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Doug
On Jul 23, 2015, at 9:30 PM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Class war - yup, and that's what some of the comments on the Graun's news items were illustrating, loud and clear. I've taken a backward step from a lot of (un)social media and comment streams because, etc … And it was bad for my health. But sometimes inneresting for poetry.
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> On 24/07/2015, at 8:35 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Bill
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jill
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>>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
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>>>>> On 23/07/2015, at 12:11 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> A found poem. No prizes for guessing where or what it's 'about'.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Jill
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Comments
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm praying.
>>>>>
>>>>> We all know what we're voting for.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 …
>>>>>
>>>>> There will be no happy endings.
>>>>>
>>>>> Brave King Leonidas, sent one message from Thermopylae: "Remember Us!"
>>>>>
>>>>> You keep missing the point.
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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