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A note from reader Nigel S.:
I am absolutely appalled at some of the things being written by people on your blog’s comments forum. Do you, as a professional journalist, actually put your name to that forum?
I have just read the comments written about G.W. Bush meeting with families of war victims/US soldiers. It sickened me. Are these the kind of people you want to list as your supporters? The comments in the Ann Coulter board are also appalling.
UPDATE. Nigel W. writes:
On behalf on Nigels everywhere, I apologise for the behaviour of my wimpy namesake. I hate to say it, but he is such a Nigel.
- That picture of Robert Fisk looks very nice over Nigel’s mantelpiece, I’m sure.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 25 at 11:38 PM • permalink
- I don’t know why I said that. I’m sure I meant Cindy Sheehan.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 25 at 11:41 PM • permalink
- Nigel, none of us actually exist. We’re all just Tim Blair having lots of conversations with himself. I mean, myself.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 25 at 11:41 PM • permalink
- to drop the irony… this is an unmoderated forum! Tim puts his name to the posts. See the name Tim B up there? That’s it. The rest is a free-for-all, unless you get banned.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 25 at 11:43 PM • permalink
- I agree, Nigel. How can Tim let drivel like this stand?
http://tinyurl.com/n5umvPosted by andycanuck on 2006 09 25 at 11:45 PM • permalink
- Nigel, you should be more specific. What exactly has offended you? Spelling mistakes? Or maybe we’re too left wing? Or perhaps it’s the wanton squandering of our fragile planet’s rapidly diminishing boldering reserves?Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 09 25 at 11:48 PM • permalink
- “I am absolutely appalled at some of the things being written by people on your blog’s comments forum.”
I, on the other hand find the things written by people in Tim’s blog to be quite uplifting.
Nigel S. (in pre-banned NS10 guise) could also be the author of this gem of wisdom:
“this website is f*cked”!
Sorry Nigel, way too nuanced for the stump toothed sister marrying morons found on Tim’s site.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 09 25 at 11:50 PM • permalink
- Nice catch, andycanuck.Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 09 25 at 11:50 PM • permalink
- #2 No, Swinish, the Cindy picture is in a heart-shaped frame on the bedside table. It’s always hard for the Nigels of this world to discover that there are people out there who do not think as they do, and worse, are allowed to publish it. There, there, Nige: look, here’s a nice shiny copy of the Guardian, there there, bad man Tim go away now…
- And not just that one, Bruce. On the Bush and families thread someone actually quotes a religious poem of some kind. Comment #14, IIRC. Quick, Nigel, call ACLU! (It’s still ACLU Down Under, isn’t it? Or is it DUCLU? Which would explain alot about that leftie cartoonist often discussed here.)Posted by andycanuck on 2006 09 25 at 11:56 PM • permalink
- Nigel S.,
My advise is to get over yourself and find a website of your fellow travelers.Tim is not responsible for our opinions..He just provides a forum for the rest of us to spout off…agree, dissagree…I dont really give a monkeys.Democratic Underground might suit you.
Is that Niall Cook guy still blogging?
- Dang, and I can’t claim any credit for tweaking that twit, Nigel S., since I didn’t comment on those threads.
O, woe is me!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 09 26 at 12:03 AM • permalink
- I’m scared too, Nigel. I recommend a night light and an extra thick blanky. And if any of these monsters send you a private email asking to meet in the park, don’t do it.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 26 at 12:04 AM • permalink
- THe comments on this thread are appalling. You people have no shame. Especially Infidel Tiger, with that taunting tone of yours.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 26 at 12:09 AM • permalink
- Nige old son – Why not pop over to this site. Should be more to your liking. It’s of course the well known “League for the Fifth International – fighting for the formation of a new world party of socialist revolution”. Especially as they have recently expelled the revisionist “International Tendency” faction. And I couldn’t agree more with the reasons for the expulsion –
The International Tendency, then Faction developed a ‘downturnist’ perspective that played down opportunities in the global class struggle, in order to justify a set of tasks for the League based on routinism and passivity
We’ll have no downturnists and routinismists here, thank you very much.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 09 26 at 12:12 AM • permalink
- Hey Nigel, if you reckon things are rough here you should try the Australian Idol forum.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 09 26 at 12:15 AM • permalink
- Nigel –
You’ve got it all the wrong way.
Being associated with Tim Blair is a constant embarrassment for us. His comments are cute but trite, while much more important issues are at stake.
