From: The Medway Handyman on
DavidR wrote:
> "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote
>> DavidR wrote:
>>> "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote
>
>>>> And more ad hominem, it just comes naturally to you, doesn't it?
>>>
>>> Still drunk.
>>
>> And you are still stupid. At least he will be sober in the morning.
>
> That is a modification of a quotation attributed to Winston
> Churchill. And yet, by some accounts, sobriety and Winston Churchill
> were not particularly comfortable together.

I was well aware I was paraphrasing Churchill thanks.

Mr C may have necked a bottle of scotch a day, but he still managed to lead
us successfully through a world war.


--
Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist


From: Adrian on
"The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying:

> I've also spent a considerable amout of time in Amsterdam and an idiot
> cyclist collided with me. I was unharmed, he fell off. Oh how I
> laughed!

Yes, I bet you did.

And I think we can guess why.
From: DavidR on
"The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote
> DavidR wrote:
>> "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote
>>> DavidR wrote:
>>>> "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote
>>
>>>>> And more ad hominem, it just comes naturally to you, doesn't it?
>>>>
>>>> Still drunk.
>>>
>>> And you are still stupid. At least he will be sober in the morning.
>>
>> That is a modification of a quotation attributed to Winston
>> Churchill. And yet, by some accounts, sobriety and Winston Churchill
>> were not particularly comfortable together.
>
> I was well aware I was paraphrasing Churchill thanks.

> Mr C may have necked a bottle of scotch a day, but he still managed to
> lead us successfully through a world war.

It's just a coincidence that it came up in conversation earlier in the
evening.


From: The Medway Handyman on
Adrian wrote:
> "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> gurgled
> happily, sounding much like they were saying:
>
>> I've also spent a considerable amout of time in Amsterdam and an
>> idiot cyclist collided with me. I was unharmed, he fell off. Oh
>> how I laughed!
>
> Yes, I bet you did.
>
> And I think we can guess why.

Can you?


--
Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist


From: MasonS on
On 7 Dec, 21:19, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:

>
> > > Still good to see you hypocritically resorting to ad hominem. Makes a
> > > change from tu quoque, I suppose.
>
> > Did you have some particularly good bottles last night?
>
> And more ad hominem, it just comes naturally to you, doesn't it?

You mean when you mock someone for driving an Alfa, drinking poncy
beer and wearing different clothes to you, this is somehow not Ad
Hominem? How strange it only works one way.

--
Simon Mason