“Now despite all the kindergarten humour this site pretends to be one where people so intellectually rarefied that they can prove the common people wrong just by giggling. Is it wholly impossible for anybody here to put up an intelligent argument on:

Why we should destroy most of the world’s economy to stop global warming when the evidence is that it is cooling.

Why tunnels are the Devil’s work.

Why it is good for the economy that housing should cost 4 times the necessary price.

Why the half blood Prince is so obviously more experienced, competent, honest, intelligent, capable of making the tough decisions & likely to balance the budget than Barracuda Sarah?

Now lets see if there is a single person here capable of making a coherent answer to any of these. You can phone a friend if it helps.”

It clearly is indeed wholly impossible for any of you to make a coherent answer on anything. Thank you.

Mincer – up until 1998 the evidence did tend to support warming, though not necessarily catastrophic & I thought it likely there was something to it. I’m sure you consider allowing oneself to change ones mind when the evidence changes to be a sign of weakness. So be it.

Simon – No X 5 – nor do I hate Black people who are White (#2)

Best of luck in getting Al Gore & David Miliband to fix your car.

Mesostim – Thank you for that demonstration of the sort of integrity to be expected from the drooling branes here. It is quite obvious which of us would be happier doing Winston Smith’s job though perhaps you don’t understand the disadvantages of boasting of being a liar.

Funny pec I hope you will convey to your 15 year old niece my respects. In a remark about it being impossible to give an absolute figure for global temperature, which you inexplicably interpreted as meaning that we should immediately destroy the world economy on the off chance, she has reached the same conclusion as a prominent sceptic:

“I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate change. This number, as I see it, is aimed mostly at politicians and journalists.”
Craig Bohren”
Professor Emeritus
Pennsylvania State University

Clearly this young lady is intellectually an order of magnitude smarter than all the assorted alleged PHD & CDM regulars here.

Neal Stephenson’s Xeelee Trilogy

Er, Stephen Baxter?

On Friday, roughly 8ish in the evening I attempted to post on Neil’s site the comment “Why did you censor my last post. Do you hate freedom so much”… He has the choice to post it… and look like a censorer or simply censor it and be a censorer…Mesotim

I suggest you accuse him of re-arranging the gnomes in your garden in the middle of the night. Then insist that the brusque letter you received from your bank this morning was due to his high-level interference. And finally assert that he arranged for United Utilities to dig up your street outside your house in order to spy closely on your activities.

THEN… in a clear loud type say, “Its publish or police time, Neil. No choice after you arranged the gnomes. Bank letters and roadworks, where do you stop?”

Your firm tone of outraged moral decency will surely terrifty him into compliance with your every whim.

I couldn’t agree more, Nelson. My generous offer of a shag to Mr Craig and his Manly Beard was not even acknowledged and I felt so rejected. Seriously, it’s been tears on my pillow all weekend*

Never mind – Neil will soon know how that rejection feels when we stop paying attention to him and his blog returns to a readership of one. Including himself.

*I’m OK now. I’ve had a Star Bar and seen something else I want.

You are sailing perilously close to “publish this if you dare!!!1!!”, after which the Craigmeister simply has to publish the comment and make you sound like one of them.

3) The comments we take the piss out of are NOT those censored from other blogs, they are comments on public websites like the BBC’s Have Your Say, which anyone in the world with access to that particular website can see.

Except for the extracts from the complaints log. Aha! Explain that, and watch the secret network of hate unravel!

I would though quite like to know how many of the 79 votes the 9GP party got were genuine votes from other technolatrous libertoonians and how many were just Mister Magoo-style mistakes by elderly shepherds and crofters struggling with the saxon tongue.

He went for the latter… Big Brother would be proud… I know now why he needs so many tunnels… It’s to bury opinion he objects to once his party transcends to power… and old copies of Hawk the Slayer.