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From: ginge on 11 May 2010 20:21 On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:12:23 +0100, "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: >Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >> On Tue, 11 May 2010 21:45:37 +0100, "Hog" >> <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: > >>> and failure to note the context of the post there >> >> And what context was that, then? > >Kenny Everett >< Benny Hill > >Rough humour is a two way street and we like it that way. > >I'm quite sure PC knows I don't have the slightest issue with him and found >him a perfectly charming fellow in person. And nobody could ever imagine >that I have reservations about other folks "preferences". You appear to have enough reservation to want to write preferences in quotes. Just sayin'.
From: Hog on 11 May 2010 20:30 ginge <the.gingeREMOVE(a)THISgmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:12:23 +0100, "Hog" > <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: > >> Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 21:45:37 +0100, "Hog" >>> <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> >>>> and failure to note the context of the post there >>> >>> And what context was that, then? >> >> Kenny Everett >< Benny Hill >> >> Rough humour is a two way street and we like it that way. >> >> I'm quite sure PC knows I don't have the slightest issue with him >> and found him a perfectly charming fellow in person. And nobody >> could ever imagine that I have reservations about other folks >> "preferences". > > You appear to have enough reservation to want to write preferences in > quotes. > > Just sayin'. No need to be silly. Some of UKRM's denziens *have* been eye openers. PC is hardly one of them. -- Hog
From: darsy on 12 May 2010 01:30 On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:51:38 +0100, Andy Bonwick <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: >On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:24:06 +0100, "Hog" ><sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: > >>The day rough humour and having a good natured pop becomes a one way street >>I'll still go up the wrong way. >> >The problem here is that your comment didn't come across to anyone as >being good natured. at the risk of being tarred and feathered for going against the grain here, Hog's original comment that has generated so much bile was - to me - an obviously sarcastic reductio ad absurdum argument aimed at suggesting how off-the-mark he felt PC's comparison of him to Kenny was, contrasting a stereotype with another. But, hey, maybe it's just me. -- d.
From: Scraggy on 12 May 2010 03:14 darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > at the risk of being tarred and feathered for going against the grain > here, Hog's original comment that has generated so much bile was - to > me - an obviously sarcastic reductio ad absurdum argument aimed at > suggesting how off-the-mark he felt PC's comparison of him to Kenny > was, contrasting a stereotype with another. > > But, hey, maybe it's just me. No, it's not just you. -- I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx
From: Champ on 12 May 2010 03:24
On Wed, 12 May 2010 06:30:58 +0100, darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: >at the risk of being tarred and feathered for going against the grain >here, Hog's original comment that has generated so much bile was - to >me - an obviously sarcastic reductio ad absurdum argument aimed at >suggesting how off-the-mark he felt PC's comparison of him to Kenny >was, contrasting a stereotype with another. To a point. The difference, for me, was that PC's comparison wasn't in anyway personally insulting, whereas Hog's response very much was. -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk |