Comments on: Too Ready To Follow Orders?

By: Salman Shaheen

Salman Shaheen — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:05:58 +0000

I know Steve’s comment was in jest, so was mine. I wouldn’t intentionally break Godwin’s law!

By: Reuben

Reuben — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:50:18 +0000

I think steve’s comment was in jest it certainly made me lol. And i agree . Someone really should do study of passive non-smoking, i.e. The way the general twattishness and bad chat oof non smokers affects even those who consume a sufficient amount of tobacco

By: Salman Shaheen

Salman Shaheen — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:13:20 +0000

Steve, that’s like saying Jews should have been happy they didn’t have to put up with any annoying gentiles in the ghetto!

By: steve

steve — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:06:16 +0000

if non smokers are not permitted in the pen them I’m all for it, I don’t have to put up with people moaning and coughing then. ‘get out of my pen, you dirty non smoker, you make me sick’.

By: Salman Shaheen

Salman Shaheen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:04:53 +0000

Cheers Adrian, glad you liked the article. What are you studying at UEA?

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:56:36 +0000

good blog you have here by the way, liked the galloway article by salman also. Being a UEA student myself it is good to see UEA produce talented writers!

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:15:53 +0000

megalolz @ tom

By: Tom Kemp

Tom Kemp — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:28:58 +0000

Jonathan,

I hate to break it to you, but revolutions are dangerous things, not the romanticised struggle between heroic workers and their bourgeoise opressors that they are so frequently made out to be.
This incident with the girl and her ‘boyfriend’ sounds tragic and my sympathy goes out to her, but take a moment to think where the blame really lies and how it can be resolved.
The answer is democratic, not revolutionary. Im sure I dont need to describe the ramifications of a revolution. Riots, protests, crowd-dispersal, arrests. Just look at Revolutionary Russia and the massacres that took place.

It isn’t spinlessness that prevents the British People from revolting, it is a sound belief in democracy and a fair deal of common sense.

By: jonathan colwill

jonathan colwill — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:00:14 +0000

queues are good manners what gets me is the reaction to the govt giving trillions to big banks in any decent country we should have chased them out of town with pitchforks , the countrys gone to hell .
a while ago I saved a girl who was having her head stomped on by this skinhead who said he was her boyfriend this was in broad daylight on sat afternoon in a town with at least a hundred people watching and doing nothing , the countrys gone to hell .
I was thinking what it would actually take to get a revolution in the uk and god knows the whole place is so spineless its a damn shame the whole thing makes me want to leave

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:21:03 +0000

The queueing thing I actually like. A queue is democratic in that the largest/most intimidating people do not get prefferential treatment and it is the most eficient way for a large number of people to be seen individually by a small number of people. In most contexts (“please move down inside the carridge” for example, or “do not turn up late to meetings and then shout at team members because they are full”) following instructions as a default is a useful human trait.

I may have read too much into the above article.