for the Brits

Lost User · modified on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:46 PM

kmg365 wrote:

I get confused

Don't be. There will be a new occupant of 10 Downing Street soon. The country is generally fed up with Gordon Brown and his Labour Party.

Lost User

Richard A. Abbott wrote:

Yes, I should know better

Yes, you should. He is always linking to the 'Wail' and 'Torygraph', that is how he knows what is "really" going on in Britain.

Bob Emmett

Lost User

He looks like a typical public school twit delivering a scathing/sarcastic rebuke.

Bob Emmett

Ilion

Bob Emmett wrote:

He is always linking to the 'Wail' and 'Torygraph', that is how he knows what is "really" going on in Britain.

Oh, woe is me! Oh, if only there were a *real* newspaper[^] (with editorials reflecting real thought) in old Blighty.

... More important than what ended up in Contest 2 was what was left out. A month ago the Guardian revealed that the government was considering setting arbitrary criteria to define extremists, such as support for sharia law - an approach that would have branded many mainstream Muslims enemies of the people. Thankfully the idea was ditched, and the document meticulously avoids conflating Islamism and terrorism. There is recognition that militant Islamism is not an intellectual virus that comes out of nowhere, but instead something that people are drawn to for varied reasons. [blah, same old leftist blah] ...

Oakman

Bob Emmett wrote:

He looks like a typical public school twit delivering a scathing/sarcastic rebuke.

You need to explain to Indiana Troy that on your side of the puddle, public school means what private school does in his god-forsaken neck of the backwoods.

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Lost User

Ilíon wrote:

Oh, if only there were a *real* newspaper

Missed me! ;P Never read the 'Grauniad'.

Ilíon wrote:

old Blighty

Only used by 'Depressed', 'Wail', and 'Torygraph' readers, and others who miss the dear old Empire, don't you know. Nothing you read will ever help you understand anything. It must either confirm your prejudices, or else be rubbish.

Bob Emmett

Lost User

Oakman wrote:

public school means what private school

I had assumed that, as a constant 'Torygraph' reader, he would have known that.

Bob Emmett

Oakman

Bob Emmett wrote:

I had assumed that, as a constant 'Torygraph' reader, he would have known that.

Constant reading does not necessarily imply any retention I am afraid. Constant repetition of the same few phrases, on the other hand, would seem to indicate an inability to remember how frequently one has used them in the immediate past.

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Lost User

Oakman wrote:

Constant repetition of the same few phrases, on the other hand, would seem to indicate an inability to remember how frequently one has used them in the immediate past.

Each evening I wipe the slate of my memory clean. That way, I sleep soundly.

Bob Emmett

Tim Craig

Oakman wrote:

Constant repetition of the same few phrases, on the other hand, would seem to indicate an inability to remember how frequently one has used them in the immediate past.

Doesn't that mean he'd probably fail the Turing Test? Lack of sufficient cognition to at least come up with a good paraphrase? :laugh:

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Oakman

Tim Craig wrote:

Doesn't that mean he'd probably fail the Turing Test? Lack of sufficient cognition to at least come up with a good paraphrase?

Absolutely. Is there any chance you have mistaken him for a human being in all the time he has been posting?

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Ilion

Bob Emmett wrote:

Nothing you read will ever help you understand anything. It must either confirm your prejudices, or else be rubbish.

Project much?

Tim Craig

Oakman wrote:

Is there any chance you have mistaken him for a human being

Hell, no. I wouldn't think of treating an actual person like I do him. Especially one who is so obviously mentally handicapped. :laugh:

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Ilíon wrote:

Project much?

You are a closet Freudian? Whatever next? Darwinian? Marxist? But no, no projection, old boy. Pip Pip

Bob Emmett