There's a dual responsibility on voters and on the campaigns providing voters with information. That is, respectively, to do a reasonably thorough job...
That's fair enough. I don't devour books the way some others here do either. All I'm saying is if that's the case maybe be a bit more conservative in ...
@"Wallows" You seem to be proliferating reading groups without wanting to do much hard work on them. I'd suggest no-one propose a text for a reading g...
It's pretty clear that the complexities and complications of Brexit were not foregrounded enough by the overly complacent and disparate Remain campaig...
Ah, ok. Well maybe Trump resigns and Pence's ecstatic joy turns into a cardiac arrest and Pelosi dies of boredom at the sound of her own bullshit. And...
Maybe but the only way out I can realistically see would be making his base disappear. And that's not going to happen. The twenty percent of Americans...
Not sure what gave you that impression :razz:. Anyway, my take is we take the path of least resistance unless we have a very good reason not to. And t...
Towards themselves you mean? Ok. Difficult. Maybe you could put them in a situation where they are forced to show themselves they can do more than the...
So, someone who really cannot do something is truly helpless with regard to that something. Learned helplessness on the other hand refers to a conditi...
Trump is the most popular president among Republicans pretty much ever, which is why the only Republicans throwing him shade are those retiring. Unles...
It strikes me as casual barstool "philosophy" with no definitive answer that's likely to invite a lot of attempts at humour rather than being a seriou...
Never heard that one. Although "what's the weather doing" was new to me too and that apparently is a thing, so food for thought. Love Shakespeare's us...
You're mixing up your forms like Terrapin did. The "it" in "it is raining" cannot syntactically refer to the weather in the trivial way the "it" does ...
The phrase "It is raining" is a semantically equivalent unit to "rain is falling" (or something along those lines). So you didn't look at "it" in isol...
I guess you mean "It is rain". In which case insofar as rain is a type of meteorological condition, you can do the substitution (minus the adverb). It...
What I wanted to convey was that it's a matter of linguistic debate and analysis and there is a 'there' there in that context. There's no practical or...
As I said, you are confusing the present continuous tense with the present tense and auxiliary and main forms of the verb 'is'. 'It is rain' is not th...
Yes, it's not simple. That's the point I was making. See, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_pronoun It's not a kindergartener issue. ...
That bluff won't work because I know what I'm talking about. Substitute the noun you think is appropriate for the pronoun in the sentence I provided a...
That's because it's wrong. @"Terrapin Station" seems to be confusing the main and auxiliary uses of the verb "to be". Aux use gives sub+aux verb+actio...
It is obvious that you're wrong that the "it" in "It is raining" behaves like any other subject pronoun (or that all pronouns behave the same way). No...
Try "The house is painting" (obsolete way of saying "The house is being painted") or "There you are!" (let's play 'find the subject' again) for more g...
@"Waya" Nothing anyone has said reflects badly on you. Please stick around with the realization that anyone who shares personal information in the lou...
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