spectacles

Broke your spectacles, stuck their filthy fingers in your food? 3.

You can, but it doesn't always do what you expect: try +"society of spectacles"

There are some rose tinted spectacles going on here. White goods in yesteryear times were not that reliable or as good as the author imagines them to have been.

\nFinally fixing his spectacles, Grandpaw mustered, "Oh, I never had a dog&;&." .

Now that they're in a PR corner over the Snowden revelations, of course, it's time for a lot of invective, investigations, and all sorts of spectacles. None of which will dig out the truth.

As someone who is in his mid-30's and wears spectacles I absolutely adore the type on this site. In fact with the exception of the font used by Readability I can't think of one clearer I've seen recently.

So we can wear spectacles! The point being, we first evolved as creatures with ears and later on devised spectacles so we could wear them over the ears. But we've now taken the ears so much for granted we think of spectacles as the innovation!

Even +"society of spectacles" doesn't do anything different...

A prism allows you to see light and color in a wholly new way, but you wouldn't want to wear prisms in front of your eyes like spectacles because you would be constantly misjudging things and banging your knees. Doesn't mean that what you can see with a prism is false, it's just not optimal for continual use.

The Wii was so successful as a social party game, because the players themselves were more fun to watch than the game on the screen, because they make spectacles of themselves, which is much more entertaining to watch than the computer graphics. And you don't get bored waiting for your turn to play, because it's fun watching other people play.

A favourite quote of mine by Bertrand Russell: It seems to them vulgar to enjoy food because you are hungry or to enjoy life because if offers a variety of interesting spectacles and surprising experiences. From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls.

So while it's certainly appropriate to challenge governments' efforts to police the private sphere, those efforts need to be considered in a realistic context, not one that views the past through rose-colored spectacles. Overall I'm inclined to think that people enjoy considerably more freedom nowadays than they did a few decades ago.

I appreciate although the UK has no "constitution" we have to free protest but from the riots last year I think The Met have every right to be cautious about preventing demonstrations which could spark into something dangerous at one of the biggest public spectacles of the decade, when the entire crowd is made up of families trying to enjoy themselves. If the cause is so noble, one shouldn't need to use a large public spectacle as a vehicle for it.

I believe this is true, and I have a theory that these public spectacles are fuelled and perpetuated primarily by the simple fact that anyone with well reasoned, rational responses tend to keep quiet in fear of being drawn into an ugly discourse - leaving the metaphorical inmates to run the prison.

You end up with strange spectacles like French nationalists getting along well with right-wing Turkish nationalists, Japanese nationalists, or Israeli nationalists--- they all agree that they'd like to observe each other peacefully from a distance, in each group's pure, mono-ethnic country, each with their Glorious Histories and whatnot, maybe with the occasional bit of tourism, but definitely no immigration.