DS9 in 2013

[JoeZhang]

Fuck no - they don't deserve any.

 

[Sci]

Yes but we don't expect anyone to give our PM's any respect, we certainly don't give them any!

Fuck no - they don't deserve any.

Which is why I said it's an attempt to show respect to the office rather than the person holding the office.

It's an American thing, but it's our way of trying to show respect towards the U.K. and its offices.

 

[Relayer1]

Should Prime Minister Cameron not take his daughter to bars because bad things might happen. Wait . . . bad example.

It's funny, but we don't say 'PM Cameron' or 'PM Brown' - just 'David Cameron' and 'Gordon Brown' respectively, or alternatively, 'the Prime Minister'.

I prefer 'Call Me Dave'. Or some other less socially acceptable words.

 

[DimesDan]

Should Prime Minister Cameron not take his daughter to bars because bad things might happen. Wait . . . bad example.

It's funny, but we don't say 'PM Cameron' or 'PM Brown' - just 'David Cameron' and 'Gordon Brown' respectively, or alternatively, 'the Prime Minister'.

I prefer 'Call Me Dave'. Or some other less socially acceptable words.

Personally, I'm more favoured to calling him "Dickhead-in-Chief."

 

[Relayer1]

It's funny, but we don't say 'PM Cameron' or 'PM Brown' - just 'David Cameron' and 'Gordon Brown' respectively, or alternatively, 'the Prime Minister'.

I prefer 'Call Me Dave'. Or some other less socially acceptable words.

Personally, I'm more favoured to calling him "Dickhead-in-Chief."

That'll do for me...

 

[Elias Vaughn]

I'm a religious person but I don't expect divine protection to surround me at all times, so should I leave abandon my family in hopes the devil follows me and then no bad things will happen to my kids?

I suspect you'd have a different opinion if whatever deity you follow told you personally "Don't marry her or bad things will happen to you". And odds are, whatever deity you worship isn't known specifically for being able to foretell the future, either.

 

[rfmcdpei]

But the Prophets themselves use the language of a game, in "Sacrifice of Angels".

That dialogue is a callback to the scene in "Emissary" where Sisko used a baseball game as an analogy for explaining linear existence to the wormhole aliens. So the game metaphor isn't theirs, it's Sisko's. They were just repeating back his analogy that his linear existence is like a game. (Look back earlier in the script, and you'll see the game metaphor is introduced in connection with the baseball on Sisko's desk -- presumably because they didn't have the budget to go back out to the ballfield location and shoot the scene there.)

I stand corrected. Thanks!

 

[Jarvisimo]

I prefer 'Call Me Dave'. Or some other less socially acceptable words.

Personally, I'm more favoured to calling him "Dickhead-in-Chief."

That'll do for me...

Mean ... but typical of British political language, which is gloves off and tabloid-emotioned in nature, even in the Guardian, Independent, Times and Telegraph - where perhaps it shouldn't be, where there should be respect of the point of politics? But that just isn't our way.

Of all the Tories on the front bench from this government, past and present, I guess Dr Fox or Michael Gove would be my best alternatives to David Cameron (and if he were more able to communicate, IDS). Theresa May suffers from being a Tory woman, so is unfairly compared with Thatcher - and has the most impractical post. But I don't think she can lead because of the party/country's heritage - which is ridiculous. William Hague has grown up, and it would have been better if he hadn't been leader when he was, but is now old goods (and an admittedly fine foreign sec).

 

[JoeZhang]

Micheal Gove? he's a bigger bell-end than Cameron.

 

[Rush Limborg]

I hear Mayor Boris Johnson of London is moving up in the world. He looks intriguing, at that.