I suppose my own beliefs are being mirrored by the more authoritarian figures like Putin and Pumpster, but that because right now, they seem to be the only ones willing to take a stand. Anyway, yeah losing belly fat shouldn't be a problem...44 and I still got a six pack when I hold my breath in...don't drink completely tee total means no beer gut here. Even though I say things like, I was hammered last night and got a hangover...I was literally off my face and wake up with cotton mouth but it's not the booze that does it. It's easier to just allow them to assume it's booze and mean's I won't get a ban fer saying what actually causes that. Anyway, ramblings aside, I shall attempt to answer without tripping myself up. Just getting back now after some business yesterday took a turn for the unexpected and I spent half the night in the police station...not me this time, my niece this time.
The first one is a tricky one, I admit because I firmly believe in both and it's damned hard to give more importance to either, but at a push, I would say independence...although if she were ever disrespectful to the likes of a veteran, I would sell her playstation and/or cut out her internet privileges for a time.
Second one is easier...self reliance. Obedience wouldn't be one of my strong points so I can't be the hypocrite and basically say to her, "Do as I say, not as I do". I teach her that if she truly believes she is right and someone else is wrong, that she should stand up and shout until she's heard, even if she's the only one in the room asking the questions.
Third one is very easy actually. Considerate. I'm not well behaved in any shape or form, but neither am I a complete bollox. I see someone like a pensioner or someone in a wheelchair trying to get across a busy road, and I'll walk out and stand in the middle of the road to stop the cars to allow them to cross...that would be how I best describe considerate, but as fer well behaved? haha...no
Fourth is a bollox. Curiosity is a very healthy sign of intelligence which she has in spades and I absolutely encourage that...good manners is something I had drummed into me from no age so it's fairly second nature to me. Having bother choosing between them so I'll have to think about that and get back to ye.
But ye...Trumpster and Pudsy are what I would see as hardliners and while I do agree with some things, I'm not so sure about others...but then that their problem and not mine.
I'm hardly anti gay considering my step daughter is married by civil partnership to her partner here in Belfast just 2 months ago...I was best man at their request and I've walked both sides of the fence meself. One of my old regular spots fer clubbing was the Kremlin nightclub which is one of Irelands biggest gay nightclubs...so me anti gay? Absolutely not so there's that myth blown outta the water before anyone so much as thinks it.
I don't like fox hunting even though both my dogs are both trained hunting dogs...trained as rat killers not fox hunting, jack russells mad wee things.
Anyway, could go on but that would leave nothing fer later. I'm aware of what my beliefs appear to look like, and at one point of my life, I would have been just as hardline as ye can imagine. I signed my Oath of Allegiance in my own blood...that's how serious some of us take our loyalty to the Crown. But like I explained before...we changed hence I have the benefit, if ye can call it that, of having a mixed perspective that includes opinions from both extremes.
In saying that, I do have some beliefs many here would find to be exceedingly uncomfortable. I believe that democracy is failing and that its' days are numbered...now it's nothing more than an old fashioned ideal which our politicians make a mockery off. Time for something different, something old maybe I don't have the answers to that but many of our current political systems in many countries need to be wiped from the face of the planet and started again. Also believe that politics and religion don't mix...seen plenty of examples of how that ethic repeatedly fails time and time again in this country with fire brand hate spewing politicians half in both worlds and quoting the bible while discussing making new laws which have proven to be hugely unpopular on the ground.
On a personal note, council came into our estate a month or so back and told us we had to take the flags down...it being very staunchly loyalist and it being the marching season here, the estate has multiple flags on every pole with many houses having flags on them too. We were told that they would come in and paint over the wall murals to which they were told to bring riot police if they intended following through with that. We were told we had to respect different cultures, hence such an outward show of "britishness" may be offensive to some...seriously, that the word of the politician who met with us..."britishness". They drove out of this estate under police escort while the kids threw bottles at them so they were under no illusions as to how we felt about their politically correct notions. The flags stayed up and the murals are now watched, but they never came back...they know better.
It ties in with yer point because those who take such a hardline stance here are very widely supported...because they appear to be the only ones who are prepared to stand up and defy them. It saddens me fer reasons ye wouldn't really understand because for a few years, they faded into the background...but lately, they have started recruiting heavily again and the sad thing about it is that after decades of unpopular changes and political correctness gone mad, there is no shortage of new recruits. We had the influence and the clout to rein in the hardliners before...now I honestly don't know if I even want to try. I'm tired of half measures and compromising all the time...tired of constantly losing ground and growing increasingly tired of soft politicians who make the dumbest decisions.
Anyway...rambling again...verm out ^^
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