Haha! Oh deary me. I don't think I can show you to be any more of a **** than with this comment "I transmogrifically metamorphisise words for emphasis & effect". That's it. I'm all done here, the last word is yours, Russell. Even if you've not earned it, you're certainly going to have it!
Have you really gone back and replayed the entire argument just because I called you pretentious? And you're at all times reasonable and witty and not at all rattled and I'm the one lacking self-awareness? Hahaha! Genuine laugh out loud moment. You've surpassed yourself this time.
Oh by the...
'kin hell. Can you get any more pretentious? You come up against someone who knows as many long words as you so your only recourse is to start replying in a foreign language? Christ, that is pathetic. Go on matey - fill your boots. What next, a Shakespeare quote in Swahili?
Offends? Oh no, not one bit. Please do carry on with this act of yours. It's amusing and about as dangerous as bring mauled by a dead sheep.
As for trademark putdowns, you're the one who started this conversation with a putdown. Unfortunately for you, I can see through your bullshit.
No, you didn't just mention his father. You held his father up as the standard we should all hold to because he was directly affected. The other names I gave are a counterpoint to that.
There may be a thousand stories like theirs but those names are pertinent though because they all point the...
So please don't just quote Colin Parry as the voice for all victims' families as you have been trying to imply.
Edit - and the speed of your response rather suggests you didn't google any names. Trust me, their stories deserve to be heard. What they went through and are still suffering is...
Is Aileen Quinton's high ground good enough for you? For every Colin Parry there's an Aileen Quinton or Lowly Mathers or Shauna Moreland or Rose Hegarty. Google their names, read their story too. I can't call a man like McGuinness, who did what he did to these families, was completely...
You may love the working classes but I don't think you understand their patriotism. I say this in all sincerity, this is possibly the single biggest problem with the metropolitan left that controls the Labour party right now.
You see, this is why I have this impression of you that I do. Most other people would have used the gerund, instead you considered that ugly word and went for something even worse.
So you respond specifically to my post but use it not to answer the point I was making but to an earlier, as then, unspecified one. I can assure you, I'm not tense, just slightly flattered in your belief in my mind-reading skills.
Of course Germans feel conflicted about their past but we're talking about Englishmen conflicted about the present and other people right now waving their national flag. You've clearly missed the point by a mile so rather than trying to patronise me, why don't you try to understand the point...
Come on then. Show me the same level of pious hand-wringing about flag appropriation in France, Scotland, Ireland, Germany or wherever. No-one does it like an embarrassed middle-class Englishman. They're world champions at it.
Tony Parsons said it right when he talked about the English...
I'm loathed to get involved in this debate as I've found out today that my player of the season regards an IRA commanding c*nt as his hero but can I please respond to your absolute scollobs that you've posted here.
"I'm not a self-loathing Englishman...waah..waah..the flag has been tarnished...