I guess that is not much different from here. I think I am beginning to understand. Thanks for your understanding as I try to understand.

There are a lot of very wealthy youngsters at my university (the girlfriend of one of the Princes was a student a year above me). They pay the same £3.k a year tuition fees that I pay. The only difference is that they probably didn't apply for a loan to pay it and they would only be entitled to the mimimum maintenance loan.

And sometimes they cheat their workers and customers to make their piece of the pie.

Let's not get all dewey-eyed over the rich. Most rich are rich because their parents were rich and the initial money gave them leverage. It is not a level playing field.

BTW, don't assume that this post means I favor punitive taxing of the rich. But I suspect that the rich are not taxed as much as the middle class due to having a lot more options in loopholes and tax shelters.

From the poem Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day by Delmore Schwartz.

Thomas Paine (my favourite 18th century writer and thinker)

Pamela Brewer

Lawrence O'Donnell last night asking a political aide how it felt to be inside the First Lady's box.

Spock

Time takes time - which sucks but there you go.
-- Brianna

My family toast:

I wish to myself
that I could talk to myself
As I knew him just one year ago
I'd tell him alot
That would help him alot
About the things he'd aught to know

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions. -Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi is now a chain of cheap but fairly good diners throughout Japan. I ate there often.

Cannibalism?!

"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

George Eliot

Perfect quote for work:


Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

--Napoleon Bonaparte

I made a sign. I hung it up. On the inside of my cubey. ;)

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. -- Rabbinical Saying

During the Million Vets March on the Washington Memorial, Sarah Palin
took the microphone and made a somewhat paradoxical remark:

Fox News
10/13/13

"Nothing matters very much and few things matter at all". (Arthur James Balfour, British Prime Minister 1902-05).

I believe he said this at a Cabinet meeting of all places.

Don't Let the Sin Go Down While Your Still Angry With Your Brother- The Bible

The Only Difference Between Me an a Mad Man IS that I'm Not Mad- Salvador Dali-

"A lot of the problems with iPhone stuff, Snapchat, Facebook, whatever, if you get addicted to it, a lot of your life is communicating with other people being part of the tabloid culture, not being educated and learning. As machines take over for the humans, learning is less and less and less important."
-Steve Wozniak
May 28, 2015 Esquire interview

The Woz quote makes me think of the movie "Idiocracy".

Kinda.

“I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena.”

Julia Child, from “My Life in France.”

Yeah. We're really not so big on duty these days.

I admit to swigging tea, but I never chirp.

Well, a chap has his standards, you know.

When was that quote from? I never here 'sir' or 'madam' and I don't have a particularly strong sense of what is done and not done. I actually notice the use of the word 'sir' as a form of address in American shows and movies because it's fallen out of use for much of the country here - there are some contexts you still hear it and often these are commercial or service interactions, but mainly it doesn't get used much - higher end retail and service might. Though it's possible it is on greater use in some parts of the country- certainly wouldn't expect it where I live. Far more likely to use my name or just 'love'

I do swig tea

Ahhhh well - yeah that probably accurately described English cullture back then.

also - just realised I typed 'here' instead of 'hear' in that post. Doh.

As DanaC mentions, it's pretty much unheard of for anyone to use 'sir' or 'madam', these days.
However, a few weeks ago I was out walking my canine guest when a runner approached from the opposite direction.
I wished him a 'Good morning' and he responded with 'Good morning, sir' which took me by surprise.
I think that he was from the nearby RAF station and they probably err on the side of caution and call everyone 'sir'.
I suppose it's a spin off from the old British Military dictum of 'If it moves, salute it. If it stands still, paint it'. :D

Or he was sucking up so you wouldn't sic the dog on him. :haha:

"Science is how we solve problems, but Art is how we cope with them. Which is good because Science often takes a long time to solve them, and in the meantime, we have to cope." David Zinn

BBC article/video about David Zinn's art