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@JohnPhilpin It’s really quite simple...those of you who are playing in the match this afternoon move your clothes down onto the lower peg immediately after lunch, before you write your letter home, if you're not getting your hair cut, unless you've got a younger brother who is going out this weekend as the guest of another boy, in which case, collect his note before lunch, put it in your letter after you've had your hair cut, and make sure he moves your clothes down onto the lower peg for you.

Or maybe just use Flash? 🙃🤪

@jsonbecker Sadly, for many, playing the game is worth it if and only when someone else is paying for it. Munitions and children is a popular one. Corporations with no location capriciously ruining a local ecosystem/economy also ranks high on safe investments.

@pratik I like the idea of out doing them at their own game. I find it a quite exquisite satisfaction to solve a problem generally considered unsolvable, like apprehending one’s own appetites, or discovering understanding rather than only familiarity.

I pine for an iconoclast of HST’s ferocity and R. Benchley’s wit. We need it.

[edit: I pine, of course—but 'A pine' in exchange for intellects jamming' that kinda jimmy? Worth it. ]

@pratik I guess what I’m getting at is that no-one benefitting from the game has incentive to call bullshit 4real because it would preclude their use of bullshit. Listening closely to what is said during a hearing, rather than fishing for provocation, one finds all sorts of equivocation and masquerading across the spectrum of political activity.

@pratik I can agree with you on all above, apart from the implication that the right are the sole wielders of these sorts of language games; intentions and outcomes are important distinctions between the groups who employ these tactics, but to imagine a polluted well only poisons your enemies...uh...I’ve got some bad news...

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