The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162855   Message #3901368
Posted By: Steve Shaw
23-Jan-18 - 08:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
I don't have problems because I don't try to make them. This is supposed to be a place where we discuss issues, not post endless links to our favourite rags, often (routinely in the case of one tedious poster) unsupported by additional comments as why the link was provided and what the bits relevant to the conversation are, let alone how the link is supposed to support their case. In fact, I don't open the vast majority of links given here. I do happen to watch the news, read it online and read newspapers. If someone says something I have my doubts about, I look it up. If I find something that supports a point I want to make I can copy and paste the relevant parts. Quite often, when I do try to open links, either they don't work, I have to pay to read all of it or log in to something I'm not a subscriber to. I think that if you make a link like that you're bloody rude. Tell us what you think, not what your favourite Tory rag thinks. Not linking is a small affliction. Not thinking is far more major, and it's distressingly common on this forum. I don't know why you bothered wasting your time linking to something I've already extensively quoted, highlighted and attributed. Seems to be a case of not-thinking syndrome to me. And if you don't like my rather appropriate retitling of the Daily Torygraph (not one of my originals as it happens), either keep it to yourself or let's instead hear you going for the jugular of all those who refer to the Daily Heil and the Grauniad (capital G or small, we see it all). I never hear it from you. So your persistent singling-out behaviour makes you a stalker. Tsk. Find another hobby, Nigel, preferably one that involves thinking.