tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post2724014160537138997..comments2023-11-02T11:32:38.324+00:00Comments on The Joy of Curmudgeonry: Without EmbarrassmentDeogolwulfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-82162717715128016192009-09-03T17:27:47.632+01:002009-09-03T17:27:47.632+01:00He probably thought he had submitted a "value...He probably thought he had submitted a "value-added" application. How wrong he was, poor thing.Derby WEAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12198948188180793171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-84267270401110900882009-09-02T21:54:46.712+01:002009-09-02T21:54:46.712+01:00"Literature. Travel. Protest." And he wa..."Literature. Travel. Protest." And he wanted you to employ him?Deogolwulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-67203067036647591542009-09-01T18:24:55.050+01:002009-09-01T18:24:55.050+01:00Did Steven Barnett manage to stifle a grin?Did Steven Barnett manage to stifle a grin?deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-29360084953820887372009-09-01T17:44:53.493+01:002009-09-01T17:44:53.493+01:00As you note, embarrassment is not usually an attri...As you note, embarrassment is not usually an attribute one associates with the left. Only this week, for example, I opened a job application and under 'Interests' the candidate wrote "Literature. Travel. Protest." One could hardly fail to be persuaded by such modesty.Derby WEAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12198948188180793171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-60147210294569745852009-09-01T17:01:49.574+01:002009-09-01T17:01:49.574+01:00I have known personally a few people who are liter...I have known personally a few people who are literally not capable of the emotion of embarassment, but a very few. It takes time to understand that this is what it is, and what it means. Opinion and characteristics remain fixed, and they arrange everything around them to fit instead. <br /><br />Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugliness in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there--Eric Hofferxlbrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931950075332608449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-21162906877465135982009-09-01T00:08:52.892+01:002009-09-01T00:08:52.892+01:00I really do feel the two are not contradictory, fo...I really do feel the two are not contradictory, for in the paucity of realism in Leftist ideas lies the necessity for their trumpeting.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.com