Steele - don't buy your story. It would be inappropriate to attend a funeral and then get into a political discussion with quite a number of the attendees. And conveniently they all share your opinion. Give us a break.

SM,

"Poirot,

We are all entitled to our opinions and interpretations of the facts. Deliberate falsehoods are lies, and those posting deliberate falsehoods are liars."

I'm merely stating something that Graham once told me - he's aiming for parliamentary standards on OLO.

Of course, If Bronnie Bishop was here, she would have tossed me out for a while under 94A - merely for bringing up a point of order (which, on occasions, she has been wont to do)

Do you deny that you keep insisting that 90% (your figure) of people think this way or that - and that they always seem to agree with your viewpoint?

Suseonline, "I have NEVER seen any PM so viciously verbally attacked than Julia Gillard"

Your memory is flawed.

Julia Gillard enjoyed a long honeymoon with the media, all of the media, because she is a woman and was Australia's first woman PM. She was further and enduringly bolstered by the sisterhood of Emily's Listers, feminist commentators, including gender studies academics, female bureaucrats - all of the horde who get their daily bread and careers from stereotyping women as eternal victims and fragile, who must always be given protection and a leg-up to survive.

ALL females in the public eye, politicians and leaders with the few exceptions hated by the jealous leftists, such as Gina Rinehart, gain the substantial benefit of the positive female stereotype, which quickly flips to sympathy for the female victim if criticised, so commentators have to be particularly careful.

That is talking about the mainstream media and excluding the women's sections, women being the worst critics of women (women's jealousy and competitiveness) and forever focusing on the personal.

Julia Gillard was given a huge amount of rope, which she used up and still more, with her lies, deceit, unreliability, egocentrism and bullying (eg of Rudd) eventually challenging the positive stereotype of women itself.

I guess that women have to thank her for that. For showing so conclusively and so often that careerist women politicians are just as flawed as the selfish, ambitious little squirts of men, for example, Shorten.

Poirot,

A wise person on hitting the bottom turns around, but if you want to keep digging I will entertain your delusion for a while. Firstly as far as the rules of the forum, I would suggest that you review specifically what I posted.

Next if you want to support your assertion that: "You're the fellow who keeps on telling me that 90% of the people think this - and 90% of the people think that." I would suggest that you get digging through my nearly 4500 posts over nearly a decade to find my frequent similar assertions over a variety of topics. Good Luck.

Given that I am generally careful in checking my facts, I don't make assertions unless I have reasonable grounds for doing so.

I prefer to keep discussions clean, but will call out porkies when I see them.

SM,

Thanks for the invitation...my references were to your recent postings.

Just a quick trawl produces these two:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6886&page=0#211001

"Poirot,

I am happy to amongst the 90% of Australians that believe that the Labor/Greens policies that lead to the deaths of 1200-2000 people was a complete cock up, and that the Greens that still advocate this murderous policy are depraved."

&

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6886&page=0#210500

"This might be rewarded with a few sniggers from others from the looney left, but 90% of Aussies know perfectly well what was meant and that Abbott has succeeded spectacularly, and think that those making the claim are pedantic idiots."

And this - which I resume you posted for a reason?

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6920&page=0#211050

"From your view point 90% of people are far right wing."

What could the reason be I wonder?

Could it be that the 90% of the people SM assumes I think are right wing - are in SM's opinion the majority who hold opposing views to Poirot - and therefore agree entirely with people like SM?

(Why bother to post it if it wasn't meant to support your argument?)

If you don't wish fellow posters to highlight your confected assertions - then don't repeatedly conjure up percentages out of thin air to support your stance.

OTB, rubbish!
There is no more worse 'little squirt' than little Abbott, although I agree that is an apt description of good 'ol Bill.

My most vivid memory is of the holy Abbott proudly standing in front of a banner (held up by men I believe) saying "Bob Brown's B##ch".
Charming, but typical of all the hysteria of a woman running the country at the time.