Heinlein...

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

(Big nod to moonmonkey and others.)
(Odinsdottir wants to tell you about her cats, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 10:07, 9 replies)

That's not
nearly as clever as it sounds.
(username failed moderation, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 10:13, closed)

Well,
that's the Jeremy-Kyle-underclass of Britain out of your equation then.
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 10:16, closed)

Heinlein
is (was?) a pompous idiot, and seems to have missed the fact that we live in a (reasonably) ordered society - as do the insects, but they'll be here long after we've reduced ourselves to dust.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 10:29, closed)

"conn a ship"?
What?

Had Heilein (who sounds like a forrin, incidentally) heard the phrase "Jack of all trades, and master of none", do you think?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 11:12, closed)

Conn as in conning tower or "Take the conn, ensign Somebody" in Star Trek. Its an old name for a ships wheel.
Christ, Heinlein was a tedious old fucking cunt.
(Kitty Fantastico "Dwarf, Anorexic and In a Fight ", Thu 29 Sep 2011, 11:22, closed)

Ah right.
Yes - clearly he was; a tedious old FORRIN fucking cunt, at that.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 11:28, closed)

Well, an American, which is frankly ghastly and at LEAST as bad as a forrin. Ugh.

(Kitty Fantastico "Dwarf, Anorexic and In a Fight ", Thu 29 Sep 2011, 11:41, closed)

Hmm, Seven out of Twenty One
And not the most impressive seven either.

Though the last time I tried to change a nappy with a proper safety pin I did manage to draw blood (mine not the baby's)
(Mork, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 11:56, closed)

You stabbed a baby to death with it, didn't you?
Go on, admit it.
(Kitty Fantastico "Dwarf, Anorexic and In a Fight ", Thu 29 Sep 2011, 11:57, closed)