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Re: Alexander Keiller's Avebury/The Sanctuary
Jan 25, 2013, 14:29
Littlestone wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Being positively obstructionist doen't entail failing to see the merits of the opposing view .


No, it just presents an obstruction to getting something done – like the lady who stood in the checkout counter of the supermarket the other day while her scatter-brained daughter was sent off to find an item the lady had forgotten. After what seemed like an eternity (and an ever-growing queue) said scatter-brained returned empty-handed so the superviser had to be sent for and the queue got even longer.

The problem lies not only with the lady, who didn’t give a monkey’s about the inconveniencing she was causing to the dozen or so people behind her, but also to the inflexible system of the supermarket that can’t allow other customers through.

I suppose you could call that ‘positively obstructionist’ (though I could probably find a stronger word for it :-)


Ignorant , unthinking , pain in the arse might be more appopriate for the "lady " . Who probaly thought everyone who was being held up should get a life , whatever , and stop being so negative .

Someone opposed to , a motorway through an SSSI or the development of housing in or around a major megalthic monument , and doing something about it could be seen as being positively obstructionist , particularly if you agreed . If not then negative , narrow minded , bigoted , miserable , holding back the economy for the sake of a few butterflies ,stone hugging .....etc . It's perspective and who gets to use the positively emotive language . Ministry of Defence or War , same thing but one it's usually the former .
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