TOT: Message of Good Cheer (2023 Update)

[critcher]

Are you Vincent Cooper ?

[critcher]

doesn't make you or them right.

[critcher]

what a philosopher you are Brian, it is all about life in the long run, not tomorrow or the next day.

[Tim Streater]

Hold on to that thought as the barbarians [1] invade and cut bits off you (small bits first, then larger ones). After all, the Jews had rights but that didn't stop certain people from offing 6 million of them. That's the trouble, you see. At the end of the day it's the one with the bigger stick that decides who is right and who isn't.

[1] Insert who you like for "barbarians".

[Adrian]

My pleasure, you piss-poor excuse for a human.

[Adrian]

It hasn't gone anywhere.

[fred]

They may be f'ckwits but they appear to be trolling you quite effectively.

Please don't assume that these interchanges can ever form any kind of reasoned debate, it's just a group of idiots attempting to provoke an emotional response.

I don't fell the need to argue with idiots, I'm quite happy to register my view once and then ignore attempts at baiting for further responses.

As you say, reasoned participants will ignore the melee, you will have made your point and the twisted post is less likely to receive a wider audience.

[Adrian]

Well, quite.

It always makes me chuckle that one of the "reasons" the Islamophobes wave about is a perception of Muslims as being intolerant of other religions. Hypocrisy seems beyond their comprehension.

[charles]

Killing someone who isn't a Muslim is a bit more than intolerance. I know many are quite happy to live & let live, but there's a vocal minority who aren't.

[Adrian]

You seem to be conflating action and motivation. But, whatever the action, the motivation is not something that's even _remotely_ exclusive to any particular religion (or, indeed, many other areas of life).

On every side, as ever. Always has been, always will be - and, equally as ever, religion is only being (ab)used as a recruiting sergeant by those with other motives.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Well yes. Same as the vocal minority on here who keep on and on posting their hate posts.

[harryagain]

Aha. Always the return to abuse when your shitferbrains PC socialist ideas are demonstrated to be what they are. ie Total Bollix.

[Adrian]

No, it's quite simple, Harry.

You regard the vast majority of humanity as inferior beings because of some small and fairly trivial detail about them, without knowing one other tiny thing about them - worse, you don't actually care. They are inferior because they aren't just like you.

Yet I'm the abusive one?

[Adrian]

No, it really isn't. It's exactly what harry just said.

Let me remind you, even though it was actually quoted in that reply :-

In that, he was merely being explicit about what he regularly says in many other threads - take his attitude to women in the tenants-and- radiators thread.

Unless, of course, you think "white men" aren't anything but a relatively small minority of humanity?

[Fredxxx]

He may have been referring to an assertion that white men, on average, have a higher IQ than other races or sexes?

[harryagain]

Not actually true. This is based on the "IQ" test. Chinese and Japanese come higher then us. Lowest of the pile are Australian aboriginals and Kalahari desert occupiers. It's not a reason to be cruel to them. Just don't expect too much.

Hey I wonder if Wodders is aboriginal/has aboriginal blood?

There's a lot of people/parts of the world out there never even discovered the wheel or metals. Civilisation never happened.

[harryagain]

You could start here.

[dennis]

Or don't expect that there is anything like a universal intelligence test. If it were based on the ability to survive you wouldn't have anything like as high IQ as the Aboriginals.

Wheels aren't much good in jungles.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Must admit to wondering how those who think differing IQ averages between the races that important react to their own kids having differing IQs?

[harryagain]

Once apon a time, there were jungles everywhere. But you have to invent roads before you can invent the wheel.