I am just hanging on for the day when someone else thinks to make up one of these new fangled internet sites.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 09 26 at 12:19 AM • permalink
- Tendency – doesn’t really imply commitment to the cause.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 26 at 12:19 AM • permalink
- nah… he was just spewing bile on that earlier thread. He was much less civil to us plebs than his nicely composed email to Tim.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 26 at 12:20 AM • permalink
- he was a low quality troll, I’m afraidPosted by daddy dave on 2006 09 26 at 12:21 AM • permalink
- Margos Maid,
you keep thinking that. There are no other sites on the internet. And the ones that Tim links to, just ignore those.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 26 at 12:22 AM • permalink
- Really, why do parents still name kids Nigel? That’s so totally gay. In fact gay couples wouldn’t even name an adopted baby “Nigel”. Just being British (whatever) is no excuse.Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 09 26 at 12:23 AM • permalink
- That is one determined troll. Even after he’s been banned, he continues to harass.Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 09 26 at 12:28 AM • permalink
downturnists and routinismists
Oh gawd! The new Comintern is a self-parody.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 09 26 at 12:31 AM • permalink
- Gosh. I almost regret banning the poor little sod. Oh wait a minute—no I don’t.
We’re only making plans for Nigel
We only want what’s best for him
We’re only making plans for Nigel
Nigel just needs this helping hand
And if young Nigel says he’s happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his work
We’re only making plans for Nigel
He has his future in British steel
We’re only making plans for Nigel
Nigel’s whole future is as good as sealed
And if young Nigel says he’s happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his work
Nigel is not outspoken
But he likes to speak
And loves to be spoken to
Nigel is happy in his work
We’re only making plans for Nigel….Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 09 26 at 12:31 AM • permalink
- Then again, we’ve still got a few reliables like bongo here to kick around like a tired old half-deflated balloon.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 09 26 at 12:36 AM • permalink
- For your information, Glen Greenwald has written a New York Times bestselling book on executive authority, broke a story on his blog about wiretapping that led to front-page stories in most major newspapers in the country, and had Russ Feingold read from his blog….
…Wait a minute… *checks the post* Whoops, sorry folks, wrong thread.
- the Cindy picture is in a heart-shaped frame on the bedside table
That’s only slightly less frightening than the prospect of a threesome with Carmen Lawrence and Cheryl Kernot. Aw gee, Nigel, you’re not going to cry over that now, are you?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 26 at 12:53 AM • permalink
This may be the finest lefty image since Melbourne lawyer and popular online punching bag Jeremy Sear published a shot of his heroic revolutionary comrades—with all their faces blocked out:
You’re right, spyder. How do we know that Tim (if that’s his real name) isn’t one of Mr. Sear’s blacked-out friends?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 09 26 at 12:57 AM • permalink
- Memo to Nigel
WimpS. You ask rather plaintively:
Do you, as a professional journalist, actually put your name to that forum?Er, yes Nigel, Tim does put his name to this forum. If you look closely in the top right hand corner you will find the words “Tim Blair”.
Just to racap for your benefit, yes, he does put his name to this forum.
Hope that clears up any misunderstanding you had there Nige.
- Nigel, pop over to my blog for a nice soothing cup of tea.
No nasty comments, (well, almost no comments at all) lots of fluffy bunnies and widdle childwen and stuff.
We could have a nice friendly chat…..Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 09 26 at 01:18 AM • permalink
- What did he think Tim’s response would be?
“Gosh Nigel I have never bothered to look at the comments in the entire time this blog has been running, perhaps I better have a look.”
“Oh my goodness gracious me Nigel you are right, I’m so ashamed. I’ll shut the comments down post haste”
But of course dear Nigel knew that already with his feigned horror. Has this bloke ever been to a Pub, to the footy? He’d want to commit suicide 5 minutes in wouldn’t he.Posted by the nailgun on 2006 09 26 at 01:20 AM • permalink
- A good example of media bias over the new IR laws, which may interest some readers.
- I’m also appalled by the appalling comments on this appalling blog. In fact, I’m so appalled I have to come here regularly to remind myself of how appalling people can be. I even, appallingly, force myself to add an appalling comment, despite my appalling better judgement.
There’s a fine line between
geniusrighteous and insanityappalling.I haveNigel has erased this line.
