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therealpmAn interesting suggestion, but one that I doubt will come to fruition damn it.
It would mean spending rather less time at home than I've grown accustomed to, but no doubt thelook on Gordon's face challenge of the role would more than compensate...
Hmm...
It would mean spending rather less time at home than I've grown accustomed to, but no doubt the
Hmm...
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Date: 2011-05-20 12:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-20 09:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-20 12:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-20 01:08 pm (UTC)At least they kept their mouths shut when it mattered, though.(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-20 01:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-20 02:13 pm (UTC)Though it wouldn't be the worst idea if he stayed as an MP. Y'know... a by-election in Scotland in this climate
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-20 03:23 pm (UTC)I won't be back in Yorkshire until late. We're still trying to get Ken Clarke thrown out.
It's much less exciting than opening a post office.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-20 11:21 am (UTC)I won't apologise.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 09:46 am (UTC)I doubt there's much you could say that would persuade me to accept your apology anyway.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 10:15 am (UTC)I can't say that I won't say it again either - it's the one thing that's got it off my back for five minutes since it learnt of me.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 01:54 pm (UTC)Should I try the same tactics with Libby or Luke when they repeat that silly anti-Labour rhetoric you've instilled in them?
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 02:03 pm (UTC)My children are humans. And when they're in a mischievous mood, they'll draw on the walls or play their parents off one other regarding biscuits and pocket money. Little harm done. Your machine likes to delete important documents from my hard drive and electrocute me.
If you think you can compare them, you're more far gone than I thought.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 02:11 pm (UTC)The difference is in capability, not motive; your children cannot delete important documents nor electrocute you, and my Machine cannot draw on walls and has no desire for either biscuits or pocket money.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 02:23 pm (UTC)On the contrary, Luke and Liberty could quite easily be more destructive - they could be violent, they could purposefully knock over candles, anything which crossed their minds or they saw on cartoon network, or indeed in their classroom with their less well behaved peers, biting, kicking and screaming their way through life. They don't. They've been taught how to behave. Your Machine hasn't. They know right and wrong. Your Machine doesn't - it knows what is and what isn't and what's Conservative. Their moral compasses are well spun. Your Machine doesn't have one.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 02:36 pm (UTC)You're a Tory, you're hardly in a position to talk about a moral compass.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 02:49 pm (UTC)Stop pretending that my politics has anything to do with anything. I'm a Conservative! If it makes me a bad person, why spend so much time with me? Why not just stop if my party is such a problem for you personally?
At least then maybe your monster will leave my homes alone and my children could go into the kitchen again. What with the fear of innumerable volts running through their bodies hanging over our heads, they haven't been in their for a while.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 03:08 pm (UTC)Now you're being absurd. The Machine has never electrocuted anyone but you and even then it was very low current; I suspect you've had worse shocks from static after walking on a synthetic carpet.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 03:31 pm (UTC)It hasn't. Because they've not been able to acces the kitchen. I'm not taking the risk. And I frankly don't believe that it wouldn't.
Because you've clearly been on the receiving end of your bot's games...
I want no more to do with it. Not in my house. Not in my workplace.
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Date: 2011-05-21 03:49 pm (UTC)Clearly there have been several previous altercations between the two of you at which I, sadly not as omnipotent nor omnipresent as the papers claim, was not present and of which was therefore unaware. Did it ever occur to you that, rather than sulking, whining and eventually traumatising a young... sentient being into hiding, you could simply have asked me to rein it in?
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 04:16 pm (UTC)You were "aware of our differences". More than aware.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 04:33 pm (UTC)I was aware you disliked The Machine. I was aware that you blamed it for your inability to use a letter box or an oven or a door bell. I was even aware that it had conferred a minor electrostatic charge on some of your possessions at number 10. A residence, I note, which does not contain any children, yours or otherwise.
...presumably you have some other reason for upsetting it so much that it went offline entirely?
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Date: 2011-05-21 04:47 pm (UTC)It's the reason you have a reputation for omnipotence. It has the ability to access my other homes. And did so.
You saw what was said.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 04:53 pm (UTC)Indeed, I saw you thank The Machine for giving you some sort of warning. You then proceeded to call it a toy, a plaything and said that it was unable to feel.
Incidentally, you were wrong on all counts.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 05:11 pm (UTC)After it had taken over my entire screen, preventing me from doing any work, it emphasised my insignificance
in a far too familiar toneand wished a painful death upon me.So I didn't happen to feel very accomodating to its games.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 05:17 pm (UTC)...and I suppose it would have been completely impossible for you to send me a text or to mention this when I visited?
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 05:22 pm (UTC)Your record on acting upon the Machine's actions is hardly awe inspiring.
And I did attempt to tell you, which was why I wished to speak to you, but I note you were there for exactly five minutes, which were fairly unproductive.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 05:33 pm (UTC)You've never asked me to act, merely grumbled under your breath.
...you also could have asked for longer than 5 minutes.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 05:37 pm (UTC)You appeared. And then you disappeared. Very little conversation occured. You were clearly only willing to grant me 5 minutes of your precious time.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 05:44 pm (UTC)You. Didn't. Ask.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 05:47 pm (UTC)You made it plain that that was all the time afforded to me.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 05:49 pm (UTC)I made it plain in Brussels as well, you certainly took no notice of it then.
Not that I'm complaining.(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 05:53 pm (UTC)In Brussels I wasn't reluctant to talk about a topic that is unpleasant.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 05:59 pm (UTC)You were and you did.
George, you cannot expect me to solve a problem without telling me what it is.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 06:10 pm (UTC)You were fairly unlikely to solve the problem, and I ended it - if only temporarily - myself before your arrival.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-21 06:13 pm (UTC)...good day to you Mr Osborne.