18 Aug 23
@very-rusty saidDebates here are never won. That's why they result in endless arguing.
Has a debate every been won? Someone will always disagree! 🙂
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Occasionally you'll hear "you have a point there", or "I never thought of it like that", but that's as close as it gets.
18 Aug 23
@very-rusty saidIn Australia it's not quite so negative and can even be a compliment.
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adjectiveINFORMAL•BRITISH
bad-tempered and argumentative.
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18 Aug 23
@very-rusty saidYa mean like the British “slang” for cigarettes?🤔
Just don't say it to a British person. 🙂 Another one of those words with different meanings in different countries.
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18 Aug 23
@great-big-stees saidwhat a ciggy i see now harm in that
Ya mean like the British “slang” for cigarettes?🤔
@great-big-stees saidIt got REALLY bad towards the end of the Duchess64 era and, I think, actually was "closed" for a day or three.
Is it that the only Forum that has a “Reminder” notation is the Debates Forum?🤔
I gave up on the Debates Forum, having posted there a lot for years as a more or less left-of-centre pragmatist with a low tolerance for sloppy thinking, in about 2013 because of its self-debilitating gratuitously cantankerous atmosphere.
There was a specific incident that was the final straw, I remember.
Whenever I have a look there now, it seems even worse.
Debates forum synopsis:
Democrats to Republicans: you’re a bunch of hateful racists who will bring the country to its knees.
Republicans to Democrats: you’re woke infested loons who will bring the country to its knees.
Metal Brain: only I can see the truth and here’s a link to my favourite website which proves it.
Earl of Trumps: I’m not a Republican, I’m a libertarian. But aliens are in our atmosphere either way.
Suzianne: [Bruce Lee noises]
@divegeester saidMetal Brain is a wannabe Alex Jones, Owen Shroyer, or Harrison Smith.
Metal Brain: only I can see the truth and here’s a link to my favourite website which proves it.
@fmf saidOh, here we go.
It got REALLY bad towards the end of the Duchess64 era and, I think, actually was "closed" for a day or three.
I gave up on the Debates Forum, having posted there a lot for years as a more or less left-of-centre pragmatist with a low tolerance for sloppy thinking, in about 2013 because of its self-debilitating gratuitously cantankerous atmosphere.
There was a specific inc ...[text shortened]... ent that was the final straw, I remember.
Whenever I have a look there now, it seems even worse.