Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt22

derspatz: So, have the ILCF trials commenced yet ? If so, any reported results as yet ?

Mark: Nope, Dave. Total failure. They collapsed in a heap in the week before Christmas, and Conroy said they were being pushed back to mid January.

Ah good, so I didn't miss anything interusting. :)

Mark: Here's my wrap-up of December for you, hope it's helpful :-)
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Cheers Mark. Nothing like a beastly excursion to the Northern Hemisphere for a few weeks to remind us of how good we actually have it back here in Oz, eh ? Almost enough to make one want to make a small fire of one's passports (yeah, I've got a couple of different kinds) in the car park of the internutional airport once the final leg of the long-haul and the customs gauntlets and queues are over, hmmm ?

derspatz: I certainly was not very happy to discover the kind of stuff that was broadcast on public access French TV after midnight.

Mark: And yet, French society appears to have continued unabated along a slowly but steadily improving cant for hundreds, nay, thousands of years.

Surely you jest, oi ? Dunno what you can find all that advanced about that particular fragment of Ancient Rome which has given us the likes of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade and his sadism, madness, perversions, and the diseases they helped spread, or Ernest Duchesne (the true) discoverer of penicillin – used to combat sufferers of certain ails spread by the likes of the aforementioned, or Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and his development of the amputation device that bears his name and was deemed so popular by the common masses that they used it to amputate the heads of some of the very people who gave them their precious revolution and alleged "freedom" in the first place ?

Don't you find that particular society to generally consist of a humourless bunch who take themselves far too seriously (especially when it comes to food and its preparation and their language) and who are so obsessed with things digestive that one of their number going by the name of Marc-Antoine Jacoud, actually invented a device whereby a seated user can return under pressure the discarded remnants of recently digested to where it was just exited ... this time as a watery soup to be dribbled out again and again (apparently) ?

It is bad enough that their word for the affirmative has been incorporated into the Oz bogan Oz day chant, and don't get me started on the need for queues virtually everywhere you go in their capital. So sorry, no sale on the "steadily improving" thang – I just can't see it.

derspatz: The trouble is, morally even such things so easily judged as "pointless" on one level, should still be attempted even if doomed to failure, yes ?

Mark: Ah, yes: The Alston, "Even if we don't succeed we should still make the attempt" defense.

AFAIC, as long as The Righteous still attempt to be and promote righteousness, hope remains for mankind. I wouldn't know what the minimum level of the same is required in order to avoid judgement from a different source (looks up), but if memory serves me correctly it used to be 5 to a town or something like that ...

Oh, and to answer someone elses question, yes, I am still in support of ILCF.

regarDS