The PR student waves her phone away and says "Type it in, it’s an easy one to remember... it's six, six... six." *
"With every joke is a half truth" but on this particular occasion I really did grace the socialist workers' party with my presence, and in defiance of the chants of exorcism and vials of holy water thrown my way I still stand (actually sitting) here today typing an admittedly weak punch line though I did devote a considerable amount of time into concocting this!
I had predicted a degree of animosity, and having been coerced into going, I was nonetheless surprised as to how little they knew of the discipline... aside from the horns and pitchforks of course! Neither am I pretentious enough to claim dominion over the knowledge and functioning of PR as... as the title would have you believe... I am still a student.
Two things that managed to make my unholy blood boil were firstly that near enough any example of trying to convince another party to turn to your way of thinking is a part of PR. I know that this is a gross oversimplification but nonetheless I will add that therefore even the socialists use PR... In fact PR has been around as long as politics have whether under another title or form - which ties into my profound abhorrence of ignorance. Ignorance, I'm considering here, not as a lack of knowledge but rather a disregard for it - but that would lead me down another rant which I will endeavour to avoid!
The second of these two sources of exasperation was the attitudes demonstrated similar to that of school cliques - but in particular the nonconformists for the sake of being nonconformists... full of disdain for various ideologies or practices but without any tangible solutions - and for that matter holding a very limited and one-sided outlook.
Before I get mercilessly cannibalised for this I will add that I don't have any particular disregard or disrespect towards socialists and the nonconformists (as long as they can provide some illumination in regards to their views and able to look at things from both sides)... just this particular group who were content to articulate their obtuse and superficial perspectives though providing no palpable reasoning other than regurgitation of propaganda (PR again - which of course amuses me... as despite their zeal they were constantly self contradictory).
This is not all to say I did not have a good time... perhaps not a great party but I did revel in this Venusian atmosphere. Nonetheless I am just posting this because I still find the situation and the subsequent locking of horns deeply amusing!
(image edited from http://loveundefiled.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-is-difference-between-lust-and.html)
I'm not going to lie...the joke was pretty weak, however you fully redeemed yourself with such a classic article. Spot on, Brent! Also top marks for going to a socialist party! Ha x
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