Post by BrritSkiPost by Pennyscrawled in the dust...
Post by BrritSkiJust to pick up on my earlier rantette, THERE ARE NO WRITTEN
INSTRUCTIONS !
(By the time I saw this, it was above - so whatever it was about, I
didn't know!)
Post by BrritSkiPost by PennyPost by BrritSkiThey are all little pictures. Must save them millions in printing and
paper costs...
(If it was Ikea furniture, I've generally found their pictures quite
understandable. I _like_ pictures: I could only wish planning
applications [such as changes to parking restrictions] taped to
lampposts had maps _rather than_ words.)
Post by BrritSkiPost by PennyIME it doesn't matter if instructions (for anything) are in words and/or
pictures, a huge percentage of people won't even look at them, let alone
ensure they understand them, before they start :(
Agreed, but that's their problem.
It's very odd that Brits seem to take pride in their ineptitude and
ignorance. There were at least 2 examples in TNQ yesterday - someone
who obviously knew nothing about Dante's Circles of Hell [1] and
something else that I forget now, and I see this all the time.
It's class/discipline snobbery. People (_some_ people) are not only
ignorant about some things, but actually _proud_ of that ignorance. I
see it mainly from the science/technology side - people who are _proud_
they have a poor grasp of maths or how things work - but it does apply
the other way round too. I know I don't know a lot about various
literature, music, art, and similar areas - but I _hope_ I'm not _proud_
of my ignorance. (I will admit sometimes to not having much or sometimes
any _desire_ to learn more, but at least I don't feel _proud_ of it - I
hope.)
There's also some element of implied superiority: one has servants to
know about such things - a gentleman doesn't need to know how his
horseless carriage works, but should know something of art and music.
Yes, I'm sure similar snobbery _does_ exist on the science/engineering
side, but I _think_ less so.
It's the same mindset that makes (some, again) people proud they don't
speak other languages. (That _is_ fortunately in decline now, though
hangs on in the boorish use of [mispronounced] phrases, such as "zwy
beer bitter".)
Post by BrritSki[1] and nobody cracked the best joke about that which was Yanis
Varoufakis' reply to Tusk: "Probably very similar to the place reserved
for those who designed a monetary union without a proper banking union
and, once the banking crisis hit, transferred cynically the bankers'
gigantic losses onto the shoulders of the weakest taxpayers". It's not
really funny, but it is true.
Just a bit long. Maybe if it was stopped before the and.
Post by BrritSkiPS If the BBC had shown their Inside Europe - 10 years of turmoil
series during the referendum campaign there'd have been a lot more
Leave votes. Arrogant, incompetent c*nts all of them, our politicians
too.
Hmm, not sure about that; I think most both leavers and remainers were
more committed to their view than many give them credit for: I think
both sides, the core anyway, had a fairly fundamental commitment, almost
like a religious one, to the way they thought: leavers like me (and I'm
guessing you!) felt we really had to get out while we still could, from
a system that seemed increasingly grasping, and remainers believed in
the fundamental principle/idea of the union. I don't think _any_
argument would have swayed the core of both sides, though the periphery
could be swayed.
(I also get cross when politicians - and others, but it's mainly
politicians - say something like "the people voted, so we're going to
deliver that". Sure, the people voted, but only 52% of them - and only
of the ones who voted. That went the way I wanted, but I still find such
statements must intensely irritate the remainers. It is almost - though
not quite - as irritating as the second-referendum campaigners [who I
assume are mostly remainers, though see my STV point] calling it a
"people's vote", as if the first one wasn't.)
OK, my contribution to grumble-sesh over (-:
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