- It’s worse than appalling. I would go so far as to say some of the comments here are (deep breath)…inappropriate.Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 09 26 at 01:28 AM • permalink
- I must say that while I agree with the political views of most commenters, I am frequently confounded at the childish drivel the emanates from their keyboards. I hear enough of that listing to federal parliament question time. Australians are justifiably sick of the schoolboy mentality of our policians and encounters such as this, and to see the readers of this site descending to the same level does little to promote the positions it represents.Posted by russell2pi on 2006 09 26 at 01:34 AM • permalink
- 46: HUH??Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 09 26 at 01:36 AM • permalink
- Piss off Russell2pi, you thin skinned poonce.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 26 at 01:40 AM • permalink
- Andrea a Robbie Williams fan—who knew?
I guess I can come right and say it now…
I like Robbie Williams too!
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 26 at 01:42 AM • permalink
- Oh, and russell2pi, just soz you can feel vindicated, whyncha go get pissed on by a syphilitic hermaphrodite with a bad prostate and severe non-specific urinitis?Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 26 at 01:43 AM • permalink
- btw all those typos were deliberate because I know how much entertainment you all draw from tearing people down on the basis of typography. You don’t need to thank me, I hereby submit myself to the vultures.Posted by russell2pi on 2006 09 26 at 01:44 AM • permalink
- russell2pi. the vultures have more taste. Go find a jackal to eat you.Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 09 26 at 01:46 AM • permalink
- #52 Just minute, you know all this and yet you visit this site regularly (one assumes)?
Seriously, russell2pi, I would recommend therapy, or therepy, or even therupy.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 26 at 01:51 AM • permalink
- I preferred nigel—at least he came right out and cracked the shits in no uncertain terms.Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 26 at 01:52 AM • permalink
- #43
I’m also appalled by the appalling comments on this appalling blog. In fact, I’m so appalled I have to come here regularly to remind myself of how appalling people can be.
I think you’ll agree that this is the most appalling comments thread in history.
- MF
See what I mean about inappropriate – you like Robbie Williams?
Congrats by the way to MF and also Nic who made their 1000th post milestone recently…
Two of the best.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 09 26 at 01:58 AM • permalink
- #49 heheh I’m not thin skinned… I find it amusing when it’s directed at me in fact (#51 wins). But when 99% of the comments on the blog have no thought behind them, it makes you wonder whether the views being supported are similarly lacking an origin in thoughtful contemplation. I know I arrived at similar views by critical thinking but it seems I may be in the minority.
#54, I visit this site regularly for Tim’s entries, but I’ve stopped reading the comments —except when I feel compelled to comment myself.
Posted by russell2pi on 2006 09 26 at 01:59 AM • permalink
- #58 – Well root my little brown dog! I wait with bated breath for some of your future critical thinking founded upon origins of thoughtful contemplation. I mistakenly thought you were just some twat who thought he? was better than everybody. Apologies learned friend.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 26 at 02:08 AM • permalink
- #37 – just put in a comment about Godwin’s Law.Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 09 26 at 02:14 AM • permalink
- #59: quite the opposite. By elaborating on the reasoning behind your opinions, you indicate that they are open to being changed based on changing evidence or re-evaluation of existing evidence. By shooting off-the-cuff derogatory remarks on a constant basis, you indicate that you think you already know everything, that you’re definitely right any anyone who disagrees is completely wrong and probably stupid. That is to say, you come across as a smart-arse elitist.
#61 why don’t you take your weak worthless self to the weak worthless playground, you fat so-and-so.
Posted by russell2pi on 2006 09 26 at 02:18 AM • permalink
- “#61 why don’t you take your weak worthless self to the weak worthless playground, you fat so-and-so.”
WOW! that’s really telling him!
Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 09 26 at 02:30 AM • permalink
- This thread rocks.Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 09 26 at 02:37 AM • permalink
- First live troll in months and he’s on our side!Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 26 at 02:39 AM • permalink
- #50 #62 The ‘Nigel’ song was penned by Australian Icon Reg Mombassa of Mental as Anything and Mambo fame.
Robbie Williams? – sheesh.
- Is some manbag looking down his professorial nose at us?Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 09 26 at 02:40 AM • permalink
- I will use some critical thinking and work out who Russtoomanypies is;
1. Says he’s a member of VRWC.
2. Offended by earthy language.
3. Listens to parliamentary radio.
4. Comes across as been very soft left/lacking testicular fortitude.Russellwhoateallthepies is actually… any of our state opposition leaders and half of the Federal Liberal Party.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 26 at 02:47 AM • permalink
- #68- Bollocks- a different Nigel. I think you’ll find Making Plans For Nigel was penned by Colin Moulding, and appeared on the Drums and Wires album. I had no idea that Robbie williams had been permitted to mutilate one of the best examples of post jazz era syncopation, but if his agent turned up at my place with a dump truck full of money i’d let him cover any old piece of shit I’d penned as well.
