Tom Daley's In Love ...

[Flosshilde]

Wel, I know more than a little because you never stop banging on about it.

So amateur's posts are having some benefit? Perhaps if he (& others) keep 'banging on about it' the you might eventually learn a lot more.

[Mr Pee]

No sweetheart, the reason it's in the dungeon is that you've thrown your toys out of the pram and started getting antsy, as I predicted in the OP.

Wrong, as usual. This thread was moved to the dungeon before I made my first contribution. I am quite sure FF will confirm that, if you want to bother her to check that, and if she can be bothered to respond, both of which I doubt.

The rest of your responses are of the yah-boo variety and really, life's too short.

[Mr Pee]

So amateur's posts are having some benefit? Perhaps if he (& others) keep 'banging on about it' the you might eventually learn a lot more.

I thought you were ignoring me?

[Barbirollians]

Thanks Ferret - to be honest to one who not being gay has never had to face homophobia, this had never occurred to me.

And think of all those same sex partners who had and in some circles may still have to attend their loved one's funerals as a " friend " .

I am rather saddened that french frank to appease those who would rather not hear about gay people constantly dumps threads with anything to do with LGBT people in here where they cannot scare the horses .

[Ferretfancy]

Tell you what Mr Pee, I'll fall in love with you and keep on saying so, maybe send you some flowers or a dolly for Christmas. Who knows, you might decide to keep quiet!

[Flosshilde]

I am rather saddened that french frank to appease those who would rather not hear about gay people constantly dumps threads with anything to do with LGBT people in here where they cannot scare the horses .

Ah well, that's the Liberals for you.

[french frank]

I am rather saddened that french frank to appease those who would rather not hear about gay people constantly dumps threads with anything to do with LGBT people in here where they cannot scare the horses .

What they 'don't want' is any topic which ends up with the same people trading the same insults. I posted saying I would 'let it run' even though it was clearly a current affairs topic and should have been posted here in the first place - no matter what the subject was. When others started objecting to it being on Platform 3, I moved it to allow those who wanted to continue discussing to do so. Any objections to that seem only that it deprives it of 'oxygen' - and if the reason it was posted was to raise the profile, as I have said, it's treated like other subjects that continually get raised - regular anti-immigration threads eventually got banned; anti-EU and anti-French jokes were mainly started by one person who is now banned (for other reasons); if there were such threads as pro-UKIP, proLib Dem - or pro Marxism - being posted by supporters at regular intervals and causing annoyance, they would be moved to. Unlike clapping between movements, trails on Radio 3 and the Eternal Breakfast Debate, none of the topics are connected with Radio 3, but they are removed because of the regularity with which they are raised.

This is not a free platform for special interest groups - any of them. In my view there is a load of balderdash posted on both sides of ALL these arguments. The only difference is that most of the others (including the anti-Catholic threads) seem to have petered out.

[Flosshilde]

Tell you what Mr Pee, I'll fall in love with you and keep on saying so, maybe send you some flowers or a dolly for Christmas. Who knows, you might decide to keep quiet!

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: : :rose:

[amateur51]

What they 'don't want' is any topic which ends up with the same people trading the same insults. I posted saying I would 'let it run' even though it was clearly a current affairs topic and should have been posted here in the first place - no matter what the subject was. When others started objecting to it being on Platform 3, I moved it to allow those who wanted to continue discussing to do so. Any objections to that seem only that it deprives it of 'oxygen' - and if the reason it was posted was to raise the profile, as I have said, it's treated like other subjects that continually get raised - regular anti-immigration threads eventually got banned; anti-EU and anti-French jokes were mainly started by one person who is now banned (for other reasons); if there were such threads as pro-UKIP, proLib Dem - or pro Marxism - being posted by supporters at regular intervals and causing annoyance, they would be moved to. Unlike clapping between movements, trails on Radio 3 and the Eternal Breakfast Debate, none of the topics are connected with Radio 3, but they are removed because of the regularity with which they are raised.

This is not a free platform for special interest groups - any of them. In my view there is a load of balderdash posted on both sides of ALL these arguments. The only difference is that most of the others (including the anti-Catholic threads) seem to have petered out.

I have demonstrated how the Tom Daley thread is relevant to Radio Three's recent Britten output.

I am saddened to read that human rights is designated apparently as a special interest group.

I note the comment about 'balderdash on both sides' but on this occasion I'm afraid it appears to be present on all three sides.

[Beef Oven!]

He's goddit baaad!

[Flosshilde]

Grow up.

[Beef Oven!]

Grow up.

Is it not a bit late in the day for that?

[Nick Armstrong]

I am rather saddened....

It's the quality of the "debate" that sees things consigned here, alas.

EDIT: Just saw ff has made a similar point

[Anna]

It's the quality of the "debate" that sees things consigned here, alas.
EDIT: Just saw ff has made a similar point

.In my view there is a load of balderdash posted on both sides of ALL these arguments. The only difference is that most of the others (including the anti-Catholic threads) seem to have petered out.

Indeed, coming up to Christmas - the time is ripe for some anti-Catholic or anti-Marian cult bashing balderdash! Bring on the BVM and Mary Magdalen jokes! :-) (Plenty of sexist, anti-feminist scope there)
Only joking, of course .... :-/

[french frank]

I have demonstrated how the Tom Daley thread is relevant to Radio Three's recent Britten output.

I am saddened to read that human rights is designated apparently as a special interest group.

I note the comment about 'balderdash on both sides' but on this occasion I'm afraid it appears to be present on all three sides.

We clearly shan't agree. But if it was Britten who was the important link, why did you put it on Platform 3, the board for general discussion, rather than music?

This is not about 'human rights', in general - it is about a right in which you take a special interest and keep raising. The reason that it's the only one that keeps getting moved down here is because, as I said, all the other 'special interest' posters have either given up or left the forum.

What is or is not 'balderdash' in my view and in your view is, again, clearly, a matter of opinion. Some issues have been about gay rights - like the one JLW started about the situation in Russia. But since there are probably only two people on this forum who would dispute the validity of gay rights, with the rest defending them, along with all human rights (and I do recall one or two other who also oppose the concept of human rights altogether) you have, at best a virtually entirely sympathetic audience, at worse people who want to get on with discussing other subjects.