Enhanced Britishness

[Pale Rider]

You do bring it upon yourself TBH.

So it's the same as insults - they're fine, provided you don't like the person being insulted.

Usual muddle headed thinking on your part.

 

[mudsticks]

So it's the same as insults - they're fine, provided you don't like the person being insulted.

Usual muddle headed thinking on your part.

There's this whacky, maybe even 'muddle headed' concept I came across, some time back

You tend to get back , what you give out.

Why on earth would Cookie, not like you.??

I mean, what with all the empathy, sweetness and light etc etc.

 

[Pale Rider]

There's this whacky, maybe even 'muddle headed' concept I came across, some time back

You tend to get back , what you give out.

Why on earth would Cookie, not like you.??

I mean, what with all the empathy, sweetness and light etc etc.

I could post a load of virtual signalling claptrap which would get lots of likes, but I'd rather be honest.

Some on here can't hack anyone who disagrees with them.

'Twas ever thus.

 

[newfhouse]

Some on here can't hack anyone who disagrees with them.

I disagree with this. It’s the to and fro that makes it entertaining.

 

[mudsticks]

I could post a load of virtual signalling claptrap which would get lots of likes, but I'd rather be honest.

Some on here can't hack anyone who disagrees with them.

'Twas ever thus.

Well exactly

'Virtue signalling claptrap"

That's not in the slightest bit offensive about other people's opinions, or thoughts.

Personally i think you're confusing disagreement, with disagreeable.

Unpleasantness for its own sake, doesn't actually make anyone look big or clever.

Being supposedly 'honest' in an Edgelordy type style, just to get attention, is something most people hopefully grow out of by their mid twenties.

If they ever indulge in the first place.

Clearly not everyone does that, though .

 

[Pale Rider]

Well exactly

'Virtue signalling claptrap"

That's not in the slightest bit offensive about other people's opinions, or thoughts.

Personally i think you're confusing disagreement, with disagreeable.

Unpleasantness for its own sake, doesn't actually make anyone look big or clever.

Being supposedly 'honest' in an Edgelordy type style, just to get attention, is something most people hopefully grow out of by their mid twenties.

If they ever indulge in the first place.

Clearly not everyone does that, though .

Why not just post what you think?

It's a lot simpler.

 

[newfhouse]

I am reminded of the bolded line from HMHB’s Breaking News.

Breaking News

We’re just receiving reports of an incident at a farm in Sussex where a number of people have been arrested in connection with “Annoying The Nation”.
It is believed that that the owner of the farm, a Mr. Hibbert, has been co-operating with police and government officials in a plot codenamed Operation Less Pricks, and kindly granted permission for the use of his seventeenth-century tithe barn as a temporary holding place for those arrested. Although not confirmed, we are led to understand that those already charged include:
Bus drivers who don’t wait for people to sit down before pulling away from the bus stop;
Taxi drivers who use their horns instead of knocking on the door;
People who moan at the council about the streets being full of litter, not stopping to think that it is people who drop litter, not the council;
A room full of drama teachers listening to Björk;
Grown men with replica shirts worn over their jumpers, who stand up and stretch out their arms when the opposing team fail to hit the target;
An assortment of scriptwriters, novelists and playwrights who own Agas but don’t know how to use them;
A musical equipment reviewer responsible for an article titled “Microphone of the Month”;
A woman who described herself as “A little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex And The City” and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. Bit of advice: call him Rupert, it fits, and besides it’s a good name. Don’t be calling him Fred or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working-class-scamp connotations, unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill’s waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbot.
Also being held is a whole wall full of teenagers spitting needlessly;
An amateur thug in camouflage trousers whose Japanese fighting dog had run amok on a Swindon council estate;
A man from the record company who said that George Michael continues to challenge social taboos through his music;
Lisa Riley;
Continuity announcers introducing comedy shows;
A pub band who get uppity when everyone goes to the bar during a song they’ve written themselves;
A group of football fans referred to as Commodores, as in once, twice, three times a season, who feed sugar lumps to police horses at Cup Finals;
An artist who said his next album would be more “song-based”;
A man who informs people that he gets up at six am every morning and seemed to want a medal;
People who say they speak as they find and are somehow proud of it;
Journalists who try to spell an interviewee’s laugh;
An organisation who declared an awareness week for awareness weeks;
And a council worker who dropped litter.
We’ll bring you more details as they emerge…

View: https://youtu.be/E3IUXJbXbe0

 

[mudsticks]

Why not just post what you think?

It's a lot simpler.

I do

But because it's actually what I think I don't feel the need to keep insulting other people, with terms like 'virtue signaller*' while I do it .

Actually it's not true, I find some peoples opinions on here quite offensive, but I don't always say.

I think on balance, better to see these 'opinions' and dissect them even.

If I thought they actually acted these things out, or truly meant them, then I'd be a bit concerned

But I think a lot of it is just 'big talk' in the 'shock jock' style.

Attention seeking , even


Or just regurgitated, unconsidered stuff they've heard off of their mates, or in the papers .

I'm sure most of them are fine, really, in person.

* This is almost invariably a term used by people who don't care about an issue, and find it irritating that others do, and that others are prepared to say so.

It has no particular value, beyond that as a phrase, in my book.

 

[cookiemonster]

So it's the same as insults - they're fine, provided you don't like the person being insulted.

Usual muddle headed thinking on your part.

Really? I just look at your posting history and style and the evidence is there for all to see. It would be nice for you to actually answer questions without the response being full of snidey remarks.

 

[Pale Rider]

Really? I just look at your posting history and style and the evidence is there for all to see. It would be nice for you to actually answer questions without the response being full of snidey remarks.

I've answered questions dozens of times in this thread, it's just you don't like those answers.

Get over it or not, doesn't matter to me.

 

[cookiemonster]

Why not just post what you think?

It's a lot simpler.

Many of us do. I wish you would because

I've answered questions dozens of times in this thread, it's just you don't like those answers.

Get over it or not, doesn't matter to me.

Have you?

 

[Bromptonaut]

Have you?

HAs he hellers like. And in so far as he has he's seasoned them with snide/snippy comments.

 

[Pale Rider]

he's seasoned them with snide/snippy comments.

You have liked posts in this thread which are nothing other than abuse of me.

Yet you are very keen to pick me up if I respond in kind.

You are a hypocrite, and a transparent one at that.

 

[Archie_tect]

Meanwhile... back in the house....
[Four, see what I did there?]

 

[lazybloke]

When I ditched my minidisk did I really censor it?

And despite you ditching your minidisc, mine still works just fine.
Just as Fabbers ditching LoHaG or writing alternate lyrics wouldn't stop anyone choosing their own preference.

I see no censorship, so the repeated suggestion of it for however many pages is ridiculous.

@Pale Rider - sometimes your understanding and use of language is unusual. I won't accuse you of being deliberately obtuse, other explanations are possible.

For example my son has a condition (which i think comes from me) which can make effective verbal communication difficult.

Something like that might explain your inability to grasp that one person's dislike does not equate to censorship.
It might also explain weird or troubling statements like the court "[giving] Ms Everard a good send off" or your repeated claim of "there is no violence in those rapes" .