Comments on: I am not ashamed

By: B4L, and personal posts (at wongaBlog)

B4L, and personal posts (at wongaBlog) — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:38:46 +0000

[...] The idea that discussing sci-fi / other ‘geeky’ topics is something to be ashamed of, and that others will laugh at us. I think I demonstrated my contempt for that particular theory here. [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:39:33 +0000

Uhm, that last sentence or so didn’t come out right…
ANyway back to the point… I guess politics is kinda like that though… if an MP is seen as a black sheep, then that MP can & do get ousted. But hey… perhaps MP’s should try being honest, real people who are interested in different hobbies. Take the “normal posed photo’s” that show them doing “normal stuff”… perhaps they should do something else other than going to the gym, taking expensive holidays, occasionally attending pariliament, and walking their dogs.
But yeah, I agree with your point Andy.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:36:38 +0000

I was on a train back from paintballing yesterday and one guy in the group was talking about one of his colleagues…. “he did these amazing card tricks… all the galls were like [insert expression of staring, mesmerised]… it’s a sure way to pick up girls! It’d be like:
girl: how did you go that?
bloke: buy me a drink and I’ll tell you”
(slightly edited for the web )

So uhm… I’d say jealousy.

ANyway back to the point… I guess politics is kinda like that though… if an MP is seen as a black sheep, then MP’s do get ousted. But hey… perhaps MP’s should try being honest, real people who are interested in different hobbies other than going to the gym, taking expensive holidays, occasionally attending pariliament, and walking their dogs. But yeah, I agree.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:17:48 +0000

Well said.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:31:14 +0000

Yes, it’s obviously very damaging to the Labour Party for its members to be seen to be enjoying the most popular non-soap, non-footbal TV programme in the country, a Bafta award-winning and tabloid headline-grabbing show, the Christmas special of which was watched by around 1 in every 6 Britons, and the title of which was something like the seventieth most popular google search in the world last year. We’d all appear much less geeky if you posted a thorough analysis of the “And” theory of Conservatism or the Lib Dem’s latest tax proposals.

By: Skuds

Skuds — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:06:38 +0000

How terrible that ‘passing possible Labour voters’ might see that Labour supporters have interests outside politics, that they actually have a life, of which an interest in politics is just one aspect rather than a total obsession.

I know you are not a politician and have no intention to be, but in politicians’ blogs I would rather see that they are rounded human beings with the same interests as their constituents. One of the problems with many of our politicians is that they are political anoraks isolated from the real world. When they are on the news doing something ordinary like riding a bike or kicking a football everyone gets terribly impressed that they are able to do it.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 21:15:47 +0000

Someone called Mike left a vry similar comment on my blog. If there’s one thing I hare more than Labour bloggers who blog about Doctor Who, it’s people who leave the same comment on many blogs…

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:59:43 +0000

w00t.

By: Neil Harding

Neil Harding — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:42:47 +0000

It is people like Mark who are the problem in the Labour Party, not people like you Andrew. Keep up the good work. Anyway, Doctor Who probably says more about politics than the average cabinet minister nowadays and it’s a good programme so who gives a @?*@ what Mark thinks. (I am thinking of the anti-war messages etc.) This guy is talking out of his **se.

Your interest in magic is a good example. This magic experience probably taught you a lot about scepticism and how to analyse, which is probably why you recognise religious charlatans so easily. Every subject has merit, think of those who play with pure maths or cosmology (even art) with no real direction of what is it ‘useful’ for, only to discover the greatest inventions that help humanity. Think of Leonardo Da Vinci, who made no distinction between art and science, it is an artificial divide that has limited our children’s learning. It is the geeks who are the real wealth creators and useful people in this country, and they are usually not politicians or ‘businessmen’!

By: R sturgeon

R sturgeon — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:57:34 +0000

Bravo, magic man……fugga buncha Marks…..