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Thread #139712   Message #3206730
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
12-Aug-11 - 02:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Nicknames
Subject: RE: BS: Nicknames
Sorry, I didn't read this part.

>>>Mather I call "Mither" - a Scottish word to describe complaining.
Martin Gibson I used to call "Gobson" - from the word "gob" to describe open or vocally overused mouth - eg "rentagob".
GFS or Guest from Sanity I dub "FFS" - an abbreviation for "Fugitive from Sanity" but also the acronym for "For fuck's sake".
Countess Richard, while she was that, could be "C*ntess"
Clinton Hammond could have been obscenely named for the Hammond Organ
There have been several coinages for Lizzie Cornish but these are now deemed politically incorrect.<<<

I have used those types of nicknames in argument the past. The reason I don't anymore can be explained by just how effective they were in making my point. They only seem to turn up the volume and they do not help the debate. I think some prime examples of the uselessness of name calling are the recent threads on the Norway tragedy and the London riots and frankly about half of what GfS posts here. Show me one person who has had their minds changed by being "cleverly" called a fool and I might concede that you gentlemen have a point.

I think