Poirot,

<<The hilarity is that you guys on this thread are demonstrating EXACTLY the behaviour that you decry in the people you are criticising>>

Poirot you are a person of remarkable contrasts!

When it's anything about Islam your sit demurely on the sidelines tut tutting.

But if the subject is climate change you're straight into it with boots, fists and elbows.

You must have been a ayatollah in a previous life.eh?

Aah.. csteel wageing jihad again.

Give it up luv. you lose again. If you like 'em so much why don't you find a country that you'll feel more at home in. Wow! look at that I can be politically correct.

Then Poirot, answer my question, why should we bother trying to adapt
to their philosophy and attitudes ?

csteele, if I'm a clown for asking you about your dinner date with your muslim hero, at least I'm not a knob making excuses for these hate-mongers that you lefties love so much, just because they are the antithesis of western society.

You must be a fat pig if you gulped down three steaks. Talking of pigs, when are you going to invite your non-halal mozzie over for a pork chop or three?

"...excuses for these hate-mongers..."

That's a laugh!

AP, did you read your post?

Good afternoon to you POIROT...

Ah gee, I wish I possessed your wisdom. Your stunning 'one liners', and your incomparable intuition. All of which pales in comparison with the overt anathema you display with any poor soul who dare oppose your views ? Through it all, seeps a real bitterness, made all the more toxic, with the poison that drips from that allegorical pen of yours, when one dares to admonish you for some cock-eyed notion you've sought to have enjoined...

I joined this little Forum, for a bit of fun, a giggle, and to 'kick around' everything and anything, with like minded people. And to that end, most of those who regularly contribute herein do just that, some with that mastery of talent of being able to launch into some feigned outrage at something someone's said, always with their tongue firmly planted within their cheek ?

Lately, some topics seem to have devolved into dreadful slanging matches, dripping with malice, and yes, poison, together with all the other appalling attributes that we humans seem so accomplished. And regrettably, I'm starting to join in myself, and engage in the same sort of behaviour. I though I'd left all that crap behind after retiring. The last few years of work, I was almost devoid of any human emotion - victim, crook, or goodguy ? Nothing. No feelings ever penetrated my psyche. Neither tragedy, nor horror, nor crime...nothing. The legacy of over thirty years 'in the job'. I wasn't a very nice person in those days, very aggressive and devoid of human compassion. A few colleagues reckon I'd be dead by seventy. Well I'm not ! Another former colleague, did *47 hard years* in uniform (only a Sergeant, never aspired higher) ! Amassed a huge Super/Pension and payout, healthy, tough as old rope. He died in a little under 5 months, from his retirement date ? His widow was inconsolable, she was always worried, her 'Ted' would be hurt or killed on the job ! Go figure ? Perhaps the time's finally come to review my tenure on the Forum ?