BS: You're not welcome on this thread

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Sep 17 - 06:33 AM

This thread's not for personal vendettas
Leave bad manners at your trough
Please don't argue with your betters,
Or we'll tell you to go away . . .

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Sep 17 - 06:28 AM

ttto Cwm Rhondda

We're not here for more talk about Brexit
You're not here to slag me off.
If you start, I'll point you to the exit
Tell you with a gentle cough*

You're not welcome.
You're not welcome.
You're not welcome in this thread (in this thread)
You're not welcome in this thread

Tell us of your new kitchen appliance,
Talk of Bingo, birds & beer.
Please don't try to argue dodgy science.
Politics not welcome here:

You're not welcome.
You're not welcome.
You're not welcome in this thread (in this thread)
You're not welcome in this thread


*I did have a different rhyme in mind, but am loth to rhyme 'off' with 'off'

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Sep 17 - 03:29 AM

Sorry Dan - I called you Don. You are still welcome anywhere though :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Sep 17 - 03:04 AM

I am sure Acme is is perfectly capable of responding herself, tezzer, but the her statement

"It looks like the sciences have been underfunded for all of this decade, and it isn't going to improve during this administration." is a truism that cannot be disputed.

If it is the line "Trump is determined to knock us back into the stone age." then that is simply her opinion and, as we have often said before, everyone is entitled to their opinions. If you believe that Trump is doing a good job then you are entitled to that opinion as well but you may find yourself in a dwindling minority.

So, just what is so biased and irrational about her statement that gets you heated up enough to demand some sort of explanation? Neither you nor anyone else on here is in a position to demand anything. As I have commented before, you just seem to want to fight and it is your attitude that gets posts deleted and threads closed. Not content.

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Sep 17 - 02:50 AM

How would I interact with those sexy wild women though, Don? Maybe I, like others I could mention, would just want to argue with them :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Teribus
Date: 22 Sep 17 - 01:34 AM

Acme - 20 Sep 17 - 09:21 PM

"It looks like the sciences have been underfunded for all of this decade, and it isn't going to improve during this administration. Trump is determined to knock us back into the stone age."

As one high up in the list of problem posters on this forum according to Joe Offer I read the above and the following question immediately came to mind. Why does Acme mention actual underfunding for a decade and omits to name the President responsible for that underfunding (Barak Obama), but does name the current President (Donald Trump) to blame him for any continued underfunding that has not yet happened?

This will now be the third time I have posted this question, which I think is a perfectly reasonable question, given what was written in a section of a forum that describes itself as "BS/General Discussion Threads". The previous two postings resulted in the question being deleted. My question above asks for an explanation of something that appears to be biased and irrational, the question is not couched in terms that could be described in any way as "unkind, impolite, argumentative or snooty." I suppose whether this stands or not is a measure in the actual belief in the right of freedom of speech.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 17 - 09:34 PM

Here is a great comment regarding dumbing down from down under https://newmatilda.com/2017/09/20/rigour-or-rigor-mortis-the-dumbing-down-of-debate-and-intellectualism/

Or we could explore the wild sexy women. Which are you for?

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: olddude
Date: 21 Sep 17 - 08:42 PM

I bet if a group of sexy wild women
Show up dave wwould say welcome on this thread

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 17 - 07:40 PM

Don't you think knowing the education level of an individual and their technical language makes communication more effective?

Otherwise things get dumbed down for a broader audience and one gets swiped in the face for dumbing down.

Being as fallible as I am, (I find names and identities challenging) it is a solvable conundrum. I have a BA and an incomplete patchwork quilt of an MA.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 17 - 06:19 PM

Maria is blowing Arecibo around and Harvey has soaked the ground around a 6 billion dollar telescope being vacuum tested in Houston.
The future of telescopes is far reaching. :^/

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 21 Sep 17 - 12:05 PM

Ten...
Nine...
Eight...

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 09:21 PM

It looks like the sciences have been underfunded for all of this decade, and it isn't going to improve during this administration. Trump is determined to knock us back into the stone age.

If you can't find a wet raspberry emoji, Joe, maybe you can put a link to the fart sound from a whoopee cushion. That conveys more or less the same discontent.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 09:03 PM

Sadly, thete are to be fewer (not less) telescopes then?
Possibly more raspberries? Loganberries might make a bigger, wetter spray?

