Charlie Munger agrees: «The whole concept of dividing it up into «value» and «growth» strikes
me as twaddle.»
This «need to say something» when one doesn't have anything useful to say is what Charlie Munger dubs
as Twaddle Tendency.
Not exact matches
As this vocation is lived in the sober unity of scientific knowledge and human achievement it is prevented from becoming mere humanitarian
twaddle.
You are free to believe your
twaddle free of interference
as it should be.
Trev, I hope you are not suggesting that the board may not be
as switched on
as we had surely come to hope for???? I mean, who would have thought that a board member would release a statement about transfers that turns out to be utter
twaddle????? Of course, you never know what to actually believe in the press these days but it does seem to me that we hardly cover ourselves in glory in these situations.
First off Fire with some Fireworks in a Bottle from No Twiddle
Twaddle — which doubles
as a reward chart
as well
In Both the 92 and 2010 elections, there were bigger swings towards us from the middle class than the working class, for different reasons, maybe those who came to us in 92 were Ex SDP, voting for us after it's collapse, and the working class, were sticking too the Tories in Essex,
as they hadn't lost so much under the recession, and weren't losing their jobs in the city, the way the middle class were, and read the Suns
twaddle about labour saying they'd put the basic rate of tax, when we said we weren't going too.
The Only Living Boy in New York is insufferable, haughty, pretentious, privileged navel - gazing masquerading
as deep thought; it is smug New York hipster
twaddle.
Asians and gays are simultaneously slandered via Ken Jeong's Mr. Chow, while women are generally presented
as shrill nags (save for Graham's heart - o» - gold whore, whose reward for being good is getting to flash her boob during breast - feeding), thus making the climactic reaffirmation of marriage and family come off
as phony
twaddle.
But given the talent and accomplishment of RealClimate posters, and the breathtaking developments in climate science lately (the dynamics of subglacial lakes, for instance), sometimes it strikes me
as a little sad that you have to devote so much energy to refuting the utter
twaddle emitted by denialist nincompoops, time and time again.
It might perhaps be helpful if one of the moderators comments on McPhersons
twaddle,
as it really appears that he «attracts» many people.
Whatever the vacuous
twaddle you are attempting to explain
as being some sort of AGW - busting truth, whether or not discussion of the flaws within it makes mention of CO2 is an irrelevance.
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