SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

James wrote: Math Rock?

You'll see what it is soon enough.

I'm going to start working on it later today, I think.

I'M A DINOSAUR.  SOMEBODY'S DIGGIN MY BONES.

Epignosis wrote: I'M A DINOSAUR.  SOMEBODY'S DIGGIN MY BONES.

Great song.

Though I prefer the one that goes:

DIG ME
BUT DON'T...

BURY ME

Ricochet wrote: W00t, a new quiz already?

Soon, yep! I'm not going to start it now though... I'll go eat some lunch in a few minutes here and then do a thing or two; and then I'll work on it I think.

Padraic wrote: insufficient levels of coffee... * collapses on desk *

Mm... two hours sleep last night... thankfully, the worst exam (Plato) is now gone from my life  unless I do something daft like study classics at uni , my most formidable cram-revision has once again proved relatively effective, and I've got a lot more insight into British politics today out of yesterday's electidon... ... still, emptied a cafetiere overnight and another two cups in the morning... bleagh... not enough coffee in my coffee.

Also, forgot to mention: I'd love to have done Classics at University.

UKIP are also not as innocent as people think.  Nigel Farage comes across as an arrogant Tory-like idiot to me.  Plus they've had what?  3 members in prison?

A lot of people I know want out of Europe and want a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.  The tories just want the latter, so how did they get so many votes?

I understand why UKIP did though but they don't have the same views as I do, hence why I didn't vote for them.

Labour - pro-Europe and don't want a referendum
Tories - pro-Europe, do want a referendum
UKIP - anti-Europe, do want a referendum but they're right-wing
Lib Dem - pro-Europe
Green - wishy-washy but pro-Europe
BNP - need I even mention their right-wing racism?
Plaid Cymry - no idea on their policies
SNP - same as PC above
Socialist Labour Party - anti-Europe, want a referendum and also want to Nationalise, rather than privatise - my kind of party


Edited by James - June 08 2009 at 11:40

So what was so sickening about Plato?

James wrote: I voted.  I always do vote. Rico, you should have voted.

No, I shouldn't have. The circumstances were dreadful, it would have made me look like a superficial citizen, voting just for the act of voting.

I talked about the political situation in my country a few days ago.

Everyone's a pig - no political morals, no political strong principles, and while the goverment ruines everything by the day, the opposition is no different.

The election campaign was bogus. One party said "don't vote with the other party", the other party said "let us make the world pink together" and the third big party talked about the soil of our grandfathers, referring to the agriculture. Except that, this was a national, indirectly presidential pre-campaign, with not a hint of tangency with the real campaign, concerning the EU.

The only party that didn't make a big campaign fuss won, surprisingly, 8% and is thus sending to the EU their ultra-nationalist leader and a soccer team president extrrravaganza celebrity, neither nowhere near adequate for a europarlamentary seat.

50% of the population has no idea what they're voting for. They're make it a headline every time there's an election, asking people from villages to urban middle-classes: 1 out of 5 answer ridiculously: "we're voting for the president!", "I don't know who I'm voting, leave me be", "dunno, but we're going to vote anyway, we always have". At the question: "what's the parliament's location" - "Bucharest!" or, if you're at a remote village: "the local counsil!!". Uninformed, and thus just used for the voting stamp, the population is clueless, almost every single time, and most especially now, when it's Europe at matter, and not Romania.

So my vote doesn't count one bit. They're all the same and nothing will change. I've decided to use my right not to vote.


Edited by Ricochet - June 08 2009 at 12:27

Making the new quiz now!