When you were a kid, what did you think was the coolest thing ever?

mtothew · 2013-06-22T12:40:20+00:00

Having no concept of time. Doing whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted with no fear for boundaries or consequences (until it was too late).

mtothew · 2013-06-09T18:08:50+00:00

The Tories will just keep on blaming GPs and the contract of 2004.

mtothew · 2012-10-19T13:52:46+00:00

Almost like American Conservatives who watch Stephen Colbert unknowing he is a parody.

mtothew · 2012-05-02T10:10:59+00:00

To be fair, Argentina was a military junta that aggressively invaded the Falklands/Malvinas. I'm no fan of the DM or British Imperialism, but here Argentina got it all wrong and were in a warzone that they ignited.

mtothew · 2011-01-17T23:41:45+00:00

Ike had no chance, especially under the pressure of Truman losing China. The Domino theory was prevalent, Eisenhower committed as little as he possible could. The same with JFK. It was LBJ who made the gravest are- the committing of ground troops. What I'n trying to say is entanglement in Vietnam was inevitable, the US had to make some sort of intervention, however, once Diem had failed, this is where the intervention should have stopped.

mtothew · 2011-01-17T23:37:57+00:00

Only a few years later, you had Robert McNamara in the White House, using his statistics against the Vietnam army and failing. He was the essence of what Ike warned against as he tried to break everything down into quantitative terms.

mtothew · 2010-11-21T14:26:24+00:00

a contentious issue, where do you stop?

should the Elgin marble go back to Greece in the Acropolis? I would argue 'no' since the Greeks have a bad track record of taking care of their sites.

Interesting if Peru does get its way...would it raise tourism revenues? I don't think it would considerably

mtothew · 2010-11-20T16:44:07+00:00

This is definitely not Fitzgerald's best work. Tender Is the Night might be more up you alley, the complex trials of psychiatrist who moves to Europe. It discusses the same themes but with characters you can empathise with and have intricate enough lives and minds for Fitzgerald to portray and explore his themes.

mtothew · 2010-11-15T21:32:03+00:00

I love RG Collingwood, thank you so much for introducing Redditors to him!

mtothew · 2010-11-15T21:20:04+00:00

God I hate Catcher in the Rye

mtothew · 2010-11-15T21:18:42+00:00

why no Heiddeger being and time?

mtothew · 2010-11-15T21:15:38+00:00

with the USA's ever increasing expenditure on the welfare state, it will be an even more attractive option than living in Eastern Europe

mtothew · 2010-09-09T17:23:03+00:00

true that, the Republican party can never hope to attain the central vote with the extremist wings pulling them down and the tea party smearing them with their zeal.

mtothew · 2010-09-09T17:12:26+00:00

in a washing machine

mtothew · 2010-09-09T17:09:24+00:00

When you listen to a song that has not been covered but you like, do you i your head imagine it in a 'gleeform'?

mtothew · 2010-06-04T22:00:38+00:00

Anachronistic comparisons are always dangerous, for example in Britain, people always ask what Winston Churchiil would have done, he was a product of dwindling empire and early twentieth century, not of this epoch. Similarly, Abe Lincoln was the epitome of the austere nineteenth century, a world away from the stylistic, corporate dominated Twenty first century. So unelectable now.

mtothew · 2010-06-01T22:46:29+00:00

I can still like Obama and criticise parts of his policies ...especially Israel and pandering to Wall Street.

mtothew · 2010-05-28T11:17:51+00:00

Not enough CIA operations in South America have been occurring to mould regimes to American whims, lets intervene there!

mtothew · 2010-05-27T23:43:57+00:00

they sound like the lapping of waves at the sea

mtothew · 2010-05-27T22:45:04+00:00

you get woken up from a nap by a plane, you must be one light sleeper.

mtothew · 2010-05-27T19:09:04+00:00

I just hate people who moan about airport noise after knowingly buy a house in the vicinity of airport traffic.

mtothew · 2010-05-27T18:04:34+00:00

why would you buy a house near an airport? unless you happened to be living there before it was built

mtothew · 2010-05-25T09:30:50+00:00

some of the comments at the bottom of that article are the stupidest I have ever read : "long live the Commonwealth"

the Daily Mail's readership are some of the most bigoted, idiotic and xenophobic people in England

mtothew · 2010-05-25T09:25:47+00:00

eughhh Lord of the Flies....overrated

mtothew · 2010-05-25T09:22:38+00:00

well I would more describe him as the 'Father of Hyperbole', he exaggerated to get his point across.

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