tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post9019569278155318310..comments2023-11-03T12:44:19.948+01:00Comments on Orwell's Picnic ~: You may now point and laughHilary Jane Margaret Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-43797831961975646352012-01-30T19:22:40.224+01:002012-01-30T19:22:40.224+01:00Unfortunately, BillyHW, it ended up on Facebook an...Unfortunately, BillyHW, it ended up on Facebook and not in the blog world. Some of my FB friends needed to see it . . .<br /><br />I don't know where a suggested reading list came into all this, but I wouldn't mind seeing one as well. I like scanning reading lists to see what I can find from them at my local library.Sylviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06221464682706193091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-80590693947109975302012-01-29T20:12:02.849+01:002012-01-29T20:12:02.849+01:00I found your blog a while back and am among the qu...I found your blog a while back and am among the quiet new readers. However, this post seemed like an apt place to comment and say, "Hello, Hilary." <br /><br /><i>Younger people, I have since noticed, appear to be nearly all convinced that they have no reason whatever, in any venue at all, to modify their tone, their ideas, opinions or mouths. Or to listen to anything anyone else has to say. And brother, do they get indignant when someone tells them to behave.</i><br /><br />They are also the most easily offended by someone else's "unpleasantness", which even encompasses expressing opinions that are contrary to theirs. Ironic, a bit.<br /><br />~bridgetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-40226386629112619282012-01-29T05:13:58.500+01:002012-01-29T05:13:58.500+01:00Miss White,
I smiled at your summation of the typi...Miss White,<br />I smiled at your summation of the typical youth product of Western Civilization:<br /><br />"<i>Younger people... appear to be nearly all convinced that they have no reason whatever, in any venue at all, to modify their tone, their ideas, opinions or mouths. Or to listen to anything anyone else has to say. And brother, do they get indignant when someone tells them to behave.</i>"<br /><br />I'm all too familiar with the type. But there's a flip side to that coin: their arrogance and lack of emotional self-discipline is ALWAYS accompanied by cowardice. <br /><br />Now and again, when I help one of my family members out on a big construction job, we often hire a kid or two from the neighborhood to help lug heavy items, and to run and grab tools for us. When they throw the inevitable tantrum because we're asking them to perform actual <i>work</i> for their pay, they are embarrassingly easy for me or my cousin Sal to overawe. <br /><br />Sal and I grew up in a completely different and masculine world, where emotional outbursts frowned upon. If you ever indulged in an emotional outburst, you had better have the courage to back it up. These kids seem to think that posing as tough actually makes them tough, and if they screech or snarl enough, everyone will back off in awe of their wrath. When confronted by someone who is clearly neither impressed or afraid, they fold like a cheap suit.Steve T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02887043259071906836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-86528169449559489552012-01-29T00:36:10.437+01:002012-01-29T00:36:10.437+01:00I think I found you through a mention from Dorothy...I think I found you through a mention from Dorothy in the spring, so am part of that wave of new readers you mentioned. I stop in here almost daily because your writing is exquisite, our views mostly coincide, and I enjoy your art postings; but I rarely comment because the same razor-sharp intellect and wit that I admire, I fear having turned on me - and also because I doubt I have much to contribute.<br />This makes me neither friend nor old-time regular, but I hope you won't mind my continuing to come here as long as I obey the combox rules, which I did read at some point before they were deleted.<br />Oh and I, too, would like to see your recommended reading list if you care to provide it.Linanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-88988780475096362802012-01-28T16:13:41.781+01:002012-01-28T16:13:41.781+01:00I, too, would love to see your reading list. Not b...I, too, would love to see your reading list. Not because I can't spell, but because I like to see what books other people consider worthy of recommendation.Wendy in VAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18128908314407333280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-78261960571941042872012-01-28T05:29:39.000+01:002012-01-28T05:29:39.000+01:00I do realize this isn't the point of this post...I do realize this isn't the point of this post, but I'd love to see the suggested reading list. I'm mostly self-educated, and that by reading, so I'm always looking out for suggestions of good books. <br /><br />(Note that good books include no sparkly vampires, are not 400-page nihilist ravings, and are not by any author typically found in the Christian Fiction section of the average bookstore. I suspect, however, that we probably share those opinions anyway.)