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 07:20 PM

"Not welcome on this thread"?????

How does one type a razzberry? I want one with a really wet spray....

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 03:54 PM

Ooooh. What a shame :-( That sort of news is definitely not welcome but you are Vashta!

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Vashta Nerada
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 03:52 PM

Retirement - languishing due to lack of funding.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/worlds-largest-radio-telescope-faces-retirement/

With the NSF's budget essentially flat since 2010, the agency cannot afford to run all its telescopes indefinitely, continue building new ones and still pay the country's scientists. But researchers who use Arecibo argue that it has a useful life of novel discoveries ahead of it, even if is not as shiny as the newcomers, especially in some areas where it makes a unique contribution.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 10:11 AM

:-( Closure or hurricane? Or both?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 10:02 AM

At this very moment the Arecibo radio telescope is being destroyed.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 08:04 AM

Sounds a good measure to me.

I always had problems remembering which to use between 'and I' or 'me and'. Then someone told me to take away the bit before or after 'and' to see which to use.

My friend and I went to the folk club
I went to the folk club

Good enough for me and Bobby McGee
Good enough for me

Amazing what sticks in the old grey cells at times

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 07:42 AM

"Less or fewer".
A tricky one that. 'Fewer' refers to a smaller number, 'less' to a smaller amount.
Some will try to clarify it as whether it relates to a number (in which case it's fewer). But this falls apart with sentences like "I have less/fewer than ten pounds", where, even ignoring the fact that 'pounds' can also relate to weight, both words may be accurate.
If I pull a handful of coins from my pocket, I may be checking the value I hold, and could say "I have less than ten pounds."
Alternately:
If I pull a handful of coins from my pocket, I may be checking whether I have enough coins for the meter (or for the pinball machine), and could say "I have fewer than ten pounds."

As with many of these linguistic problems it often helps to find alternate wording, either as a replacement, or to clarify the meaning.
In the two examples above I could have said (respectively):
"I have not as much as ten pounds"
or:
"I have not as many as ten pounds"

So the way I remember is that if I could replace it with 'not as much' I say 'less'. If I could replace it with 'not as many' I say 'fewer'.

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 04:25 AM

Nothin but earthquakes and hurricanes in the news over here 24/7 for the last 3 weeks. The scars will bleed for decades.

My brother Steve is a short wave broadcaster and just went off the air in the highlands of PR, perhaps forever.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Sep 17 - 08:44 PM

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm schizophrenic
And so am I




God forgive me...

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Sep 17 - 03:37 AM

there are more schizophrenics than you think ............

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 07:46 PM

I couldn't care fewer, Tattie Bogle.

Damn.

Should that be "I could care fewer..."

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 01:10 PM

The "fewer" comment was the one of mine that was not welcome, so never made it to the board! So there are fewer comments than there should be! (More or less!)

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 10:13 AM

"I have a mental picture of some of you guys having arguments with yourselves in empty rooms!!!!!"
"but my alter ego"
Schizophrenics don't do empty rooms
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 07:50 AM

--- I have a mental picture of some of you guys having arguments with yourselves in empty rooms!!!!!

I was going to disabuse you of that but my alter ego .....................

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 05:33 AM

Are we in a different dimension or something, Steve?

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Iains
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 05:29 AM

I can invariably demolish them on their own use
And the fewer said about it the better.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 05:01 PM

You can say "less posts" if you like. Personally, I wouldn't. My usage is always what I'm comfortable with. I might nitpick if some clown is picking me up on my use of English here on Mudcat and I can invariably demolish them on their own use. Iains shall remain nameless. But we're not here writing for learned journals. We can say less posts if we like. Loads of people talk that way. And the fewer said about it the better. 😂

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 10:20 AM

Been there and done that GM :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 10:18 AM

--- I have a mental picture of some of you guys having arguments with yourselves in empty rooms!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 10:17 AM

less posts? or fewer posts?

