Petition for Martin43

@kent f OBE wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

@kent f OBE wrote:

He was passionate about what he believed in and the way he wanted to discuss things I guess Skep…..He always backed up his arguments from whatever source be it right or wrong….and that right or wrong would be someone elses opinion…..its key to accept an opinion on somthing that isn’t factual…that doesn’t mean you are compromising your own beliefs…..Terry that is

that’s a perceptive comment about Terry, Kenty. I hope he returns, and that he hasn’t lost his old fire.

I think the main problem about serious discussion is that most people are timid, and fear not being able to make their points clearly enough, or that they’ll run into ridicule. Ridicule can be a powerful weapon (like lurve) with which to dominate an argument, and I can use it too when I feel the need to deflate someone.

Best to just mix it and not get too involved, I guess.

But Brits find it hard to have a serious discussion. Easier to shout past one another.

I quite agree. I often don’t get into serious discussions because I usually only know the fluffly top layer stuff. That’s not to say I would like to reply sometimes but I don’t. Like on the boards sometimes, when you cleverer guys are discussing somthing…there maybe a small bit where I would like to have a say but I don’t because quite frankly I probably would collapse if it was fired back at me with a question 8-[
As for shouting past one another…ain’t that the truth :lol:
FO is commonly used, or should I say used by a commoner. :lol:

Oh, I’m not having that clever chaps comment fly, Kenty. You’re a very smart contributor and often say very thought-provoking stuff.

Well he could have worn slip-ons!

@martin43 wrote:

Well he could have worn slip-ons!

Or his mummy tied them for him so he didn’t need to do them himself :lol:

@sceptical guy wrote:

I don’t think I’m allowed to talk to Martin, in case I give offence..

but the story is udderly true..

One German academic – a guy called Max Horchheimer (he’s bound to be wiki) – had to have his cereal poured out for him, and his clothes and meal prepared by people. Some characters are very, very strange (stop looking at me!!)

Idiot savants are two a penny, scep. My particular favourite was Marshal McLuhan one of the great social theorists about the media (many of his proclamations seem to have come true) but he didn’t really understand the subtleties of social interaction, the stuff us mere mortals get up to. He has a fleeting cameo in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall in the scene where Woody and Dianne keaton are standing in a cinema queue.

@Welsh fem 1 wrote:

Think ive missed something here, but why has Martin left?

He’s back, Welsh. I think he’s realised that we’re not a bad lot really.