User:Matthew Stannard

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Matthew with daughter Chloe
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Matthew with daughter Chloe
A man at 50 has the face he deserves
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A man at 50 has the face he deserves
My grandmother with my two sons
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My grandmother with my two sons
Knot of Eternity
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Knot of Eternity

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[edit] Politics

  • Me (born 1954): Economic Left/Right: -1.62, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00
  • Guy, eldest son, (born 1982): Economic Left/Right: -0.88, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.46
  • Chloe, daughter, (born 1989): Economic Left/Right: -1.63, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.74
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[edit] The Office

I once worked for a successful growing organisation. It introduced management ideas, including staff appraisals. My boss, who was a philospophy graduate and an avowed atheist, took me into his office for my first appraisal. He praised me for working hard, but told me off for my disconcerting tendency, which others had remarked on, of causing senior management to question their most fundamental beliefs. Looking for a let out I mentioned that this presumably wasn't a problem for him since, as an atheist, he wouldn't have any fundamental beliefs. He replied,'There you are - you're doing it again.'

[edit] The Home

My teenage daughter wanted another party. I allowed it, and went down to the supermarket to buy alcopops and cider. Her teenage friends were great, and no one was sick. At the end I asked some lads where they were headed. The were equipped with spray cans and had a busy morning ahead. But before they went, they gave a demonstration of their art on the wall of my conservatory.

[edit] Work

... I signed the non-disclosure clause.

[edit] Play

I have a good friend named Bharat Patel. He is fond of cricket. His name is an anagram of "alpha batter" and, what is more serendipitous, is also an anagram of "alphabet art".

If one person can see clearly for 15 miles from the top of a tower, how far can 10 people see clearly for? If a guy with a telescope comes along and with it can see clearly for 20 miles, whose views would you prefer about what's out there: the 10 people who, between them, can only see for 15 miles, or the one guy who can see for 20 miles?

[edit] Dualities

There are two types of people:

  • the type of people who divide the world into two types of people and the type who don't.
  • There are those who follow the maxim that a mind expanded with a new idea never contracts to its original size, and there are those who are like doors that only open outwards - the more you push the faster they remain shut.
  • All humanity is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable, and those who move! -Benjamin Franklin
  • There are relativists (who believe that your truth and my truth might be different) and there are absolutists (who believe that there is only truth).
  • There are opportunists and there are planners
  • Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. John Charles Salak
  • Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. Caroline Schoeder

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