Remembrance Sunday

[Beef Oven!]

Do you know what a false dichotomy is?

[It is ssuming there are only two alternatives when in fact there are more. How is that relevant to Mr GG?]

I think my post #59 also answers the additional point you added after I'd replied to your original post, about the definition. Regarding its relevance to MrGG, he often points out false dichotomies, real or imagined, in others and I was turning the tables on him in a roaringly funny way.

[Pabmusic]

I wasn't saying that life is a choice between thinking and 'not too thinking', as MrGG implied with his Messiah reference. A false choice is what I was thinking.

A 'false choice' - a wrong choice? - is not a false dichotomy. A false dichotomy is to imply that there are just two choices available (for instance, allow a 'free-for-all' immigration, or stop any immigration completely).

[Beef Oven!]

A 'false choice' - a wrong choice? - is not a false dichotomy. A false dichotomy is to imply that there are just two choices available (for instance, allow a 'free-for-all' immigration, or stop any immigration completely).

Thinking or non-thinking. The number of choices, not whether they are right or wrong. There are other choices. For example, thinking deeply about things that require reflection, like war and needless killing; and not thinking too much, for example about things like innocuous things like the ritual of Remembrance Sunday.

[Pabmusic]

Thinking or non-thinking. The number of choices, not whether they are right or wrong. There are other choices. For example, thinking deeply about things that require reflection, like war and needless killing; and not thinking too much, for example about things like innocuous things like the ritual of Remembrance Sunday.

Mmmn...

[Beef Oven!]

Mmmn...

Indeed.

[Pabmusic]

Indeed.

Quite.

Pass the port...

[Beef Oven!]

Quite.

Pass the port...

Don't keep alcohol in the house, except a bottle of Jackson Frères for special occasions............

[amateur51]

I'd recommend, at this stage in your discussion, having a shufti at Pedants' Corner which has developed into a fascinating exploration of Pragmatics and Rhetoric

[Pabmusic]

I'd recommend, at this stage in your discussion, having a shufti at Pedants' Corner which has developed into a fascinating exploration of Pragmatics and Rhetoric

God (or whatever) forbid!

Don't understand a word of it. Why can't they speak English?

Or write it?

(But would they be the same?)

[amateur51]

Don't keep alcohol in the house.....

in the sense that it is so rapidly consumed by the householder that it wouldn't appear on an inventory

[Pabmusic]

Don't keep alcohol in the house, except a bottle of Jackson Frères for special occasions............

Ah! Mr Pooter!

[amateur51]

Ah! Mr Pooter!

Why, Lupin to be sure!

[Pabmusic]

Why, Lupin to be sure!

Indeed. I feel young again.

[Beef Oven!]

.....This IS a problem for many people.........

Yep, the yoof of today agree with you on these matters!

Today's Guardian

[Pabmusic]

Yep, the yoof of today agree with you on these matters!

Today's Guardian

Having just talked about false dichotomies, I suspect this is a non sequitur. Just because a gang of yoofs acted in a despicable way does not mean that all young people feel the same.