Ryan

Next thing you know, the French-Yakuza mafia will be appropriating ancient traditional British chicken byriani!

Always with the ad hominems.

You don’t seen to understand what ad hominems are. I highly recommend familiarising yourself with fallacies before quoting them.

Nor do you seem to understand insults. Telling someone they are being ridiculous is not an insult. Calling them a fucking idiot is (which I have not done). When someone is obsessed with an…[Read more]

toxic behaviour doesn’t get anyone anywhere

…and yet Simon, you don’t seem to realise that overgeneralising about people, obsessively going on about cancel culture and “leftist bullying” and other moral panics is toxic.

Cancel culture is authoritarian

Ugh…again you have responded to Autumn’s well thought out reply with babble. “Cancel culture” is a label applied to people who don’t like being called out for bullshit that they have gotten away with for too long. Yes, sometimes people face an overly harsh backlash to things that may not even have been meant as…[Read more]

Only if you don’t like the Left being criticised.  Don’t cancel me now.

Groan

You don’t know what someone is going to say until they say it.

Yes Unseen, that is tautologically true. That still doesn’t convince me that inviting someone whose expertise on a topic is as menial as yours or mine is, at an ACADEMIC event makes any bloody sense.

but over time people’s views can change or be more nuanced than you’ve been led to be…

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But are you denying that the Left has an authoritarian element?

Simon, your overgeneralisations are getting bloody tedious.

The reason to host a speaker outside the context of a course has to be because they are of interest to the audience. That the speaker’s views are not of interest to the organizers should be irrelevant. That the speaker is being banned because the hosts disagree with them is among the worst reasons not to provide a forum for them. Particularly t…

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Very good news unseen!

Good to hear Unseen!

Most European cities have exceptionally good, clean, cheap and frequent public transportation (there are obvious exceptions I know). I do not miss the very high cost, frequent maintenance, grief or stress of driving. It would be a nightmare having a car in the city centre anyways. I can very easily used a shared car the rare times I ever need one.

That’s a total bummer unseen. I hope you have your mobile handy with you!

I guess Simon, you won’t bang on a moving bus ever again! I would imagine the bus company didn’t give a toss about your complaint?

That’s a bummer Unseen. I guess you’ll have to pee sitting down for a while. My fingers are double crossed that your knees will be back to normal soon.

Simon, I think busses almost always win 😉

Thank you all again for your kind words!

Thanks Reg! Really appreciate it. I hope all of you tell a loved one today, something sweet or sentimental or caring that you usually don’t say. Just do it!