Author Topic: Big Brother - 1984 - I'm leaving Britain...... (Read 1959 times)

lazs2 · « **Reply #30 on:** October 02, 2007, 02:40:10 PM »

ripley... if that was all you had to say that would be great. Say anything you want but don't tell me what to do.

I wear em in my hot rods.. I don't wear em in my Lincoln towne car... now... it is quite legal for anyone to not wear em in a limmo... that limmo of course would be.... wait for it.. a Lincoln towne car...

It is legal for children to not wear em on a freaking school bus for instance.

You don't have to wear em in a taxi.

all these vehicles drive on the same roads as everyone else...

lazs

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #31 on:** October 02, 2007, 03:30:28 PM »

Well you can't help it if your laws are not consistent. That's hardly a reason not to follow them or see the reasoning behind them.

Swoop · « **Reply #32 on:** October 02, 2007, 04:28:12 PM »

I think that's a perfectly good reason to not to follow them.
I've not followed plenty of laws for much more trivial reasons than that.

RedTop · « **Reply #33 on:** October 02, 2007, 04:53:31 PM »

We're pretty close to being the United States of Europe. So give it just a lil time and you'll be out in the suburbs of Europe when you come here.

Cypher · « **Reply #34 on:** October 02, 2007, 07:04:52 PM »

"War is Peace

ignorance is strength

Freedom is Slavery"

Swoop · « **Reply #35 on:** October 02, 2007, 07:32:05 PM »

And stupid is as stupid does.

What on earth are you wittering about Cypher?
Ignorance is strength? War is peace? Load of bollocks if I ever heard it.

storch · « **Reply #36 on:** October 02, 2007, 08:11:55 PM »

AKH · « **Reply #37 on:** October 02, 2007, 08:20:40 PM »

The quote was double plus good.

wrag · « **Reply #38 on:** October 03, 2007, 03:07:17 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
come here and move to a semi rural area... if you move to a big blue city they will fawn over your accent and try to imitate you and cry about how they are not enough like england..

I am afraid that the women and womenly men have taken over... the whole civilized world is getting to be like moving back in with your mothers.

When I was in school... 1984 gave us nightmares but... we KNEW it could never happen... now.. we have gone past the book in many important things. and the women are screaming for more... more government in our lives...

We smugly tell people where and what they can smoke or consume and make em buckle up in their car... wear helmets... don't play with guns or knives... search em everywhere... metal detectors... random searches... it is like mom invading your room. nagging at us every day... global warming will make us go blind if we don't stop doing that!

There is no solution but to get away and wait it out or...just get far enough away that you will be dead before they get around to you.

I hold no hope for the xbox generation changing things.. they think women can beat up men and that AH builds up your hand eye co-ordination.

I don't want to be a martyr myself.. I don't need the money anymore.. don't need to play the game to get by... gonna move out a ways and let you guys cannibalize each other with a nagging trophy wife and woman anchor telling you what to do.

lazs

thinkin I am perhaps a bit older then you Lazs but ALREADY there!

got fed up and had an out and took it!

Just hope that Nevada continues to remain Nevada for maybe another 10 years?

Sundowner · « **Reply #39 on:** October 03, 2007, 05:12:49 AM »

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Originally posted by Swoop
And stupid is as stupid does.

What on earth are you wittering about Cypher?
Ignorance is strength? War is peace? Load of bollocks if I ever heard it.

The title of the book is "1984" --just like the title of your post.

The quotes are from the party line of "Big Brother".

Give it a read.

Regards,
Sun

Swoop · « **Reply #40 on:** October 03, 2007, 06:43:58 AM »

I'm still of the opinion that it's a load of bollocks.

Orwell was/is a very weird writer.

The only thing that stands here is the "big brother is watching" idea.

Angus · « **Reply #41 on:** October 03, 2007, 07:32:01 AM »

Did you read 1984?
(I read it on an english course in literature analysis in ... 1984)

Swoop · « **Reply #42 on:** October 03, 2007, 08:14:20 AM »

Yeah, 20 years ago, but I skimmed over all the weird stuff like strength is peace and fixated instead of stuff like room 101.

AKH · « **Reply #43 on:** October 03, 2007, 08:18:10 AM »

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984) is an English dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in 1949. It is the story of the life of the intellectual Winston Smith, his job in the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation by the totalitarian government of Oceania, the country in which he lives. It has been translated into sixty-two languages, and has deeply impressed itself in the English language. Nineteen Eighty-Four, its terms and language, and its author are bywords in discussions of personal privacy and state security. The adjective "Orwellian" describes actions and organizations characteristic of Oceania, the totalitarian society depicted in the novel, and the phrase "Big Brother is watching you" refers to invasive surveillance.

In turn, Nineteen Eighty-Four has been seen as revolutionary and politically dangerous and thus been banned by libraries in many countries. Along with Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, it is among the most famous dystopias in literature. TIME Magazine selected it as one of the 100-best English-language novels, from 1923 to the present.

Bollocks?

Swoop · « **Reply #44 on:** October 03, 2007, 09:10:46 AM »

No, the peace is slavery bit is bollocks.

ok, I'll be serious.

Freedom is not slavery, freedom means being free to starve, free to die of any one of a number of diseases, free to drink, smoke and eat myself into oblivion should I so wish. And we are not free.

As for ignorance is strength.....what?

Author Topic: Big Brother - 1984 - I'm leaving Britain...... (Read 1959 times)

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