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Why on earth apologise? It is he who should apologise for subjecting us to the badly written, hardly punctuated, twaddle.
And I would like to say that I am being kind when I call it that.

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Not a lot he can do about it though Mobertol he's nothing to think with;)

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Wouldn't really know about that one Gordon, history wasn't my chosen subject, but if Julius Brownius did sell their gold, its quite in keeping with the antics of his scottish ancestor gormless Gordon:D

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I don't know him so I can't comment Jay. Was pulled up myself by Eric for a comma the other day;)

He comes across as passionate in what he says -he's obviously sure of his convictions but is not, i think, reflective by nature.

No nice spacing of his arguments to give the reader time to reflect or to gain time before delivering a punch-line...:D

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Hello Mrs Malaprop - think you mean parallel?

Sorry couldn't resist - got my editor's/proofreader's hat on. ;)

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Your not missing out believe me, ;)

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[QUOTE=susie123;955003]Hello Mrs Malaprop - think you mean parallel?

Sorry couldn't resist - got my editor's/proofreader's hat on. ;)[/QUOTE


TRANSITIVE VERB:
par·a·goned, par·a·gon·ing, par·a·gons
To compare; parallel.
To equal; match.

Means more-or-less the same thing Sue -I was actually translating from Italian.

"Paragonare" is the verb to compare...

Brain dead today...;) (Blame Bridget -she's had a bad week!:D)

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Well the verb's a new one on me...

I see I shouldn't really criticise - made a total hash of the quote in that last post...

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There are loads of English verbs out there going un-used, truly i only used it because I was translating back from Italian -not a good thing to do as it doesn't always work!

I have a great English dictionary/Thesaurus for when I do translations -gives you more variety, we tend to use the same words over, again and again, as most of us are generally lazy in our speech.:D

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Just had a thought perhaps i could start a "Word of the day" thread in anything goes. Make it quite unusual and see how many people manage to use it in their posts that day -might be quite difficult to monitor though.

What do you reckon?

Could be a new game for all our Sesquipedalianists:eek::rolleyes:;):D

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Nice idea... can't quite see how it would work.

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Badly written, yes. Hardly puctuated, most definitely. Twaddle, hardly.

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Well, if I can't make sense of it Eric, then as far as I am concerned it is twaddle.
To be honest, I could not be bothered trying to work out what he was saying.
I'm too bloody old to be wasting my time on such inconsequential rubbish.

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" You're from a dinosaur age of politics, blaming the Unions just doesn't wash.

Let's have a look at the miner's strike, a bad thing? I don't think so. It was justified, in that it was trying to save your community and well-being. It was the greedy share-holder who was the one that would make a packet through globalisation. There is only one reason why Britain and Europe are in a mess, and that is greed.

If they had never got greedy, we would have had more money to spend and greater taxes to collect. The multi-nationals cut off their noses to spite their faces, they are idiots. Do they not know that people need money to buy their products?

As Tristan Hunt said on Question Time, when he hit the nail on the head:
"In the Eighties, the Tory government put thousands of workers on incapacity benefit, now we have generations of people who don't know what work is."

They started the rot by helping to create mass unemloyment in communities, with their first round of cuts in the 1980's.
I just keep getting a feeling of dejà vù; Cuts, Europe, Union bashing and propaganda in the papers.

The Tories are out of their depth, we are in for a very, very bumpy ride."


This is what C'mon meant.

Not twaddle at all -just passionately expressed without punctuation!

I remember when the Tories had to bring down the un-employment figures back then and fiddled the numbers. They managed to knock off a million over night. The same thing has gone on ever since!

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One is never too old to waste one's time.;) The way I interpret what he wrote is that in any labour/management dispute, or in any discussion of why British industry is, more or less, no more, it is wrong to blame only one side for the dispute, or for the loss of viable industries which provide well-paid, secure employment for the working class. Bashing the unions often obscures the fact that management needs a good swift kick in the plums too. From one set of prejudices, one blames unions for their greed and intransigence; and from another set, one blames management for their greed and intransigence.

But this is only an interpretation. His argument is a tad cluttered, but hardly "twaddle", or "inconsequential rubbish."