Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Oddly enough, my daughter, who is a primary school teacher, and had called by for a cuppa, skimmed through G1's effort and said it sounded just like a spoilt brat having a hissy fit.'"
What did your daughter make of your comments about me "having the painters in" or your "having a fully functioning adult brain" or me being "unexpectedly dumb". Was she impressed by daddys grown up debating style on those occasions?
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark " I wasn't going to bother, as tirades of insults are a fair indicator that the insulter feels spanked, so has to resort to abuse. '"
I agree. But you shouldn't try and occupy any moral high ground when you bandy about terms like "having the painters in" or posters being "unexpectedly dumb" when you respond to them because, frankly, it makes you look a little hypocritical.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "But clearly there's a popular demand for me to administer the killer blow. I will do so solely for the entertainment of the assembled multitudes, with an attempt at the Guinness record for quotations, and without a single retaliatory insult.'"
You'll make the effort and the lack of retaliatory insults will be a nice change of style. Did your daughter admonish you as well?
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "As we do. It being the "Bulls" board. '"
...that is open to supporters of all teams that has discussions about many things including games where the Bulls play opposition and the opposition and the match officials are discussed. Just like on, say, this thread. Why are you pretending this thread is only for discussion of the Bulls players when anyone who can read can see it isn't?
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Precisely. Bulls fans on a Bulls board tend to concentrate on the Bulls angle of things, and I expect they'll continue to do so, despite your ruling. '"
My "ruling"? Very grown up. You ought to have run that by your daughter before posting. It's my difference of opinion. because they concentrate on more than the Bulls angle of things. They also concentrate of the direction of Leeds passes, the legality of Leeds tackling and the competency of the officials. they talk about them on this very thread. You should read it back.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "But we have hardly been "ignoring" Leeds injured players. We tend to concentrate on the Bulls, our team, and not discussing the intricacies of the Leeds position to anything like the same extent, as we do not suppport Leeds. Why is that hard for you to accept?'"
Why wouldn't you ignore Leeds injuries if all you talk about is the Bulls side of things?
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Please, keep your pathetic insults coming for as long as it makes you feel the big man. '"
Right back at you.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Actually - to me it is. (You being rude or unpleasant)'"
Yet you express no opinion on whether Adey's post was gibberish, just that me calling it gibberish was rude and unpleasant. What a precious soul. If you express a view on whether it was gibberish we can then determine whether I was being rude or not.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "I'm sure it makes you feel even more clever that you have ruled the opinions - all of them - of the editor of the main rugby league weekly are without exception "garbage", '"
Have I? You seem to be imagining things again.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "in contrast to your belief that every single one of your opinions is, unquestionably, to be preferred to his "garbage".'"
You're making things up again.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "And we are all really impressed by this. No, really. Thank you for gracing us with your insights.'"
What's your daughters view of someone introducing heavy sarcasm into a debate? What character traits does that demonstrate?
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark " The scraps from your lofty intellectual table glint like sunbeams off an oasis of truth in a desert of printed Bulls forum garbage. Put it in your sig, seeing as I expect you believe it.'"
That smacks to me as tantrum like. Still I won't take it as an insulting comment because you said you wouldn't do that and, regardless, it appears i have broader shoulders than you.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "The fact is, the sentence was incomprehensible. On which basis feel free to now claim you [imeant[/i to say whatever. None of us can ever know, as what you wrote wasn't English! I said you "seem to be arguing" as I was just having a stab at making some sense out of nonsense'"
How does you calling my post nonsense differ from me calling Adey's gibberish? Is this another example of your hypocrisy?
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark " I could indeed have misunderstood what you meant'"
I suspect you probably just made up what you thought I meant. You've been doing it a lot.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "but the fault here was with the writer, not the reader.'"
I think you should let others be the judge of that or you're making proclamations which you seem to think I do.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "I said that with Orford, Kearney and Langley we would have enough to beat Leeds? '"
You did. And i wondered why you'd say that. It's not a view I share and the only tangible evidence we have is the game at Easter.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Er, because I think that with Orford, Kearney and Langley we would have enough to beat Leeds.'"
And I don't. And I provided some tangible evidence to support my view like, you know, the occasion when you did have them and you didn't beat us.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Forceful? Is it? Well, if you say so. I'd have described it is my personal opinion, but you seem to know better. It doesn't sound to me as a particularly "forceful" thing for a Bulls fan to say, but hey ho.'"
I may or may not know better but I have certainly substantiated my view better, IMO.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "So in reply to my point, when you said "Really? What happened at Easter then?" (Leeds beat Bradford) you were either trolling, or else asking an utterly pointless question. Fair enough.'"
Erm, Leeds didn't beat Bradford. But Bradford didn't beat Leeds either. Bradford had those three players in their team. So the question was very pertinent.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Nice dig, I like your adult style. And no doubt you'll cap it at the end by saying it's myself who is rude, ignorant and none grown up.'"
Et tu. You seem to have missed the point that the "dig" was one of yours that I was repeating so, yer, I will say it's you who is rude, given you first coined the phrase in this thread.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Ah. Broadened your gratuitous barbs to the whole Bradford area now. Nice. '"
I apologise to the whole Bradford area for any offence I may have caused them/it. It was a light hearted comment and meant as an lawyer in-joke. Of course, FA interpreted as me insulting the whole of Bradford so, to the whole of Bradford please accept my humblest of apologies. Of course, I doubt the whole of Bradford will be reading this but ho hum. or was this FA being a bit over dramatic?
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "It may, I suppose, seem that way to you. But no, you're the only one who did that, not me.'"
Well, i haven't told anyone that they must start a new fsking thread. BTW, what did your daughter make of you using "fsking" in your debate? Was she impressed?
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "And I have never told you. For a lawyer, you weirdly missed the "If.." statement preceding the phrase. And only in retort to you trying to tell me what to discuss. As you know.'"
I know no such thing.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "And now, boys and girls, for me that's enough of that. Sorry to disappoint, but there will be no more ripostes on this thread to G12 [size3[/size/[size4[/size from me.'"
Might your primary school teaching daughter interpret that is you taking your ball home?
It seems to me sir that you're a Bully. You have been aggressive, rude and posted insults. Yet you have cried foul at my retorts and pretended that you're above such things when really, your down here with me throwing around as many barbed comments and veiled insults. You even failed to spot when I threw one of your own comments back at you and complained about my use of it. You invent things that you claim I have said to suit your agenda and you're forceful and aggressive and ensuring your view is put across. Fair enough and you many browbeat the regulars upon here but not me sir.