tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post8777491502911410209..comments2023-09-21T08:53:42.554+01:00Comments on blethers: Bottom of the classChristine McIntoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14198224025775398453noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-90548742414799533822007-05-06T15:44:00.000+01:002007-05-06T15:44:00.000+01:00I'm not really surprised the SNP did so well... we...I'm not really surprised the SNP did so well... we had 3 SNP candidates as opposed to 1 Lab, 1 Con, 1 LibDem, 1 Free The Norwegian Tree-Huggers...<BR/><BR/>I almost sense a complete lack of interest from the other parties!N Wintonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11725138089778173154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-2805717739153455202007-05-06T13:57:00.000+01:002007-05-06T13:57:00.000+01:00down here we just had the local elections -- in my...down here we just had the local elections -- in my ward no choice just a Labour and a Conservative candidate -- result a forgone conclusion anyway. My choices were to vote for someone I didn't care for or make a meaningless protest by proferring a spoilt paper.Gerald (Ackworth born)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10972748175799683560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-40786616714583693772007-05-06T08:13:00.000+01:002007-05-06T08:13:00.000+01:00It's not so much the spelling as the tying - sorry...It's not so much the spelling as the tying - sorry: typing! And I'd moved in my head from Julius to Macbeth - there are very similar reactions to the imminent death of high heijins in both plays.Christine McIntoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198224025775398453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-61434478463856530472007-05-06T00:25:00.000+01:002007-05-06T00:25:00.000+01:00Tergiversation, indeed. While the loss of two lett...Tergivers<B>at</B>ion, indeed. While the loss of two letters might not be the most unkindest cut of all, the latter remark should point to the play. (I don't know about the horses.) And - please - don't let slip the dogs of war. (I had to learn that speech for Higher English, back in the day when Meedja weren't studied - just literature.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-74875879487855026032007-05-05T23:01:00.000+01:002007-05-05T23:01:00.000+01:00And did the President's horses go wild and eat eac...And did the President's horses go wild and eat each other? Or am I in the wrong play? At least I've learned a new word out of this fracas. Tergiversion, indeed.Christine McIntoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198224025775398453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-41315049260731248712007-05-05T16:09:00.000+01:002007-05-05T16:09:00.000+01:00Hear Hear Chris! I couldn't agree more. As you say...Hear Hear Chris! I couldn't agree more. As you say, anyone who has taught recently will tell you that the skills people normally use in these circumstances -prior knowledge, deduction, analysis and 'the guid scots tongue in your heid'- are not in evidence amongst many of our pupils. These skills are genuinely life skills as this election indicates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-74498223129128314112007-05-05T00:36:00.000+01:002007-05-05T00:36:00.000+01:00Firstly, I voted by post, being congenitally lazy....Firstly, I voted by post, being congenitally lazy. My papers arrived timeously; the instructions were clear; and the process was simplicity itself. It takes a rare kind of moron to fail to understand what to do. The demise of the moron is not something that the WWF should fret about: it is alive and proliferating.<BR/>Secondly, the result presages much fun & games. Promises will be bent, great aspirations will be converted into polite wheezes and tergiversation will be the order of the day. The omens were there for all to see. Admittedly, the heavens themselves did not blaze forth the near-death experience of Scottish Labour, and nary a comet was seen; but in Wisconsin, USA, a man had his car stolen twice in the same day, while, in Nebraska, a calf has been born with six legs: it also has the sex organs of both sexes and has been fitted with an artificial rectum. If I had the wit, I'm sure I could derive from this analogies both for the voting process and its result.<BR/>Two cheers for democracy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-23722331912905685862007-05-04T15:51:00.000+01:002007-05-04T15:51:00.000+01:00Are you sure you aren't in Florida?Are you sure you aren't in Florida?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-43570753660289222852007-05-04T12:14:00.000+01:002007-05-04T12:14:00.000+01:00"we did it right and our votes will be counted" - ..."we did it right and our votes will be counted" - although the press reported that Argyll & Bute suspended counting at 3am, and will return to it later today with a view to publishing the result by 20:10. Good old Argyll, eh? Why keep going whenn you can stop for a break? It's only the election after all!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com