No offence, like.

No offence, but what is wrong with you, you seem to be following BBC conspiracy theories. Do you not have a remote?

Or more importantly, a brain to think for yourself?

Pathetic.

No offence, but I think you validated my theory? That those who believe that "Iraq was all about oil" are the same people who believed the "Power of Bollocks".

Keep on truckin, but one day you have to grow up. But I do suggest that you delay it as long as possible. …After all I did….

Reagrds

If I remember rightly, the whole community was split down the middle – on the one hand, the eruv offered a neat solution to a very real problem (ultra-Orthodox Jews interpreting a ban on operating machinery on the Sabbath so literally that they wouldn’t even carry keys), but on the other its very existence would create a kind of virtual ghetto of a kind that couldn’t help but have unsavoury associations.

But the mere fact that this particular saga dragged on for years shows that these things are rarely cut and dried – even if the poll OP cited was replicated in the real world to the extreme extent she’s inferring (i.e. with 60% of British Muslims actively campaigning for a localised form of sharia law), there’s also going to be one hell of a lot of opposition – not just from the 40% who don’t want it but also from a great many non-Muslims.

Which is why I think it’s highly unlikely to happen even on a highly localised level – and of course it categorically isn’t going to happen to 97% of the UK population under any circumstances whatsoever.

Why on earth should they be? If you can’t show the most basic respect for others – even those you disagree with on a fundamental level – what possible grounds do you have for expecting kid-gloves treatment in return?

What a fucking idiot she truly is.

Ho hum – if in doubt, simply dredge up the old "lacks the necessary intellectual capacity" rejoinder: that’ll slay them in the aisles. Verily, the new Dorothy Parker has descended among us, and us mere mortals are abject in our unworthiness.

OP, does it not occur to you that being unwilling to engage with your posts because they’re brain-numbingly tedious isn’t quite the same thing as not being able to because they’re so brilliantly argued?

I might have been inclined to match Jim and Lora’s truly saint-like patience a few years ago, but these days I try to keep it in reserve for my two small children, who at least have genuine immaturity as an excuse for their incessant high-volume attention-seeking behaviour. What’s yours?