Beach etiquette (UK)

[John P]

Bob, you've got that wrong, but I'm not going to write an essay about it.

Is there any hope of getting this thread back to a relevant topic?

[BlueTrain]

I thought Bob Knows knew.

[eyesup]

I'm retired. I have all the time in the world.

If I attempted to address mistakes made every time someone made assumptions about me, I most definitely wouldn’t have any time for anything else. Too many differing opinions floating around these days.

Duane

[eyesup]

You might want to look up the meaning of “groupthink” before throwing that term out there.

I haven’t seen any evidence of that here. We tend to have common beliefs, ideas and agendas, we also have disagreements on what we accept. A healthy trait. But that is merely a collection of common held beliefs by a group. That is not groupthink. Groupthink manifests in irrational behavior.

Labels work only when the people or person agree to accept the label. If I behave in a manner that tends to follow the label, that’s fine, up until I deviate at which point it no longer applies. So labels are only limiting is you allow it.

Oooops!

Duane

[eyesup]

What could be more relevant to etiquette than a discussion of parliamentary rules of behavior?

I enjoy watching news reports about the British Parliament. There is always something interesting or entertaining going on contrary to the US Congress which comes across as a massive sedative. 

Duane

[JOhnGw]

As far as "groupthink" is concerned we certainly have a common core of beliefs about unrestrained nudity, but a wide diversity of opinion about how it should be pursued and on other political matters we probably have an even wider diversity.
I know that my political leanings are very much towards the socialist end of the spectrum, sometimes bordering on the communist, but tempered by my life's experience of knowing that whatever one's ideals the real question is "How do we get there from here."
No two people with the same ideals will ever agree on that one.

[BlueTrain]

Oh, I'm pretty sure a label can be applied, accurately or not, whether or not you accept the label. Some people are labelled crazy, but aren't and some crazy people never get called crazy for one reason or another. No, it isn't fair, either. You could even be given a label that is perfectly correct, insofar as it goes, that you hadn't even though of. I believe I mentioned somewhere already how that happened to me. Someone called me a "four-wheeler," which was a perfectly accurate word to describe what I was doing in my spare time then but I'd never thought of myself that way.

They're just descriptive words, not accusations.

[eyesup]

JOhn, More different ideas thrown in the mix results in new ideas.

Nothin’ wrong with that as long as you eventually see things my way.

Duane