The thread went the way so many issue or current affair threads went: a lot of debate, quite a bit of which was sensible, but nicely sprinkled with the "You're a tosser!", "No, you're the tosser" type posts.
It's precisely for that reason that I don't bother to post on such threads. I get enough people calling me a tosser at work/home/when I'm running etc.
For further reference, please see any thread started by Barnsleyrunner.
By which I mean, his threads tend to end up in the mud-slinging. Not blaming BR for that: he argues a very good case, plus he takes the ribbings he gets in good spirit. To some folk though, a counterargument seems to be: "sod off, tw*t features"
nothing to do with people disagreeing with other people's point of view - I don't mind having a good old debate and hearing other people's opinions, but this was pretty bad. I'm sure if someone started a thread slagging off the people of SE Asia after the Tsunami it would have (rightly) got binned. This was no different.
I heard a father of a british guy on the radio this morning saying his son (whos is in the bowl) felt his life was in danger because people were threating each other and fighting over the water.
The aftermath seems even worse than that of the Tsunami. Foolishly I'd assumed that things would get better quicker in the US being as it is so close to aid, but it's just not looking like it.
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Don't feel left out, oxy, I saw the thread and it took ages for me to figure out what runnersblog meant.
Or perhaps we should just stick to discussing shitting in hedges and just general introspective boring nonsense without meaning.
It's precisely for that reason that I don't bother to post on such threads. I get enough people calling me a tosser at work/home/when I'm running etc.
For further reference, please see any thread started by Barnsleyrunner.
Your a tosser, the evidence was there for all to see on Shrove Tuesday.
People have been dying in that Superbowl refuge place and they're running out of water. It's a really awful time.
God must be anti-Bush. (him or RW's web inspectors)