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.
J
On 24/07/2015, at 8:35 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
> 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.
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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
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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!
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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'.
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>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jill
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>>>> Comments
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>>>> I'm praying.
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>>>> We all know what we're voting for.
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>>>> We've lived it in our bones, in our souls
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>>>> They are fixated on money - how dull can that be ...
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>>>> Your responses to the commentator are ugly. Nothing more.
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>>>> Are they children? Are they not responsible for their own actions? An utter joke.
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>>>> Things are not all what they seem despite the simplistic comments
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>>>> As for liquid cash?
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>>>> Which comics do you read?
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>>>> Football does not generally bring out the poet in most of those watching it
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>>>> She is one tough cookie and rightly so.
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>>>> The gun was always pointed at the heads of those who could least afford to pay
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>>>> I've got some old Drachmas, are these acceptable?
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>>>> Is it just a childish tantrum?
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>>>> These are not new debts
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>>>> Money was created out of thin air
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>>>> There was an interesting headline yesterday
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>>>> Oh dear. Did you actually finish school?
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>>>> It's a default argument which has no foundation.
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>>>> We have Satnav now. Do keep up!
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>>>> You should be ready for a default.
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>>>> Please go somewhere you consider comfortable. I'll pay for it. You can even go Business class.
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>>>> Can someone please explain to me how and when.
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>>>> Did you only read this one article?
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>>>> And you are a polar bear
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>>>> This is crunch time
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>>>> Smug prat.
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>>>> Down the back of the sofa looking for loose change.
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>>>> Any idiotic comment is allowed.
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>>>> So is world class condescension.
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>>>> I'm sorry, but may I ask from which parallel universe do you originate?
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>>>> Politics is great, isn't it?
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>>>> A banana republic without bananas.
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>>>> One thing that always mystifies me …
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>>>> There will be no happy endings.
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>>>> Brave King Leonidas, sent one message from Thermopylae: "Remember Us!"
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>>>> You keep missing the point.
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