Yes that's the thing isn't it, Jill. Everybody seems so sure they know what to do. I notice Chomsky has weighed in and labelled austerity class war. Near enough.
Bill
> On 23 Jul 2015, at 10:43 pm, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Never been to Greece, sadly, Bill. Not sure if I ever will, at the rate various things seem to be going.
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> But one can always rely on the comments section of the Graun for, well, wry amusement if not extreme irritation. The thread I extracted was particularly, umm, opinionated on many levels.
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> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>> On 23/07/2015, at 7:56 PM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>> Yes, Jill, many are they who claim to have 'found' what to do or not to do about Greece and your tumble here is about as lucid a response as any individual has given!
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>> Sad. I speak no Greek but in my one trip there, I loved to hear the low burble of polite social speech at cafe tables.
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>> Bill
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>>> On 23/07/2015, at 12:11 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
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>>> A found poem. No prizes for guessing where or what it's 'about'.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jill
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>>>
>>> Comments
>>>
>>> I'm praying.
>>>
>>> We all know what we're voting for.
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>>> We've lived it in our bones, in our souls
>>>
>>> They are fixated on money - how dull can that be ...
>>>
>>> Your responses to the commentator are ugly. Nothing more.
>>>
>>> Are they children? Are they not responsible for their own actions? An utter joke.
>>>
>>> Things are not all what they seem despite the simplistic comments
>>>
>>> As for liquid cash?
>>>
>>> Which comics do you read?
>>>
>>> Football does not generally bring out the poet in most of those watching it
>>>
>>> She is one tough cookie and rightly so.
>>>
>>> The gun was always pointed at the heads of those who could least afford to pay
>>>
>>> I've got some old Drachmas, are these acceptable?
>>>
>>> Is it just a childish tantrum?
>>>
>>> These are not new debts
>>>
>>> Money was created out of thin air
>>>
>>> There was an interesting headline yesterday
>>>
>>> Oh dear. Did you actually finish school?
>>>
>>> It's a default argument which has no foundation.
>>>
>>> We have Satnav now. Do keep up!
>>>
>>> You should be ready for a default.
>>>
>>> Please go somewhere you consider comfortable. I'll pay for it. You can even go Business class.
>>>
>>> Can someone please explain to me how and when.
>>>
>>> Did you only read this one article?
>>>
>>> And you are a polar bear
>>>
>>> This is crunch time
>>>
>>> Smug prat.
>>>
>>> Down the back of the sofa looking for loose change.
>>>
>>> Any idiotic comment is allowed.
>>>
>>> So is world class condescension.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry, but may I ask from which parallel universe do you originate?
>>>
>>> Politics is great, isn't it?
>>>
>>> A banana republic without bananas.
>>>
>>> One thing that always mystifies me …
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>>> There will be no happy endings.
>>>
>>> Brave King Leonidas, sent one message from Thermopylae: "Remember Us!"
>>>
>>> You keep missing the point.
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