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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 6:48:51 GMT -5
Please use this thread to talk about anything off-topic. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 0:55:26 GMT -5
One thing which bothers me, Uncle Henry, is that I always seem to attract serious abuse online. Mostly, I just ignore trolls, but what should I really do about it? Sometimes, I just repeat the insults back to the trolls, but that tends to make them even more aggressive. Is it time to quit, ahinton?
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Post by ahinton on Sept 8, 2017 8:10:00 GMT -5
One thing which bothers me, Uncle Henry, is that I always seem to attract serious abuse online. Mostly, I just ignore trolls, but what should I really do about it? Sometimes, I just repeat the insults back to the trolls, but that tends to make them even more aggressive. Is it time to quit, ahinton? Arguably it's not for me to answer that question but, since you've asked it of me, I answer no.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 12:12:48 GMT -5
Thank you very much indeed for your contributions over the past decade, ahinton! It is a shame that no one else could be as gracious in such circumstances. Offending an opponent has long been a feature of polemics, just as challenging the boundaries of taste has been a feature of art. It is rightly surrounded by legal and ethical palisades.
These include the laws of libel and slander and concepts such as fair comment, right of reply and not stirring racial hatred. None of them is absolute. All rely on the exercise of judgement by those in positions of power. All rely on that bulwark of democracy, tolerance of the feelings of others. This was encapsulated by Lord Clark in his defining quality of civilisation: courtesy.
Too many politicians would rather not trust the self-restraint of others and would take the power of restraint on to themselves. Recent British legislation shows that a censor is waiting round every corner. The best defence of free speech can only be to curb its excess and respect its courtesy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 22:56:15 GMT -5
Good morning once again to everyone living in London, and beyond! I trust that all is well with Alistair today. Kleines c asks us all to use this particular thread, topic or forum to talk about anything off-topic. ' The Guardian' leads today with some editorial comment about the new no longer shocks, Uncle Henry, quite unlike the Viennese Second School of Arnold Schoenberg. The newspaper concludes that the fury provoked by Rachel Whiteread 25 years ago is unthinkable today – thank goodness! What do you think, Alistair?
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Post by ahinton on Sept 15, 2017 4:03:39 GMT -5
Good morning once again to everyone living in London, and beyond! I trust that all is well with Alistair today. Kleines c asks us all to use this particular thread, topic or forum to talk about anything off-topic. ' The Guardian' leads today with some editorial comment about the new no longer shocks, Uncle Henry, quite unlike the Viennese Second School of Arnold Schoenberg. The newspaper concludes that the fury provoked by Rachel Whiteread 25 years ago is unthinkable today – thank goodness! What do you think, Alistair? I believe that in this the newspaper is broadly correct.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 4:19:03 GMT -5
But we still want a reaction to new art. The shock of the new, so to speak?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 19:30:59 GMT -5
Good morning to everyone reading ' The Third'. I trust that all is well with all of you today. The London ' Times' leads this morning with some editorial comment on a fresher pressure. ' The Times' thunders that The first week of university should not be a bacchanalian bonanza. What should it be?
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Post by ahinton on Sept 21, 2017 3:58:06 GMT -5
Good morning to everyone reading ' The Third'. I trust that all is well with all of you today. The London ' Times' leads this morning with some editorial comment on a fresher pressure. ' The Times' thunders that The first week of university should not be a bacchanalian bonanza. What should it be? I don't know but, in the meantime, does The Times only ever "thunder" as far as you are concerned? It does seem that way whenever you refer to and/or quote from it!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 23:26:32 GMT -5
It has a column called 'The Thunderer', Alistair, which used to be an alternative name for the London 'Times'.
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Post by ahinton on Sept 22, 2017 0:20:08 GMT -5
It has a column called ' The Thunderer', Alistair, which used to be an alternative name for the London ' Times'. Ah, I see now; I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for the explanation.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2017 1:32:52 GMT -5
The Daily Courant, initially published on 11 March 1702, was the first British daily newspaper. It was produced by Elizabeth Mallet at her premises next to the King's Arms tavern at Fleet Bridge in London. The newspaper consisted of a single page, with advertisements on the reverse side. Mallet advertised that she intended to publish only foreign news and would not add any comments of her own, supposing her readers to have "sense enough to make reflections for themselves."
Mallet soon sold The Daily Courant to Samuel Buckley, who moved it to premises in the area of Little Britain in London, at "the sign of the Dolphin". Buckley later became the publisher of The Spectator. The Daily Courant lasted until 1735, when it was merged with the Daily Gazetteer. The Times did not start until after the French Revolution!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2017 11:04:18 GMT -5
Where is the master of the battlefield, General Chat?
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