Assorted flimflam

[Filterlab]

Is Mick a member of the Royal Family then?

[Marco]

I guess you don't know Mick Parry who's recently joined us, mate. He's a bit of a Royalist, and he loves Maggie T!

Marco.

[Filterlab]

Well I'm with him on the latter, but I stand with you on the former.

[Marco]

LOL. No worries. I hate politics with a passion as it bores the pants off me, so I don't really do political discussions. Steve will tell you this. I never vote, either

Basically I've built my own little 'island' so I'm relatively immune from the policies of the various parties.

Marco.

[Filterlab]

Politics is a personal thing, everyone is entitled to either subscribe to an ideal political stance as much as one is entitled to ignore the whole damn thing. That's the excellent thing about a democracy.

[Chris Frost]

I hate politics with a passion as it bores the pants off me, so I don't really do political discussions. Steve will tell you this. I never vote, either

Basically I've built my own little 'island' so I'm relatively immune from the policies of the various parties.

I can't believe someone as intelligent as you has just written than.

Politics is everywhere and in everything. You can certainly ignore it; but you can't be immune or escape from it.

We're getting fairly OT from the thread topic. Perhaps something for Abstract Chat? You'll be able to ignore it all you want there, Marco

[Marco]

LOL. Sure, Chris. You can start the ball rolling if you wish. But with respect, you don't know anything about my personal circumstances or how I live my life

You'd be surprised how self-sufficient you can be when 95% of what others worry about doesn't apply to you

Marco.

[Iain Sinclair]

You'd be surprised how self-sufficient you can be when 95% of what others worry about doesn't apply to you

What do others worry about? My own personal worries can be summed up as
1) serious illness, injury to or death of self
2) serious illness, injury to or death of loved one.

I don't worry much about owt else really. Well, I have a niggling concern that one or more valves in my power amp are going to need replacing soon, and I'm a bit vague about biasing and such. But that's about it.

[Marco]

LOL, Iain. I'm talking about things like mortgages (I don't have any as we're fortunate to own our house outright, and others which we rent out), child-related political issues (I don't have any kids) and other such concerns which people may have

With regard to my mortgage situation, I'm not 'showing off', or anything, - I've had to work bloody hard to get where I am now, but this and other aspects of my personal circumstances make me largely immune to (and certainly disinterested) in the majority of the decisions made by the government, hence why I don't really care who's in charge. I simply 'go with the flow' and never get worked up or passionate about political matters the way many people (quite naturally and justifiably) do. It's all 'much of a much-ness' to me.

Marco.

[Chris Frost]

Marco, if you can avoid breathing, eating, drinking, using energy and anything else more complex then you can successfully dodge politics. God help you if you drive.