Election Year or Fear!

[Andy_Faber]

Swale?is just another example of an ill informed person spouting crap."
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Is this me taking paraphrasing too far?

[ramAnag]

Is this me taking paraphrasing too far?

‘Moderator’ - common synonyms…arbiter, intermediary, pacifier, alleviator, judge, peacemaker, conciliator, adjudicator, diplomat.
Just saying, in case of any confusion.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Did I really say that or is it a piece of moderator trickery

[swaledale]

Or you lack the quality of discernment 😄

Ah but that is subjective, and as we know one persons opinion often varies from another's. Objectively, it has never bothered me as to the gender, ***ual orientation or ethnicity of a presenter, subjectively I am irritated by a persons tone of voice, presenting style or if its obvious they don't have much knowledge of the subject matter.

To claim that a woman can't have much knowledge about men's football, isn't discerning, just ***ist.

[swaledale]

Did I really say that or is it a piece of moderator trickery

I'd be surprised if you did, but who knows?

[swaledale]

‘Moderator’ - common synonyms…arbiter, intermediary, pacifier, alleviator, judge, peacemaker, conciliator, adjudicator, diplomat.
Just saying, in case of any confusion.

Mm I guess 1 out of 9 ain't bad!

[Andy_Faber]

Did I really say that or is it a piece of moderator trickery

No you didn?t I paraphrased in extremis, but I had my forum member hat on not my moderator hat

[MadAmster]

5 days away and pedancy still rules. Fortunately, for me, I'm away from another 3 days from tomorrow and offline again.

Can we try, as the adults I used to think most of us were, to stop being right fighters and be more accepting that "Fred's" opinion is miles removed from "Joe's" and that both are probably wrong?

We'll have to disagree... a phrase that works wonders and prevents these never ending streams of panto like "oh yes it is, oh no it's not", which is what these exchanges turn into after the first few back and forths. Grow up!

[MadAmster]

Too late to do an edit...

... agree to disagree...

[swaledale]

Too late to do an edit...

... agree to disagree...

I guess that's one way of stopping debate! The thing is, if its a matter of opinion then fine one can do that if on the other hand if its a matter of fact then and lets face it we are in a post truth world, which often gets repeated on here by a certain poster then allowing it to go unchallenged isn't on.