Baden

If this discussion continues to be mostly about insults and butting heads rather than a sensible debate, it will be locked. A policy statement has bee...

You haven't been causing problems lately as far as I know. If you could just acknowledge your past comments have caused offence, and show a bit more r...

As much as it brings joy to my heart to be reminded of those events, we're not here to talk about vacuumbrain or whatever the Nazi sympathizer's name ...

I need to take a break from the discussion for a little while. Feel free to continue the debate but just to clarify, sexist comments, which include st...

I agree that's sexist (towards the end at least). Any dissenting opinions? As I said, setting benchmarks here so feel free to pipe in.

Any off-topic stuff will be deleted. Let's try to stay on track here. (Start a separate discussion if you want to do that.)

I agree that's sexist. Any dissenting opinions?

@"Mongrel" It would be helpful if you could give at least one or two examples here of posts by @"Agustino" you consider objectionable. In which case w...

I can only hope that @"Agustino" will use this opportunity to try to understand the effect some of his comments have had and will adjust himself accor...

Of course. And that's always been the case as per the guidelines. Let's not pretend though that there won't be disagreement over what constitutes a se...

Trump's on a 36% approval rating at the mo'. Pence is probably higher but he wouldn't have the pull with some crucial demographics in swing states tha...

Yes, he's a typical political opportunist with horribly backward views. Trump is a pig but at least he's upfront about it.

1) Opinion noted, but believe it or not, we don't read every @"Agustino" post (at least I don't) and rely on members to a degree to flag offensive pos...

If the argument over removal centres around about whether the statue is offensive or not, there's no way to come to any conclusions. It's neither offe...

Where's @"Landru Guide Us" when we need him? Or there might be a line of volunteers... Anyhow, you're safe for tonight as it's 1230am here and well pa...

I should probably just outsource. Anyway, go play with some lefties. Let's see what happens. ;)

Well, I haven't banned you yet have I? Though each day brings new temptations. O:)

I didn't see Thorongil's comment until just now. His political paranoia knows no bounds. ;)

Yep.

In that case I will ban the other two of you. Stick to this account and please PM next time.

Thus is identified the lacuna of falsity in my sorry tale. The shame.

Yet again you have proved yourself a liar and a cad, but it is the coward in you I find most distasteful.

Really. It was on the old PF. I don't remember the details but it was maybe ten lines of hyperbole. You apologized afterwards for being insulted by me...

I did that once. The toilet was broken. I'm getting a weird sense of deja vu here. Remember that time I wrote an insult and you got insulted because y...

Well, I'll take out the space too if @"Posty McPost face" wants. But that shall be the end of it!

I don't think being a ghost writer is a terrible sin or anything, but when you decide to do that job, you know you're helping people cheat. Theoretica...

I agree. Keeping standards high is important. Making sure students do their own work - or at least make an effort and not get a complete pass simply b...

There may come a time when Lance is desperate enough to want you to pull on his spandex as you put it, and he'll have folks like our resident Machiave...

The penalty for that type of thing is give me all your meth. /uploads/resized/files/oa/eg4gotk2ej35u4rq.jpg

Academic qualifications can lead to jobs where those holding them need to know the stuff they're supposed to know otherwise everyone suffers. The seve...

Sure. I teach classes on plagiarism and police it, and think it's a bad thing. Not even getting to the point where you bother to plagiarize is even wo...

Not my experience. It's a lot quicker and easier to edit, proofread and advise than research and write from scratch, but you can still charge a good r...

I'll consider hiring you to do the dirty work for me though if you want. ;)

I stick to the straight and narrow. Plenty of business there. And a lot less hassle.

For more, see the upcoming movie, "The Life of Baden". Kind of like "The Life of Brian" only more absurd and not half as funny. :P

Totally unrelated. Teach academic English for a British uni with a foreign campus. Business is editing /academic consultancy for Masters/PhD students.

No, I mean I'm starting my own business so I can do that, but I have a few months left at the job I do now (and which I'm on holiday from at the momen...

Oh yeah, you can be sure it does. Transitioning. Want a job where I work in the evenings, so I can do photography during the day. Matter of taste, no?

I'm in Thailand at the mo'. Running my own little thing. I get around :)

I can take out the hyphens if you want.

No worries, Posty.

Noted, but we can solve that problem most effectively by being more diligent about checking OP quality.

Fine. You only get one chance to change your name though. So you're stuck with it. Enjoy.

That's kind of the point. Anyway, it's probably not worth further argument.

I'm not a Democrat, so why would I care? But yes, every time someone points to a fault with Republicans, it's "Oh, but the Democrats... " . Inabilty t...

That wig looks crazily real. Jumps off my screen.

At some point Trump voters will come to the realization that he's trolling them as well as everyone else. That may take a while though.

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I think he's more thick than in the thick of it. :)

Sure, the media are the bad guy here...Anyway, aren't you worried that he said it on the record? One of your major bugbears is the deterioration of pu...