Oh my Gawd, it's so hilarious!

Maxie in his last post, would like us to "think" he posted a link to a graph that shows "the death rate from fireworks".

Well what did I do? I clicked on his link, and sure enough something came up on my screen.

Yep, at the top of the link page there it was, Maxie's graph. The poor ol' bugger thought he'd try a "swiftie" on us.

Well folks, do you know what that graph "ACTUALLY SHOWS"?

That graph is NOT, I repeat NOT, a "death statistic" graph.

It's - - - wait for it,

A GRAPH THAT MERELY GRAPHS YEAR BY YEAR REFERENCED "GOOGLE ENTRIES" (FROM YEARS 1780 TO 2009)) WHEN YOU TYPE "australia, history, fireworks, deaths" IN THE GOOGLE SEARCH BOX.

It's NOT an actual graph that graphs actual deaths from crackers. It's NOT a statistical graph resulting from a study of firecracker deaths.

Maxie's amateur attempt at misrepresentation is just simply - - - -

HILLLLLLLLARIOUS ! ! ! !

Better luck next time Maxie ol' boy.

I’m trying to work out how to convince you boys who want your crackers back… for the kids of course aye.[smile]

They did get hurt, stats don’t matter. One hurt and 1000 unscathed still cannot be acceptable. One dead, blind, deaf or scarred opposed to many alive, unscarred, seeing and hearing who had a good night is not an argument for grown ups.

We do have bicycles and skate boards and trees to climb and pools to swim in, children aren’t wrapped in cotton wool and I wouldn’t’ want them to be but this one thing they don’t need – they have the other things and are happy, just don’t tell them what they are missing.

You’re so transparent, you wanna play and I’ll place a bet that not one of you in the “bring the banger back” crew actually has an 8 year old son.

That's it, I give up, the weird fornicator wins,there's no point talking to the fool.

Actually, there's some very strange epistemology going on here.

Maximillion - Master's quite correct about that link and graph: it doesn't show what you claim it does about deaths from fireworks. You really don't know much about statistics, do you?

Antiwomen - you sort of acknowledge that Master's claim was supported by the available data, but you can't resist trying to twist it into some kind of sorty in your perpetual gender war, can you?

BTW, does anybody else besides Antiwomen think that Master's a sock puppet? I've got quite a good nose for them, but everything that Master's posted here since he joined OLO recently has been both internally consistent and quite unlike anybody else's offerings in terms of structure and language.

Still, it wouldn't be the first time that Antiwomen's made a preposterous claim on OLO, for which he has been subsequently been inacapable of providing any evidence whatsoever, would it?

"epistemology"

CJ I do believe you have taught me more new words than anyone else in the last ten years and I find myself now scanning your posts to learn them.

But these three boys, is it just more fun to fight? No matter what messages I leave I am ignored by Anti, Max and Master completely as they squabble above and below anything I have said in any thread they now argue in.

Now my feelings arn't hurt, 19 years with toddlers has left me pretty unshakable and immune to human quirks.

But I am courios and slightly facinated at what I have witnessed and the way it built up and now I see it is to a point where I actually thought Master left quite a normal message in Max's new thread about adult children and it was attacked in a heartbeat. But Master did launch the first mocking reproach to Anti over in NRL and right behind Snacho.

I didn't think he was a sock puppet either. Something I have missed is why the pomeranian stuff CJ - where or why did that start?

Hi Piper - the "pomeranian" thing is a very lame and puerile effort by Antiwomen to insult me. I treat it in probably much the same way you would if one of your 4-year old foster kids called you something that he thought was really mean.

Sometimes it's best to let them get it out of their systems - sticks and stones and all that :)

P.S. my of use English is far from infallible - in my last post I wrote "sorty" instead of "sortie"....