You are viewing the historical archive of The Philosophy Forum.
For current discussions, visit the live forum.
Go to live forum

Chester

Comments

Yep, we agree so far...
May 15, 2020 at 19:35
Many jobs can not be done by machine...especially the sort of stuff I do, but the real drudge can be done by machine...fruit picking..law... that sort...
May 15, 2020 at 19:34
In: Brexit  — view comment
I'd shoot myself in the head before I took economic advice from a socialist. I see Nissan are suggesting that Renault should manufacture in the UK.......
May 15, 2020 at 19:32
I agree with you too, but the world is changing, for instance in the UK we import eastern Europeans in the way the US imports Mexicans to pick fruit.....
May 15, 2020 at 19:23
I agree.
May 15, 2020 at 19:20
Not wanting to work is not the same as not being good at it.
May 15, 2020 at 19:18
I used to think that but since I've been on furlough I've decided I quite like not working. There's plenty to get on with provided you're not struggli...
May 15, 2020 at 19:16
I don't know if anything is wrong with my health...but I'll take a chance with getting back to normal. As for "chronic" I'd say "acute" underlying ill...
May 15, 2020 at 19:09
Just to give context to your figure of 50,000 excess deaths over and above normal, that equates to about 1 death per 1300 people since this virus was ...
May 15, 2020 at 15:07
I know from personal experience that every death that can be associated with covid 19 is being associated with covid 19.I accept that the old, infirm ...
May 15, 2020 at 15:00
I think , as I've said before, that any costs involved with Brexit (assuming there are any) are going to be utterly dwarfed by the costs of this lock ...
May 15, 2020 at 14:55
You can argue that people like me are susceptible to conspiracy theories...but I see it in terms of not automatically accepting what I'm being told by...
May 15, 2020 at 12:09
Around 30,000 people are said to have died with/of covid 19 in the UK so far...those numbers are probably inflated. In 2014/15 28,000 people died in t...
May 15, 2020 at 09:47
I have to say that I get the feeling that this Covid 19 virus is real ( though the risks are overblown) but masks an underlying scam. I'm not sure wha...
May 15, 2020 at 09:41
In: Brexit  — view comment
The labour party are an absolute disgrace...they have abandoned the very people they were originally created to represent...they have moved on to repr...
May 15, 2020 at 09:36
In: Brexit  — view comment
Being told to wake up by a hard core leftist is a bit rich...you're still living the 1970's over and over like the fucking ground hog day lol. Most of...
May 14, 2020 at 08:44
Just as an aside, I've been wondering if swimmers who regularly dunk themselves in chlorinated water are less likely to get covid 19....
May 13, 2020 at 15:50
Anyone remember that disinfectant that you could gargle...https://www.naturesbest.co.uk/images/products/large/5012616170409.jpg
May 13, 2020 at 15:32
In: Brexit  — view comment
You must be the only person in the UK that thinks May did a good job! She was the most hated PM in modern British history, you were literally her only...
May 13, 2020 at 15:27
In: Brexit  — view comment
You are a typical leftist...you actually believe the Conservative party have hatched a plot to kill off millions of old people...complete delusion on ...
May 13, 2020 at 15:20
In: Brexit  — view comment
There is only a tiny chance of being killed by covid 19 , almost all deaths are people already in a bad way in hospital and care homes...so releasing ...
May 13, 2020 at 11:25
In: Brexit  — view comment
Britain just thinks it is reasonable that it should be treated as well as Canada, South Korea etc. Given what a huge market the UK is for EU goods (co...
May 13, 2020 at 11:22
What is the point of committing to solipsism when it is clear you require others (at least the pretence of others ) in order to survive? In other word...
May 12, 2020 at 08:51
Whether something matters is really a question about whether something has inherent value. I'd say that the thing that creates value must have inheren...
May 12, 2020 at 08:42
In: Brexit  — view comment
Here's a link to a young Brexiteer's view of the current situation with regard to the British/EU trade negotiations. You'll notice that he's completel...
May 12, 2020 at 08:30
In: Brexit  — view comment