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 05:31 AM

Presumably from the same etymology as "trumped up charges"

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 04:27 AM

There is a story in the UK news this morning that a group of researchers have collated a set of 'lost' words that they would like to see reintroduced to the English language. I think this one is quite apt

Donald Trump might be interested to know that 'to betrump' once meant to deceive or cheat

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 08:21 PM

The thought of huge steaming piles of deadly filthy waste will be even more beautiful to the Trump base than an architectural work of art.

You have to know the people we are dealing with.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 11:35 AM

A waste pile would be fine for the Mexican side, but, remember, we've been promised that, on the American side, it will be a really, really, yugely beautiful wall.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 07:22 AM

I'll see your six shooter and raise you 4 thermonuclear 75 lb. tactical devices.

Don't forget the wall is still in play. Great ideas were discussed over dinner about taking all the debris from Texas and Florida and using it to pile a wall high and wide. Every manner of toxic waste and sanitation by products could be transported from all across this great nation to build the most powerful deadly wall ever made.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: olddude
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 09:45 PM

Smile when you say that partner... I got me six shooter that says different

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 09:06 PM

All these damn hurricanes floods and power outages are sabotage by the looney left. Everyone knows climate change is fake and is really revenge by the Clintons which proves they are the sorest losers in history, well in modern history anyway. Even Air Force Once is encountering turbulence never seen before. Its as plain as night following day that the electronic interference from Hillary's e mails and Bengasi communiques is causing all this chaos in the atmosphere.

Don't get me started about Obama's black Supremesi.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 03:26 PM

Is she called Trace? That's what my 148th girlfriend was called...

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 03:23 PM

The lady varnishes?

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 01:11 PM

I'm definitely not welcome: my last post has vanishes without trace!

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 08:49 AM

You won't be a visitor. You're a cultural import.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 07:40 AM

What about half-Polish Gnomes aging disgracefully?

Will I be welcome when I visit next year?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 06:56 AM

A resolution from Congress is now upon the President's desk for signing.
It states that Nazis, White Supremacists and the Klu Klux Klan are not welcome in America.

Will Trump have a signing ceremony?
Will Donnie sign it?
Will Neo Nazis ne unwelcome here?
Who will be dehumanized next?

Stayed tuned to everyone's favorite show 'The old and the cluless'

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Sep 17 - 04:43 PM

I love that. Must try to remember it. My ghast has never been so flabbered.

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Sep 17 - 04:34 PM

Mudgeon your curs, sirs,
Mudgeon your curs!

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Sep 17 - 03:02 AM

I did, Steve. Few, er, I think I got away with it...

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 10:01 PM

Y'all have planar homotopic relations!

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 07:53 PM

:^\ Is this what passes for imagination outside the MOM thread ?

Go quantum or go home.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 07:31 PM

🙈🙉🙊



🖕



😈


✌️

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 07:14 PM

🙈

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 05:55 PM

Dave meant "will it get posts, more or less?" Didn't you, Dave? 😈

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 05:41 PM

"less posts" !?
Is that ok?

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 05:18 PM

Knock knock

Who's there?

Whale kipper whelk

Whale kipper whelk who?

🎶Whale kipper welcome in the hillsides...🎶

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 04:53 PM

I would never go anywhere that I am welcome!

So there to you too :-P

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Gurney
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 04:13 PM

I never go anywhere that I'm not welcome. So there!

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 03:59 PM

Is it I, Lord? 😎

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 03:16 PM

bah.. this thread is still too happy clappy for my liking... 😠

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 01:06 PM

I'm gonna post on it anyhow: nyaa, nyaa, nyaa !

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 10:11 AM

Didn't take long did it.

Not interested in the other thread, Iains?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Iains
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 09:43 AM

OOOOOOOOH!! Sorry sir(touching forelock)

Have a starter for 10:
                  
    Tweedledum and Tweedledee
       Agreed to have a battle;
    For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
       Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 09:26 AM

You're not supposed to try to be funny in this thread, Inanes.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Iains
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 09:18 AM

About time we had a nursery section. Might be able to have adult discussions now on the other threads, with sensible people.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 09:11 AM

You'll lose...

Subject: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 08:05 AM

You know who you are...

This is the negative counterpart of positive thread 'All welcome on this thread'. Wonder if it will get more or less posts?

DtG