Quote of the day 27th September 2015
"We've exchanged one loser for an even worse one."
(Peter Mandelson on Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn here.)
(Peter Mandelson on Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn here.)
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
Comments
you see to be logical a worse loser is a person who is worse than the last at losing, so there for, logically they are less likely to lose. (being they are a worse loser) so they are more likely not to loose, and thus win.
Although it could also be spun to mean someone who is more of a "sore" loser than the last, as in takes defeat the wrong way and immediately sulks.
For example "you don't know nothing" obviously and logically means you know something, in fact the only thing we can be certain you do not know is infact nothing.
Its pretty much the same with the Quote of the day, you see if you have something that is bad, then to swap it for something that is worse at being bad is not exactly a bad thing.
I think I have spent too long in my lifetime writing computer code. That is how a computer thinks as well, they are very very logical, and that throws people sometimes.
(I can't track down the quote but I think it might be Isaac Asimov)