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[matticus]

there is no level playing field

Aha, it seems you ARE actually seeing some of the bigger picture. Stick at it 👍

 

[Rusty Nails]

I will

You will continue to pretend it is due to fair competition?

Whatever floats your boat

 

[spen666]

Aha, it seems you ARE actually seeing some of the bigger picture. Stick at it 👍

There is no level playing field in life and never will be

Thankfully

 

[Rusty Nails]

There is no level playing field in life and never will be

Thankfully

??
What do you understand by the phrase "a level playing field"?

 

[spen666]

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What do you understand by the phrase "a level playing field"?

What don't you understand?

 

[Bromptonaut]

There is no level playing field in life and never will be

Thankfully

There should be and can be.

Just to choose an unconnected example, equality of arms between State and Citizen in courts or tribunals.

We can at least try to make the market, whether for books, heaters or food at least broadly fair.

Nobody should be forced to play perpetually uphill.

 

[Rusty Nails]

What don't you understand?

The reason for your response. Specifically why you say you are thankful there is no level playing field in life, nor ever will be.

There is no shame in not being able to explain, we are all adults here.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Must get back to reading again... lost the urge after a lifetime of avid reading at the beginning of lockdown when I started needing reading glasses to read clearly, for the first time, and haven't taken to them at all- particularly at night when I can't sleep. Sad now.

I need to kick-start reading books again. Too much time here and online news….

 

[cookiemonster]

*Slight topic diversion*

I have a load of books that I want to give away if anyone's interested. PM me and I'll send you a list of what I have and, if interested, I'll send them off to you.

* We now return you to your scheduled bitching programming.

 

[Unkraut]

I need to kick-start reading books again. Too much time here and online news….

Well, to let you in gently, you could start with The Italian Book of War Heroes ('Mussolini has just invented a new tank; it's got four gears, one forward and three reverse'), then The Benefits of Brexit with a forward by Shep. This has blank pages at the back so you can add your own notes (garnered from here and online news).

The Oxford Compendium of Fish Puns (2 vols) should have its place in everybody's library, along with the bible and Shakespeare.

Boris Johnson's Fables, short parables illustrating a moral, shouldn't take you long to get through. The royalties go to charitable causes run by his friends, so there is an added 'feel good' factor if you buy this.

Since you allegedly have an interest in things culinary, there is an excellent new recipe book One Man's Meat is Another Man's Vegetable with wonderful ideas for using the new 'fake' vegetables made from meat that are now on supermarket shelves (except where the shelves are bare).

The Influence of 6th Century BC Aramaic on Modern Hebrew, Illustrated is good holiday reading. You can download it and read it on a tablet if you like. Make sure your browser supports cuneiform.

Teach Yourself Tractor Driving by our own @mudsticks will keep you on the straight and narrow.

Personally I'm waiting for the publication of Teach Yourself Humility once they can finally get someone to write it. It's for a friend. I did consider writing it myself, but, you know ...

Right, I'm off to the local bookshop for a coffee ...

 

[theclaud]

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What do you understand by the phrase "a level playing field"?

LOL Spen coming out as opposed to fairness on principle explains a lot. It's a bit like when Thatcher said there was so such thing as society.

 

[spen666]

The reason for your response. Specifically why you say you are thankful there is no level playing field in life, nor ever will be.

There is no shame in not being able to explain, we are all adults here.

If there had to be a legal playing field, we would never have evolved. Innovation would not happen, improvements would not happen, because they would make playing field not level.

I am therefore thankful we do not have a level playing field.

 

[spen666]

LOL Spen coming out as opposed to fairness on principle explains a lot. It's a bit like when Thatcher said there was so such thing as society.

Nice attempt to lie

I have never said I am against fairness

Also Margaret Thatcher never said there was no such thing as society

Both are misrepresentations of what was said.

 

[spen666]

*Slight topic diversion*

I have a load of books that I want to give away if anyone's interested. PM me and I'll send you a list of what I have and, if interested, I'll send them off to you.

* We now return you to your scheduled bitching programming.

In keeping with this thread, you should be insisting people attend in person at your address at prescribed hours to see what you have 🤣🤣🤣

 

[spen666]

There should be and can be.

Just to choose an unconnected example, equality of arms between State and Citizen in courts or tribunals.

We can at least try to make the market, whether for books, heaters or food at least broadly fair.

Nobody should be forced to play perpetually uphill.

A level playing field & fair are different concepts.

Something can be fair without it being a level playing field