We're all in this together

...and agist

..or is it ageist?

ah the frog chorus, bom bom bom why eeee I, just had a flashback. I did have it but it became such an embarassing part of the record collection that in about 1987 my brother and I went out in the back yard, dowsed it with petrol, lit it and it became the new countryside game of frisbie of death. This was before we had games consoles and satellite telly for entertainment of course.

...and agist

agist [əˈdʒɪst]
vb (tr) Law

1. (Law) to care for and feed (cattle or horses) for payment
   
2. (Law) to assess and charge (land or its owner) with a public burden, such as a tax
   [from Old French agister, from gister to lodge, ultimately from Latin jacēre to lie down]
   
   
   

..or is it ageist?

age·ism also ag·ism
n.
Discrimination based on age, especially prejudice against the elderly.
ageist adj. & n.

agist then

We're all in this together:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/10/nick-clegg-lib-dems-megaphone-debate-cuts

Not for much longer if it carries on like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ

frog song for the win

frog snog for le win

frenched that for you

/turns over in empty bed in foetal position and hugs pillow... sobs.

http://www.tuc.org.uk/mediacentre/tuc-18709-f0.cfm

Something to all be in together.

Make your mark on society, not in society.

Better keep it on the computer, I think graffiti has enough people trying to do political/social commentaries.

Lay off, grandad!

That's pretty much what it's for. I'd be the first to acknowledge that the sociopolitical commentary of, say, Banksy, is crude in conception and twee in execution. This is neither universal within, nor a good argument against, the medium. And I disagree about your on/in statement. Amongst other things, street art is about ordinary people laying claim to their surroundings. As chair of my local residents' association, that's pretty much what I spend my time encouraging members of my community to do.

As chair of my local residents' association, that's pretty much what I spend my time encouraging members of my community to do.

Really? Can I come to one of your meetings?

Everyone complains about the cuts, but I have yet to see anyone come up with a credible alternative. I'm sure Cameron and Clegg aren't just doing it for the hell of it, they believe it's what has to be done, after all it's hardly a vote winner for them.

It's all very well the TUC complaining it's unfair, yes of course it is, but maybe they should come up with a constructive suggestion instead. Where do they expect the money to come from?

Well, there is this for example

Hmm, that's certainly interesting, if that's true you would have to question why they've made that decision, at this time. It may all be relative though, the article is a bit vague, it doesn't say how much less tax will actually come into the treasury, and I get the impression the author is hardly trying to remain neutral on the subject.

I was gonna post Come Together, but this seems more apt...

YouTube - Spiritualized - You Lie You Cheat

Edit: Fuck you, disabled embedding

never seen that. nice.

Everyone complains about the cuts, but I have yet to see anyone come up with a credible alternative. I'm sure Cameron and Clegg aren't just doing it for the hell of it, they believe it's what has to be done, after all it's hardly a vote winner for them.

It's all very well the TUC complaining it's unfair, yes of course it is, but maybe they should come up with a constructive suggestion instead. Where do they expect the money to come from?

What Will posted. And the evidence that this is an excessively uneven and unjust redistribution project is mounting daily. Selling the rest of the family silver that Thatcher didn't sell; giving away the power of the state, and hurting the most vulnerable in society in the process. The problem with saying that 'they believe it's what has to be done' can only attract one of two charges--either incompetence or stupidity. There are plenty of 'alternative' ideas; even Gordon Brown had one. No, the damage that what is going on is doing will take decades to repair, if ever.

Just one random example more:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/09/david-orr-national-housing-federation-catastrophe

'Housing chief warns of impending catastrophe'

The Guardian really fucks me off these days. It's as bombastic as the right-wing rags.

Basic graffiti knowledge fail there..

It was a campaign in new york in the 80's to encourage kids not to vandalise the new york metro.

Am i reading this right? You encourage members of your local community to go out bombing? You lot, I bet you like the pretty pictures but not that messy tagging lark.

You are failing to read it right, as I'm sure you're aware.

Choosing not to distinguish between tagging and street art is like failing to distinguish between, say, The Once and Future King and the Scum Manifesto. What? It's all words!

As for your reference, I'm afraid it passed quite over my head in 3 entirely separate ways. So it was a marketing slogan. It's still wrong. The same argument could be made against guerrilla gardening.

The Guardian really fucks me off these days. It's as bombastic as the right-wing rags.

I haven't noticed a change in the quality of their reporting. commentisfree is another matter entirely, btw. One problem they do face is that they have to single-handedly cover all the stories that they know no other paper is going to cover, like the stuff about how housing cuts are going to fuck us all up, and basically all the academic research into the impact of the government's policies, because none of the other papers are interested in covering what highly skilled and qualified academics have found out from in depth and rigourous analysis, they're only concerned about covering their own/probably their readers' baseless opinions. Even the Mirror/the Morning Star (which is actually quite a quality paper, good on international & union news especially) wouldn't be interested in covering stuff like that in the way the Guardian does. Also things like the phone hacking as well, and any other Murdoch-related stories, over which there will be a deathly omerta from almost the entirety of the rest of the press. So it can make it seem like the Guardian is labouring (lol) over that stuff. But I for one am very glad they are there to report it. And for me, they're still leagues ahead in their general (i.e. not directly locally political) news reporting.

is this a peculiar brand of german humour?
i don't get it.

Mr Smyth. The time has come for you to undergo re-education to ensure that you do. Oliver is offering reasonable (given the rate of inflation) classes in "Understanding German Humour".

14 weeks study followed by a punch line. A punishing schedule. Give it a punt.

Just contact him by PM.

Oliver - I tried....