Artistic credibility doesn’t buy too many Enzo Ferraris.
- #68 Re: the ‘Nigel’ Song. Maybe my sources were less than impeccable.
- Nigel S, shouldn’t you be apologising to Muslims somewhere?Posted by Phatso Phil on 2006 09 26 at 03:22 AM • permalink
- Horrors! My 1000th post contains a citation that is not only erroneous but egregiously so!
I am mortified—appalled, even.
So, I like “something something when you’re Swinging” —I swear it’s the only Williams CD I’ve got—and it actually belongs to my nine-year-old daughter, who doesn’t really like him anyway.
I hasten to add that I remain “open to being changed based on changing evidence or re-evaluation of existing evidence”, to quote russelirrationalnumberdoubled.(and my thanks to Tim—I mean Margos Maid—for pointing out what I would certainly have missed: the fact that I have been appallingly garrulous. One-thousand posts in seven months…it’s, well, appalling!)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 26 at 03:40 AM • permalink
- Hi freaks,
I emailed Tim Blair, rather than post my question or comment, because I had been banned from the site for writing ONE post of a differing view… and you all call me the sook! (or was it because I used the f-word? But similar appears elsewhere on this site?). Well, who is the one here, having had to take several routes to get back on (that banning system is very thorough) copping all the sh%t from dozens of you thick heads?
Here is what I was appalled at:
“What we need are leaders who are cold-blooded mass-killers a la Woody Wilson, FDR, or Harry Truman; guys who aren’t afraid to lay waste to entire nations or slaughter millions of civilians if that’s what it takes to win. In short, we need a liberal butcher to run the war effort.”If this was a joke, then yes, the joke is on me.
I have also finally been able to get back on to post a reply in the Ann Coulter section, after the banning barriers.
- To the genius who wrote this:
“Has this bloke ever been to a Pub, to the footy? He’d want to commit suicide 5 minutes in wouldn’t he.”Ahhh, yeah. You really show your stupidity, but anyway… I’ve been to the footy mate, played footy, and been in a pub, combined hundreds of times (almost as many times as you repeated grade 6). Didn’t commit suicide there. I leave that for the legal refugees our country locks up, including children, who have escaped from regimes we supposedly go to war to liberate.
If your woman still had have been in my bed when I sobered up, suicide may have been committed.
- #79 Hey Nige, good to have you back. Did you buy the 100 watt nightlight or the 150 watt? I settled on the 100 watt, environmental constraints and all.
BTW, those women you woke up next to. What did you do with the foot pumps? I can’t inflate mine and it’s lonely in the attic.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 26 at 04:10 AM • permalink
- Nige S. ? or Nigel W. ?
So many choices!
Anyway, I stand in solidarity with the Nigels of this world! So long under-appreciated for their incisive critical thinking and deep well of philosophical blogging.
And I assure Nige/Nigel that this is NO JOKE!
C’mon Nige/Nigel! Stand tall! Strut your stuff here! Give the morons who infest this joint a clout round the ears with some really profound observations.
That’ll shut them up. He he he.
Yes, take a stand! Tear down those banning barriers erected by the pygmies of the blogging world.
Just one question, though, first put by that twit Dave S.
So what Dickensian last name does Nigel S. have?
Simpersbury?
Swoonsbottom?
Swansneck?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 26 at 04:18 AM • permalink
- I CALL UPON the good thinkers of this blog to stand with me and Nige against the visceral oppressors who administer this blog.
Onward! Who’s with us?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 26 at 04:20 AM • permalink
- #82 You know I’d love to SCD, but I’ve, like, got some really heavy stuff going on right now. In fact I’m late to my Womyn’s Studies tute. Good luck speaking truth to the power, man.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 26 at 04:25 AM • permalink
- “…the visceral oppressors who administer this blog”?
I’m appalled that you could be so adjectivally inappropriate, SCD.
Surely you meant ‘vivacious’.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 26 at 04:46 AM • permalink
- Man, when that paddle is bearing down upon my nether regions, I actually mean vicious!Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 26 at 04:52 AM • permalink
- Yeah, I can imagine. Although I’d rather not.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 26 at 04:56 AM • permalink
- Nige S, it’s all a matter of whether you consider your society to be under an existential threat from Islamic extremists. Clearly you don’t. In that case, such a comment would indeed seem outrageous and unnecessarily bloody-minded. The author of the comment, however, believes that without decisive military action, World War II style, a new World-War-II-style threat (expansionist theocratic fascist ideology) will engulf us.
