Sharpen up your Apathy

[Guest]

Mastermind on Friday 17 BBC2 @ 8.00pm has one of the specialist subjects listed as Billie Holiday, she's in good company too with cyclist Eddie Merckx, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and PM. William Gladstone. I wonder what Sort of conversation they'd have.

sharpen up your apathy (quoted from a late friend of mine who always started her jazz quizzes at Southend jazz record society with it.)

cheers

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Can't be bothered.

[handsomefortune]

..........................yawn!

[amateur51]

Didn't the excellent Willie Whitelaw once accuse the Labour Party of "going round the country stirring up apathy?"

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

ams i don't give a toot that you quoted a quip from Maggie's Willie ......

[Serial_Apologist]

There's a much-quoted quote at the end of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", which I can never find when I want it, but where he basically says the final answer renders all previous questions irelevant... which seems particularly apt in this context.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There's a much-quoted quote at the end of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", which I can never find when I want it, but where he basically says the final answer renders all previous questions irelevant... which seems particularly apt in this context.

"Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent."

... not really nullifying previous answers but knowing where and when to stop?

[Serial_Apologist]

"Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent."

... not really nullifying previous answers but knowing where and when to stop?

Yesss, ferney - - and thanks, I should know it by heart!

[Old Grumpy]

Are you sure it's definitely on? Mrs G was disgusted to find that University Challenge had been booted out by Eastenders the other day.

[LeMartinPecheur]

There's a much-quoted quote at the end of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", which I can never find when I want it, but where he basically says the final answer renders all previous questions irelevant... which seems particularly apt in this context.

Sounds pretty much like The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I'm just re-reading...

[grippie]

If the truth was known, I don't really care

[cloughie]

I'm agog with indifference!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Over time, the "acedia" in Pope Gregory's order has come to be closer in meaning to sloth. The focus came to be on the consequences of acedia rather than the cause, and so, by the 17th century, the exact deadly sin referred to was believed to be the failure to utilize one's talents and gifts.[citation needed] Even in Dante's time there were signs of this change; in his Purgatorio he had portrayed the penance for acedia as running continuously at top speed.

aye up all them tykes is doing penance for me at t'Olympics innit

[salymap]

Somehow, the title of this thread about nothing reminds me of that annoying song from an old film, 'Brush up your Shakespeare'.

I hope you now get it on your brain too.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]