tag at the end of the quote.
Believe me, you need all the help with legibility you can get.
And WTF is a croppy? We’re talking guns here!
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well sure isn’t grand that we have a linguistics,or syntactician expert to keep us all in order…watch your grammar
and being a PADDY AND LINGUIST you don’t know what a CROPPY is…suggest you look it up
perhaps with legibilty i do need assistance…but sure there is always you
Now If I throw a stick, will you leave?
[QUOTE=Weirddave]
Nice complete strawman. FTR, I guarantee that I know more about American history, warts and all, than you do. Nowhere have I said that America is never wrong, but if you want to put a Marxist spin on things,/quote]
oh i would say you do know more of American history and the Cromwellian warts and all
Poor old Marx…if in doubt bring him out…the red under the bed and maybe Joe McCarthy that was indeed a period of warts and all…You do so much sound like a politican.Whatever you say say nothing.
It’s really quite amusing you answered most of the questions you asked…so how can ignorance be challanged…which i thought was the motto of this board…
Your other remaks is still all the typical AMERICAN SHIBBOLETHS
*However I like you. You remind me of myself when I was young and stupid. *
It’s a damn shame that I’m no longer young, but you’re still stupid.
damn shame your wit is pathetic… It would appear you started out with nothing and still have most of it left.
Nemo me impune lacessit.
I agree, he’s not the kind of guy you’d like to have on your side on this board, not the way he behaves right now. It’s sad, because there’s potentially a lot to learn from someone who’s lived through the unrest up-close and personal, but I guess it’s also hard not to become twisted from it.
However, I also note that there are enough people responding to him from the other side that have little trouble stooping to his level.
enipla
I thank you for addressing me by name…this a quick reply as it’s almost 2-30 am,however i will certainly reply in full to morrow
slan
OK, looked it up (a rebel, a term dating from 1798). Sorry for not being up to date on the slang of that interminable conflict over there.
Arwin
you have a way with words…unfortunately the wrong way…you may not like me…i don’t mind,i have endured a lot worse,so as a karl jung you believe i’m twisted…well perhaps as ROBBIE BURNS SAID oh the gift that god as geeus.to see ourselves as others seeus you might be right
But i don’t think so…for then, in my experience this world is totally twisted, and by the good guys
It was easier when they wore white hats…but they now skirt on the fringe of truth with a WMD in one hand and a bible in the other,I believe your looking at the worst evil on earth…and the world especially AMERICA is full of them
But thank GOD a lot of AMERICANS still believe in truth,freedom,and the rights of man…the rest have FORGOTTEN JEFFERSON,MADISON AND OF COURSE PAINE
I like the “not the way he behaves now” Man have you not the balls to say what you truly feel without being a patronising eejit.
But one redeeming feature you do have, you saw the true selves come out…but then made another bollix by saying" stooping to his level " can you not see that is their level,
see you are learning and yet you don’t give me credit for it…that is a shame
I agree. Stupid paddy. It’s OK though, I figure you were drunk.
[QUOTE=SteveG1]
My problems are your problems. but i never realised that your “gun culture” stopped America from being invaded…who were the enemy?..and you were terrorist in 1776 and 1812 …remarkable that so many of your leaders then, were IRISH of the radical presbyterian republican tradition…and given the geographical and size of your country,if we had had half of that advantage the BRITISH WOULD have been gone in the 17th century…you ought to study world history a little bit more…you do know there is a world outside of AMERICA
And pardon you, but you did commit atrocities in your war of independence, and in fact did wear masks…oh yes i’m afraid you need further study on your own history…it wasn’t all feckin holywood crap. Bomb own friends and neighbours really everytime you open that mouth your foot goes in to it…foot and mouth disease…you were not aware of a little thing called a civil war when you butchered one and other…
You know there is little else to say to you except, I’ll try being nicer if you’ll try being smarter. which i know is going to be pretty difficult for you,still try you never know.
I think we’d all be grateful if you just tried learning how to construct a proper sentence.
Who exactly are you talking to when you say “you”?
