US Politics / Biden thread
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Betfair is largely unmoved since the debate and Taylor Swift.
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True. I possibly misjudged his tolerance for discord.
My persona on here is like a selected outlet of naughtiness, to cut through the need to be a beige boring servant at work (albeit highly skilled and tolerably renumerated). Means I've got an infinite supply of discord pretty much, because it isn't really me you are talking to, and it's therefore not personal.
I am perhaps guilty of assuming everyone is the same.
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Right reaction to Rick in general or the way he blew his lid? I think the latter probably not, when someone really loses it the general response from most (in life I mean) is to either take the piss or show compassion. I think the forum response veered a little too close towards "ooh handbags". Some people can take that and others can't. Rick can't and I am not criticising him for that.
I think in general Rick has always contributed intelligently across many threads but granted he does also like to get very close to the line and occasionally step over it. However, I think in general we all usually see that and more often than not debate things in a tough but respectful manner. So our reaction in general I think has always been largely well judged.
In my very personal opinion, he did level the accusation of bullying against a couple of people. I wouldn't agree, I think a few people lost their rag with him on occassion when he was being particularly egregious, but it didn't seem like bullying. Having said that he has been open about having been badly bullied when younger so I have to accept he will be very sensitive to this and it will obviously colour the way he feels about certain interactions which is completely understandable.
When it comes down to it, nobody on this forum strikes me as a knob, I think on the forum and I imagine in person we are all a pretty decent bunch which is why I continue to contribute (even though barely anyone discusses bloody cycling anymore!).
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The only people I will name-call are really good friends. But when all you know is the on-screen persona, however tempting it is, I hope that any insults I might use (in extremis) are at a person's argument or standpoint, not the person themself. Generally on here it stays on the right side, even in a robust argument. It's harder to maintain that when protagonists won't acknowledge any weakness in their argument and continue to assert something despite cogent argument to the contrary. Best to walk away before the name-calling starts, even if the other party is claiming some sort of victory of logic. Others can make their own minds up.
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Yeah but I was right about that graph.
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Rick has left...? By choice or kicked off for something ?
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By choice. Others appear to have done so too.
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Ah well - best thing is just to stop reading a thread for a bit and when you come back resist the temptation to read back.
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I've been trying to come up with a variation on the "The more you know, the more you know how little you know" saying... best I've come up with so far is "Wise people will tell you how little they know and how much they doubt; fools will tell you how much they know and how little they doubt".
That's a propos of, well, whatever.
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He flounced on this very thread if you want to read back a few pages.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Yeah, SC seemed to have left, then came back for a post or two, then has not been seen since (as far as I'm aware). Took a very different view from me on the farming front, also on the Israel front, but didn't flounce at all, just went out for a short walk and never came back. I always nearly enjoyed his input.
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Who won again today 🙂 But I won't take that personally...
I usually disagreed with him but lately gave him a few likes as he was pretty much bang on with a few points IMHO. That said, he was often his own worst enemy as he had a style of debating that usually rubbed people up the wrong way (stuff like claiming to know better on most things because he spoke to important people who knew stuff). That and the whining.
TBH I may not have the most popular debating style or political views on here, but unless someone comes at me with an attitude or skips the debate and goes straight for the snarky comments/trolling then I'll try to engage sensibly.
That said, I never expected him to flounce as he seemed to have a pretty thick skin: he took a bit of heat then just picked himself up and tried again.
F*** knows what he's doing with his spare time now...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I've always assumed that's just his rather more unfiltered Dutch side.
Feels quite familiar from when my two were that age at the same time as work going through a difficult patch. Don't remember calling anyone on here a c***, but I think I was pretty unpleasant to live with at times.
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Naughty me. Sorry.
I have a feeling that Twitter might have been peeking in on my CS posts...
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Taken a second job and can now afford a large house in Zone 4.
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I await the expected uptick in UK productivity statistics.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
There's always been something nonsensical about earning £180k or so (top 1%) and being able to afford nothing but a small studio flat with a bucket for a toilet anywhere within 100 miles of London, or needing to live in a needle district to be able to afford to sleep in a different room to his children.
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The nonsensical thing about it is that it's nonsense. There are plenty of outer London 3-bed houses with driveways and gardens within reach of that salary. 5 minutes on Zoopla and a mortgage calculator will confirm this.
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Indeed.
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To get us back on track... Trump's obviously happy he definitely, absolutely isn't paranoid that he walked right into Harris's psychological traps. You can tell by the way he's keeps on telling us he didn't. So I'm sure Harris's campaign definitely won't keep on trying to get under his orange skin, given he can deal with it so well.
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uk politicians are just so cheap in comparison
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When you watch stuff like this and think of the millions that will vote for this guy it is the best argument you can make to end Universal Suffrage!
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At this rate, it won't be long before he walks out of his own rally... he sounds so bored... yet still people will vote for him... give him his due, he's done the cult thing well.
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Sounding more and more like Jim Jones's late night musings.
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What is he talking about? I can’t work anything out other than it’s something about immigrants again.
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