General Chat

Another lovely quote, Dermot.

My dress of thoughts may not be perfect but it does its best. :-D

I thought it was my husband, sister, brother, and I, but when you use a given name it is me.

Just take the other people out of the sentence. Make it all about yourself.

I try not to pontificate on convoluted topics I don’t really understand. I usually wait for RTR to expand my sad lack of schooling.

His efforts are appreciated.

Now, I am an oik who has lived in this village forever, in the council house we aspired to from the farm cottage with no running water. I sound like an oik and dress like one.

I don't know much but I have been looking into my medieval interest for some fifteen years, I do know a bit about that because I have spent a lot of time on it,(My ephemeral interest, you may recall!)

Most of my interest, but not all, is based on this village where I and several previous generations of my family have lived all my life.

The village has changed quite drastically over the years, not going into the politics of it, and the little houses are now extended houses inhabited by people who have moved up in the world and need to talk knowledgeably at all times.

If one knowledgeable incomer tells another something they agree with them unquestioningly. If I dare open my ignorant gob and mention something I have usually studied in some detail over a good few years, especially because it is history and that is, in particular, a subject people like to show off with and because they need to show how much a part of the village they have become in the year they have lived here, they automatically can tell me why I am wrong.

That puts me in my place doesn't it?

You are a self proclaimed oik who knows what she knows. Unlike those know it alls who know nothing.

Th difference is, I think, that I know because I have looked into all possibilities and they know because they know they know.

I have had one work quoted to me so many times that I bought it and now I know that I have had it misquoted to me many times.

One misquotes in n authoritative manner so that must make it repeatable!

We were NOT amused

What?

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know.

There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know.

But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld.

I find that the more I find out, the less I realize I know.

But life's for learning :-D

Probably depends on who is doing the lecturing ;-)

Even then it depends upon how open-minded one is, doncha think!

A closed mind is a waste of space.

I reckon Rumsfeld knew that when he spouted those words. :-0

Have you noticed how people who are supposed to be experts on the television are always made to stand in front of well stocked shelves full of impressive looking books so they appear learned?

Well, I have far too many impressive looking books, they impress me anyway, so I thought I would try standing in front of my book shelves to see if I looked learned.

You have guessed it. I looked like an oik in front of a bookcase.

Ah well!.

:-D :-D :-D

Most of my books are in a cupboard in a bedroom upstairs.

go in there and see if you look learned.

Not about books but have you noticed that with an interview you rarely see the two people together, the camera goes from one person to the other, I’m talking about before safe distancing etc, that I was told is because they cutout bits and still want it to make sense to the viewers.

'Immense volumes have been written to expand our knowledge & conceal our ignorance'.

You can say that again, Dermot.

I have an overflowing room full of books where the computer lives as I inherited books from my Dad and my Gran. Those that I haven't read by now will probably never get read but I just can't bring myself to get rid of them.

I inherited Dad's record collection too but my OH has a similar taste so many of them have been used over the years.