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Others. Inconvenient to search for refs right now, but those are easily found online.

Sure, sorry, never post while walking with phone and simultaneously holding another conversation.

Yes, it was just funnier to screw with the maths. Which son does he take the camel back from though?

See above. ;)

Is the 1/18 of the camel the sheikh was left with. He got the bollocks.

Bollocks.

The nitty gritty of individual incidents is not so important in my view as the general discourse that surrounds these incidents. That's where the issu...

Me either. There's 1/18 of the cigarettes left and Pall Mall are 118 years old. (Ok, ok. Going to bed. I'll get it tomorrow).

(I have a reason by the way. Just ignore the cigarette cutting white noise).

Pall Mall.

(Off-topic anti -science polemics will be deleted. Please do not reply to them, but flag them instead.)

Please do, we have a tendency to bash each other on a left / right basis (here and elsewhere), and it would be interesting to focus on developing a co...

I agree that balancing how much free speech to allow while maintaining the character and integrity of the site is probably the biggest challenge here ...

Lol.

I can only hope that I have added to your store of wisdom, good sir. There is a record of all changes in fact although due to the software posters are...

I prefer "Muppet" personally.

Oh, bollocks! :(

I'm not talking bollocks, you numpty.

Ah go on, ya bollocks, really?

Really? I would have that thought that depends on how it's said. You can call someone a "bollocks" affectionately quite easily in Ireland, for example...

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I agreed with the perspective point earlier in this discussion. I also think you tend to take things too personally or read too much into them at leas...

I'll do a duet with Agu as long as we don't have to hold hands. :P

Sorry, Wos, couldn't find a kiss smiley there and the love heart seemed a bit too much...

That's why we love you.

It wasn't a conscious decision that there were several staff members in that discussion but I do take your point on that, Wos.

@"Michael"'s joke was a joke, and not intended to initiate anything in my view.

Yes, the Shout box is called the Shout box for a reason. It's not supposed to be intellectual whatsoever. If you don't like the Shout box, simply stay...

Some of my comments were quite biting, which is not unusual for me but they were mixed in tone. and in the end conciliatory. So @"Michael"'s joke abou...

If Thorongil's standard for that accusation includes this: as a case in point, as he has claimed, it could include almost any joke or negative comment...

The fact is that some posts by some of us in the discussion fit some of your negative description as did some of your own posts. The fact also is that...

Is that one of the ones where if you stare at it for more than ten seconds, you go insane?

Red is catching up. There is still hope.

Apart from the fact that jamalrob owns the site and could destroy all of us with a touch of a button, I'm confident I won that round. (By the way, I t...

No, in fact, I haven't. Not only have I not deleted a post like the above from anyone including you, I haven't moderated you at all in as long as I ca...

If an innocuous joke like that is a case in point of the "bitter sarcasm" you object to then we're not going to change anything because the problem is...

For the record, I see now the John Harris stuff did go on more than a few days and I and others received a few PMs about him. I had forgotten some of ...

Okay then... :’(

I forgive you. Let's be friends again and set an example for everyone.

Now you've ruined it. :(

Nobody clicked the third option, which is telling.

Your disagreement is with Erik. I didn't comment on my view. I did ban him though. You can draw your own conclusions from that.

Things were "extreme" in your view. Not in others', for example, Erik's. Anyway, as I said, your complaint is duly noted.

He was actually quite reasonable in our interaction by PM, but he was given a warning and repeated the same behaviour again, so that, added to the lit...

Just to note, I can't answer to this specific issue because I wasn't the moderator involved.

You didn't want him banned yet we banned him. But we were too lenient? And that is because we are atheistic and left-leaning. OK, let's leave it at th...

It's possible the moderator was online but not actually at his computer at the time or that he disagreed with you. That we don't always do things exac...

So, you are both saying you didn't want him banned and you wanted him banned sooner. Therefore we are biased against right wingers. Can you begin to s...

I've checked and I can't find any message from you about him actually. Also, I've just told you I warned him. He was also moderated in other ways. Fai...

I think you did. I also think it's a bit much to complain that we are biased because we didn't ban the person you wanted us to ban quite quickly enoug...