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Reasons to dislike people. Page 10
Quote: DaButt @ October 22 2008, 4:53 PM BSTPrezunctly. I hope I used the word appropriately.
I was just joking in order to accentuate my Messiah remark. I don't really care for either candidate, but I voted for McCain in 2000 (even after Bush had sewn up the election) so I figure I'll give him another chance.
Do you think he stands a chance? Everything seems against him winning.
Quote: chipolata @ October 22 2008, 4:55 PM BSTDo you think he stands a chance? Everything seems against him winning.
Apart from his surname.
Quote: DaButt @ October 22 2008, 4:53 PM BSTPrezunctly. I hope I used the word appropriately.
I was just joking in order to accentuate my Messiah remark. I don't really care for either candidate, but I voted for McCain in 2000 (even after Bush had sewn up the election) so I figure I'll give him another chance. Obama gives me the creeps in many ways, his rabid followers even more so.
Hehee! Fair enough.
I actually totally misunderstood your Messiah remark and thought you meant god-botherer Sarah Palin. 
Quote: Frankie Rage @ October 22 2008, 12:07 PM BSTI'll stop bating you if you stop bating me, eh? Nice idea but it won't work. Not human nature. There will always be twats.
So you think pride is OK?
How about you stop making reactively prejudiced remarks and I'll stop pointing them out.
Pride can be a wonderful thing, as can identity.
Or are we going to burn the St George flags along with the Rainbow flags in the same bonfire?
Quote: Graham Bandage @ October 22 2008, 4:43 PM BSTGoodness me, this is a tedious and mean-spirited thread. I prefer it when we're all friends.
You like it better when it's all pipe and slippers chat, eh?
Not that it isn't anything but that, of course!
Quote: Aaron @ October 22 2008, 12:24 PM BSTJust as one could choose to change religion, one can equally choose to STAY with the religion one was born into, or indeed to refute religion altogether.
Equally, one can choose to not approve of the actions, belief, or other aspects of history in whatever situation one might have been born into. I am proud to live in London because I love pretty much everything about it, but some people in, say, Bristol, for example, may feel shame for its links with the slave trade. Others may be completely oblivious of it. Many gay people proclaim themselves to be proud of their sexuality, whilst others are ashamed and disgusted by this difference and uncontrollable non-conformity.
In short, you're blindly ignoring the existence of personal choice, and that it is possible to give consideration before feeling proud of something over which one may not have any direct control, in order to support an already incredibly flimsy argument.
As the wonderful zooo once said: "I do love England lots and lots. It's ace."
Well ruddy heck I entirely agree with you on that one Aaron.
People who choose to use the term pride are usually the ones who are reacting to having been told to be ashamed inr ecent years.
Hence gay pride (legalised only 40 years ago and even then section 28 in the 80s) and British pride (when St Georges flags and the Proms came under real pressure).
Maybe we should use the term shame more often for the treatment of people like Alan Turing more often.
Quote: sootyj @ October 22 2008, 5:03 PM BSTMaybe we should use the term shame more often for the treatment of people like Alan Turing more often.
He grew breasts, didn't he?
Quote: sootyj @ October 22 2008, 4:59 PM BSTHow about you stop making reactively prejudiced remarks and I'll stop pointing them out.
Pride can be a wonderful thing, as can identity.
Or are we going to burn the St George flags along with the Rainbow flags in the same bonfire?
My remarks remain valid, irrespective of your attempts to invalidate them.
And yes, all flags on the same bonfire. No more flag waving.
Pride can be a wonderful thing, as can identity.
Can be, yes. But not always, surely you can see that?
And I would say, not often when applied to country, religion, race or sexuality, if at all.
Quote: Timbo @ October 22 2008, 1:14 PM BSTLeather is a by-product of the food industry, rather than the animal being slaughtered solely for its skin.
It is okay to wear mink, provided you eat the mink.
Cows are the most horrible absued creatures, milked toi a painful death.
And I'd eat mink, silver fox or beaver given the chance.
So, sootyj would eat beaver given the chance?
Quote: Frankie Rage @ October 22 2008, 5:06 PM BSTMy remarks remain valid, irrespective of your attempts to invalidate them.
And yes, all flags on the same bonfire. No more flag waving.
Pride can be a wonderful thing, as can identity.
Can be, yes. But not always, surely you can see that?
It's wonderful to say let's be mates together and let bye gones be bye gones.
When you're in a economical dmeographic majority.
And there's a big gap between pride and arrogance or prejudice.
We should be grown up enought to recognise that.
I don't like people who when you ask them:
"If you had one wish, what would you wish for?"
Reply with:
"Ever lasting wishes"
OH HOW VERY FUCKING ORIGINAL.
Quote: chipolata @ October 22 2008, 5:05 PM BSTHe grew breasts, didn't he?
He invented to modern computer more or less, and made the Allies victory in World War 2 far more likely.
He was also arrested for gross indecency/homosexuality. Went to prison came out and killed himself.
And now all are computers are built to American designs.
Quote: Eat_My_Shirts @ October 22 2008, 5:09 PM BSTI don't like people who when you ask them:
"If you had one wish, what would you wish for?"
Reply with:
"Ever lasting wishes"
OH HOW VERY FUCKING ORIGINAL.
Seriously why wouldn't you?