Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

Dunno, but I got @JK47 wet dream here. Following up on @purr1n post, I went to the Daytona Flea Market, which we locals call it the local white trash ville. I don't buy that much stuff on here, but I do walk around for the LOLs.

 

I really don't know why I am doing this, but @internethandle it was my understanding that Merrick got a temp ban since he posted politics outside of this thread (more than once). Yes, I did respond to him once in that comment post but honestly I should had left it alone. Fun fact: Not everyone comes to SBAF to see someone talking about politics. This isn't picking on the left wing dude here.

 

I too should have known better. I don't mind engaging in dissenting discussion, but obviously there are appropriate channels for that.

 

Does this count as politics?

 

Neither do I.

 

hmmmn, thought profile posts were open to just about any kind of posts short of illegal stuff.

 

Fine line. I rarely post anything political on my profile posts (you will find that anything I post political overwhelming is on this thread). Furthermore, I have family in Israel so it hits close to home.

It all goes back to SBAF being a dive bar, you have to know when/where it is cool to have a conversation about it. Overwhelming of folks just wanna talk about good audio.

 

profile posts are the smoking area right outside the bar door.

 

I don’t have a problem keeping it in here, particularly. I definitely don’t come here for politics, I’ve got other outlets for that.

 

I've posted "faecal matter" (with the diphthong) twice on the profile posts. Mind you, one was related to audio gear.

Chatting area. Say anything. Get answered, ignored or shot down: that's chat.

Restraints? As far as I ever knew, just simple manners. Not going too far beyond plain decency.

Of course, living in a world where one person's simple politics is another person's well-beyond-decency, such distinctions can be far from clear. Same for international relations.

I'd hate not to be able to sometimes knock heads together with people, sometimes people very much not like-minded about some things!

 

I vote for the mermaid with violin... or is that a fiddle?

 

"Monsieur, my son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.”

George Clemencau

When a journalist hinted to his son being a communist

I think there is some truth in that

 

The great Catholic divine G K Chesterton said something similiar but I can't find the quote right now. I found this good one instead:

“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is." Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy. But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics. I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother's knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals.”

 

In the university classes that I taught, when I compared the grades of the students who regularly attended vs those who skipped, on average the attendees were a full letter grade better. No surprises really.

 

Now it's online sections vs in-person. And it's more than just one full letter grade difference.

But for that, it's hard to dissect student effort vs instructor effort....

 

I fully expect that in the places like Columbia, Yale, and Harvard the grades of those who skipped to protest would be full latter grade better. Why? Because they and the people who grade them belong in the same tribe. And that's all that counts these days.

 

You seriously overestimate the amount of time and mental bandwidth that an instructor at any university anywhere has to care about their student's social or political leanings.