These things have been debated at length on different threads that you have obviously not read. Incidentally, such arguments were not considered offensive in 1942. The question is, is this 1984 (as you and your friends believe) or 1938?Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 26 at 04:59 AM • permalink
- “What we need are leaders who are cold-blooded mass-killers a la Woody Wilson, FDR, or Harry Truman; guys who aren’t afraid to lay waste to entire nations or slaughter millions of civilians if that’s what it takes to win. In short, we need a liberal butcher to run the war effort.”
Cruel, but fair.
(Spiny Norman will back me on that)
- Personally, I think the phrase “we need a liberal butcher” is way overblown, and inflammatory. But there is a case for a stronger military policy.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 26 at 05:19 AM • permalink
- Nigel, ol’ buddie, I just had to pipe in. You’ve garnered 83 comments, 84 if you count mine. I can see you need the attention, and those who need attention ought to get some. Like families who have lost their irreplaceable members to this war, for instance.
My own loss is still very raw, so I didn’t comment on the Bush thread, even though my family has benefited from the president’s kindness. He doesn’t have to do it, you see. But being a gracious human being who understands that we are in this together, he makes the effort. He doesn’t stand up waving his arms while he does it either. I know some rather cynical pols who would never think of doing what he does without making sure everybody knows about it—every single time—if they managed more than a single time sans cameras and sound bites, that is. There are many things I don’t like about the man, as you would know if you weren’t some hit-and-run yahoo, but his kindness to my sister and brother-in-law sure as hell isn’t one of them.
I hope you are feeling better soon.
Hi freaks
Awesome. Let’s keep him.
Re: “Making Plans For Nigel”—I have always known that song as an XTC song. I had no idea that that Robbie Williams creature had attempted to sing it, and I am not happier for that knowledge.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 09 26 at 05:48 AM • permalink
- # 89 overblown, and inflammatory
I’m plumping for hyperbolic. It’s the kind of language that should make anyone but a reflexively sooky wowser stop and think. Wilson, FDR and Truman had the courage to make terrible decisions they knew they would have to live with till the end of their days. That takes a kind of clear, cold-blooded, understanding of what’s at stake that wussy boys worrying about their own peace of mind and whether other folks will like them simply do not have.
- So, we have a pet Nigel now?
That is hilarious, in a strangely gruesome kinda way.
What do we feed him?
HEY!! I’m famous over at leftwrites (with one or two of the barking mad, at least). Apparently I’m some journalist chappie who writes for The Australian.
Who knew that I had a sooper-seekrit identity even I didn’t know about?
So you buggers had better pay me some respect now, dammit! Especially Wronwright and Paco.
MarkL
Chief Minion of the VRWC
- Ha! I see my speaking truth to power has worked!
<Looks back from top of ramparts>.
Nige? Nige? Where are you?
Nigel! This is not time to go shopping for the latest accessories!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 26 at 06:02 AM • permalink
- Do you, as a professional journalist, actually put your name to that forum?
The real issue here is that anyone still thinks being a ‘journalist’ for an old school newspaper is a big deal.
Without wishing to denigrate Tim’s no doubt immense stature as a ‘journalist’, I venture to suggest that he is now better known as (one of?) Australia’s leading bloggers.
This is the 21st century. I’m guessing that by going independent he gets to go unmoderated. this is the future of the media.
- “Nigel” as a name reached a peak of popularity in 1990, so I’d say Nige was all of 16.Posted by walterplinge on 2006 09 26 at 06:51 AM • permalink
- “Here is what I was appalled at:”
Sure, liberals like Roosevelt or Woody Wilson were pretty appalling, but they did know how to kill folks in vast numbers (and also how to ruthlessly crush “peacenik” internal dissent), and they sure kicked the enemy’s ass in those world wars.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 09 26 at 08:41 AM • permalink
- To be fair though, Dave Surls, Clinton did give that guy on Fox a pretty good telling-off. Almost as good as you’d get from the headmistress if she’d missed her sherry the night before.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 26 at 08:50 AM • permalink
- Ha, Swinish, I saw that interview (or the bit of it you refer to). Clinton was pissed off, wasn’t he? His tone reminded me instantly of his retort to that question:
“Ah..did…not…have..sex..with..that..woman….”
