Political blurbs and agendas

Well, first of all, regarding this cosy little threesome of islands: North Island, South Island, and West Island – I come from the North Island.
So don’t be accusing me of knowing what motivates any Australian. However I suspect it may be Victoria’s lack of penal settlements. They must travel to your corner of the island (with its penal settlements) in order to be close to their long past kin, and confirm their Australian-ness. like a pilgrimage.

"...capable of intelligent discussion" am I willing? - yes, but capable... well... that might be pushing it.

Rob

 

Succinct reply Rob. All is now clear...

 

I suppose that if opinions with a political inclination where germane to the topic and intelligent, it wouldn't really be a problem. This thread seems to be collecting a huge amount of inane political comments. Apparently they go hand in hand: out of place political comments and lack of intellectual content.

 

Come now Gonzo (an east coast Scots name for spider crab) since when has intelligence and politics been spoken in the same breath ?
Seems to me you're sounding grumpy this morning... Too many Reds under the bed ?????

 

Just as an example of what I consider out of line: I complained about JonathanCole's joke about the doctor and the horse's *** in the "Aft End Design" thread in the Design forum, and Jeff has removed it. That was just tasteless garbage. It had nothing to do with the thread other than a general association of "transoms".

 

One mans meat is another mans etc....

You may not like what the guy has to say but at least let him say it! It's one of the cornerstones of our civilisation (thats everybody on this forum where ever they come from!)

Just remember a LOT of good men have fought and died for that right, in every country in the world (and still are) Please don't let it be in vain - it looks rather like that's the way we're heading, AGAIN!

 

A bit scarey when you sound sober, Walrus - and your spelling is pristine...But dammit - you force me to agree with you...

 

Once more, it is not that any political comment should be banned. The problem is that they appear in the middle of threads without any connection. Also, some posters use political comments to insult and degrade others. Why do you find it so difficult to understand the difference? Are any of you honestly saying that political comments completely out of context are in any way constructive to the forum? If you have an opinion you can start a thread.

 

I agree with you on that....but who is going to decide the intention of the poster? Only if the intention is clearly offensive, and most of the offensive or disagreeable comments that I have seen addressed in this forum, and they are remarkably few, have not anything to do with politics, just bad education.

Thus, I would say that it is far better to let a guilty man walk free than to put an innocent man behind bars.

What you have initially proposed is far more restrictive than what you are saying now.

The part of your initial suggestion I disagree with is:

The funny thing is that you seem to disagree too

 

this is going nowhere, why not agree to disagree and leave it at that! Anybody want to go on let them, it's there backside that gets smacked for the rest there's the on / off button! for this one I'm using

 

Vega: you are misquoting me. I said political agendas.

 

No.... read your first post, you have said:

 

Exactly, you deleted agendas the first time. It is my opinion that they are bad for the forum. There are many political forums available.

 

I didn't delete anything, I didn't misquoting you, and I resent to be falsely accused of wrongdoings that I didn’t do.

I have said:

I didn't delete or add anything.

This sign........means that it is not an integral quotation and that in that place there were words or sentences that had not been quoted.

In this case they were not quoted for the good reason that, as I have stated, I am saying what I disagree from your proposal.

(Political) “agendas" are not quoted because I don’t disagree that they should be kept out of this forum.

"Political...opinions" is quoted because I disagree that they should be kept out of this forum.

Of course you can always say that I have changed the meaning of your sentence, that is:


"I think that political agendas and opinions should be kept out of the forum."

But if political is not an adjective qualifying opinions then you are even making less sense to me, because you are saying that all opinions should be kept out of this forum.

I sincerely hope that you didn’t mean that. But if it is the case I apologize, because I assumed that you were referring to political opinions and not to all opinions.

 

I think that taking things out of context is misquoting. It changes the original meaning.