Re: Be careful in the gym....... : Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:11 am  

Dally wrote:

Be careful in the gym.......

The Daily Mail wrote:

Burly rugby player has a stroke after freak gym accident

The Daily Mail wrote:

The now ex-rugby player, a flanker with his local amateur reserve side, had been attempting a back flip in front of friends on a field when he fell down a grass bank, breaking his neck and suffering the stroke.

How many gyms are also fields?

Re: Be careful in the gym....... : Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:07 am  

Rock God X wrote:

Not disproving something is not synonymous with proving it. For example, the fact that I prefer to poo in my own toilet than in a public convenience doesn't disprove the existence of Santa Claus.

Why bring Santa Claus in to it?

Re: Be careful in the gym....... : Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:22 am  

Dally wrote:

Yes, that was one of the points that came to my mind along with the only recently dropped idea that male homosexuality was as a result of medical / brain issues. Arguably, this 'proves' those old theories? Also, I wondered why he allegedly felt obliged to give up his job to take up the cliched gay job of hairdresser?

Go on, give us a laugh ... how does it "arguably" 'prove' those old theories?

Re: Be careful in the gym....... : Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:44 am  

Dally wrote:

Why bring Santa Claus in to it?

Why not? It was merely an example to demonstrate how not disproving something is not the same as proving it.

Re: Be careful in the gym....... : Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:04 am  

Rock God X wrote:

Why not? It was merely an example to demonstrate how not disproving something is not the same as proving it.

well actually no, a better example would be "my shirt isn't red, this doesn't prove its yellow" your just lowering your own argument with stupidity.

more to the point would be, if he had a stroke and it caused a reaction in his nerve patterns altering his mindset as is supposed to happen this would then be proof of a mental affliction for homosexuality, but as there have been no case studies and this process wasn't monitored by a machine such as an MRI scanner to note his brain wave patterns then that can't be proved either.

It isn't a case of yes or no so proving or disproving do not come into it, such as the colour example above, there are more than two scenario's so it could be anything.

Re: Be careful in the gym....... : Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:13 am  

Dally wrote:

The DM specialises in scantily clad 'celebs' whilst at the same time taking a high moral stance on tackiness! I've given up posting about their crass hypocrisy and need to show female flesh at every opportunity. Even The Sun's website doesn't get close.

Let me get this straight.
You have done a tackiness and scantily-cladness comparison on two of the three worst papers ever printed and have decided that the Mail's stance is hypocritical?

Yet you still read them?

I don't want to spoil your lovely little frisson of outrage but can't you see the flaw here?

Re: Be careful in the gym....... : Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:20 am  

HorseyHally wrote:

well actually no, a better example would be "my shirt isn't red, this doesn't prove its yellow" your just lowering your own argument with stupidity.

more to the point would be, if he had a stroke and it caused a reaction in his nerve patterns altering his mindset as is supposed to happen this would then be proof of a mental affliction for homosexuality, but as there have been no case studies and this process wasn't monitored by a machine such as an MRI scanner to note his brain wave patterns then that can't be proved either.

It isn't a case of yes or no so proving or disproving do not come into it, such as the colour example above, there are more than two scenario's so it could be anything.

The ball is now in Dally's court to justify his statement that it "arguably" proves something.

Re: Be careful in the gym....... : Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:42 am  

HorseyHally wrote:

well actually no, a better example would be "my shirt isn't red, this doesn't prove its yellow" your just lowering your own argument with stupidity.

It was deliberately stupid to highlight how stupid Dally was being. And you may wish to work on your ability to construct a simple sentence before you go around calling others stupid.

Re: Be careful in the gym....... : Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:45 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Yet you still read them?

According to Dally, he doesn't read the Mail. He just links to their website about four times a day. Though how he knows which articles to link to without reading them is anyone's guess.

Re: Be careful in the gym....... : Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:53 am  

Rock God X wrote:

It was deliberately stupid to highlight how stupid Dally was being. And you may wish to work on your ability to construct a simple sentence before you go around calling others stupid.

well not really, it isn't stupid to associate a mental dysfunction with homosexuality being caused by a mental affliction, what is stupid is that its assumed it was the stroke that caused him to become homosexual without any actual proof.