Man 200+ years ago had problematic opinions. Solution: take his statue down. :clap:
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...y?CMP=soc_3156
Man 200+ years ago had problematic opinions. Solution: take his statue down. :clap:
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...y?CMP=soc_3156
I was moved to comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
My comment was somewhat intemperate.
It was modded.
Did your comment point out the sheer historical illiteracy necessary to take this view? Or the logical conclusions of telling people that their history is rendered invalid because of anachronistic concerns about race?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It was mainly just abusive, to be fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
10 chars ya ****Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I tread a pretty fine line on there to avoid getting banned, so I never use bad language. I simply point out how absurd they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
They delete these truths, of course. But I feel I'm fighting the good fight anyway.
I never used bad language, either. Didn't save me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Mind you, I took a fairly robust line about the transers, which I think meant my cards were marked. :-(
If you must use pompous Latin phrases b at least deploy them correctly.
Again, I'm afraid I have to agree here. Everyone knows Nelson was a right ****. I've been saying it for years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Actually I don't suppose they care about swearing, given that they are Godless, heathen ****s with precisely zero morals, so I'm probably wasting my time; I should just give them both barrels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
You take that back. Treasonous swine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Did he really oppose abolition as vehemently as this Guardianista claims? If so, then I am on your side from a moral standpoint but I still wouldn't sanction removing his statue. I sense the article under scrutiny here was a tad tongue in cheek and the swivel eyed right, c and b, have been reeled in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Reductio ad absurdam is the means whereby the premise of an argument can be disproved by taking it to its logical - and absurd - conclusion. In this context it is entirely apt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Besides, the nearest you ever got to a grasp of Latin is the coitus interruptus that led to the best part of you dripping down your mother's arse crack, you shambling homunculus.
Must you be abusive?Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Who cares? He repeatedly thrashed the Frogs, rogered Lady H and, when in doubt, went straight at 'em.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Hurrah!
Me abusive! Have you seen the vitriol I have had to endure from your little concubine Berni for simply pointing out that he has cited a propositional technique incorrectly. And do you admonish him, no you do not!
I have studied the Predicate and Propositional Calculii to BSc Hons. level c so you can trust me on this. ( After I gave up pulling jobbies out of jobbie pipes - and yer mum's arse of course).
I rather admired his prose. You merely called me 'swivel-eyed'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
A right wing loon I may be. Swivel-eyed I reject.
Never mind all that. When do we get to tear down all the statues of Churchill? And piss on Thatcher's grave?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
I very much doubt it. I was just having a laugh.
I believe he did make some rather homophobic jokes on board his ships.
Attlee presided over our catastrophic withdrawal from India, costing millions of lives, so I want that one down, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
And Highgate Cemetery is going to lose it's biggest tourist attraction, too.
I have little doubt that the day is rapidly approaching when this will happen, and I very much hope you and your fellow liberals of the SWP enjoy this hellhole world you have created. You can all sit around together with your unwashed hair and your so-called drugs and think of new and exciting ways to defile our once-great civilisation. Perhaps you can even sodomise each other, for you have made such bestial behaviour perfectly acceptbale.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
He took a dim view of people rising up against their monarchs and some of his actions in Naples left a certain amount to be desired. Oh, and he pounded the shīte out of Copenhagen, but who cares, really?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Without wishing to sound insensitive in these modern times but wasn't that his job?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
You even think your drugs are better than ours :hehe::hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I do not dabble in drugs, p. Drugs fund terrorism and befuddle the mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
A gentleman needs no drug other than decent claret and love for his country.
Of course. Tougher times and, since the ethos of the Royal Navy at the time was very much a form of legalised piracy, some robustness was hardly to be wondered at.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Nor do I. Clean since March.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Living the dream
Its a bit arrogant to call your ship Victory before the battle. You would look a right **** if you lost...Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
479 days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I'm getting bang on it in 20 days.
Why, what's happening in 20 days?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It'll be 499 days. Just the time to fall off the wagon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
You'd be the Hanif Mohammed* of cocaine abstinence imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
*Extremely obscure cricket reference.
Is that the schoolboy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Hanif Mohammed? No, he was a Pakistani batsman who for years held the first class record for highest score with 499.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Did the silly **** actually get out on 499???Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Nelson was a great man who saved this country and paid the ultimate price.
He saved this country so that all the ****s who have moved in can complain about him instead of staying in the racist, sexist bankrupt countries with kleptomaniac rulers which they have created.