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  • St Paul thinks your theology is a load of shite.
  • Well, Luke wasn't writing here in Hell ...
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate
    edited April 2018
    I'm only teasing. I've probably got more of a dialect than Mousethief has.

    I do speak the Queen's English as well mind isn't it?

    There's no such thing as "more of a dialect". Standard English is a dialect just as much as AAVE. I second mousethief's suggestion about the linguistics course. Or possibly just 5 minutes with a decent bloody dictionary.
  • Sure. Here's some Queen's English for you, Mr cheesy bach. Fuck off you pedantic git.

    I was bloody teasing. I've got a first class degree and an MA in English so any farting around I do with the language here is precisely that. Me mecking.
  • mr cheesymr cheesy Shipmate
    edited April 2018
    I didn't say anything to you since commenting on your misuse of the phrase Curate's Egg.

    But you know, pass whatever you are drinking and I'll join in this pissing contest.
  • RooKRooK Admin Emeritus
    I am guessing that in speaking to followers in distress the reference to 'simpletons' will have been much more kindly expressed than the mere words suggest.

    See, now, that's just lazy writing.
    And then, LO, Jesus did lay out the sickest of burns. It was such a sick burn that all the Apostles did reel and say 'oh, SNAP!'. And yea the burn was so sick that it cannot possibly be shared here explicitly, but just trust us, it was brutal.
  • Orval Trappist ale followed by a whisky chaser. Penderyn Welsh whisky. No as good as the Scottish or Irish ...
  • I've long thought the gospels have been redacted. I just never contemplated that it might have been redacted for that reason.
  • I think I've lost the plot now ... Not sure what it's about any more.
  • I think I've lost the plot now ... Not sure what it's about any more.

    Don't worry, Steve has explained everything in great detail on his blog.
  • Ha ha ...thanks Mr cheesy, that's reassuring to know. I now know where to turn for the answers.
  • mr cheesy wrote: »
    Don't worry, Steve has explained everything in great detail on his blog.
    I haven't been there. I fear he takes 10,000 words to explain his relationship to the Mennonites, and insists people read that before they can possibly understand anything else on the site. Followed by another 10,000 about Constantine's personal habits.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    The curate's egg was a cartoon, and from memory confirmed by the sound of it, in Punch.
  • Yes, I was a Punch cartoon and yes, as mr cheesy pointed out, I applied it wrongly.

    In joffing with MT on Pond differences in speech I thought I was continuing a mildly bantering theme that crops up between that thieving rodent and myself from time to time, not an all out Transatlantic nuclear exchange.

    I now see how wrong I was. Such mild banter about regional or national characteristics can develop into phyletism and Constantinian state-church attitudes where I begin to impose my own pronunciation and spelling of idiomatic terms like 'arse' onto the rest of humanity.

    Consequently, I am plotting to destabilise the USA and reimpose British rule so that the word 'ass' will be banned and replaced with the Chaucerian and even older 'arse'. The Queen's head will then appear in the stamps and dollar bills. The Anglican Establishment will be reimposed, Budweiser banned and there will be complete Constantinian state-church hegemony ...

    Mwa ha ha ... Mwa ha ha ha

  • Doc Tor wrote: »
    @Gamma Gamaliel You say "pond war", we say "no thanks"...

    Not even in jest. Sorry, but zero tolerance for this sort of thing.

    DT
    HH
  • Doc Tor wrote: »
    Doc Tor wrote: »
    @Gamma Gamaliel You say "pond war", we say "no thanks"...

    Not even in jest. Sorry, but zero tolerance for this sort of thing.

    DT
    HH

    Down with this sort of thing!
  • Or the old Basil Brush gag, something like:

    'What about the bosses?'
    'Down with them!'
    'What about the workers?'
    'Down with them!'
    'What about my trousers?'
    'Down with them!'

    (Basil Brush laugh: 'Wha ha ha ha-ha-ha ...')

    The infantile jokes are the best ...

    Time for the Carry On jokes ...

    From 'Carry On Up The Front'
    German soldier approaching trench during WW1 Christmas Truce: 'Peace on you, peace on you ...'
    Sid James: 'Not from up there you don't ...'

    Ha ha ha ...

    On the zero tolerance thing on Pond Wars. I think Mousethief knows I'm teasing but if I have caused him offence I will desist forthwith.

  • Pond Wars? No Thanks

    Would that be?:

    Teich Kriege? Nein Danke.

    Or

    Rhyfeloedd Pwll? Dim Diolch.
  • I have no idea what you're putting in your tea, but this would be a really stupid thing to collect a C6 violation over. This is not for mousethief's benefit, but for all. Debating the ruling is in Styx or not at all.

    DT
    HH
  • Penderyn Welsh whisky. No as good as the Scottish or Irish ...
    I'm not the person to ask, but have you tried any of their "premium" whiskies?

