Reply to: Voting insanity

[Bunk]

I'm voting Mudkip!

[d000hg]

Moi? Highly educated? I think you'll find that everyone, whether a 'highly educated IT contractor' or not has to do it.

You are highly educated and smart by virtue of being an IT contractor, compared to the average.

And yes, "everyone has to do it" was my point. That someone like us finds it easy is no endorsement at all, it's like saying a new sportscar is not hard to drive because the Stig can drive it.

[speling bee]

Moi? Highly educated? I think you'll find that everyone, whether a 'highly educated IT contractor' or not has to do it. I know people who are not 'highly educated IT contractors(*)' who do it quite easily. Maybe, just maybe, you can't teach an old dog new tricks


(* I was thinking of those in the recruitment business here rather than Railway Station Hygiene Operatives or Sanitation Engineers)

The usually provide a booth with crayons and paper for the intellectually challenged.

If you can't complete a voting form and fold it then you shouldn't really be voting...

The problem is that we have some poorly educated IT contractors around here.

[Unix]

Small green piece of paper with five candidates for the local election, and a triple A4 sized behemoth of a voting slip for the 25 odd candidates for the European bit that took some folding and was difficult to get through the slot into the ballot box.

Is this a good sign for democracy? It can only mean a lot more people getting confused or just plain bored and voting for the wrong party.

The usually provide a booth with crayons and paper for the intellectually challenged.

If you can't complete a voting form and fold it then you shouldn't really be voting...

[darmstadt]

So because a highly educated IT contractor can manage it, it's not over-complicated?

Moi? Highly educated? I think you'll find that everyone, whether a 'highly educated IT contractor' or not has to do it. I know people who are not 'highly educated IT contractors(*)' who do it quite easily. Maybe, just maybe, you can't teach an old dog new tricks


(* I was thinking of those in the recruitment business here rather than Railway Station Hygiene Operatives or Sanitation Engineers)

[speling bee]

You can have "a people", "the people" and "people". I'm talking about the latter so what's the rule?

It seems more complex than talking about sheep because "a people" is both singular and plural... but if we are talking about the rights of sheep (an important social issue) would it be sheep's rights or sheeps' rights?

If you are referencing the voting of people (in whatever sense you mean), then it is "people's voting".
If you are referencing the voting of peoples, then it is "peoples' voting".

[d000hg]

You can have "a people", "the people" and "people". I'm talking about the latter so what's the rule?

It seems more complex than talking about sheep because "a people" is both singular and plural... but if we are talking about the rights of sheep (an important social issue) would it be sheep's rights or sheeps' rights?

[speling bee]

So because a highly educated IT contractor can manage it, it's not over-complicated?

For certain? I I said "the people's" then the people is the subject but if I'm talking about people plural why not "peoples'"? Would it then be "Contractors' collective earnings" or "Contractor's collective earnings"?

Were you describing the voting of people, or the voting of peoples?

[d000hg]

Okay its a little bit more than normal but I have the same problem here with my local elections, there can be an inordinate amount of boxes in which to check. I remember the first time I could vote and they send a sample through the post and it was 4 pages long (pretty much like the photo in speling bee's post) but I still managed it fine and it was in a foreign language...

So because a highly educated IT contractor can manage it, it's not over-complicated?

people's

For certain? I I said "the people's" then the people is the subject but if I'm talking about people plural why not "peoples'"? Would it then be "Contractors' collective earnings" or "Contractor's collective earnings"?

[speling bee]

UKIP would solve that!

Bloody foreign countries, making British people vote in foreign languages!

Vote UKIN!

[Mich the Tester]

...it was 4 pages long (pretty much like the photo in speling bee's post) but I still managed it fine and it was in a foreign language...

UKIP would solve that!

Bloody foreign countries, making British people vote in foreign languages!

[speling bee]

Okay its a little bit more than normal but I have the same problem here with my local elections, there can be an inordinate amount of boxes in which to check. I remember the first time I could vote and they send a sample through the post and it was 4 pages long (pretty much like the photo in speling bee's post) but I still managed it fine and it was in a foreign language...

Literacy is great, isn't it?

[darmstadt]

I think he's talking about the sheer number of people standing, it's atypical.

Okay its a little bit more than normal but I have the same problem here with my local elections, there can be an inordinate amount of boxes in which to check. I remember the first time I could vote and they send a sample through the post and it was 4 pages long (pretty much like the photo in speling bee's post) but I still managed it fine and it was in a foreign language...

[speling bee]

I wonder how much thought went into choosing green as the colour of paper, as the least influential colour to peoples' voting...

people's

[d000hg]

I wonder how much thought went into choosing green as the colour of paper, as the least influential colour to peoples' voting...