Dear QBN
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- pascii0
i think we should just ignore the behaviour of some people because it's none of our business as long as it happens on a newsboard
- Khurram0
And, finally, we come to hedge..
Guys, i dont understand this pheomenon. I don't understand the compulsion that some of you have to even acknowledge his existence. What kind of men are you?
You know i have a few simple rules i live my life by. One is, that i don't even acknowledge the existence of irritants. Here's the principal - we only have emotional reactions to those we perceive as having value.
It's like, imagine if a 3 year old boy called you a wanker - would it bother you? WOuld you even acknowledge it? Would you lose sleep at night thinking about how you've been insulted?
Course you wouldn't, a fucking 3 year old is an idiot, he has no value to you - your social STATUS (hence value) is not measured alongside him - so it barely even enters your concience.
And thats the thing with this forum. The people who react emotionally most are the ones who preceive themseves as having the lowest value and perceive threats everywhere. Which is 99% of you guys - most of you lot are total nerds. Take dobs for example - honestly i like the guy, i like where he's coming from, i would be GOOD friends with him. But look at how emotionally wound up he gets by ABSOLUTE NOBODIES. That's cos he perceives these nobodies as having value, and so he reacts on an emotional level.
Me, even in my real life, i have ZERO care or consideration of the opinions of those who have no value to me. I wouldn't even acknoweldge it. I wouldn't even acknowledge it here or in real life. Like those people are LITERALYL invisible to me.
So, you know, if there are obvious trolls on this board, i think it behoves us to not even acknowledge their existence UNTIL they bring some value.
- Fariska0
Intelligent design is sooooo Newstoday.
Let's go with something new!
- pascii0
what about lolcats or what the font?
- mrdobolina0
BTE
- Khurram0
Well basically Intelligent design is a load of rubbish. It's not proper science, as opposed to evolution which has a massive amount of evidence behind it. You jsut have to look at the fossil record and its obvious.
It's wrong to teache ID in schools.
And also, abotion is a RIGHT for any woman. Her uterous (sp) is NOT PUBLIC SPACE.
- Fariska0
Ok, so politics is done. let's carry on with religion.
- Jaline0
I woke up to this....interesting...
- moth0
Scotland will never make it without the subsidies you get from the UK government.
It would be a very foolish move.
- Khurram0
Anyone can please delete this thread
- Khurram0
I see. Well first of all, i think it's a bit disingenious to call the radical transformation of THE ENTIRE WORLD that Scotland orchestratd as "a bump".
And the breaking up of heavy industry fucked the whole of the UK up except London and the home counties. Having grown up in the Bradford region with both Grandparents working the mills, i know how bleak the 80s were.
I don't see how Scottish "nationalism" enters into the equaton. Because, well, the redevelopment that has happened there in the 90s/2000s has been massively beneficial to the scots, much of it subsidised by the South. Or am i wrong on that front as i've never been north of Blackpool?
- kelpie0
oh god you really want this don't you?
I'm for the first time genuinely considering voting scot nat. I bet you wouldn't have the first clue why I would, and it has nothing to do with being "colonized" or hating either english people or the UK and everything to do with that bump that scotland got at the inception of the union and how considering how fucked the place is since heavy industry was broken up and in no way replaced with any kind of infrastructure in the 80s we need a similar kick up the arse and fundamental change of direction to lift ourselves out of that.
Actually its a thousand times more complex and layered than that but as a soundbite, it might do for now.
- ps. pardon the mad word splurge, I don't have much time to write well at the mokelpie
- Khurram0
actually kelpie it something that plays on my mind. I don't understand the merits of scottish nationalism, why do they wanna go alone? I mean they contributed SO much for the craetion of Great Britain. They basically BUILT the empire AND invented Anglo/Saxon Laissez-Faire capitalism - the riches of Britain were paved in Edinburgh.
So i think they should be proud of that rather than whingin about "oh we've been colonised! we've been colonised!"
Actually, the colonisation that happened, happened by the Scottish low-landers who colonised the highlanders - the sedentary people who took over the nomads.
So it's like a much more complex picture as far as i'm concerned.
What do you tink about that kelpie??
- kelpie0
um, are you just responding to a conversation you've made up in your head to change the subject from your dirty whoring?
but to answer your point; I hate everyone south of Sheffield and I'm totally ok with that.
- PonyBoy0
wow... thread started out okay...
... i feel like i've been to hell and back now.
- rson0
QBN can i have a loan?
- Khurram0
i dunno Si, i'm a British unionist... which is weird cos i'm the FURTHEST thing from a nationalist you can think of - like i hate the concept of nation state ala Benedict Anderson. But somehow i hate the idea of scottish/welsh nationalism an dreally raelly wanna preserve the union.
I think latently i AM a British nationalist, somewhere deep down.
And i also HATE the way our provinces hate on the English as they do. I guess it's an inferiorty complex. But it breeds a weird disliike in me of them. Like i was GLAD Murray lost last night, cos he's scottish.
So i have a lvoe/hate thing with the scots.
What do you think about this kelpie?
- kelpie0
fucked that then didn't you?