1. You are quite the moron aren't you.
1. Apart from straying from the thread's intent
2. with quotes from Lord Byron,
3. you now draw your own conclusions from left field.
4. The Tunnel is a public asset in corporate hands for an agreed term. Your poor comprehension should not be an excuse to disagree with anything. If you don't want to understand what makes a body a quango, don't make presumptive statements about them.
5. You are truly the serial pest of ASF and I can fully understand why so many here have you on "ignore".
rob you are really determined here aren't you. Personally I preferred the discussion with Garpal, who after all is the one I directed my first enquiry to, (except that you pipe up with a heap of acid), that the sentence under discussion was made less ambiguous by deletion of all reference to quangos. = hangovers (apparently), from Thatcherism days.
I guess in summary I could say that I consider that sentence pretty nonsensical – as well as a provocation (hey rederob, how well do you know gg?, lol)- and I have invited both you and gg to give me an example of a quango that fits the meaning. No luck on that score as yet.
You do realise I take it that this grew from a discussion of racially non-PC jokes on another thread? Personally, I imagine I am as one with that famous leftie Malcolm Fraser on the question of racial jokes under these circumstances.
1. What is the intent of this thread? The thread is a bit a “fun” by Garpal to post/highlight a blatantly tainted sentence – might as well call the thread “in quasi defence of non PC jokes – including racial jokes during leadups to the November US election”
Hey if the plan is to post tainted provocative political sentences (or racist jokes for that matter) – and then not permit people to discuss the ethics of so doing, or the merits thereof, then so be it. I suspect however that would be counter to ASF policy.
:topic So far I have been astounded at the fair and accurate contributions on ASF on a real variety of topics on different threads – where time (imo) has proved those posts right. Won’t bother mentioning the threads by name.
2. and 3. I guess I really enjoy those words of Byron – certainly I prefer them to that sentence. Of course I could counter with equally political ambiguous nonsensical sentences from “left field”, but I won’t bother (and I’m guessing only a very few others will go there). Incidentally, I probably vote Liberal twice as often as I vote Labor.
4. ok – quangos. Forget tunnels (forget that article) - You say that the "water authorities" are an ideal example of a quango. ok.
hey rob - wooooh there lol.
so are YOU ready to give an example of how that sentence makes sense (using an example of a quango)?
still waiting. - and for that matter why they are linked to left-wing? and/or what they have to do with the meaning of that sentence?
“there I was telling this joke and suddenly I was prosecuted by the Water Authority (or some other quango)”
Whilst you’re at it, maybe tell us what a “jobsworth” is.
5. ok – your opinion. you’re entitled to it. Having said that, going by the 40,000 plus hits on the poetry thread , I’d say that others enjoy a break from trading –or for some other masochistic reason, don’t have me on the ignore thread.
One thing I would appreciate is if YOU put me on YOUR ignore thread, rather than reduce questions I put to others (who answer civilly) to the level of your vitriol.
:topic: I personally force myself to concentrate on non-trading threads – to yield not to the temptatin of constantly changing my trading “bets” – and attract wasteful brokerage.