Great Turn-Offs Of Our Time (7)

More phrases that hide what the speaker really means

'It is important to contextualise the matter......  '

means to bury the bad news of poor workmanship
by a government and/or civil service in among detail
that has no merit of being mentioned in the news
because the news agenda is about incompetence,
rather than pointing up what people do adequately.

Mathematics For Dummies

Facts x Self Importance* = News

*This is usually an ontological argument,
where the higher the level of importance
of the individual to the individual involved
the more the news is proof to less important
people of the worthiness of those in the news....  

Great Turn-Offs Of Our Time (6)

It is not often I swear in writing,
but I do not need to apologise for the following.....

When a politician wants to apologise
for their previous actions 'being inadequate'
what are they actually apologising for?
Being seen to be inadequate and unsympathetic?
Or actually being so piss-poor at their job
that they would have been sacked for what they did,
but none of their contemporaries wanted their job
and their position makes them too powerful to fail?

Grab 'Em By Their Wants

Capitalism is just as much a 'command economy'
as Communism and Socialist economies have been.

The difference is that in the latter the government
stood for something collective that could be agreed with
or communally opposed, albeit with difficulty.

But in the former commands come from a cartel
where choice is what is highlighted,
which quietly usurps all collectivism,
and rewrites us by our wants to prove to us
that we agreed with the majority all along.

Whither Altruism?

Whatever 'it' is we are all in it together,

but clearly there is more money in it 
for some of us than there is for others.

On Being Sociably Anti-Social

Because subconscious parties are the easiest to quietly slip into,
stay on the edge of, and the easiest to leave un-noticed.

The Me(dia) Generation

I-Phones and mobiles are wonderful things,
they tell the young-the folks who use them most-
everything about the world they want to know.

Except how to be, and restfully listen,
whilst in the presence of an older person.