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 26 at 08:55 AM • permalink
- As someone named Jules, I’d like to stand in solidarity with Nigel W. in bashing Nigel for having a girly name to go with his girly mannishness. No offense to girls.Posted by crittenden on 2006 09 26 at 08:59 AM • permalink
- Nigel (the sissy one) wrote:
Ahhh, yeah. You really show your stupidity, but anyway… I’ve been to the footy mate, played footy, and been in a pub, combined hundreds of times
Ah the Internet, where men are more manly and the women are actually men. Hey Nige, are you also 6’-8”, 235 lbs of muscular handsomeness, pulling down 6 figures in a job that allows you to travel worldwide, keep three mistresses and one rich wife?
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 09 26 at 09:09 AM • permalink
- Yeah Bill was po’d good and proper in that exchange, SCD.
The sort of thing a wife with a score to settle would put up on YouTube. Lucky for Mr Clinton that Mrs Clinton’s…oh, wait…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 26 at 09:29 AM • permalink
- Only just got back to this. What real little terror Nigey turned out to be, and it appears he knows me as well! At #63 he says – “#61 why don’t you take your weak worthless self to the weak worthless playground, you fat so-and-so.”
Nige, Nige, Nigey lad, I’m 5’10” and 11 stone 12 lbs with my eyebrows plucked and an umbrella up. If you reckon I’m fat you should not only see a psychiatrist about your irrational outbursts but your GP for a heart to heart about any problems you may have with anorexia and bulimia.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 09 26 at 09:48 AM • permalink
- # Swinish, actually what he said was “Ah…did..not..have…sexul…relashuns…with…that…woman.” The “sexul…relashuns” part is important, because of the Clintonian “what is is” principle.
Key to understanding the subtly nuanced and parsed Clinton is to recognize that the more insistent, red-facced, finger-pointing and strident he is, the more full of it whatever he is saying is … uh … is. Is.Posted by crittenden on 2006 09 26 at 10:05 AM • permalink
- Well, I for one, was appalled at the loss of Clinton’s boyish looks. Having a tantrum as a grown man with boyish looks was pretty bad. Now he just looks like a petulant debauchee. Damned unattractive.
The Senator, on the other hand, is looking predictably butch these days. I blame her husband’s wagging finger. And wronwright—and all of the vast rightwing beastmasters.
“What we need are leaders who are cold-blooded mass-killers a la Woody Wilson, FDR, or Harry Truman; guys who aren’t afraid to lay waste to entire nations or slaughter millions of civilians if that’s what it takes to win. In short, we need a liberal butcher to run the war effort.”
If this was a joke, then yes, the joke is on me.
I didn’t say “joke”, I said “ironic.” Hint: read that last line out loud.
- I can’t believe we have over 100 comments about being appalled and nobody has mentioned how the Bills could be 3-0 instead of 1-2 if they hadn’t gone for it on fourth down instead of kicking the figgie early in two separate games. Now that’s appalling. I’m going to see how appalled TMQ is right now (“Kick Early, Go For It Late.”)
- Please, ladies and gents, take it easy on Nigel’s name.
My own middle name is “Fanciepants” and I should be appalled, yes appalled, if any of you made fun of it. I should have to consider you beastly, and might even say as much!
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 09 26 at 12:28 PM • permalink
- #107 – what are you talking about? I did not post #61. Get your facts straight, moron.
#90 – you wrote “You’ve garnered 83 comments, 84 if you count mine. I can see you need the attention, and those who need attention ought to get some.”
Just because I garner replies hardly means I need or seek attention. HOW DUMB ARE YOU PEOPLE?#104 – Yet another numbskull on here. Read #41 to see that you are actually criticising your own buddies in this argument. #41 is the one who introduced such BS into it, my response was sarcastic.
#98 – ummm, if you want to believe I am 16 (however you made that number/age up), ahhh… ok. I know you lot have a hard time not believing what is told to you, or what you want to believe in your own minds, so I will let you keep that as another one of your fantasies.
So many of you on here are so stupid. I have never experienced so many assumptions being made (regardless of them being wrong, which they are) from limited information, and so many uninformed, irrelevant replies/remarks of a personal nature, as opposed to an actual argument. I knew you were stupid, narrow-minded and reactionary, but you have really educated me on the extent or your limitations – thanks.
- From Dan Lewis, #37:
Can I change my username to Nigel?