  • I am plotting to destabilise the USA and reimpose British rule so that the word 'ass' will be banned and replaced with the Chaucerian and even older 'arse'. The Queen's head will then appear in the stamps and dollar bills.
    Shouldn't it be the King's head (George III)?

  • Ok, I hadn't understood your comment as a Hostly edict. I thought you were simply making a comment as part of the discussion. Forgive me for that. It was not my intention to challenge any 'ruling. I simply got the wrong end of the stick.

  • Tags, mate. I used my tags the second time.
  • Ok - 'HH - Hell Host.

    Sorry, I missed those.
  • Penderyn Welsh whisky. No as good as the Scottish or Irish ...
    I'm not the person to ask, but have you tried any of their "premium" whiskies?

    Not sure if the two bottles I've had (not in one sitting) as presents were Premium or not.

    Whisky tends not to evaporate very quickly in the Gamaliel household.

    A bottle can last me up to a year.

    I'm no expert but Scottish single-malts and Irish whisky do seem to have quite an edge over their younger Welsh cousins ... although Wales did have a thriving distillery industry back in Victorian times apparently.

    Now, if you're asking me to compare 'cwrw da' (good ale) from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales then I'd be able to cite instances of the good, the bad and the ugly from all corners of these islands.

  • RooKRooK Admin Emeritus
    Clearly you haven't considered the insidious effects of state-embedded religion on both the distillery and brewery industries. Steve? Gamaliel is obviously begging for enlightenment here that only you are drunk enough qualified to administer.
  • If 'church ales' and Trappist breweries are anything to go by, not to mention Wesley's advocation of drinking beer ('small beer' mind) not tea (far too extravagant) or gin (far too deadly) then evil, wicked state-sanctioned religion could be quite bilious.

  • jbohnjbohn Shipmate
    Doc Tor wrote: »
    Doc Tor wrote: »
    @Gamma Gamaliel You say "pond war", we say "no thanks"...

    Not even in jest. Sorry, but zero tolerance for this sort of thing.

    DT
    HH

    Down with this sort of thing!

    Careful now!
  • Consequently, I am plotting to destabilise the USA

    Jesus. You AND the Russians?
  • Mwa ha ha ha ...
  • mr cheesymr cheesy Shipmate
    edited April 2018
    Gah, what's the point. Trying to get sense out of Steve-thicko-Langton is like trying to nail jelly to a wall.

    Yes, I just called you thick. As pigshit. You not only lack emotional intelligence, you lack intelligence full stop.
  • Harsh. The poor guy has 'issues'.
  • Harsh. The poor guy has 'issues'.

    He's not alone ...
  • Indeed, nor did I imply that he was. I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
  • Eww. No.
  • Harsh. The poor guy has 'issues'.

    Not so much issues as a subscription and a complete bound back catalogue.
  • Steve, I know you have 'issues' but you are an insufferable and annoying nerd. You must be the worst advert for Anabaptism since Munster.
  • mr cheesymr cheesy Shipmate
    edited April 2018
    I'm curious how we'd ever get onto other practical issues. Do we all need to unanimously agree that you are right, Steve oh holy and enlightened one? Or are you just awaiting a sign from above that we heathens have heard the truth?
  • Me, holy and enlightened ....
    No, I don't think so either. But realistically the details you're after vary immensely from one culture to another, even from time to time in the same culture. The point is to get the principles right so you've got some clue how to assess the situation. And as yet you're showing no sign of getting those principles.
  • You've shown no sign of being interested in any principles except one.
  • Steve, I know you have 'issues' but you are an insufferable and annoying nerd. You must be the worst advert for Anabaptism since Munster.
    You misspelled "fuckwit."
  • Misspelt?
  • Both are correct. How about sticking to the point?
  • According to Steve, there is only one point. And, to be honest I think we're all sick to death of it.
  • The point is to get the principles right so you've got some clue how to assess the situation. And as yet you're showing no sign of getting those principles.

    Then just accept that we are all too thick to understand the principles. And either move on to discuss how you live them out or shut up.

  • Steve, seriously, do you need suggestions about where you can go to have debates with Anabaptists who actually accept the basics of your first principles as you've articulated here?

    I know you've said that you are involved in the British Anabaptist Network, but I know of several other websites and fora which might stretch you more than banging your head against a wall here.

    The fact is that you are not persuading anyone here. And I think it isn't doing you a lot of good and isn't doing the rest of us a lot of good.

    How about finding out about these other groups, where you can agree on the church-state and then discuss your other ideas to your heart's content, eh?
  • mr cheesy wrote: »
    Both are correct. How about sticking to the point?

    Because it's both/and ...

    ;)

    Which was rather the point and Alan has made it better than I did.
  • mr cheesymr cheesy Shipmate
    edited April 2018
    On second thoughts, I'm not going to get trapped in a stupid spelling based side debate.
  • Indeed, nor was it my intention to start one.
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