Forgive me Bucko -
A beautiful conventional response, your's.
But why the Dickens would I be bothering anyone here if your straight arrow ideas worked.
I've been there and tried all that crap.
It doesn't work - perhaps for the simple reason that those strategies no longer work in our failed democracy.

Furthermore please stop diverting the thread.

no worries non farmer
#enjoy your leukemia
your a saD PUPPY

how many sickoes on the head of a post?

great title
seems to sum up your destractions

i will leave you to wallow in your con fusion
at least we can stop wasting each others time

Dear O.U.G.,
I find your response profoundly interesting.
I raise an issue of public interest the other day; and then, in the course of events, merely acknowledge your reply by informing you that conventional strategies (that you mentioned, and I had already tried) have not worked.
I expressed that in the vernacular for the good reason that speaking 'modern English’ seems to go over the head of many correspondents.

I have asked anyone who might access these pages to look at my recent comments in order that they might find the common thread.

I contend that I found something on Mr. Loewenstein’s pages that confounds belief.
That is the hate sent him in response to his being a reasonable person doing his best to speak his opinion.

In no way different from Antony I’m trying to bring my poor knowledge to the public domain at a time when the rest of the media have closed ranks and refuse to publish fact about some forefront public issues.

It reaches the stage where a reasonable person would question why a certain few keep diverting the fair discussion of topics on this forum.
Is it that those who keep replying are nothing other than disputative and societally disconnected personalities or, as some might begin to believe is there some other agenda motivating your remarkably inconsistent behaviour?

To put it another way and to badly paraphrase Churchill – why is it that so few keep stuffing up the concerns of so many, so often?
Are some of you, perhaps, being paid?

Oh my lord, Graham the jig is up my man.

Non-Farmer in your wisdom you have discovered the truth and I lay my confession at you clean non-farming feet.

Graham hired not one but a team of us (I refuse to name my team members even under threat of pain and death).

We were hired to distract fools. Yes you were right, paid fool distracters.

We were doing a special this month and Graham was only paying for the first 13 fools of the month and we would distract the remaining 3000 for free.

As per agreement Graham, because we rushed it and became too obvious we will return to you your deposit…

Where would you like the wheelbarrow full of potatoes sent?

oh dear i have seen it all now...lol
non farmer off topic trolling his own topic...lol

its interesting to note the tonal change,from bucko to oug
and if you can re claim civility so can i

i would agree there may be paid posters here..and if only,.they were all like jewel that would be great..but suspect no one could pay her to sellout people or feelings for cash

[sadly they mostly are like you..[taking cheap shots at any who dare to answer your call for advice..[..or discussion,..or whatever[or ridicule that basic protest dont work..[when it clearly does..[when done by a determined person,..not a windbag wannabe]

[hapilly most post topic's arnt as convoluted as your's..[this one] is

anyhow my thought on this topic is egsausted
im over pin head sickoes

Well, I suppose there it is.
Try as I might any issue on this turnout and what unfolds?

Push the envelope and what arises is abuse and hate from a nasty core of ‘regular’ contributors.
Keep it meek and mild; no problemo.

Start speaking truth and get shouted down, Pronto!
Does some covert agency here in Oz. employ professional ‘Naysayers’ to manage this activity?

This is a ‘Best practice’ domain, is it?
Free thought, free speech – open to all?
Then why don’t the remarkable number of A toZ contributors listed put up their say?

That lack of response makes no statistical sense whatsoever.

And the salient point about no other contributors being evident – might be caused by mere apathy on the part of the ‘populace’ – or simply contributors having their say censored – or -

Anyway, the last few days I’ve noticed a few comments arising from a very few ‘pen-names’ bouncing about from one attitude to the other.

I’ve read from “Mein Kamph” to “Das Kapital” – while dallying in my seventeenth year with “The Female Eunuch” soon followed by “The Kinsey Report”.

Oh I believe there was once a time in my youth when some small amount of literature was available permitting a youngster some sense of real values and what made people ‘tick’ back then in a more liberal age.

OOOOOH Dear,
Where does this lead?
That’s right.
Some God botherer, in reply, pretending some semblance of intellect.
Some one of those who wants to escalate some haywired, off planet agenda of their own while simultaneously scragging genteel discourse.

That’s no great problem.
Should I start a new thread, ‘nutter’s corner’ just for those few?

If my poor efforts are so utterly featherbrained then may I refer the replies of the utter crackpots to “Nutter’s Corner” and leave the rest of the show to the intellectually advantaged?
Sheesh!