I’m currently involved in a punching match with Marilyn Sheepherd, Merv Bartlett and friends after having my letter published in today’s Australian. They’re fuming!
Feel free to join me.
From Whale Spinor, #61:
#37 – just put in a comment about Godwin’s Law.
From russel2pi, #63:
#61 why don’t you take your weak worthless self to the weak worthless playground, you fat so-and-so.
From Whale Spinor, #107:
Only just got back to this. What real little terror Nigey turned out to be, and it appears he knows me as well! At #63 he says – “#61 why don’t you take your weak worthless self to the weak worthless playground, you fat so-and-so.”
Nige, Nige, Nigey lad, I’m 5’10” and 11 stone 12 lbs with my eyebrows plucked and an umbrella up. If you reckon I’m fat you should not only see a psychiatrist about your irrational outbursts but your GP for a heart to heart about any problems you may have with anorexia and bulimia.
From “Nige S.”, #116:
#107 – what are you talking about? I did not post #61. Get your facts straight, moron.
Ahhh-hmmmmmmmmmm…..
Looks to me that Whale Spinor mistook russell2pi for you, Nige. This was after russell2pi just in with a snide and trollish comment to Whale.
That Whale would mix up two obnoxious persons on the same thread is simply astonishing, isn’t it?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 09 26 at 05:22 PM • permalink
- #116 NigeS himself:
So many of you on here are so stupid. I have never experienced so many assumptions being made (regardless of them being wrong, which they are) from limited information, and so many uninformed, irrelevant replies/remarks of a personal nature, as opposed to an actual argument.
You’ve never been to a Leftie blog???
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 09 26 at 06:11 PM • permalink
- So many of you on here are so stupid. I have never experienced so many assumptions being made (regardless of them being wrong, which they are) from limited information, and so many uninformed, irrelevant replies/remarks of a personal nature, as opposed to an actual argument. I knew you were stupid, narrow-minded and reactionary, but you have really educated me on the extent or your limitations – thanks.
Uh, sorry, Mr Latham, but the ALP blog is over on the opposite corner…
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 26 at 06:15 PM • permalink
- Snap!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 09 26 at 06:16 PM • permalink
- #116
It’s about time someone told these moronic dickholes to stop molesting their blow-up sheep and quit making remarks of a personal nature.
Nice work Nige.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 09 26 at 06:21 PM • permalink
- Nige S
Well, about time you showed up again. Yes, yes, you do look nice in that Dior frock (but lose the “Maintain the rage!” T shirt, fer chrissake – its sooooo ‘70s). But while you’ve been poncing about in the designer shops, I’ve been sticking up for you.
But what thanks do I get?
Nuttin! Just you stamping your foot, poking your tongue out at the nice folk here and now you are holding your breath ‘till you turn blue.
Think about it – does that save the world, kitten?
C’mon Nigel chin up – you have a university degree, after all.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 26 at 07:04 PM • permalink
- Why the hell was an entire generation of useless berks named Nigel or Trevor? Inquiring colonial minds want to know!Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 09 26 at 08:19 PM • permalink
- Richard – that’s easy. Part of His Great Plan.
You get to identify the dickheads early on, as in “Hi, I’m Nigel and I’d just like to say…..”
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 26 at 10:29 PM • permalink
still nothing approaching an actual arguments to mine.
well I did give “an actual arguments” back at #87, but now I’m wondering why we have to be witty, insightful, or logical, when you have been none of these things. All I’ve heard so far is how appalled you are. Where’s the argument? Where’s the wit? Where’s the entertaining repartee?
Never has so much attention been given to such a small brain.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 26 at 11:15 PM • permalink
- From Nige S in this thread:
#78:
Hi freaks,
<snip>
Here is what I was appalled at:
“What we need are leaders who are cold-blooded mass-killers a la Woody Wilson, FDR, or Harry Truman; guys who aren’t afraid to lay waste to entire nations or slaughter millions of civilians if that’s what it takes to win. In short, we need a liberal butcher to run the war effort.”If this was a joke, then yes, the joke is on me.
OK, you disagreed with this comment. Too bad you decided to crap over everyone from the outset. You might have been taken seriously. Now we’ll never know, eh?
OTOH, that’s the way you posted as NS10 here. So maybe we do know, hmmmm?
#116:
Synopsis: pointing out errors, calling people dumb, blah blah blah. Final paragraph reads:
So many of you on here are so stupid. I have never experienced so many assumptions being made (regardless of them being wrong, which they are) from limited information, and so many uninformed, irrelevant replies/remarks of a personal nature, as opposed to an actual argument. I knew you were stupid, narrow-minded and reactionary, but you have really educated me on the extent or your limitations – thanks.
