2016 Election
May 6th 2015 | 3:48 am
#151
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May 6th 2015 | 3:54 am
#153
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Re: 2016 Election
This is always an interesting one. Yes, brain surgery is a highly specialized field but why the assumption that all brain surgeons are automatically geniuses? Granted, it will take more than a small amount of intelligence to perform such work, but one only needs to be smart enough to do that. Expertise outside of the field of brain surgery could be limited, depending on the person, for example.
So brain surgeon doesn't automatically equal 'really smart'. I mean, that's hardly rocket science, is it?
So brain surgeon doesn't automatically equal 'really smart'. I mean, that's hardly rocket science, is it?
May 6th 2015 | 3:58 am
#154
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Re: 2016 Election
Why is it that every question that a conservative answers stupidly is always referred to as a "gotcha" question? They are nearly always very open-ended softballs and the person just spouts off.
May 6th 2015 | 3:58 am
#155
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Re: 2016 Election
It could, but it isn't really important.
It was more the (universal I might add) assumption that because person X does job Y, that automatically means that they're really smart, when in reality it doesn't have to follow.
It's the same as the classic 'if they have a degree from wherever, they must be smart', when I've known highly qualified people who couldn't critically think their way out of a wet paper bag.
Admittedly a tangent, but there you go.
It was more the (universal I might add) assumption that because person X does job Y, that automatically means that they're really smart, when in reality it doesn't have to follow.
It's the same as the classic 'if they have a degree from wherever, they must be smart', when I've known highly qualified people who couldn't critically think their way out of a wet paper bag.
Admittedly a tangent, but there you go.
May 6th 2015 | 4:04 am
#157
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May 6th 2015 | 4:18 am
#158
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Re: 2016 Election
They're always banging on about the need to take personal responsibility, yet they never do. Personal responsibility must be for other people.
May 6th 2015 | 4:38 am
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May 6th 2015 | 6:15 am
#161
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Re: 2016 Election
Don't you love it when our leaders say, after some debacle: "I take personal responsibility for this [whatever]"...but no one resigns, no one is fired, they just move on, having taken "personal responsibility."
May 6th 2015 | 8:21 am
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May 6th 2015 | 8:35 am
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Re: 2016 Election
Telegraph has a fun tool to "Form your coalition."
Election polls 2015: who will win? - Telegraph
