Centrists

[Strontium]

Hold on, you can only disagree with people who are smarter than you? Damn, I've been doing it wrong this whole time.

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

4 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Hold on, you can only disagree with people who are smarter than you? Damn, I've been doing it wrong this whole time.

It’s not about disagreeing with them, it’s about how you handle the disagreement, if you talk over them and patronise them or seek to open a dialogue to understand their point of view and then show them yours.

 I hope you can understand this? 

[Bjornebye]

14 minutes ago, Ted & Phyllis (from number 14) said:

It’s not about disagreeing with them, it’s about how you handle the disagreement, if you talk over them and patronise them or seek to open a dialogue to understand their point of view and then show them yours.

 I hope you can understand this? 

Hahahaha good luck 

[Jose Jones]

40 minutes ago, Ted & Phyllis (from number 14) said:

It’s not about disagreeing with them, it’s about how you handle the disagreement, if you talk over them and patronise them or seek to open a dialogue to understand their point of view and then show them yours.

 I hope you can understand this? 

I mean, Stronts can be a smidge arrogant, but surely that was obviously a rather good joke?

[Rico1304]

9 hours ago, viRdjil said:

You seem to really struggle to stick to the topic and almost always without fail focus your energy on (yup you guessed it) ME.

 

I mean it is somewhat flattering, but real unwarranted. I’ve met a number of posters IRL, and I’m sure they’ll all tell you that I’m just a regular guy.

Not what I heard. 

[Jose Jones]

2 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Not what I heard. 

Yep he is being a bit modest there old ardj. “Beautiful human with the soul of a velvet grasshopper” is the feedback I got.

[aRdja]

11 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

Yep he is being a bit modest there old ardj. “Beautiful human with the soul of a velvet grasshopper” is the feedback I got.

Naw... thanks @Ted & Phyllis (from number 14)!!

[Bjornebye]

34 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

I mean, Stronts can be a smidge arrogant, but surely that was obviously a rather good joke?

I took it as a joke too. 

 

Ted Bundy was quite funny as well. 

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

1 hour ago, Jose Jones said:

I mean, Stronts can be a smidge arrogant, but surely that was obviously a rather good joke?

Cheers JJ, my own joke was lost to the mists of time. 

[Dougie Do'ins]

10 hours ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Dawn Butler saying babies are born without sex was quite funny though. 

No idea who she is but I bet she thinks it acceptable to eat a breakfast on the London underground. 

[A Red]

10 hours ago, viRdjil said:

 

I mean it is somewhat flattering, but real unwarranted. I’ve met a number of posters IRL, and I’m sure they’ll all tell you that I’m just a regular guy.

I'm sure youre a good lad in real life, but the image you paint to me is a running to fat bloke with a bit of a beard in too tight chinos and brown shoes wandering round some city with headphones on and a costa coffee stuck out like a dalek with a smirk saying "yah" and "lols" all the time before going back to the office to fanny about with spreadsheets.

[aRdja]

45 minutes ago, A Red said:

I'm sure youre a good lad in real life, but the image you paint to me is a running to fat bloke with a bit of a beard in too tight chinos and brown shoes wandering round some city with headphones on and a costa coffee stuck out like a dalek with a smirk saying "yah" and "lols" all the time before going back to the office to fanny about with spreadsheets.

Iols, I can’t grow a beard to save my life, in all probability I’m skinnier (and prettier) than the fittest girlfriend you’ve ever had and having grown up in Melbourne, I wouldn’t be seen drinking Costa coffee even though I actually think it’s serviceable.

[SasaS]

47 minutes ago, A Red said:

I'm sure youre a good lad in real life, but the image you paint to me is a running to fat bloke with a bit of a beard in too tight chinos and brown shoes wandering round some city with headphones on and a costa coffee stuck out like a dalek with a smirk saying "yah" and "lols" all the time before going back to the office to fanny about with spreadsheets.

 

And on weekends, flying Emirates first class to Maldives making copious notes on the progress of class struggle observed along the way.

[Chris]

Here we go again. Anyone who doesn't like that loser Corbyn is a "vile human being".

 

Tories must absolutely adore you.

[cloggypop]

21 minutes ago, Chris said:

Here we go again. Anyone who doesn't like that loser Corbyn is a "vile human being".

 

Tories must absolutely adore you.

They are repping you. 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

1 hour ago, A Red said:

I'm sure youre a good lad in real life, but the image you paint to me is a running to fat bloke with a bit of a beard in too tight chinos and brown shoes wandering round some city with headphones on and a costa coffee stuck out like a dalek with a smirk saying "yah" and "lols" all the time before going back to the office to fanny about with spreadsheets.

He ate beans in front of me.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Oh, and "lols" will be negged aRdja. It hurts me to do it, but it's for your own good mate.

[TheBitch]

12 hours ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Literally just typing that out when the thread pinged. Bitch. 

Leave me out of it, slag. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

14 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

I have no idea what a Centrist even is. 

A vote chaser who's principles dance around like that carrier bag at the end of American Beauty ?

[Rico1304]

1 minute ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

A vote chaser who's principles dance around like that carrier bag at the end of American Beauty ?

Someone who doesn’t pass the purity test. 

[Strontium]

Someone who imagines there's some middle ground between communism and anarcho-capitalism. What a bunch of loonies.

[Numero Veinticinco]

39 minutes ago, Chris said:

Here we go again. Anyone who doesn't like that loser Corbyn is a "vile human being".

 

Tories must absolutely adore you.

Aside from the smugness and needlessly incendiary nature of your post, there’s truth in it. Like the internet troll equivalent of ‘from the mouths of babes’. 
 

Tories do love the left eating each other and targeting those in the centre grounds. They do love those who are so partisan they’d sooner lose that adapt, unify, and challenge. But then, so does Labour. It props up those who put ideology above pragmatism. That’s not to say they’re wrong though, in fact they’re right more often than not. Being right isn’t winning. There’s only one thing that’s going to beat Tory’s divide and conquer, and that’s unite and conquer. 

[Red Phoenix]

*sees Centrists and Neoliberals threads at the top of the forum*

 

[SasaS]

You should bump the anarchism thread.

[A Red]

3 hours ago, viRdjil said:

Iols, I can’t grow a beard to save my life, in all probability I’m skinnier (and prettier) than the fittest girlfriend you’ve ever had and having grown up in Melbourne, I wouldn’t be seen drinking Costa coffee even though I actually think it’s serviceable.

IOLs? Fucking hell, I was going to neg for that but decided to rep you for being prettier than any of my girlfriends