Comments on: Minimum wages frozen

By: Tex

Tex — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:07:15 +0000

“Last week I argued in the Canberra Times against the minimum wage”

John, you horrible bastard, will you not think of the children? Why do you want to starve ‘the workers’, eh?

By: P.M.Lawrence

P.M.Lawrence — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:01:18 +0000

My guess is that it would take me the better part of a week without interruptions to regain perspective. For well over a week, you have been crowding about every day – so it hasn’t happened.

By: jc

jc — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:29:06 +0000

PM:

Any chance of a reply? You still cannot be angry surely, as no human being could hold that sort of road rage equivalent for as long as you say you have.

By: TerjeP (say tay-a)

TerjeP (say tay-a) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:28:25 +0000

Modus operandi.

By: Tim Quilty

Tim Quilty — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:06:32 +0000

Yeah, P.M. but that is what JC is trying to do… It greatly amuses him and mildly amuses the rest of us…

By: P.M.Lawrence

P.M.Lawrence — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:03:29 +0000

Get off my face and give me space. All prodding will get you is anger.

By: jc

jc — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:14:37 +0000

I gave you some breathing exercises: didn’t they work?

By: P.M.Lawrence

P.M.Lawrence — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:04:54 +0000

JC, I have every intention of calming down. The method of doing that is waiting without it being renewed - so you are not helping with this further prodding, just making things worse. And the answer will not "be a calm yes or no and nothing else", if for no other reason than "because it is not, as you wrongly suppose, a simple matter that would only need a simple answer". While you wait, you might want to find a copy of Lippsey's "Positive Economics" and read up the illustration, complete with graphs, of how certain cases work out in unexpected ways. As for "Now when you’re calmed down, just give a yes or no answer and all will be forgotten", didn't you bother to read what I just told you about how it is more complicated than that? "How about thanking me for reading your tax link? I told you it was good, so that should have lowered you rage decibel a little , no?" - no, because you are trying to manipulate, not to learn, and it came along with more prodding. So back off and wait.

By: jc

jc — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:33:21 +0000

Pm:

Don’t be so highly strung and loosen up a bit. This pent up anger which seems to be turning into unquenchable rage is harming you as rage/anger is essentially a form of stress and stress is terrible for the human body.

Take deep breaths and calm down, will you please?

Look I may be a very irritating individual at most times, however I try to be straight up and down.

Now when you’re calmed down, just give a yes or no answer and all will be forgotten.

How about thanking me for reading your tax link? I told you it was good, so that should have lowered you rage decibel a little , no?

Okay, I’ll await your answer which I hope will be a calm yes or no and nothing else. Email me the answer if you’re too embarrassed about it. Ask John H for my email address and just email a yes or no. I’ll keep it confidential too. Scouts honor on that one.

By: P.M.Lawrence

P.M.Lawrence — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:01:47 +0000

JC, I have absolutely no intention of answering you while I am as irritated with you as you have achieved – because it is not, as you wrongly suppose, a simple matter that would only need a simple answer, and it would do neither you nor me justice for me to indulge in any premature expostulation. And you did not so much “mis”read my comments as read into them things that are not actually there – since I made no observations on the point one way or the other, and shall not while your constant prodding or anything else maintains my level of irritation; it would need some lapse of undisturbed time for that to subside. (You may note my excessively formal phrasing lately; I tend to retreat into that under such circumstances, to help keep control of what I say or write.)