SR,

I am tired of your simplistic no risk tactic of fixating on a tiny detail and then asking me to "prove" myself. Put your money where your mouth is and tell me I am wrong, and then I will happily show you up.

Firstly the term poison dwarf is primarily a slur on a person's nature not stature.
Secondly I said that insults against "physical and other characteristics" not "physical" were hurled around like confetti.
And finally before you nail your colours to the mast I will give a hint at some phrases previously used such as "mincing poodle" and "Fatty O Barrel".

As you have fixated on my use of the word dwarf, I take it that you concede the poisonous nature of MM.

Come off it Shadow, Fatty O'Barrel morphed into Bozzy Barry after he took that $5,000 corrupt bottle of 'Penfolds Plonk' from you know who. You defiantly know, the one he couldn't recall taking before the ICAC! Anyway Fatty, Bozzy, what ever we want to call him is history, and was replaced by The Corruption Party with Bugsy Baird from the Liberals North Shore Mafia.
I still maintain you never watched Q&A last Monday night and are now winging this whole argument. Am I correct? Yes I am!

Dear Shadow Minister,

Here you go again, calling me simplistic when you are the one who can't appreciated that attacking a person because of a perceived physical deficiency over which they have no control is wrong.

Ultimately if you want to call MM poisonous because she referred to your poster boy as a tit then so be it, after all this is an opinion site. You have presented zero evidence to support your contention and so the rest of us have every reason to regard it purely as petulance. But this is entirely different to trying to denigrate someone in the manner you did and we were right to expose it as juvenile, school yard bullying which when exhibited by a grown man speaks directly to your character.

Further to try and convince us that MM's height had little to do with you choosing the label 'poison dwarf' is just inane.

Finally it is really quite childish to react to being asked to furnish a single piece of evidence for a sweeping statement by saying 'well prove to me it isn't true'. If they were indeed strewn like confetti then you would have posted one immediately, you haven't because they aren't, full stop.

Fox, "Most people who do admire Miriam Margolyes, because she's a great character actress of stage and screen"

Lets not take the adulation too far. I don't know about a 'great' actress. To be great and there is a lot of competition, you would expect flexibility across the range of roles. She is a good comedienne with a script and in the narrow confine of the roles that suit her. I can't say that she is creative, as in the flexible actor, comedian, and screenwriter, Rowan Atkinson.

Mangolyes needs a script and direction. She is not very funny as a stand-up, being uncomfortable outside her predictable monologues, examples, 'being a lesbian' and 'Dickens' literature'. In fact, without a script she very rapidly lapses into the tiresome, predictable, smug, carping bore.

That is a common fault of visiting Pom 'experts' (and would-be Poms) who like to flaunt their education for the cringing leftist colonial drongos. Cringe-worthy, forever needy Oz leftists licking their feet - both licker and licked with feet of clay.

In the case of the Jones' Q&A circus of which she was part, Mangoles was the victim. Albeit probably willing through the monumental ego of her celebrity (actors, LOL), but a victim of outrageous miss-casting nevertheless.

Which leaves the only real question, which is why the ABC's producers hand-picked Mangolyes for that circus, when there must be hundreds of more qualified people for the gig and who are not reduced to smouldering (mouldering?) away in the corner of the panel making faces and rolling eyes, only to emerge with the childish, "Tit!"?

Honestly now ABC, if Mangolyes has a certain talent, why not give her some proper contract work worthy of her abilities? Spice up ABC production and not just one of Jones' circuses with performing animals? Then again, that might not be possible where there isn't the planned staff mobility and continuous improvement that are so valued in private industry and the seriously well paid jobs are sinecures for life.

Miriam Margolyes is a veteran of stage and screen.
She is an award-winning actress who has achieved
success on both sides of the Atlantic. Winner of
the British BAFTA Best supporting actress award
and numerous other awards. She has major credits
during her long and celebrated career - and
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II awarded Miriam
the OBE for her services to Drama.

The following link is worth a read - it lists some
of MM's achievements as an actress:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546816/bio

Fox says Miriam got the gig because through her celebrity and her gong from QEII. LOL

No, the producers of Q&A were the ones who quite deliberately and coldly typecast her by setting her up for that inappropriate gig.

Why would the Q&A producers set out to do that though and is it their usual modus operandi - to provide circus entertainment for a dumbed-down audience? Perhaps so. It is a colossal waste of some of that $1.3billion PA take from the Aussie taxpayer though.

This is how the talent should and could have been used to give the Taxpayer better value for money (BBC),

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVaPPGTlHZ4

-The Graham Norton Show: Series 14 Episode 17 - BBC, is very funny. Shows how personalities like Miriam can perform when given the right support and environment.

Which to repeat the only real question, what was the real motivation, the secondary gain of the ABC's producers when they slotted Miriam Mangolyes for that Q&A circus?