maybe they could build a thirty-foot-high wall around it, to keep the vandals out
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I’m not seeing the implied logic in the original. I don’t think @doctorow was actually claiming causation.
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I’m sure they’ll accept donations from rugged individualists abroad who admire her enough to join a Web site for the express purpose of defending her memory.
It’s not like kicking in a few GBP is beyond the means of these (present or realsoontobeanydaynow) captains of industry.
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it’s the tragedy of the commons, i tell you
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About the only way they’ll keep the vandals out is if they launch the statue into the sun.
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they could wait until everyone who lived through the poll tax riots is dead, THEN put up a statue
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I think that could find funding.
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You know, I’d consider donating myself, if it came with a bumper sticker with these words.
Thank you.
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She fucked up Scotland to the point where what used to be Conservative safe seats haven’t seen a tory elected in decades.
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Oh wait you’re serious…
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Haddaway and shite, bonny lad,
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The kind of people who worked in factories and such. Simply dreadful they were, doncha know.
ETA: @KathyPartdeux, apparently I’m not allowed to post consecutive replies (even if they are both germane and amusing), so:
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You’re forgetting the economic knock-on effect.
First, it will be built with an undisclosed mixture of private donations and council in-kind expenditures. Then (after a respectful number of hours), it will be cleared to be declared unprofitable, then off-loaded to a sympathetic statuary consultant for a single coin, who will then put it back on the market as an opportunity for private-sector maintenance firms to charge the council for ongoing anti-vandal upkeep.
So much activity for the economy! And all it costs is money…
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I’m laughing the way you do when the jerk at work walks out of the bathroom with toilet paper on their shoe and everyone quietly laughs.
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Some reminders about Thatcher…
And a series of charts from the guardian on how Thatcherism changed Britain:
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