad it's not just me at a loss. I'm tolerably bright, but I plead tiredness and the menopause and chocolate deficiency.:p

mardatha

I'm surprised at your ignorance GQ. It's a dialect from Hegelia.

Frugalsod

In a real crisis I have discovered a really cheap solution to the Christmas tree dilemma, enjoy.

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

I'm surprised at your ignorance GQ. It's a dialect from Hegelia.

:rotfl:LMAO.

I'm never surprised at my ignorance. I need to de-frag my brain, get rid of some carp like seventies pop lyrics and then have room for some useful stuff.

Hmm, Hegelia, that was a breakaway part of the former Yugoslavia, wasn't it? Don't blame them for breaking it up, fancy having to put up with having your country named after a naff car which was a knock-off of a naff Fiat.

Fiat means 'let it be', doesn't it? Pal used to have a Yugo Zsatava, it cost him £35 to buy and I still think that was £34.99 too much.:cool:

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

A report on the radio news today, said more people than ever are being arrested, on suspicion of terrorism offences.

1. Being arrested doesn't make you guilty. what we need, is the figures for the number convicted in court.

I heard that and thought how many were actually convicted? Without the number of convictions it is pretty meaningless.

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The Hegelian Dialectic is also known as PRS, Problem Reaction Solution.

It's used in the following way

A Government wants to introduce some Draconian Legislation, eg. something which will severely curtail citizen's freedoms and rights.

TPTB know it won't be popular, and will face strong opposition.

So, they invent a problem, say a heightened terrorism threat.

The public react by demanding the Government do something about this "threat".

The Government introduce a Bill, for their Draconian Legislation, confident that it will receive widespread public support, due to their invented "threat".

Frugalsod

Here is an interesting solution to queueing.

GreyQueen

:T Great, I got that, post it on Wikedpedia immediately, their explanation was far too unweildy. I guess it's a variation of false flag attacks.

I am rather taken with the Breakaway Rebupblic of Hegelia as a concept, though, it'll have to take on a half-life in that soup of nonsense swirling where my little grey cells used to be.

*wanders off to design a Helgelian flag, national anthem, national dish and various other accoutrements without which no nation can hold its head up in pride*

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GreyQueen wrote: »

*wanders off to design a Helgelian flag, national anthem, national dish and various other accouterments without which no nation can hold its head up in pride*

Just remember that, the flag should never be flown upside down, unless the apartment is in distress.

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Just remember that, the flag should never be flown upside down, unless the apartment is in distress.

Lotsa people don't know that there is a right and a wrong way up to fly the union flag.

In my parents' neighbourhood it is customary to fly the Cross of St George off your bedroom windowsill to demonstrate your patriotism. Usually immediately above the pile of household discards which you have left rotting in your front garden for the past several years. Thus demonstrating, if it were ever in doubt, that houseproudiness and cod-nationalism can be mutually exclusive.

My domicile cannot fly a flag as I am on the ground floor and it would be too easy for the ungodly to nick it. But for that, I'd be tempted to fly the skull and crossbones.