Hi there UNRAVEL...

Wow, have you got my measure I know now I should've stayed in bed! You mentioned threats? I can't possibly make a threat to anyone, especially when I'm unable to carry-out such an act.

If I may be permitted to make an observation concerning you UNRAVEL; without disturbing your delicate sensibilities. You appear (prima facie) to be a very angry and troubled young man, attacking anyone or anything, for the slightest denunciation of you personally, or your many flawed opinions. I think all that's rather sad.

Therefore to compensate, you suddenly arise out of your little box 'swinging 'n blathering' at anybody who's unfortunate enough to be in your vicinity! Interestingly you speak of others who lack the good grace to admit when they're wrong? Yet, you yourself churlishly disabuse others, when they highlight your erroneous assertions. Why is that please?

However, I believe under all that 'theatre' you're somewhat of a lonely agitated figure, harbouring this misanthropic predilection towards the community per se. Therefore time; together with some measure of goodwill, emanating entirely from you of course - You might be able to engage in some intrinsic; Behaviour Modification Activity?

A programme used extensively in Long Bay Gaol, with quite some measure of success. As you can imagine with 1,500 odd inmates, incarcerated mostly in Maximum Security, there exists much venom, anger, and reprisal. And for the record, most 'threats' are carried out! I've had the regrettable task of investigating quite a number of serious crimes, occasioned against the personage's of inmates, at that particular gaol.

And back to the programme; with some honest dedication and personal application, you may manage to assuage much of that repressed anger and irritability you now possess, that we've all witnessed bubbling happily away, just below the surface. I do hope this is of some assistance to you UNRAVEL?

Unravel?

Uncouth?

o sung wu- Thanks for your feedback. Argumentum ad hominem ;)

You are very welcome CANEM MALUM...

I suspect we all get a little heated and aggrieved if we feel we're losing a debate, hell I always get 'nailed' as it were, on most issues. After all The Forum & OLO is a facility that Graham YOUNG has kindly developed, that allows many of us who hitherto, were without a voice. At least it permits us ordinary folk, a suitable venue in which we may articulate our views, without too much censure by the 'thought police'.

Moreover, Graham YOUNG rarely modifies anyone's argument, unless we're silly enough to employ language calculated to seriously offend, or designed to incite violence, or to commit a crime against any one of the Statutes that have received royal assent from the Realm. I reckon we're pretty lucky with this arrangement.

Why is it not surprising that you are a bunch of sooks!

Unlike you lot, I don't try to hide behind a facade of pretentious civility. I've got this thing about keeping it real. There is nothing civil about disparaging refugees as country shoppers, ethnic communities as criminal ridden, the majority of your own nation as either sheep and or / Lefties and an Abrahammic faith followed by billions around the world. That is an attack on their morality, their cultural heritage, their capacity to think for themselves and their faith. If you can't take it, don't dish it out.

Please feel free to become the self-appointed head warders of the civility commissars, you just make yourself look even sillier given your boasts about supporting freedom of speech and loathing political correctness. Nobody restricts themselves to such narrow political thought as the Right-bots and woe betide anyone who steps out of their political line.

Please keep accusing me of being deprecatory for an in-kind response to another poster. Nothing better than having you lot parading your bias and hypocrisy for all to see

Please keep the observations going, it reminds us that you lot cannot see anything but your own prejudices.

Take '...getting your feet wet...' and '...been there done that...' o sung wu. Just engaging your brain and paying a modicum of attention to just that one post, would have stopped you from getting it so wrong.

“..toe in the water...” “....hasn't got his feet wet...” Note the similarity of the expressions.

Where's the first one? Immediately following Bad Dog's assertion that he is deeply involved in this discussion. The inference from my response, no he is not. Opposite of deep is shallow, no toe in the water = not in deep.

“...been there done that.....” is included in my “Second response.....”. Here he's responding to a problem that has been ongoing for decades. The obvious strategies suggested have long been used, as in “been there done that”. They have failed in similar ways that the US, with all of its resources, has failed to protect its borders from drug runners. Add to that the references I provided. They show too that not only have these strategies been tried and are ongoing but also some reasons why they failed. Merely regurgitating failed strategies is not an indicator of being deeply involved, hence the inclusion here of “....hasn't got his feet wet...”.

You looked o sung wu and saw nothing but your alt-Right prejudices staring right back at you.