Thoughts for the day

[davywavy]

If suicide isn't a selfish act, how come people who jump under trains tend to do it during rush hour when it'll screw up the day for thousands of other people?

Have you ever noticed how much John Willams' Superman theme owes to Aaron Copelands' Fanfare for the Common Man?

If you play Lucretia, My Reflection by the Sisters of Mercy at 1.4x speed, it stops being a morbid dirge and becomes quite a fun dance track. However, if you play This Corrosion by the same band at the same speed multiple, it sounds like Pinky & Perky singing it.

Aneurin Bevan, when he founded the NHS in 1946, predicted that as time went by the NHS would make the populace of the UK healthier and so the cost of running the service would decrease. More than 50 years later, we're still waiting.

Comments

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, does this mean you don't think that short term emotional decision making should be used to decide the fate of a national institution?

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[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I realise I'm setting myself up for something here.

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

So you'll be dropping your opposition to hunting then, will you?

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[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

I'm not calling for a State ban; I just think it's repellent that an individual should want to kill another living being purely for the thrill of it - although watching Back to Reality on Five is making me fast rethink that.

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Good, solid, non-emotional decision making there, jon. I'm impressed.

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[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not an national institution - yet.

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[(Anonymous)]

I live in the country.
Bear in mind I can only speak for where I am...

Hunters are scum.

They ride roughshod over people's property.
A lot of them are, ironically, townies.
They serve NO pest control purpose.
They don't represent the majority of people living out here, but claim they do, which disgusts many of us.
They mix all sorts of other IMPORTANT issues up with hunting, which confuses matters like rural housing and public transport by mixing it up with killing animals.

Basically they're a bunch of braying sloanes on horseback whose conception of the country appears to be formed from a combination of reading Horse & Hound, summers in the south of france and an almost feudal-japan attitude to the 'peasantry'.

Gits.

G

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

We've had this conversation before - if you're getting the city types down for a weekend jolly, then that's unfortunate. Growing up as I did in teh wilds of Yorkshire, i see a completely different picture.

As for pest control...well, the most effective form of pest control that the hunt used to perform was the hefty payments to local farmers to stop them going and gassing the foxes in their holes, which is precisely what they would have done otherwise, legality or not.

A hunter wants something to hunt, and killing every last damn one is the worst way to achieve that.