XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.current-events.general, uk.people.consumers   
   XPost: alt.politics.british   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Alan Ferris   
    writes   
   >On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:20:23 +0100, banana   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>In article , Alan Ferris   
   >> writes   
   >>   
   >>>On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:56:24 +0100, banana   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>>as a government worker I have no political allegiances.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>In saying that, you express one - to the State and the business   
   >>>>interests that own it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>'I believe that as a government worker, I should be a complete zombie'   
   >>>>sounds closer to the mark. Which is an insult to those who work for the   
   >>>>government and actually have sufficient working class consciousness to   
   >>>>engage in struggle...   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Why is it that 99 times out of 100, when someone says "As a ..., I...",   
   >>>>they mean "Being a complete moron, I..." ? Something to do with   
   >>>>role/identity...   
   >>>   
   >>>Well the foolish are constantly needing to tell other what they said   
   >>>rather than being able to comprehend what the person actually   
   >>>wrote....I assume therefore that you do that often.   
   >>   
   >>What you said was this:   
   >>   
   >>     "as a government worker I have no political allegiances".   
   >>   
   >>Imagine saying that and calling someone else foolish!   
   >>   
   >>As for 'assume', I think you meant 'conclude' or 'deduce'. Which would   
   >>leave the statement only a little less idiotic.   
   >   
   >I apologise, I did not realise it was your ability to comprehend   
   >English that was the problem.  Tell me which is your first language   
   >and I will attempt to have it translated to something you can   
   >understand.   
      
   I just kicked your idiotic statement around the floor - a statement   
   which marks you out to be exactly what I and others have called you.   
      
   Rather than replying substantively, you retort with this pathetic   
   attempt at a put-down. You're caught out using the word 'assume' without   
   knowing what it means, and you start saying I don't know English.   
      
   Something wrong with your self-image there!   
      
   You repeatedly use the word 'comprehend'. Are you sure you know the   
   difference between it and 'understand'? Or do you just think   
   'comprehend' makes you sound as if you've got big bollocks? What a twit.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)