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  • ahinton
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 16123

    Originally posted by jean View Post
    I didn't have much, did I?
    Did you really expect to?

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    • jean
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 7100

      Dum spiro, spero.

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      • P. G. Tipps
        Full Member
        • Jun 2014
        • 2978

        Originally posted by ahinton View Post
        Did you really expect to?
        Melius tu nosti, ahinton!

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        • MrGongGong
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 18357

          Originally posted by aeolium View Post
          and was a neo-Nazi, and had been so since at least the 1990s - when immigration concerns hardly figured in political debate.
          I guess you were in another country in the 1990's then

          If you look at the UKIP poster (the one they will try and hide now, you know the one here http://indy100.independent.co.uk/ima...27-1a0i9s8.jpg) you can see where the link and inspiration comes from.
          Which ISN'T saying that everyone who wants to leave the EU is a racist bigot BUT if you dress up like a policeman don't be surprised when people call you "officer"

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30456

            I’m proposing (no doubt to some people’s dismay), and against my better judgement, to reopen the thread on the referendum debate (to be retitled: ‘Referendum’) tomorrow. I would ask you to focus on the options: which issues weigh with you when coming to a decision, why you regard them as more important than others &c.

            I spent most of yesterday sorting out complaints behind the scenes and justifying moderation decisions: I don’t want to have to do that for the rest of the week because anger substitutes for argument when people are posting. And please don’t resort to bad language or attack other members because of the views they express: it doesn’t help. Not easy, but please try.

            For now, can we leave the matter for another place?
            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37814

              Originally posted by french frank View Post
              I’m proposing (no doubt to some people’s dismay), and against my better judgement, to reopen the thread on the referendum debate (to be retitled: ‘Referendum’) tomorrow. I would ask you to focus on the options: which issues weigh with you when coming to a decision, why you regard them as more important than others &c.

              I spent most of yesterday sorting out complaints behind the scenes and justifying moderation decisions: I don’t want to have to do that for the rest of the week because anger substitutes for argument when people are posting. And please don’t resort to bad language or attack other members because of the views they express: it doesn’t help. Not easy, but please try.

              For now, can we leave the matter for another place?
              For that I would be most grateful, thanks ff.

              For one thing, for all the knockabout, there ain't much of a debate of any kind that's helping me finally come to a decision other than here.

              If people (including me) could keep their outrage to themselves, it's only for another 5 days. After that, there'll be every reason to shut us up.

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26573

                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                I’m proposing (no doubt to some people’s dismay), and against my better judgement, to reopen the thread on the referendum debate (to be retitled: ‘Referendum’) tomorrow. I would ask you to focus on the options: which issues weigh with you when coming to a decision, why you regard them as more important than others &c.

                I spent most of yesterday sorting out complaints behind the scenes and justifying moderation decisions: I don’t want to have to do that for the rest of the week because anger substitutes for argument when people are posting. And please don’t resort to bad language or attack other members because of the views they express: it doesn’t help. Not easy, but please try.

                For now, can we leave the matter for another place?
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • ahinton
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 16123

                  Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
                  Melius tu nosti, ahinton!
                  Whether or not I know, I make an assumption.

                  Anyway, what's with it wiv you people wot gotten a publik skule ejucayshun?

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                  • ahinton
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 16123

                    Originally posted by jean View Post
                    Dum spiro, spero.
                    Or, to put it another way, don't hold your breath...

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                    • ahinton
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 16123

                      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                      For that I would be most grateful, thanks ff.

                      For one thing, for all the knockabout, there ain't much of a debate of any kind that's helping me finally come to a decision other than here.

                      If people (including me) could keep their outrage to themselves, it's only for another 5 days. After that, there'll be every reason to shut us up.
                      Agreed wholeheartedly - except for that last bit it in the unlikely event of a dead heat, peut-ĂȘtre...

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                      • Flosshilde
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 7988

                        Amazing news that the Democrats are holding a sit-in in the House of Representatives, demanding a vote on two mild gun control motions. Also Amazing that it's being refused by the Speaker (a Republican, I think)

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37814

                          Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                          Amazing news that the Democrats are holding a sit-in in the House of Representatives, demanding a vote on two mild gun control motions. Also Amazing that it's being refused by the Speaker (a Republican, I think)
                          I wonder what will happen if Trump gets elected President. Back to Wild West conditions, no doubt.

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                            I wonder what will happen if Trump gets elected President. Back to Wild West conditions, no doubt.
                            And that's just in the House of Representatives!
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • Richard Barrett
                              Guest
                              • Jan 2016
                              • 6259

                              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                              I wonder what will happen if Trump gets elected President. Back to Wild West conditions, no doubt.
                              But this is as likely as Farage becoming prime minister last year, if not even less so - of course the media are making a big song and dance about it because Trump makes such good copy, but even if he weren't an egomaniacal lying buffoon, his strategy of relying almost completely on social media, public meetings and soundbites, which might have worked in the primaries, isn't going to pan out so well nationally - if the Republicans actually allow him to run as their candidate. So no worries there I think. Which means the USA will get a Republican president anyway, though for some reason she's running for the Democrats.

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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25226

                                Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                                But this is as likely as Farage becoming prime minister last year, if not even less so - of course the media are making a big song and dance about it because Trump makes such good copy, but even if he weren't an egomaniacal lying buffoon, his strategy of relying almost completely on social media, public meetings and soundbites, which might have worked in the primaries, isn't going to pan out so well nationally - if the Republicans actually allow him to run as their candidate. So no worries there I think. Which means the USA will get a Republican president anyway, though for some reason she's running for the Democrats.

                                thanks Richard, I have just realised what it was that 3 years studying American History did to me....
                                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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