You REALLY are twisting this for your own convenience!


Keys and Gray obviously had issues about female officials LONG before they were shown the door, i have tried to make it clear to you that i have tremendous respect for Tanya......

The interesting thing about this, is that i was only quoting what someone else posted about her a while ago...........i dont remember you going "off on one" then



It was never my intention to upset anyone, really it wasn't!

...as welcome as a turd in a swimming baths
the dumb row laughs

What you should say is: Oh! Oh!! You did, did you?! Well, I've got a good mind to give you a ruddy good punch on the bottom for what you just said! You're talking about the woman I love!

Are you suggesting that those who can't speak are of low intellect?

what a stupid thread I'm sure she doesn't give a duck about her deep voice. Talk about over sensitive it's not like people with deep voices have been enslaved or denied the vote!! Get a grip!

Personally I wouldn't use the word 'dumb' to describe someone who was unable to speak. I would use the word 'mute' which is much less ambiguous, and is now the prevalent term to describe this condition.
I would use the word 'dumb' to describe your post above.

The words however are not mine, but John Cooper Clarke's. I suspect he had a much deeper understanding of both the word 'dumb' and the concept of 'dumb row' than you appear to.

All well and good but I'd imagine there'd be some who'd be offended nonetheless. Rightly or wrongly, who can say.

There are some who would profess to be offended at almost any word in the dictionary, invariably as a matter of politically-correct principle. And there are some who set out to look smart (as they see it) by causing offence.

Can't we all just employ a bit of common sense, and recognise the intent rather than pounce on the words? Substance over legal form and all that? And recognise context, and that a word used safely in one context may be inappropriate used in another? And stop using words in a context likely to or intended to cause offence, or deliberately taking offence at words used in a context where offence was never intended?

You know, behave like mature adults not five-year-olds?

Or is that way too forlorn a hope?

Yes.

you've got a duel personallity...........I hate both of them!

I saw six men kicking and punching him once. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

Your second attempt to quote from 'Love Story in Reverse'
I prefer the original version...it's funnier, and makes sense.

I could save you the hassle of your next response(s) by posting the entire poem, but it's easier to just post a link.
[urlhttp://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858881780/[/url

Been on the quotable quotes site have we?
Ah, the old ones are the best.

It's a famous Les Dawson quote. I hope you didn't find it too "offensive".

Not particularly...actually it's a misquote of a famous Les Dawson quote.

Well I got it word for word from the internet.

Of COURSE it's a misquote.

You should be more careful with your sources then.
The original gag was one of his more famous 'mother-in-law' jokes.

Of COURSE therefore, it's a misquote...word for word, the subject could not possibly have been 'him'.

Have I walked into a referencing seminar?

...looks like it doesn't it.

Great quote!
Where did you find it?

I'm offended with this. Can't work out why or for what possible reason but immediately retract it sir.

ah! at this point of the arguement i must insist you google "godwin's law"

They don't respect Godwin's Law around these parts - I declared the Martin Gleeson thread closed some time ago after one poster likened another to the Nazi's, but it carried on unabated.

some people just cant resist a bit of reductio ad hitlerum.

very poor practice in my opinion, once it's been raised the topic should die!

IMO the really disappointing thing about this thread is not that anyone is being likened to Nazis...it's that there are some who by their own admission are sad enough to not mind being likened to Nazis.