We really are nothing more than chess pieces.

My name is URL

Listening to current affairs programs used to be a welcome enjoyment for me. I'd always have an opinion on what 'the man' was doing to make things harder for us. Before now; and perhaps naively, I had always felt that no matter how insignificant I was, that my decision in where I was headed was mine to make.

Lately all I hear is how 'we need' to be made use of, to claw ourselves out of the hole that we have apparently created for ourselves. 'We need' to get people back to work.. 'we need' to train people so when the jobs return we can help everyone else out, 'we need' to make sacrifices now so that we never make the same mistakes again.

What the fcuk is it that 'we' are trying to save here? Why do people continue to support something which is so obviously broken?

Pherekydes

1 e4

Biggins

Lack of good alternatives?

Dotrel

I think I'll go bash the bishop then.

Latchy

Belief that things will get beter in the future ? ( even though there is a part of us as you describe that thinks otherwise )

El Weirdo

True dat.

Solnskaya

not enough pawn in this thread.

Sunnyisland

Check mate

phasers

Bagsie being the castle guy, you get the freedom of movement without the responsibility.

wingsof daun

Our destiny is not in our own hands anymore. The government acts on the whim of the markets etc. So many people seem to think we they have the magic wand to get things back to normal...but most of them are deluded or lying to get votes. That's what politics is all about, right? Getting votes to be elected to get MAJOR paid? Gangster system if you ask me, a well-disguised one. This is part of what they call "freedom"...freedom for the banks and multinational corporations to rape and pillage us. :mad:

smk89

Pherekydes wrote: »

1 e4

You sunk my battleship!

Solnskaya

and clock the whole"Italy thing". New govt is made up of unelected BANKERS, ECONOMISTS and BUSINESSMEN. WTF??? Is it just me who finds this seriously suussss???

Johro

phasers wrote: »

Bagsie being the castle guy, you get the freedom of movement without the responsibility.

Knight FTW.

Ghandee

I bags the stallion,

Horse yoke thing.

Deus Ex Machina

I didn't really read the op, but I often wonder why we all have to work so hard if life is meaningless.





Edit: Incidently when I say "we" I mean the human race. I, of course, don't do a tap.

Johro

Ghandee wrote: »

I bags the stallion,

Horse yoke thing.

Too late.

ChunkyLover_53

If we finish playing Chess and start playing Monopoly I want to be the Car

Dotrel

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

If we finish playing Chess and start playing Monopoly I want to be the Car

^^ Pure Baltic Avenue.

K-9

Mongo is just a pawn in the game of life.

Jimoslimos

Horsey takes King Prawn

Johro

Pawns at least get to play. We don't.

Johro

Queen takes Queen.
*cough*

Johro

> Cuckoo's nest. Won't be long now.

Dotrel

Johro wrote: »

Queen takes Queen.
*cough*

I think you want this thread
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056453467

ejmaztec

My name is URL wrote: »

Listening to current affairs programs used to be a welcome enjoyment for me. I'd always have an opinion on what 'the man' was doing to make things harder for us. Before now; and perhaps naively, I had always felt that no matter how insignificant I was, that my decision in where I was headed was mine to make.

Lately all I hear is how 'we need' to be made use of, to claw ourselves out of the hole that we have apparently created for ourselves. 'We need' to get people back to work.. 'we need' to train people so when the jobs return we can help everyone else out, 'we need' to make sacrifices now so that we never make the same mistakes again.

What the fcuk is it that 'we' are trying to save here? Why do people continue to support something which is so obviously broken?

Not everything's black or white.

Ste_D

Shame to see a valid point getting diluted with chess jokes.

Can anyone remember when we stopped being citizens and started being tax-payers? Now the govt just spend their time trying to separate us from our cash and convincing us its our 'duty'.

Solnskaya

Ste_D wrote: »

Shame to see a valid point getting diluted with chess jokes.

Can anyone remember when we stopped being citizens and started being tax-payers? Now the govt just spend their time trying to separate us from our cash and convincing us its our 'duty'.

that was all en passant.

mikom

ejmaztec wrote: »

Not everything's black or white.

I Am Tired Of This Devil
I Am Tired Of This Stuff
I Am Tired Of This Business
So When The
Going Gets Rough
I Ain't Scared Of
Your Brother
I Ain't Scared Of No Sheets
I Ain't Scare Of Nobody
Girl When The
Goin' Gets Mean

[L. T. B. Rap Performance]
Protection
For Gangs, Clubs
And Nations
Causing Grief In
Human Relations
It's A Turf War
On A Global Scale
I'd Rather Hear Both Sides
Of The Tale
See, It's Not About Races
Just Places
Faces
Where Your Blood
Comes From
Is Where Your Space Is
I've Seen The Bright
Get Duller
I'm Not Going To Spend
My Life Being A Color

Crann na Beatha

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Chuck Stone

It's 'we' for socialized losses and 'me' for repatriated or transferred profits.

Callipo

Ste_D wrote: »

Shame to see a valid point getting diluted with chess jokes.

