Open mike 25/12/2015

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Merry Christmas one and all!

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          I also support this – an extremely good and thoughtful comment from Incognito.

          My very best wishes to everyone for this special time of year, and for 2016.

          AND a very big thank you to all those people who keep TS a special place to come – and particularly to Lynn for letting us be part of TS and all his time and efforts keeping the site running; and all the authors (who I will not attempt to name for fear of missing someone!) And my fellow commenters.

          I have been keeping a list of and links articles etc that have popped up over the last week or so which people here might be interested in and might have missed in the lead up to the holidays, the Hager and Dotcom decisions etc. I will drip feed these onto Open Mike over the next week or so.

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            Thank you veutoviper for your supportive comment. My best wishes to you for the coming year. I look forward to your list appearing on TS over the next little while.

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            Thank you Ant for this interesting comment and that link. As you do on Christmas Day, I’ve been doing a little reading on Utopia and I came across some of the writings and work of Zygmunt Bauman. The planet described in the Huff Post link sounds very much like a “classical Utopia”: a reliable, predictable, more secure World that can be trusted and that is not subject to uncertainties and thus more fear-free.

            In his book Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty Bauman quotes Italo Calvino, The invisible cities (Le città invisibili):

            ”The hell of the living is not something that will be: if there is one, it is what is already here, the hell where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the hell and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and learning: seek and be able to recognize who and what, in the midst of the hell, are not hell, then make them endure, give them space.”

            I tend to interpret the return of the mission back to Earth [referring to the Huff Post piece] as the second option in the above quote and that they (we?) are by no means “right back where we started”. I think the author of the Huff Post would lean a similar way; the clues, as I see them, are in the first and last sentences of his blog.

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          Thank you Anne! I hope you enjoyed Christmas Day in good company with some food and a glass of good wine or two. I personally quite like the Gewürztraminer variety.

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    Merry Christmas to all the Standardistas.

    Thanks for keeping me (somewhat) sane for another year, and ensuring my sense of humour continues apace with my cynicism.

    Especial thanks to lprent, the authors and the regular commenters who make this site my first stop in the mornings.

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    Wishing all Standardistas a wonderful Christmas and New Year, and thanks to everyone, especially lprent, for another year of great conversation.

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        Indeed he has – I was delighted that he insisted on a gold one. Being able to bite and apple is one thing, wholly surrendering to dental respectability is another.

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      Trivia time:

      Shane was filmed at the piano, but he cannot play the instrument. Instead the pianist was shot with Shane’s rings on his fingers, and Shane was made to look like he was playing the piano.

      Matt Dillon appears in the first few shots as a police officer

      There is no NYPD Chior. Only a pipe band. And the shot of them singing has them singing the song from the Mickey Mouse Club, but slown down. They do not know the words to ‘Galway Bay’.

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      But not too peaceful for too long. There’s the enemy gloating on the horizon.
      Otherwise relax for now.
      “We’ll meet again,
      Don’t know where,
      Don’t know when….”

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    Since Christmas is the time we at least SAY Krillipsy type platitudes, and at least (hopefully) think about other people within our Public…… many thanks, Kia Kaha’s, etc. to City Missions, Sikh and other temples, Salvation Armies, Refuges and any other charities who’re doing the work of our government (as it claims its 1st world status) has become a necessity.

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