As an Anarchist I can only drink Herbal tea ........... because Proper tea is theft!!!
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@recombodna: I fear your appalling punnery has put back the cause of tea drinking a thousand years...
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Pretty sure that's Marxism, not anarchism.
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Property is theft! (French: La propriété, c'est le vol!) is a slogan coined by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his 1840 book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder!, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required . . . Why, then, to this other question: What is property? may I not likewise answer, It is robbery!, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property?[I]
By "property," Proudhon referred to the concept originated in Roman law of the sovereign right of property—the right of the proprietor to do with his property as he pleases, "to use and abuse," so long as in the end he submits to state-sanctioned title, and he contrasted the supposed right of property with the rights (which he considered valid) of liberty, equality, and security.
In the Confessions d'un revolutionnaire Proudhon further explained his use of this phrase:[1]
In my first memorandum, in a frontal assault upon the established order, I said things like, Property is theft! The intention was to lodge a protest, to highlight, so to speak, the inanity of our institutions. At the time, that was my sole concern. Also, in the memorandum in which I demonstrated that startling proposition using simple arithmetic, I took care to speak out against any communist conclusion. In the System of Economic Contradictions, having recalled and confirmed my initial formula, I added another quite contrary one rooted in considerations of quite another order—a formula that could neither destroy the first proposition nor be demolished by it: Property is freedom. [...] In respect of property, as of all economic factors, harm and abuse cannot be dissevered from the good, any more than debit can from asset in double-entry book-keeping. The one necessarily spawns the other. To seek to do away with the abuses of property, is to destroy the thing itself; just as the striking of a debit from an account is tantamount to striking it from the credit record.Karl Marx, although initially favourable to Proudhon's work, later criticised, among other things, the expression "property is theft" as self-refuting and unnecessarily confusing, writing that "... 'theft' as a forcible violation of property presupposes the existence of property..." and condemning Proudhon for entangling himself in "all sorts of fantasies, obscure even to himself, about true bourgeois property."
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I have been running that joke as marxist for years - all property [proper tea] is theft
knew Marx liked then fell out with Proudhon but just shows you how quotes become attributed wrongly
Bertrand Escoffier who is a great French baker/chef ran a tea house on the royal mile - it closed down. Now a Turkish restaurant - across from White Horse Tavern [now trendy]
There is a tea house on Frederick St where the posh frock shop Droopy and Brown used to be [hadn't closed last time I looked]. I like tea but I loike coffee, how can I decide? I know ... FIGHT, FIGHT,FIGHT (Harry Hill)
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There was Tea Tree Tea on Bread St, but it is now gone. Eteaket is OK bit a bit looks-conscious. Don't know what Metropole is like tea-wise since it changed hands but I don't think it had done leafy tea for a while.
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*rubs his bottom after quote spanking*
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[+] Embed the video | Video Download Get the Flash Video One of my favourite singers, sadly with a career cut short for medical reasons...
Perhaps not her best work, but Sam's always worth a listen!
Robert
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ruggtomcat- you are bang on about the number of coffee houses, especially round my way (see my post earlier in the thread) - I was discussing this with my wife last night, and she corrected me, there are 10 within a few minutes walk of our house - and if The Institue now counts as a coffee house - thats 11 - as I didnt count it!!
And we thought there were a lot of bike shops in the area?
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Arty new place on Roseneath Street, "The Institute" (all white walls, sanded wood surfaces and big photographic prints) seems to have a bit of a high-class tea thing going on.
They have that thing that isn't tea, whose name escapes me, that Amir mentioned his wife likes.
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They have that thing that isn't tea, whose name escapes me, that Amir mentioned his wife likes.
Water? :>
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Wine?
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Gin!
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"[proper tea] is theft" Favourite quote of a Marxist Zimbabwean friend of mine. Helps that he was raised a Mormon...
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As I said before the break, the institute is no longer a tea house. is a coffee stop.
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@roibeard Sam brown is great such a shame she had to give it all up. Have you heard Homespun the band she did with Dave Rotheray form the beautiful south? Great stuff. I did the drumming on Daves last album and Sam was supposed to do some tracks but unfortunately she couldn't make it because of her throat so I never got to hang out with her.... ;-(
But you can't have tea without toast... http://youtu.be/WJmKStqugMc
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@recombodna - yep I've got some of Homespun's albums. I'm a little bit of a Sam completist, so hopefully my collecting tendencies won't raise their ugly head with bikes...
Hat tip on the drumming too!
Fortunately I made most of her last solo tours, so managed to catch her live before her premature hiatus - well worth even the trek to Richmond on one occasion.
Robert
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@recombodna: Do my eyes deceive me, or is that a pre-Q Tips Paul Young fronting Streetband? Daresay I'm Johnny-come-lately to this revelation but had no idea PY started off as a one hit wonder, so to speak.
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The very same.
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Oops, wrong thread, sorry :-) Got hijacked by the inter-thread link thingie...
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