gosh, but librel demorcrats will soon just be the librels again "jumps for joy"

Sentynel?! But I thought you loved me!

Besides, Nero can stand a few lewd comments. He can stand anything, can't you Nero?

rubberchickenben wrote:Also, I went to the pro-coalition rally gotta love Ottawa for its politics, if for nothing else) and it was pretty awesome. Thoon Parliament Hill in December (ugh Gilles Duceppe (of the Bloc Quebecois) was actually a better speaker than Dion or Layton.

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You love Ottawa politics? Is it that good (its just that I have never heard people complimenting government politics ever)?
I went to a 'meet your MP' session & it was so discouraging (could be because everyone wanted the meeting to be carried out in different languages & in the end no one really seemed to have understood anything. Plus the politicians made such tall claims & gave such long speeches).
I think Nero has got it right. When young, everyone is a liberal but when they grow up they become conservatives. They worry about protecting their culture, faith, legacy...everything. I think they are afraid the younger generation would become too modern & forget their rich heritage (or whatever). But sometimes their line of thought makes sense too.

I know people who are grumpy conservatives at 18, and people who are (albeit somewhat embittered...) liberals in their 50s.

But they are always exceptions, right? But it's far more likely to get to a a old liberal than a young conservative.

To quote Nero quoting Churchil on the last page:

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

:P

n&b wrote:You love Ottawa politics? Is it that good (its just that I have never heard people complimenting government politics ever)?

Well, it's the capital, it's got a lot more politicky things going on (this is a terrible explanation...) for the most part (election time being the exception), it's where the major politicians spend most of their time during parliament etc. Or he could just be saying Ottawa is boring (IMO, Rideau Canal FTW).

N&B wrote:I think Nero has got it right. When young, everyone is a liberal but
when they grow up they become conservatives.

In my experience their seems to be as many right wing adults as they're are left wing (could just be different over here), but their does seem to be more young liberals. Though it would make sense, the idea of what is left wing and what is right wing changes over time.

FuzzyLobster wrote:To quote Nero quoting Churchil on the last page:

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

Fun fact: that's misattributed.


I know more young, grumpy conservatives than I do old liberals actually, though I get into political conversations with people my age more often than older people..

So to quote "mid-nineteenth century historian and statesman François Guizot" then?

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David Cat wrote:

Alec_2 wrote:or the dreded BMP.

What's wrong with Bitmap? :'(

Delayed response:

Lol, verry good. but enough about my political orianation what about every one elses?

(results from last time I did the test, about a month ago)

You two have almost identical results, you creepy anarchists.

Son, get the hell off this stupid forum and be a proper ninja.

David Cat wrote:

Somebody's been taking notes of somebody...

Sentynel wrote:(results from last time I did the test, about a month ago)

Which test? I would like to try it out too.

Nero wrote:

David Cat wrote:

Somebody's been taking notes of somebody...

Nah, it's that I stopped actually listening to the Daily Mail, and now just read it for laughs :P

You listened to the daily mail? Even I think that's probably not a good idea.

I did that test way back when, too lazy to do it again and post my results.

FuzzyLobster wrote:You listened to the daily mail. Even I think that's probably not a good idea.

I did that test way back when, too lazy to do it again and post my results.

I was young and foolish. Then I noticed I was thinking 'yeah, flooping 'eck you' to everything they said :P

Which test?

also ive just been selected by my english teacher to take part in a national debateing contest with the 3 other people in years 10,11,12 and 13
36 schools and the finals are going to be held in the house of commens debate chamber and even if we dont get that far we get to watch them in the house any way!

i cant wait!