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  • L Lost User

    Yes, I should know better :sigh:

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    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

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      Even without the voice, doesn't he just *look* like a Brit delivering a scathing/sarcastic rebuke?

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

      Bob Emmett

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        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

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        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] ...

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

          Bob Emmett

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          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.

          Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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            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] ...

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            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

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              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.

              Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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              Oakman wrote:

              public school means what private school

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

              Bob Emmett

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                Oakman wrote:

                public school means what private school

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

                Bob Emmett

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                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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                  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.

                  Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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                  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

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                  • O 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.

                    Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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                    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:

                    "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke

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                      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:

                      "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke

                      I'm a proud denizen of the Real Soapbox[^]
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                      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?

                      Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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                        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

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                        Bob Emmett wrote:

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

                        Project much?

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                          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?

                          Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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                          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:

                          "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke

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                            Bob Emmett wrote:

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

                            Project much?

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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

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