When a school yard bully starts throwing shit at you, sometimes it gets thrown back. That’s what I see. Finn initiated a school yard pushing match in an otherwise civil discussion. Yes, you said it. It’s sad.
Man! This thread needs a silver bullet, or stake through the heart, or something.
This is a little confusing. A car in your garage is designed to get into and drive. A gun is designed to aim at a person or animal and kill them. In their military application, guns are used to kill people. How can such a device be classed as “not dangerous”? A q-tip is “not dangerous”. Guns? Not so much.
The thing is, I want to know Rebekkah’s answer to the question, darn it!
Well, to be completely literal, a gun is not dangerous. A gun with ammunition in it is dangerous. The Enfield rifle and the flintlock pistol sitting on the floor under my bed are at this moment no more dangerous than the lacrosse sticks in my coat closet, but if I were to go to the store and buy cartridges for one and powder for the other they’d become dangerous…
although we do have a bayonet on the enfield.
So sorry…another linguist…this board is full of them
as my fellow country man said
The upper classes contradict others,the wise contradict themselves…and since i dont consider ENGLISH as my primary language…you will have to forgive my lapses
Well, obviously we disagree there. I’ve given plenty of cites, you’ve come up with none. All you’ve got is one personal experience in which a gun may or may not have saved you from further harm (regardless of whether a baseball bat, large kitchen knife or cell phone wouldn’t have been just as effective).
By goodness, catsix, you are comparing your burglary incident during which nothing happend to you, your kin or your stuff at all, to GusNSpot’s many violent incidents including the death of his sister?
It’s clear to me by now that you only care about you and no-one else, since you’re not willing to even consider the possibility that the overal benefit of guns might be negative. I’m just glad I’m not your neighbour.
All I feel is that your approach does more evil than good. You see, in the U.S. things don’t change much nor quickly in terms of individual Americans, but the different positions on various subjects is fairly balanced out, so that small shifts of opinion can have great results. It is my opinion that by respectfully appealing to common sense and listening to opposing views on important issues, you have a far greater chance of helping both the other and yourself. You might learn something, they might learn something, and as long as the common goal is to determine what’s right based on solid arguments preferably based on methodically collected data (science), noone will lose the argument because you are both merely looking for the best answer to a problem. A similar thing could have happened in Ireland long ago, if you ask me, if historical wounds and ancient hatred hadn’t created a culture of violence and mistrust.
It’s just a different approach. Balls have nothing to do with it, certainly not for a small guy like me from such a small country - I could scream and yell and call names and what not all I like, but what would that, other than make me look like a fool. I come from a country that has a good record of fairly dealing with social issues and still being successful, and I want to share some of that spirit with the rest of the world, hoping they find some of it to their benefit.
As I think it should be, I am always less tolerant of misbehavior by those who appear to fight on my side in a debate, than vice versa. If people act out childishly because they want something but they don’t know why and don’t really have any good reasons to justify their wants, I understand and am perfectly comfortable with considering myself to be above that and set a good example by not responding in a same manner. When I take a position on an important subject, I always try to look at the issue from all sides, and always try to make an objective decision based on evidence, as a judge ruling the case before him or a science interpreting the data. I’m not saying I’m always successful, either in correctly interpreting the data or in remaining objective, but I do try.
But if someone is on a side of the debate where he can come up with good arguments, but instead resorts to shouting and name calling, then this person not only is impolite, but he blemishing honest truth finding with ill words. His banter gives those who do not care about the truth to engage in a matter of arguing a case that does not require careful thought or evidence. Like the soldiers in Abu Ghraib or the practices of Halliburton, they make a potentially good cause look evil and suspect, and make it easier for the opponents of such a war to dismiss the war, easier for doubters who might think the Americans are truly doing an unselfish thing to change their mind (I happen to believe that the Americans might actually be helping some people there, but I’m not sure the cost of the damage to themselves is worth it).
Remember, you are on an internet forum, where your only weapons and ammunition, your only presentation and means of communication, are words. Use them wisely.