Bampot Alert!

[Guest]

And this is one someone voted for ...

Paul Broun a Republican congressman for Georgia who sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology of the House of Representatives has dismissed evolution, the Big Bang theory and embryology as "lies straight from the pit of hell".

Paul Broun, who is running for re-election this November unopposed by Democrats, made the comments during a speech at a baptist church last month. I'm assuming that the Democrats are not opposing him because he can do more damage to the Republican cause from within than from without, but it still worries me that he is on the house of Representatives' science committee.

So ... does he really hold these views or is he the victim of some commie conspiracy against The Truth ?

See for yourself here .... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...volution-video

Tragically, another Republican congressman sitting on the same House Committee on Science, Space and Technology is Todd Akin who made the news recently. This bampot comes from Missouri and sparked outrage and ridicule this summer, after suggesting that it was "really rare" for rape to result in pregnancy.

I just hope that there is some balancing rational scientific input on that there House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

[vinteuil]

Tragically, another Republican congressman sitting on the same House Committee on Science, Space and Technology is Todd Akin who made the news recently. This bampot comes from Missouri and sparked outrage and ridicule this summer, after suggesting that it was "really rare" for rape to result in pregnancy.

... ah, but Todd Akin did specify that it was in cases of "legitimate rape" that the woman's body was able to prevent conception...

[amateur51]

... ah, but Todd Akin did specify that it was in cases of "legitimate rape" that the woman's body was able to prevent conception...

Hence the pertinence of the bampot label

[John Wright]

... ah, but Todd Akin did specify that it was in cases of "legitimate rape" that the woman's body was able to prevent conception...

Ah, maybe he thought Watership Down was about humans.....

[Thropplenoggin]

Hence the pertinence of the bampot label

I thought it was barmpot. Ammers, ask yourself this: What would Fred Dibnah say?

[amateur51]

I thought it was barmpot. Ammers, ask yourself this: What would Fred Dibnah say?

I think both are correct Thropplenoggin - bampot is Scottish and barmpot is West Midlands of England, I think.

I'm pretty certain that the late Fred Dibnah would say 'nowt'

[scottycelt]

Well, I have to be honest here, amsey ... if for nothing else, I do love the total and utter contempt some of these US Republican guys have for the 'received wisdom' and 'political correctness' some of us have to suffer in our cowed press and news media on an almost daily basis.

Barmpots or bampots, let's hear a bit more from them, I say, though even I'd cry 'foul' if they ever started to hector the all-knowing ones about Flying Teapots and Green-Eyed Spaghetti Monsters!

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, I have to be honest here, amsey ... if for nothing else, I do love the total and utter contempt some of these US Republican guys have for the 'received wisdom' and 'political correctness' some of us have to suffer in our cowed press and news media on an almost daily basis.

Barmpots or bampots, let's hear a bit more from them, I say, though even I'd cry 'foul' if they ever started to hector the all-knowing ones about Flying Teapots and Green-Eyed Spaghetti Monsters!

Been at the magic oats again, scotty?

[amateur51]

Been at the magic oats again, scotty?

Have a care there, Caliban!

Always check how Partick Thistle have done recently before chancing your arm with bruvver scottycelt

A word to the wise on this occasion ...

Irn-Bru Scottish Football League Division 1

Greenock Morton 3 Partick Thistle 1 ... watch out for a grizzly scotty, I'd say

[scottycelt]

Been at the magic oats again, scotty?

Yes, and just on my first sip of 'barley water' now, Cal ...

[scottycelt]

Have a care there, Caliban!

Always check how Partick Thistle have done recently before chancing your arm with bruvver scottycelt

A word to the wise on this occasion ...

Irn-Bru Scottish Football League Division 1

Greenock Morton 3 Partick Thistle 1 ... watch out for a grizzly scotty, I'd say

Even the mighty occasionally suffer a fall, amsey ... and Morton probably cheated by consuming something much stronger then Irn-Bru ... Greenock's well-renowned for such deplorable practices.

[heliocentric]

I do love the total and utter contempt some of these US Republican guys have for the 'received wisdom' and 'political correctness'

Spot on - as long as you leave out the "received" and "political". Though actually this Broun character indeed receives all his, er, wisdom from a book written two thousand years ago. And he can't even spell his own name!

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, and just on my first sip of 'barley water' now, Cal ...

[Flosshilde]

Have a care there, Caliban!

Always check how Partick Thistle have done recently before chancing your arm with bruvver scottycelt

A word to the wise on this occasion ...

Irn-Bru Scottish Football League Division 1

Greenock Morton 3 Partick Thistle 1 ... watch out for a grizzly scotty, I'd say

As you said, Am - bampot alert :sigh:

[scottycelt]

As you said, Am - bampot alert :sigh:

Sigh ... I agree, Flossie ... and with Am's very timely alert, of course ... we're now all in very grave danger of being surrounded by these crazy bampots and flying teapots, so we are ... sigh. ...