At least you're admitting that mass immigration isn't so great for the people that already live here...a step in the right direction.
May 10, 2020 at 09:54
In: Brexit  — view comment
I'm in the construction industry so I've already been hit with the costs of EU membership...low wages due to over supply of labour. In the 70's and 80...
May 10, 2020 at 08:27
In: Brexit  — view comment
If you are going to set a trade deal against democracy then the trade deal is going to lose every time in the UK....Europe maybe not.
May 10, 2020 at 08:25
In: Brexit  — view comment
They didn't vote for a deal either...and now 50% of them support the Tories who are willing to accept no deal.
May 10, 2020 at 08:21
In: Brexit  — view comment
Did you notice the Germans have dropped any idea of a level playing field ? Nation first for Deutschland.
May 10, 2020 at 08:15
In: Brexit  — view comment
"everybody in business knows this" is a bullshit statement...many people in business voted for Brexit. And to imply they know the future is the shit i...
May 10, 2020 at 08:13
In: Brexit  — view comment
Here's a piece from the link that doesn't work for you... North and South are today pursuing radically different policies, according to their economic...
May 10, 2020 at 07:32
In: Brexit  — view comment
The Brexit side clearly won by well over a million votes. Bearing in mind the absolute avalanche of anti-Brexit propaganda coming from the main stream...
May 10, 2020 at 07:28
In: Brexit  — view comment
I think the lockdown was correct for the first 4 weeks ...until we knew what we were up against...after that the lockdown has treated the UK citizenry...
May 08, 2020 at 17:20
In: Brexit  — view comment
In a two horse race it's definitely a first past the post situation. So in your world NATO hasn't kept the peace , the Dutch have wasted their time be...
May 08, 2020 at 17:13
In: Brexit  — view comment
If you bothered to notice I said "many Europeans", that clearly means "not all". There is a growing EU scepticism growing throughout Europe...this vir...
May 08, 2020 at 16:58
In: Brexit  — view comment
I don't trust politicians...as an example I think the Tory handling of this virus crisis has been awful. The majority of the population should no long...
May 08, 2020 at 09:41
In: Brexit  — view comment
I'll give you a quote from the piece I linked to ... "Finally, to my second myth: that the vote was too close for the mandate to be meaningful. On a f...
May 08, 2020 at 09:36
In: Brexit  — view comment
That's not the original source of the poll.
May 08, 2020 at 09:11
In: Brexit  — view comment
To help pin down the lie that most people who voted Brexit were uneducated oafs I thought I would link to this poll that was taken shortly after the r...
May 08, 2020 at 08:48
In: Brexit  — view comment
The British people were misled when they voted to join the EEC, had they known that it was really an exercise in empire building they would never have...
May 08, 2020 at 08:40
In: Brexit  — view comment
Too busy mate...taking the dogs for a walk.:)
May 07, 2020 at 15:51
In: Brexit  — view comment
Completely agree.
May 07, 2020 at 15:49
In: Brexit  — view comment
There's a saying in England that if the Scots want independence let the English have a vote too...they'd be guaranteed independence.
May 07, 2020 at 15:40
In: Brexit  — view comment
I have a feeling that many Europeans are wilfully blind to the internal fault lines within the EU. Europeans like to be led , it's in their nature, th...
May 07, 2020 at 15:37
In: Brexit  — view comment
Basically on paper there is a single market for services within the EU, however each country has different rules and regulations concerning services.....
May 06, 2020 at 18:28
In: Brexit  — view comment
Three things, 1) It seems you can't imagine roofs other than tiled roofs. 2) Linking to an openly leftist organisation (LSE) as proof of how terrible ...
May 06, 2020 at 06:51
In: Brexit  — view comment
There are "facts" and there are facts. The LSE is a leftist organisation that generates "facts" that back up its faulty political prejudices .I can no...
May 06, 2020 at 06:46
In: Brexit  — view comment
Most intelligent thing I've read from you mate , cheers, I will. Wash those spuds properly mate or you'll get diarrhoea.:)
May 05, 2020 at 18:04
In: Brexit  — view comment
Cheers mate...I was trying to imagine what you looked like .:) Some of the ideas were a bit rude though....
May 05, 2020 at 17:58