Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I say things in real life in a joking way to suggest something, but it doesn't always work. It only works if the other person cares. If they don't care, whether you say it directly or indirectly it really doesn't matter, because they don't care!

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.