Friday...time to ramble?
Friday, 7 May 2010 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightI swear, if I fall over one more thing this morning, spill anything else, get nearly-caught one more time doing a sneaky at the photocopier, I'm going home... Quick - how do you turn a day around?! I need good things! (Although there was no queue at the coffee counter. But my coffee wasn't very nice. And Boss stopped to chat while not-catching me at the photocopier, and the rest of it went cold. Hmmn, not sure the coffee thing was all that successful after that brief first moment... Also she'd keyed in it before I could give her my free-coffee card, so I had to pay... That might be one on the Tory side of my day, come to think of it...)
Speaking of which... *g* Oh, godddddd! Although in a way at least it's kind of interesting, and maybe it'll make the buggers buck up a bit, and start listening to what the electors are actually saying they want/need, rather than trying to tell us that what we want/need is what they're giving us? Or is that just hopeless optimism? Either way, I reckon it's our only hope for a bit of change, because it was really a race between one horse shown from three different camera angles...
How was your voting day? Did you get to vote? Cos my goodness - queues at the polling stations! On the one hand good, surely that must mean a better turnout than usual (or does it just mean that more people left it until the last minute?) I still think voting should be compulsory, as it is in Australia - and if you just don't want to vote for anyone, then spoil your paper/make a "donkey vote", and then we'd know how many people felt that way too. But it'd be a positive outcome at least from that pov...
Right - bad start means a glorious end to the day, doesn't it? I shall be over here working on that... any clues as to how to make it happen gratefully received...
A Wonderful Thing
Oh I know - let's have a Wonderful Thing - NASA's astronomy pic for today. Except they're calling this "the antennae" - stoopid, unpoetic scientists... *headdesk*
I can't decide about this next one - is this a Wonderful Thing - Arborsculpture...? Or is it as bad as forcing kittens to wear dresses and big pink ribbons?
Speaking of which... *g* Oh, godddddd! Although in a way at least it's kind of interesting, and maybe it'll make the buggers buck up a bit, and start listening to what the electors are actually saying they want/need, rather than trying to tell us that what we want/need is what they're giving us? Or is that just hopeless optimism? Either way, I reckon it's our only hope for a bit of change, because it was really a race between one horse shown from three different camera angles...
How was your voting day? Did you get to vote? Cos my goodness - queues at the polling stations! On the one hand good, surely that must mean a better turnout than usual (or does it just mean that more people left it until the last minute?) I still think voting should be compulsory, as it is in Australia - and if you just don't want to vote for anyone, then spoil your paper/make a "donkey vote", and then we'd know how many people felt that way too. But it'd be a positive outcome at least from that pov...
Right - bad start means a glorious end to the day, doesn't it? I shall be over here working on that... any clues as to how to make it happen gratefully received...
A Wonderful Thing
Oh I know - let's have a Wonderful Thing - NASA's astronomy pic for today. Except they're calling this "the antennae" - stoopid, unpoetic scientists... *headdesk*
I can't decide about this next one - is this a Wonderful Thing - Arborsculpture...? Or is it as bad as forcing kittens to wear dresses and big pink ribbons?
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Date: Friday, 7 May 2010 12:58 pm (UTC)You don't need your polling card to vote, you just have to be registered. I think it's basically easier for the polling stations to look up a specific number to tick off, than it is to look up a name, where there might be many with similar names/addresses - easier to be accurate about crossing off mother not daughter etc. I know I'm often not the only "me" at a GP's practice, so I make sure to use my middle initials, for instance...
I have been thinking that it would make massive sense to make polling day a Bank holiday, actually - not only would people have more time to go to the polls, but it might make it more of an occasion/something to concentrate on. I suspect we'd only whine if we had to give up time on a Saturday, mind... *g*
The trouble with people not voting in protest, over here, is that they're indistinguishable from the people who just can't be bothered, so it makes no political point at all...
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Date: Friday, 7 May 2010 02:03 pm (UTC)The trouble with people not voting in protest, over here, is that they're indistinguishable from the people who just can't be bothered, so it makes no political point at all...
Well exactly. Spoiled votes work differently here, because in a system where everyone has to turn up the number of "can't be bothered" or otherwise discarded votes is usually a fairly level percentage, so a protest no-vote can create a statistical blip.
I suspect we'd only whine if we had to give up time on a Saturday, mind... *g*
Saying nowt about that *g*.
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Date: Friday, 7 May 2010 03:48 pm (UTC)So, we just agree on everything - yeay! *g* Hope you're having a good Friday night, you clearly deserve it! *g*