bluelabrador16 wrote:Fine thanks.
I do a lot of walking with my dogs.
I'm also looking forward to the upcoming The Trawden Beer & Music Festival (20-22 April).
Well recommended.
You know, if we kept off the politics and "the Jews" mayhap we'd enjoy a good natter over a pint. Sounds like a good gig at Trawden for the festival -enjoy!
Imploding Turtle wrote:Accesses me of childishness then uses terms like "turdlebrains". Oh and also thinks that" triggered" is an alt-right insult.
Tells me, are you immune to embarrassment?
It's late and I'm aware you may have been drinking but did you mean "accuses" or "assesses" here? Or perhaps can we kindly suggest that autocorrect has gone and done something incoherent to your words tonight?
Either way, I'm not sure what you're getting at. Perhaps have a think about it in the morning with a clearer head?
As for the word "trigger": In this context it was first used by militant students who demanded "trigger warnings" to come in studies that may contain material that could "trigger" distressing memories.
This started with the best of intentions - preventing refugees from watching graphic videos of war crime scenes etc but soon spiralled into hard-left student groups demanding that entire swathes of historical events be censored for fear of offending anyone. The phenomena has probably peaked now because of the ridicule it has received.
The ridicule is based around the right-wing press (notably the 'alt-right') who adopted the phrase "triggered" from the original request for "trigger warnings" about anything and everything that formed part of their education. Anyone found to be making tenuous and wafer-thin complaints of "offence" was said to be "triggered".
On a personal level I remember a lecturer informing me before beginning their speech that our module on the American Civil War contains facets of information and incidents of racism that "may cause offence". D'uh. This was in 2007.
Naturally, I was offended at her assumption that we were all pig-ignorant churls without at least a rudimentary knowledge of modern history but it did apparently come as a shock to some others on the course.
Anyway, to answer your question - no. I suffer acutely from embarrassment whenever I experience it. It doesn't happen often. More often, I suffer from it vicariously. For example I cannot watch the Ricky Gervais comedy 'The Office' because the entirety of humour depends upon embarrassment.
This may be why I spend so many fruitless hours trying to educate you? I don't know.
All I can say for sure is that I hope one day you will attempt to apply your own logic to an argument rather than lifting pre-formed arguments from elsewhere off the internet and trying to get them to fit into whatever conversation you're having.
I meant the thing I posted the other night - you
quite clearly flounder when you have to try and form a cogent argument of your own. You're not bad at applying argument you've already read from elsewhere on the internet but if somebody throws in an original opinion or doesn't conform to how you think the argument will develop you invariably lose any thread of logic you may have started with.
I'm not trying to insult you here (for once) I'm just telling you the truth.
I don't argue with you for the sake of "winning" (there's no such thing on the internet anyway) I've only ever tried to get you to think more for yourself.
I'll gladly continue engaging you if that's what you want but surely there's something you'd be better at than trying to engage people on an intellectual level if you're not that capable?
Perhaps, for example, you might beat me at pool (although I wager I'd give you a good game at very least) but how about you just examine the logic your arguments have taken over the past few weeks because they've been poor, even for you.
