On 10 Dec 2007 05:25:14 GMT, Arctic Stone 
blethered:

>Halla :
>
>>  I wonder how much of that is due to a sort of office-culturalism? I've
>>  worked places where it's tricky to strike up a conversation if 1) you
>>  don't like dance music and dance clubs 2) you don't watch whatever
>>  reality programme is on the telly and 3) you never watch soaps.
>>  Perhaps I've been unlucky, although I've met people like that outside
>>  of work too - leads to lots of silences, as other subjects seem to
>>  cause puzzlement. Seems natural then to seek out more like-minded folk
>>  outside of work.  
>
>Education; that which allows us to follow a conversation without having
>watched the telly last night.
>

Heh. 

>> >It can be argued that Edward VIII  was selfish or mindful of duty when he 
>> >abdicated (in theory at least, he could have taken the Crown and forced a 
>> >constitutional crisis by insisting on marrying Mrs Simpson as King.)
>> 
>>  Although of course he could have been mindful of duty and ditched her,
>>  too. 
>
>He had basically four options:
>	
>1. Ignore his love and go on doing the "right" thing (i.e. ditch her).
>2. Tried keeping her as some sort of mistress, more or less openly
>   (the traditional solution)
>3. Married her and basically told Parliament do do whatever they wanted
>4. Abdicate and marry her afterward.

I suppose those colonials wouldn't be much for royal tradition mind
you. ;-)


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