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Calliope said:


Tht'a a vastly different proposition from taking in someone of a different race, culture, language, standards of hygiene and attitudes to women, and want their food to be prepared according to their religious beliefs
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Yeah - I'd draw the line at billeting a Collingwood player too.
 
Calliope said:
And this is the guy you and Wayne accused me of insulting.:screwy:
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Let's get the facts straight Cal. You were not accused of insulting anyone, just politicking in a discussion on another matter in such a way that it did not further the debate.

You have every right to call any statement into question and debate the facts, which is being done on this point.

I am certainly interested and awaiting Eager's response.
 
wayneL said:
Let's get the facts straight Cal. You were not accused of insulting anyone,
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Yes Wayne, let's get the facts straight;

As someone who often half remembers something but who is hazy on the detail, I'd have thought it would be reasonable to take Eager at face value here, instead of hurling insults?
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Posted by Julia in thread "The Gillard Government" post 3020 16 Apr. (My bolds)
 
Calliope

You continually struggle to post on the subject and can't help yourself attacking quite rudely and saying things about people that are untrue (Murdoch thread is a good example).

It doesn't worry me as I picture you taking high blood pressure tablets looking for a fight and I quite like seeing my name taken in vain every second post.

But I am sure it upsets some of the newer posters and frightens them off.

It's a matter of courtesy.
 
Calliope said:
Yes Wayne, let's get the facts straight;



Posted by Julia in thread "The Gillard Government" post 3020 16 Apr. (My bolds)
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OK, I can live with that, it's settled. At that point you were insulting Eager. You were rightly called out on it. Important to note, Eager was also called out for his inaccuracy.

But the world has moved on since then and we are now on a different point. Probably best you move on too.

Still awaiting Eager's response.
 
Calliope said:
And this is the guy you and Wayne accused me of insulting.:screwy:
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Yeah I don't get it either as what makes him any different to everyone else you insult
 
Knobby22 said:
Calliope

You continually struggle to post on the subject and can't help yourself attacking quite rudely and saying things about people that are untrue
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The statement pretty well sums up most of the posters on political threads such is life.

Knobby you and I excluded of course due to our concern for upsetting others feelings particularly myself went commenting on the posts from right wing loonies

Ever those souls claiming to be swinging or middle of the road enviably resort to impolite and inaccurate judgments based solely of their own self righteous opinions.

If anyone thinks this is direct at them then you are absolutely right and anyone who doesn't let me know so I can include you.

Any way can we get back to bashing Abbott he thoroughly deserves it unlike Calliope who we all know we all enough now and really shouldn't be offended.
 
IFocus,

God created alliteration for a reason. IOW there is a reason in God's great plan that 'loony', 'Labor' and 'left' begin with the same letter.

It all stems back to the Tower of Babel and there is a great overriding purpose as to why 'loony left' just rolls off the tongue and why 'loony right' just jars the ears.

Equally, one must consider the 'homophonic' sensibilities of 'right' (in the political sense) and 'right' (in the correctness sense).

There is reason in the language.
 
Knobby22 said:
Calliope

You continually struggle to post on the subject and can't help yourself attacking quite rudely and saying things about people that are untrue (Murdoch thread is a good example).
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You and Basilio have a problem.You think that everyone who disagrees with you is a liar, whether they be GW sceptics or conservatives.

I quite like seeing my name taken in vain every second post.
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Strange wording? Almost Godlike. I guess I am absolved.

3rd commandment; "...for the Lord shall not hold him guiltless who taketh his name in vain."
 
Calliope said:
You and Basilio have a problem.You think that everyone who disagrees with you is a liar, whether they be GW sceptics or conservatives.
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No, for example I don't think Steven Conroy is a hero, you say he is my hero and I'm unlikely to even vote Labor next election.
I could go on but its just boring. I'm far from perfect in this also, so lets drop it.
 
Calliope said:
And this is the guy you and Wayne accused me of insulting.:screwy:
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Calliope, my response to people's comments is on an individual basis and it's not personal.

Eager's post which provoked my irritation was imo unnecessarily crude.

But he also makes some interesting and thoughtful posts which I appreciate.

I do not therefore have an ongoing objection to Eager (or anyone else), but take each post on its own merits or otherwise.

My political philosophy is small 'l' liberal. That doesn't mean I'm for everything the Liberal Party says or does.
Similarly, although I think this present government is a miserably inept disaster, I like some of the policies they have come up with, e.g. recently announced aged care changes, the national disability insurance scheme.

Dunno, really. Perhaps I'm being a bit hypocritical because I'm often amused by the cleverness of some of the insulting stuff.
 
drsmith said:
All the baseball bats are currently aimed at Gillard Labor.

You'll have to do best you can with the feather duster.
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I think Gillard will be lucky if its just baseball bats.
 
Urgh. Even I am going to vote Liberal next election. Be glad when Labor is thrown out.

Regardless of whether cooky Abbott is at the helm... Hopefully he is a liberal puppet. He seems to have enough of a muzzle on him lately to suggest as much.
 
inq said:
Urgh. Even I am going to vote Liberal next election. Be glad when Labor is thrown out.

Regardless of whether cooky Abbott is at the helm... Hopefully he is a liberal puppet. He seems to have enough of a muzzle on him lately to suggest as much.
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Abbott might be a great PM if not they'll replace him, I dont envy him trying to sort this mess out in the face of what might be another GFC.
 
wayneL said:
I am certainly interested and awaiting Eager's response.
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Hmmm not sure what you want to hear.

If it was about this, that you questioned and Julia toook umbrage to:

Rednecks all over the country continually whine about the lack of assimilation from new arrivals, but continually fob it off as someone else's problem.

Get off your shiny asre and do something about it.

I certainly might.

You are just a foreigner, after all.

Would it have had the same effect if I wrote this instead?

People all over the country continually complain about the lack of assimilation from new arrivals, but don't do anything about it.

I call on all Australians to do something about it.

I certainly might.

Apart from indigenous Australians we all came from overseas, after all.


Of course not.

Writing in an uncouth manner is the tool I chose to compose a succinct post. It obviously backfired, because since then the focus has been on the manner in which I wrote and not the subject at hand. Unfortunately I find this typical of the clique here.
 
Eager said:
Hmmm not sure what you want to hear.
Rednecks all over the country continually whine about the lack of assimilation from new arrivals, but continually fob it off as someone else's problem.
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Dont know how old you guys are but they said the same about Greeks and Italians, now we love our dago mates. Asians were looked at the same but now they're ok too, Arabs and Muslims are the new challenge, watch this space.
 
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