@Setanta,
Quote: That drunken clown manages to torpedo every legitimate thread about evolution, and you just help him out by talking to him . . . i'm sure there are any number of low dives in your immediate area in which you can find gin-soaked idiots with delusions of adequacy with whom to converse . . .
Set, my dear,
The viewers have the choice of deciding the usefulness or otherwise of my contributions to these threads. I know you would like to have the power to do it for them and guide them into the sunny uplands wherein you evidently are stationed but, alas, you're pissing into the wind as usual.
And what a drunken clown says, or even a gin-soaked idiot with delusions of adequacy, is judged on the meaning of it and not on him having those characteristics you assert him to have.
One presumes that your pejoritive use of "low dives" is supposed to suggest to us that you only frequent "high dives" in which the clientele are all a bunch of po-faced, puritanical, presbyterian snobs constantly and soberly aware of their own dignity, a fate considered by some to be akin to a living death, and, unfortunately, have to contend with ignoring the fart enhanced atmosphere as it is well known that po-faced, puritanical, presbyterian sober snobs constantly aware of their own dignity fart at the usual average, which is 35 times per day on an orderly diet, an unlikely scenario I know, have skid marks in their trolleys and sometimes get "took short" in trying circumstances.
The low dives are the recruiting grounds for those brave fighting men who are at this very moment risking their lives to help us maintain the life we have become accustomed to and it is to those low dives that they will return if they remain unscathed.
It ought to be quite obvious that po-faced, puritanical, presbyterian snobs constantly and soberly aware of their own dignity and gathered in little knots of humanity around an embroidered shawl they are admiring would not feel that those men had anything useful to say to them and would simply dismiss them as "drunken clowns" and "gin-soaked idiots with delusions of adequacy."
Most likely using the same unoriginal set of cliches they have always used and which have been passed down the generations since the very first stirrings of human speech. They have a tacit agreement to never, ever mention how boring this is. Which adds to the boredom and frustration causing the usual jerky movements here there and everywhere.
Low dives are frequented by two types of people. There are the ones who have always frequented them and the ones, a minority, who have arrived in them as the only escape from the living death which they have glimpsed at close quarters within the milieux aforementioned known as the "high dive".
And your very presence here indicates that the thread is not "torpedoed" as you assert it to be. So that was a load of bollocks as well.
And people rarely frequent dives, high or low or in between--that's cheap and naff po-faced, puritanical, presbyterian snobs constantly and soberly aware of their own dignity and gathered in little knots of humanity around an embroidered shawl-- that are not in their "immediate area". In fact I'm at a loss to know how it could be done. One wouldn't go looking for gin-soaked idiots with delusions of adequacy in Nairobi, say. The phrase was padding in aid of deluding you into believing you had composed a well structured, coherent and responsible post when it was, in fact, "garbage", and equivalent to a pulling out of the tongue that you see girls do when they are lost for words.
The famed Left Bank was full of very low dives. The world is full of them. The Gut in Malta. Greenwich Village was a bit posh. The 4-year long Council of Trent had to be disbanded on account of the lowness.
Will you be leafing through the "Spring Collection" catalogue over Xmas Set?
