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ORIGINAL: beagle916

Does anyone else in the community love to discuss economics, science or business.

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

Oh, don't get me wrong, I enjoy that myself, but I do find people who are trotting out some line that they heard somebody else use years ago and didn't quite comprehend as a rebuttal to people who do have a clue what they're talking about a bit irksome. (I've noticed that they do tend to resorts to insults a lot, often while complaining about other people's ad hominems. It tends to be the same people who are convinced that their arguments are so self evident that if anybody disagrees with them, then it must be the result of either an inflexible ideology that blocks out facts, or stupidity.)
I could name names, but you probably have a good idea which posters I'm talking about anyway...

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although the great state of Texas was never a crown colony of Great Britain and never had any oath of allegiance to king George

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

A few points to consider on the topic of 'intellectual discourse."

1) Anything that starts as 'intellectual discourse' on these boards usually end in exchanges of insults.
2) It is impossible to have an intellectual exchange with civilized people when you are a uncivilized barbarian from 'the colonies.' (although the great state of Texas was never a crown colony of Great Britain and never had any oath of allegiance to king George)\
3) It is impossible to have any kind of intellectual anything with people who drive on the WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD.


And those are just the top 3 reasons.

There are others involving cricket, the claim that Scotch is a British drink (if it was, it would be called Brit, or English Whiskey or something like Spotted dick.)

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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

A few points to consider on the topic of 'intellectual discourse."

1) Anything that starts as 'intellectual discourse' on these boards usually end in exchanges of insults.
2) It is impossible to have an intellectual exchange with civilized people when you are a uncivilized barbarian from 'the colonies.' (although the great state of Texas was never a crown colony of Great Britain and never had any oath of allegiance to king George)\
3) It is impossible to have any kind of intellectual anything with people who drive on the WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD.


And those are just the top 3 reasons.

There are others involving cricket, the claim that Scotch is a British drink (if it was, it would be called Brit, or English Whiskey or something like Spotted dick.)

OI! Shut it you. I'm drinking Sloe Vodka tonight that I kinda made myself ... in that I didn't distill the Vodka, but I did the rest of it ... instead of Scotch, which I'm happy to concede is Scottish, or Irish rather than British. However, We have Gin, and after a liter of that I have either been very happy, or very sad

Needles

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Until the Scots STFU whining like schoolgirls and actually leave the UK, then scotch is British.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

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Until the Scots STFU whining like schoolgirls and actually leave the UK, then scotch is British.

Actually no, it will remain "british" as long as they are part of the British Islands.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

A few points to consider on the topic of 'intellectual discourse."

1) Anything that starts as 'intellectual discourse' on these boards usually end in exchanges of insults.
2) It is impossible to have an intellectual exchange with civilized people when you are a uncivilized barbarian from 'the colonies.' (although the great state of Texas was never a crown colony of Great Britain and never had any oath of allegiance to king George)\
3) It is impossible to have any kind of intellectual anything with people who drive on the WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD.


And those are just the top 3 reasons.

There are others involving cricket, the claim that Scotch is a British drink (if it was, it would be called Brit, or English Whiskey or something like Spotted dick.)

OI! Shut it you. I'm drinking Sloe Vodka tonight that I kinda made myself ... in that I didn't distill the Vodka, but I did the rest of it ... instead of Scotch, which I'm happy to concede is Scottish, or Irish rather than British. However, We have Gin, and after a liter of that I have either been very happy, or very sad

Needles

Irish whiskey tastes nothing like Scotch, or anything British, and as far as gin is concerned, never liked the stuff.

As for sloe vodka, I actually prefer fast drinks, like fast cars, but not fast women (harder to catch for this old geezer critter.)

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

It wasnt them wanted a Brexit,innit? It was the gumbies in the outer darkness that is the midlands, oop nort, yer bloody welshmen, never should have let them in, they was never really limeys at heart, and the like, They is Brits, it is unclear that anyone other than them and Londoners are, I believe the rest is bloody 37th rate Saxons. .