~Katherine~https://www.blogger.com/profile/12138257993961072758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-59227840649427907452012-01-28T03:31:21.286+01:002012-01-28T03:31:21.286+01:00You've single-handedly destroyed my cloying &q...You've single-handedly destroyed my cloying "Don't Wanna Just Build An Altar To My Own Opinions" stance with my new blogging efforts. And managed to sound so gracious while doing it, dernit.<br /><br />However ~ I can spell, and I consider it a professional sport.Tiffany Borgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03027802344101689023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-82145734384538335272012-01-28T01:26:15.580+01:002012-01-28T01:26:15.580+01:00I speak like one run-on sentence. I write the same...I speak like one run-on sentence. I write the same way but forget to edit sometimes. <br />Glad to see that is not a reason to get the boot.<br />I don't remember the link that brought me here but I rather like your wit and style.<br /><br /><br />Sorry you lost the rules.Teresa B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15076392000073341695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-80902179795213544872012-01-28T00:38:36.896+01:002012-01-28T00:38:36.896+01:00Where is this tirade, healthily?Where is this tirade, healthily?BillyHWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-16852225491817415872012-01-27T22:30:43.681+01:002012-01-27T22:30:43.681+01:00I am a non-Swede, non-White actually named Ingemar...I am a non-Swede, non-White actually named Ingemar. But you already knew that.Ingemarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-16550653247279991642012-01-27T21:03:42.230+01:002012-01-27T21:03:42.230+01:00I found your site through a link from Kathy Shaidl...I found your site through a link from Kathy Shaidle, added it to my RSS feed, and have been actively lurking since then. I just like your voice.Thomas L. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02979614603654670063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-89468048673805823482012-01-27T20:38:13.979+01:002012-01-27T20:38:13.979+01:00Julie,
naw. It's been going up steadily since...Julie,<br /><br />naw. It's been going up steadily since April at least.Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-78451361393664416602012-01-27T20:12:07.279+01:002012-01-27T20:12:07.279+01:00I agree, BillyHW! I once wrote an entire tirade a...I agree, BillyHW! I once wrote an entire tirade about that one spelling mistake.Sylviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06221464682706193091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-18104845823372609882012-01-27T19:33:06.115+01:002012-01-27T19:33:06.115+01:00I would venture to guess your traffic is coming fr...I would venture to guess your traffic is coming from the article you wrote in LifeSiteNews about the Costa Concordia and wimp men. It got many comments, which means thousands of people read it, and they have probably come over here to find you.Julie Culshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14769513959912147953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-83959774444043583132012-01-27T19:24:21.000+01:002012-01-27T19:24:21.000+01:00I've been meaning to re-write it anyway.I've been meaning to re-write it anyway.Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-1993198810977228762012-01-27T19:09:08.394+01:002012-01-27T19:09:08.394+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-3014786513272697482012-01-27T19:07:00.975+01:002012-01-27T19:07:00.975+01:00Google Cache remembers all: http://webcache.google...Google Cache remembers all: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9x_evDVg1AwJ:orwellsrulesofchatter.blogspot.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-aJonathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-36762651631972497852012-01-27T18:48:41.383+01:002012-01-27T18:48:41.383+01:00BillyHW - that's something I'd hate to loo...BillyHW - that's something I'd hate to loose my head over...Zachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07658949890957239166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-59873774656367690042012-01-27T18:43:49.616+01:002012-01-27T18:43:49.616+01:00I'll have to remember the word "sub-verba...I'll have to remember the word "sub-verbal" and use it at every available opportunity.<br /><br />Also, can we all agree that using loose for lose is a capital offence, worthy of the death penalty?BillyHWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-49078413954229791612012-01-27T15:55:02.651+01:002012-01-27T15:55:02.651+01:00No, more idiotic, really.
As I've said, alth...No, more idiotic, really. <br /><br />As I've said, although I use it all the time, I'm a bit of clutz about how it works.Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-15442092062182534752012-01-27T15:38:35.744+01:002012-01-27T15:38:35.744+01:00I usually just post with my blogger name, but my r...I usually just post with my blogger name, but my real name is Sylvia. Thanks for the post! I thought the dead link for the combox rules was meant to be ironic. :)Sylviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06221464682706193091noreply@blogger.com