Can anyone remember when we stopped being citizens and started being tax-payers? Now the govt just spend their time trying to separate us from our cash and convincing us its our 'duty'.

When we became slaves. Tax is pretty much equal to slavery.

Or prostitution.

I prefer slavery though. You are giving your hard earned money into a melting pot and you don't really know where it goes.

You don't do it of your own free will either.

My name is URL

Biggins wrote: »

Lack of good alternatives?

A good alternative is to stop complying. What's going to happen?.. they can't lock everyone up.

Solnskaya

Callipo wrote: »

When we became slaves. Tax is pretty much equal to slavery.

Or prostitution.

I prefer slavery though. You are giving your hard earned money into a melting pot and you don't really know where it goes.

You don't do it of your own free will either.

at least with prostitution, at some stage you might get a good-looking punter and enjoy the ride. With slavery, it's just unending. And the pays crap.

EarlERizer

Ste_D wrote: »

Shame to see a valid point getting diluted with chess jokes.

Can anyone remember when we stopped being citizens and started being tax-payers? Now the govt just spend their time trying to separate us from our cash and convincing us its our 'duty'.

One of my Eastern European friends was only talking about that in work the other day......

Czech Mate :pac:

Dudess

Ste_D wrote: »

Shame to see a valid point getting diluted with chess jokes.

Can anyone remember when we stopped being citizens and started being tax-payers?

I doubt anyone can remember back to before taxes were invented.
Let's do away with taxes and have no services and no benefits for people who need them - including ourselves. Or some other hipster suggestion...

Snowie

My name is URL wrote: »

Listening to current affairs programs used to be a welcome enjoyment for me. I'd always have an opinion on what 'the man' was doing to make things harder for us. Before now; and perhaps naively, I had always felt that no matter how insignificant I was, that my decision in where I was headed was mine to make.

Lately all I hear is how 'we need' to be made use of, to claw ourselves out of the hole that we have apparently created for ourselves. 'We need' to get people back to work.. 'we need' to train people so when the jobs return we can help everyone else out, 'we need' to make sacrifices now so that we never make the same mistakes again.

What the fcuk is it that 'we' are trying to save here? Why do people continue to support something which is so obviously broken?

spliff ?

psychward

Veles wrote: »

Its the smurfs i tell ye,they are the cause of this mess!!

I've cast a jealous eye on their secret smurfberry mines for a long long time

starbelgrade

What's worse - being nothing more than a chess piece or nothing more than a cheese piece?

It's one of life's greatest mysteries.

sandmanporto

I agree with the op but WE cant change that. Democracy sucks. Vote one shower in then change it for a one as bad with adifferent title

The Scientician

Now we enter Endgame.

Lady Chuckles

I'm not a chess piece. I'm the Monopoly iron

Kasabian

starbelgrade wrote: »

What's worse - being nothing more than a chess piece or nothing more than a cheese piece?

It's one of life's greatest mysteries.

It's not.

Kasabian

OP. You are correct, we are only pieces on a chess board, commodities to be used and dispenced of at the reckoning of a few.

Anarchy and Chaos is the only way, tear it all down and rebuild.

Oh!! Smoke on the Water, good man Hector, keep it lit.

foxyboxer

My name is URL wrote: »

Listening to current affairs programs used to be a welcome enjoyment for me. I'd always have an opinion on what 'the man' was doing to make things harder for us. Before now; and perhaps naively, I had always felt that no matter how insignificant I was, that my decision in where I was headed was mine to make.

Lately all I hear is how 'we need' to be made use of, to claw ourselves out of the hole that we have apparently created for ourselves. 'We need' to get people back to work.. 'we need' to train people so when the jobs return we can help everyone else out, 'we need' to make sacrifices now so that we never make the same mistakes again.

What the fcuk is it that 'we' are trying to save here? Why do people continue to support something which is so obviously broken?

Now that's an opening gambit.

Anyway we're playing GO FOR BROKE in Ireland.

http://www.games2collect.com/Data/Compendium%20Items/Pictures/G/Go%20for%20broke%201985%20MB%20Games%2001.jpg

Monife

Solnskaya wrote: »

and clock the whole"Italy thing". New govt is made up of unelected BANKERS, ECONOMISTS and BUSINESSMEN. WTF??? Is it just me who finds this seriously suussss???

Wouldn't they be better suited in a job like that? Rather than politicians whose only experience is in a primary school or as a <insert irrelevant job here>.

kjl

I may be wrong, but I believe the OP is wondering why it's a being seen as a collaborative effort to fix the mistakes of few. In a weird way, I agree with him.

My name is URL

kjl wrote: »

I may be wrong, but I believe the OP is wondering why it's a being seen as a collaborative effort to fix the mistakes of few.

Not just fix their mistakes, but help them get back to a stage where it's in their interests to do it all again.

nice_very

ok, I have thought this through.. I am willing to "do" Angela Merkle (sp?) in return for wiping the Irish debt clean (sarkozy can watch)

It is a selfless act by an Irish patriot, also make sure my name goes down in history when I die of disgusted.