BP,

Your misuse of the reflexive pronoun, and your inability to copy Aidan's name correctly suggests that you are not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so I won't be bothering with you again.

Aidan,

What a mistake I made by responding to your nonsense out of the belief that it is polite to reply to anyone who comments on a thread I start. It won't happen again. Before you call people with whom you disagree 'idiots', take a deep breath and look in the mirror. You have the mentality of a cage fighter, without the ability. Go and insult people on Facebook or Twitter; that's all you are good for.

Aidan,

Just a final word. I don't recall you ever starting a thread. You seem to prefer sneaky sniping at posters with the courage of their convictions and the grit to express them. Cowardy, cowardy custard.

ttbn,
Firstly I have not insulted you on this thread.
Secondly, you have misspelled my name before, so cut Banjo some slack!
Thirdly, while I very seldom start threads on this board, so what? There's nothing particularly brave about doing so, and I have never previously heard anyone here state the opinion that starting a new thread gives one any sort of credibility, nor that anyone is under any sort of moral obligation to do so.

It is disappointing that you regard my telling the truth as "sneaky sniping". Having the courage and grit (or more accurately, the temerity) to express your opinions will inevitably make you look like an idiot if you're too stubborn to change them is the basis of those opinions is conclusively proven wrong.

The above is intended as a warning, not an insult.

Sorry, typo! I should've said:
... if you're too stubborn to change them IF the basis of those opinions is conclusively proven wrong.

Hi Aidan;

"Before you call people with whom you disagree 'idiots', take a deep breath and look in the mirror."

This ttbn bloke takes the prize, people he disagrees with he calls morons.

In reference to two other posters he writes;

Paul 1405 isn't the only moron.
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 15 November 2020 8:27:14 AM

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Dear ttbn,

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You wrote :

« Your misuse of the reflexive pronoun, and your inability to copy Aidan's name correctly suggests that you are not the sharpest knife in the drawer »
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I try not to be too blunt either, ttbn. I think I can truthfully say that I generally express myself courteously and respectfully.

However, I plead guilty to the misuse of the reflexive pronoun in my previous post. My PC’s Grammarly corrector immediately picked it up when I wrote it but I decided not to allow the correction as I quite liked the musicality of the combination “yourself, myself, etc., …”, rather than “yourself, me, etc. …”.

Please forgive me for taking that liberty. It hadn’t occurred to me that you might take umbrage at such a temerarious deviation from linguistic purism.

As for my unintentional error in the spelling of Aidan’s name, I hasten to present Aidan my most sincere and humble apologies and thank you, ttbn, for pointing it out to me.

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