Re: Cyber Bullying : Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:24 pm  

Mintball wrote:

Yet the same paper (and it is not alone) promotes attitudes of hatred and resentment. It feeds off and profits from social and economic inequality. It itself bullies and harasses people, and promotes by stealth a view of those that succeed in various walks of life as being fair game.

Similar to what you have just done on the Austerity thread then when you called a 13 year old boy who may or may not have had ambitions to become prime minister later in life an 'arrogant little teenage tosspot'.

I also find it ironic that you choose to label others 'dumb little f**ks' whilst at the same time complaining of their abusive behaviour.

[Durham Giant]

Re: Cyber Bullying : Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:33 pm  

Mintball wrote:

I think that's a good point.

In recent years, I've made a point, when registering anywhere new, of using my real name and avatar.

Mind, when I mentioned that on one newspaper forum, I met hysterical, paranoid ranting about opening oneself up to stalkers.

Try to stay on topic. I love the political insult.

Last refuge of s liberal scoundrel like you when they are found out is to use the ultra leftist label. It is exactlt the same term that stalin and his cronies used to describeof anyone who criticised the USSR.

Your just a social chauvanist and a political opportunist. You will happily attack nationalism when it is popular but not attack it when it is unpopular. Against the Gulf war but all for the Falklands i bet.

Re: Cyber Bullying : Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:35 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

Similar to what you have just done on the Austerity thread then when you called a 13 year old boy who may or may not have had ambitions to become prime minister later in life an 'arrogant little teenage tosspot'...

I haven't called a 13-year-old anything.

The person in question is 42 years of age.

Ajw71 wrote:

I also find it ironic that you choose to label others 'dumb little f**ks' whilst at the same time complaining of their abusive behaviour.

When people come up with cretinous cobblers such as the above, I don't feel any great need to be politically correct about their being stupid.

It's even funnier when they're struggling so, so desperately to be a troll.

[Durham Giant]

Re: Cyber Bullying : Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:36 pm  

Mintball wrote:

I haven't called a 13-year-old anything.

The person in question is 42 years of age.

When people come up with cretinous cobblers such as the above, I don't feel any great need to be politically correct about their being stupid.

It's even funnier when they're struggling so, so desperately to be a troll.

Minty in i will do what i like Shocker! And justify it in any way i want

Re: Cyber Bullying : Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:36 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

Try to stay on topic. I love the political insult.

Last refuge of s liberal scoundrel like you when they are found out is to use the ultra leftist label. It is exactlt the same term that stalin and his cronies used to describeof anyone who criticised the USSR.

Your just a social chauvanist and a political opportunist. You will happily attack nationalism when it is popular but not attack it when it is unpopular. Against the Gulf war but all for the Falklands i bet.

You bet wrongly. Try again.

And I await your list of achievements leading the plebs down the correct revolutionary path. Comrade.

Re: Cyber Bullying : Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:39 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

Minty in i will do what i like Shocker! And justify it in any way i want

Durham Giant getting wound up at being called out for hypocrisy, plus a desperate attempt to avoid revealing his own record actually doing anything politically instead of just telling people off for remembering the dead of wars.

Re: Cyber Bullying : Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:44 pm  

Mintball wrote:

When people come up with cretinous cobblers such as the above, I don't feel any great need to be politically correct about their being stupid.

So the moral of this story is that you are happy to abuse who you want but other people doing the same is unacceptable.

Because subjectively they are posting 'cretinous cobblers' and subjectively they wouldn't think you were doing the same.

And I suggest that you actually read my post near the top of this thread rather than guessing at what you think I want.

Re: Cyber Bullying : Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:48 pm  

Serious cases of bullying and abuse need dealing with.

That said I do not think that saying something mildly unpleasant on the Internet should warrant police investigation.

Re: Cyber Bullying : Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:49 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

So the moral of this story is that you are happy to abuse who you want but other people doing the same is unacceptable.

Because subjectively they are posting 'cretinous cobblers' and subjectively they wouldn't think you were doing the same.

There's abuse and there's pointing out that stupidity is stupidity.

They are not one and the same.

Re: Cyber Bullying : Sat Jan 25, 2014 2:10 pm  

Mintball wrote:

There's abuse and there's pointing out that stupidity is stupidity.

They are not one and the same.

What is stupidity though? It is an entirely subjective concept especially when it comes to political debate.

What you may think is stupid someone else might think is a perfectly legitimate and 'non stupid' opinion.

So for you to point out someone's stupidity as you say will be seen by you as attacking what they see as their perfectly legitimate opinion. That is when the abuse normally begins to flow because people don't like to be labelled stupid.