You probably caught a couple honest mistakes, but there are no arguments in this post—it’s all invective and assertions. And empty of meaning, like a child throwing a tantrum.
#126:
ha ha ha! you are so witty and insightful.
still nothing approaching an actual arguments to mine.
What arguments, Nige? You came in crapping because you were banned for being a prick, posted your feelings about a joke, and continued with the crapping. That’s not an argument, that’s a monkey screeching in the cage and flinging poo at the tourists.
This is a troll, folks, And pretty low quality at that. Nothing to see here, move along.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 09 26 at 11:15 PM • permalink
- #124 I know a great guy named Trevor. I will defend Trevors to the death. Nigels, on the other hand, I could take ‘em or leave ‘em.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 26 at 11:16 PM • permalink
- I think we’ve been fooled by a chatterbot. Nigel is not real, he’s a computer program generating random leftoid nonsense.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 26 at 11:18 PM • permalink
- “I have never experienced so many assumptions being made…and so many uninformed, irrelevant replies/remarks of a personal nature…I knew you were stupid, narrow-minded and reactionary”
That gets a 10 on the Irony-meter.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 09 26 at 11:24 PM • permalink
- OTOH, it’s rare that we see a post dedicated to a troll. Nigel, with but a few posts and an e-mail, has joined the ranks of elite trolls such as Miranda Divide, fatfingers, and other like minded denizens of the blogosphere. Congratulations!
It’s just not something that I’d write home to Mom about, is all.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 09 26 at 11:31 PM • permalink
- Tim, can we get “bongoman” or “a muslima” back as “duty troll”? Not that they’re great, but I reckon Nige s/NS10 needs some more time in the minors.Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 09 26 at 11:33 PM • permalink
- “he’s a computer program generating random leftoid nonsense.”
So what’s the difference between the computer program and a real live leftist then?
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 09 26 at 11:34 PM • permalink
- Nigel, I admire someone who admits when they’re wrong, but don’t cave thatquickly. We need a verbal stoush around here to liven things up from time to time.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 27 at 12:11 AM • permalink
- #137 My query with the verbal stoushing here is, when many users direct personal insults at me, why do others then complain about my language or words? Or, accuse me of being a wimp (in more colourful terms) etc etc.
Jaysus-H-Christ.
You are right daddy dave. It has to be a chatter bot – or, as I postulated elsewhere, a very bored Andrea taking the piss out of all of us. if so, I’ll put my hand up as being suckered.
On the other hand, we do know some of these trolls are remarkably unable to recognise when the piss is being taken out of them and keep coming over all sincere in wanting to ‘debate’ and ‘put arguments’ which they just know we can’t win.
I’ve never figured it out – why do they think blogs like this are substitutes for the Oxford Debating Society?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 27 at 03:23 AM • permalink
- <speechless>Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 27 at 03:53 AM • permalink
- Nige S wants to know why no one will answer his questions. Here’s why, Nige – BECAUSE THEY’RE FUCKING OLD!!! We are so bored of two bit trolls coming in here spouting “it’s just a war for oil!”, “but Saddam’s regime was secular!” or “Hamas is the only Palestinian body providing public services!”
So been there, done that, dude.
Consequently, when you come in here with what you think are earth-shattering observations that will blow your ideological opponents away (ie. us), you are met with resounding yawns – followed up by mockery – because your elementary leftist talking points have been thoroughly masticated and spat out by 90% of us years ago.
Under such circumstances, yeah, we do tend to play the man. Otherwise we’d get bored.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 09 27 at 05:14 AM • permalink
It has to be a chatter bot – or, as I postulated elsewhere, a very bored Andrea taking the piss out of all of us.
No, it’s not me. I have a full-time job and barely enough time to tend to this blog, much less make up imaginary (really lame too) trolls.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 09 27 at 06:07 AM • permalink
I have a full-time job and barely enough time to tend to this blog, much less make up imaginary (really lame too) trolls.
I dunno…a good troll is probably easy to create; it may be that lame trolls are the work of genius.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 09 27 at 07:19 AM • permalink
- The number one defining characteristic of trolls is it’s all about me – and Nigel got a whole thread where it really was about him.
This is troll heaven, Nige and I hope you realise that you are one lucky, lucky boy.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 09 27 at 07:33 AM • permalink
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