Comments on: A thing of beauty

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:46:55 +0000

Fwoooooooo-weeep! Woooooo-wooooop! Fwip!

By: David Duff

David Duff — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:17:19 +0000

Neil, permit to help you. What I wrote is an example of ‘ironic paradox’. Now, for your homework go to Daddy’s big Oxford Dictionary and look those words up and then report back here. Off you go …

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:57:33 +0000

Exhibit A: “everyone’s a bigot”

Exhibit B: “I’m not a bigot!”

How did you reach this beatific level of muddle-headedness?

By: David Duff

David Duff — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:17:02 +0000

“Misguided”? Often.

“Misanthropic”? I try not to be but experience …

“Cowardly”? Possibly. I have been tested in some ways but never the ultimate way.

“Bigot”? Well, everyone’s a bigot to anyone who disagrees with their opinons or beliefs.

“Crime”? None of the above rank as a crime in my mind, but then, I’m not a bigot!

By: ajay

ajay — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:23:12 +0000

Neil, I must disagree with you on that one. I rather like the sound of the swanee whistle. However, given that Duff clearly lives his entire life in a feverish state of hatred and fear of his fellow man, I can, in the words of Iain Banks, wish on him no worse fate than to be exactly the person he so obviously is. To be a misguided, misanthropic cowardly bigot is his crime; it is also his punishment.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:02:12 +0000

You know, you could replace this Duff character’s comments with the sound of a swanee whistle and it’d make no difference to their content or sentiment.

By: David Duff

David Duff — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:52:51 +0000

‘Gerhard’, I assume you are of German origin and thus your inability to copy a quotation correctly is understandable but you really must take more care if you end it with the word “sic” lest you end up looking silly? Sillier? I can only give you ‘E’ for Effort, I’m afraid. Read my next paragraph and you will see how to do it properly.

‘Little Willy’, fancy treading in you over here! However, in the interests of accuracy (not always high on your priorities) it is *you* who confesses that “my penis is smaller than the Caucasian average” so calling me a “little prick” smacks of a desperate attempt to spread the shame of your disability around to others. Naturally, our sympathies are with Mrs. ‘Punk Science’ on this delicate matter.

May I add that your summary of British imperial history is as accurate as your global warming science! Need I say more?

By: punkscience

punkscience — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:44:38 +0000

Duff, how unpleasant to encounter you again, you racist little prick.

I like Jim’s comment. You can’t deny that the British Empire was constructed from the trampled corpses and stolen resources of fuzzie-wuzzies. One of the big things about being British is profound contrition for our appallingly brutal history. That ability to forego defense of the indefensible, irrespective of jingoism and nationalism is something I am quite, proud of. You take your average janner from Plymouth city centre on a Saturday night and ask him who created the slave trade and he’ll tell you who.

By: Gerhard Guff

Gerhard Guff — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:55:46 +0000

“Why I should you like any particular bunch of foriegners [sic]?”

“Treat people well on your way up because you might meet them again on the way down.” – well worth remembering for the next time you’re begging for some migrant orderly to come and change your bedpan (they can lip-read, you know dear).

By: David Duff

David Duff — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:30:14 +0000

“…because they’re people? You know, your fellow human beings?”

Indeed, ‘Ajay’, and one of the main characteristics of human beings is that they kill and harm each other often for not very good reasons. So I repeat, “can anyone explain to me why I should like/ …”?

And in 1939 no aggressive war was being waged against us, only against Poland. I can understand the strategic reason for *us* declaring war on the Germans who were, er, “You know, your fellow human beings”!

It’s a confusing old world, ‘Ajay’, and if I were you I would lay down in a dark room and try and think things through a little more clearly.