This is another in my occasional series of 'what my life actually looks like', for those who aren't around physically, or for those who have just forgotten what I look like.
I tend to use assorted pics found via a google image search, and am utterly shameless about this. I really ought to use my digital camera more. I really need to download my pics from my Australian holiday.
Anyway, here are some pics of Wolfson College, the place I'm in the process of moving out of. I've actually grown rather fond of it. I think I'm going to miss the place more than I expected. It's not a pretty Oxford College of great antiquity, but it's a friendly place and it's got the loveliest gardens.
( Wolfson College )
My good mood today continues. I'm trying to sort the house today, clean and then potter about. It's![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pierot's day off and it's nice to have him about for a bit. I'm also having one of my odd and occasional ponderings. This time it's on the use of the word 'hypocrisy'.
This isn't triggered by anything in particular. It's been coming for a while.
It's been occuring to me that an awful lot of people I know overuse the word 'hypocrisy', and seem to use it almost as a catch all accusation when they are upset with someone. It's up there with medieval accusations of heresy - if you're gunning for someone, then stick it in. It's next to impossible to disprove and it's an entirely subjective statement.
It's also increasingly beginning to bother me. There are times when I really don't think it's terribly fair and a lot of times when it really doesn't actually seem very appropriate. It seems to be a phrase that gets flung about at times when either the accusee has changed their mind on something, possibly over many years, but now appears to have a different view to one they once held, or when they appear to be acting differently in two different situations which the accuser has decided are the same, but which may appear utterly different to the accusee.
( Rambling and further explanations. Possibly some low level ranting )
I tend to use assorted pics found via a google image search, and am utterly shameless about this. I really ought to use my digital camera more. I really need to download my pics from my Australian holiday.
Anyway, here are some pics of Wolfson College, the place I'm in the process of moving out of. I've actually grown rather fond of it. I think I'm going to miss the place more than I expected. It's not a pretty Oxford College of great antiquity, but it's a friendly place and it's got the loveliest gardens.
( Wolfson College )
My good mood today continues. I'm trying to sort the house today, clean and then potter about. It's
pierot's day off and it's nice to have him about for a bit. I'm also having one of my odd and occasional ponderings. This time it's on the use of the word 'hypocrisy'.This isn't triggered by anything in particular. It's been coming for a while.
It's been occuring to me that an awful lot of people I know overuse the word 'hypocrisy', and seem to use it almost as a catch all accusation when they are upset with someone. It's up there with medieval accusations of heresy - if you're gunning for someone, then stick it in. It's next to impossible to disprove and it's an entirely subjective statement.
It's also increasingly beginning to bother me. There are times when I really don't think it's terribly fair and a lot of times when it really doesn't actually seem very appropriate. It seems to be a phrase that gets flung about at times when either the accusee has changed their mind on something, possibly over many years, but now appears to have a different view to one they once held, or when they appear to be acting differently in two different situations which the accuser has decided are the same, but which may appear utterly different to the accusee.
( Rambling and further explanations. Possibly some low level ranting )
