Big Wave

Heh. It's quite simple. A comment insulting someone's religion may be
offensive on many levels, but it's not racist. It's religionist (if such
a horrible word exists).

I regard it as quite a simple point, in not quite the same way that I
regard tallbloke's ability to argue as simple.

And it's fun to watch him dance.

 

Nah. Too irresponsible.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Thankyou, at last you seem to have got my point.

Now *you* really are starting to sound like Des.

 

No - you see, you've snipped the essential ingredient *again*

Let me put it back for you;

"but it's not racist"

And that was your original point.

*Sigh*

A useful rule of Usenet is that when you make a cock-up, the best thing
to do is simply say "Yeah, OK". Constant avoidance efforts by diverting
from the original point, selective snipping, etc only make you look more
of a prannet.

Des used to do it. Probably still does. Hoyt McKagen, of blessed
carbonaceous memory, was the all-time master of it. But, for a newbie,
you aren't doing badly.

Now *you* really are starting to sound like Des.


Actually, there you may have a point ;-))

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

No. it was my original jibe. I tacitly conceded *your point* posts ago,
when I said that I was merely trying to discourage you from upsetting
people no matter whether the insult was against their
race/culture/religion or whatever.

Lets not go there, Ok? ;-)

 

Nah. Too irresponsible.[/QUOTE]

Heh. When I was at school bamboo blowpipes were de rigeur, using
pellets of blotting paper as a missile.

I modified mine to accept a ink cartridge inserted from underneath,
which imparted a liberal amount of ink to the pellet at it accelerated
up the pipe.

Even less popular was the big-bore version that projected an ink
cartridge with a modeling pin mounted in the front.

They eventually made me a prefect just before I left, but I got the
impression they were hoping it would make me more responsible, rather
than considering me to have achieved that unhappy state already. It
didn't work.

 

Ah. OK then. Be more explicit next time.

And **** not upsetting people anyway ;-)

Indeed not.

Kissy-kissy.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Well keep it specific. Northern git, southern poof etc is more acceptable
when aimed at an individual.

Slap-slap

 

But *all* Northerners are Northern gits.

 

Heh. My weapon of choice at school was a spud-gun modelled on a
derringer that used a cap (as in cap gun) as the propellant. I used to
fill the space between cap and spud with gunpowder emptied from my
stash of penny bangers. Loud bang, big flash, very fast spud.

Actually, that puts me in mind of a gun you once described to me. Punt
gun was it? Punchline was, IIRC, "Bugger Oi".

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Come up and tell us one at a time. That way we can take our time over kicking
your arse back to lunnun.

 

Colin Irvine says...

Mine was a rounders bat.

 

Did you do P.E. with the gurls or something?

 

tallbloke says...

Boys played rounders occasionally at middle school, they called it
softball but we all knew it was rounders really. I nicked a bat for my
own purposes.

 

Our softball bat and ball was bigger than the rounders kit. More or less
rounders rules, as you say.

 

Lozzo wrote

Mine was Big Eddie.

 

That sounds like when I was clay-pigeon shooting with an 1858 Enfield
replica musket. Black powder makes a lot of smoke.

"Pull!"

Boing...

BOOM

From the other (downwind) side of the hedge:

"Bugger Oi what were that then?"

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Christopher Des

Heh.

A while back I was trying to get a recalcitrant bonfire to go. This was
eventually accomplished with the aid of quite a lot of methanol[1].

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMPH!

Followed a few seconds later by my neighbour's voice from the other side
of the hedge:

"That sounded like it should have had a countdown".


[1] I had some, I used it. OK?
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WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

<g> That's the one.