Recent content by TheBigDipper

I thought the first free kick was well taken, but a silly foul to give away in a dangerous place. The second was odd, because Ipswich didn't line up like it would be direct, so our taller players were marking in the box and the wall comprised the three shortest players on the pitch. So he hit it...

Are you called Staines? I wasn't saying sorry to you. You're one of the people who give 10 second playground answers to points you just don't have the ammo to debate properly. That's not being condescending or patronising, by the way, so don't hide behind the fake outrage that I'm sure will...

Sorry you felt that way, Staines. I'm just a bit fed up with easy playground replies coming back in reply to any attempt to try and genuinely communicate with those sitting on the other side of the Brexit divide. I'm not totally innocent of that, either. One mans humorous reply is something...

Sit down, matey. I agree with this paragraph. Got any ideas about how we'd change things?

No, I'm not going to explain it to you. I'll just be accused of being condescending and "explaining it to the thick Leave supporter". :smiley-finger007: You're definitely not thick. Maybe you're just the other side of the perception gap. And maybe that's why we all have such a problem changing...

Here's a long one, but worth a read. I found it on another forum I visit, and liked it enough to want to share it. Not my words, but an interesting take on the perception gap we're all suffering from, I thought. Our discussions seem to focus a lot on what the EU stops us from doing and not...

Classy.

Even worse would be if she won 52% to 48% and then moved on saying "It's the will of the MPs in the party..." :-)

I was on a train yesterday morning, the Weymouth service into Waterloo, with a loud gammonish sort of chap sitting in the seat behind. He was already on the train when I boarded at Christchurch. It was hard for the whole carriage not to hear his side of a phone conversation as he was cajoling...

Nothing to do with this debate, old chap. Certainly not about insulting other forum members. It was in the context of using insults to demean people who's views you don't agree with - rather than actually explaining what it is about their views that you don't like. Comments like "that muppet...

Just as a factoid, it was Brexit supporters on here who started using insults like "muppet" as a form of reasoned debate. Ask Ellers. Just sayin'

I said I was staying away from commenting on this, but as the impossibility of pleasing everyone becomes more and more apparent... If the government or Parliament is going to revoke A50 then they should have the balls to do it as our elected representatives, because they believe it's a bad...

The House of Lords is an unelected elite. We only like democratic bodies round here...

Quite... It's just normal international politics, though, isn't it? Irony gets lost when you operate at that level of cynical national interest.

Never been asked, myself. It's pretty small sample compared to the voting population, anyway. I didn't share the link to argue the pros and cons of Brexit, anyway. That's a dead topic for me. I just thought some would be interested in how they went about the exercse and what they think of the...