It's an interesting phrase, isn't it. The majority of people are mediocre, and when we see those who rise to the top, they don't usually seem to be all that different. So what is that golden factor that favours certain people?
Maybe it's nothing at all. Just luck, which elevates people into positions where they have a kind of golden sheen about them. But these two are ghastly. Sunak is like the nerdy Indian boffin kid at a private school, who works hard in order to fit in and be popular. Truss is just an HR manager from a moderately successful provincial company. They both have the potential to make Starmer actually look competent.
He's just dis guy. Got the hand gestures. Got the "definitely not staid" open shirt. But what footballer did he watch from among the standing fans, twirling his little rattle? And can he do an estuary (Thames, of course) accent, now wot Oi mearn? Has anyone ever seen Blair and him in the same room?
Sam - that's right, they don't usually seem to be all that different from the rest of us. It could be mostly luck in that someone has to reach these positions and people automatically do what they can to reinforce a few initial successes. As the Monty Python show once said about crime - "society is to blame."
Ed - to scheme and plot her next move no doubt.
Doonhamer - blimey that's a point - I've certainly never seen him in the same room as Blair. They both have fairly prominent ears too.
"But what footballer did he watch from among the standing fans, twirling his little rattle?"
I can answer that: Le Tissier, he claims. That's plausible. Wonderful player and the years fit.
But I'd guess rattles might have gone out by his time.
Contrast Blair, who claimed to have watched a footballer who had already retired. From the wrong part of the ground. Just as he claimed to have stowed away on a flight from Newcastle to somewhere that no Newcastle flights went to. 100% inauthentic is Toni.
It's conceivable that Sunak is much what he claims to be. At least he doesn't indulge in prolier-than-thou baloney in the way Sir Kneel Starmer does.
dearieme - rattles had virtually gone out when I first went to watch Derby County with my father. Yes, he isn't as prolier-than-thou as Sir Kneel Starmer. I don't understand the kneeling, how he could fail to see it as a lasting and unhelpful image.
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It's an interesting phrase, isn't it. The majority of people are mediocre, and when we see those who rise to the top, they don't usually seem to be all that different. So what is that golden factor that favours certain people?
Maybe it's nothing at all. Just luck, which elevates people into positions where they have a kind of golden sheen about them. But these two are ghastly. Sunak is like the nerdy Indian boffin kid at a private school, who works hard in order to fit in and be popular. Truss is just an HR manager from a moderately successful provincial company. They both have the potential to make Starmer actually look competent.
Well, at least Penny has gone back to Mordor.
He's just dis guy.
Got the hand gestures.
Got the "definitely not staid" open shirt.
But what footballer did he watch from among the standing fans, twirling his little rattle?
And can he do an estuary (Thames, of course) accent, now wot Oi mearn?
Has anyone ever seen Blair and him in the same room?
Sam - that's right, they don't usually seem to be all that different from the rest of us. It could be mostly luck in that someone has to reach these positions and people automatically do what they can to reinforce a few initial successes. As the Monty Python show once said about crime - "society is to blame."
Ed - to scheme and plot her next move no doubt.
Doonhamer - blimey that's a point - I've certainly never seen him in the same room as Blair. They both have fairly prominent ears too.
"But what footballer did he watch from among the standing fans, twirling his little rattle?"
I can answer that: Le Tissier, he claims. That's plausible. Wonderful player and the years fit.
But I'd guess rattles might have gone out by his time.
Contrast Blair, who claimed to have watched a footballer who had already retired. From the wrong part of the ground. Just as he claimed to have stowed away on a flight from Newcastle to somewhere that no Newcastle flights went to. 100% inauthentic is Toni.
It's conceivable that Sunak is much what he claims to be. At least he doesn't indulge in prolier-than-thou baloney in the way Sir Kneel Starmer does.
dearieme - rattles had virtually gone out when I first went to watch Derby County with my father. Yes, he isn't as prolier-than-thou as Sir Kneel Starmer. I don't understand the kneeling, how he could fail to see it as a lasting and unhelpful image.
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