"This week I have mostly knee jerked to..."

[WaldoMcFroog]

Dear AB Ed,

With so many readers apparently having nothing better to do but spend their days combing newspapers for things to get offended about (extra delight is apparently extracted if there is an opportunity to blame whatever trivial matter they've chosen to be offended about on 'Lily livered liberals', and the truth of the situation appears to be of secondary consequence - facts tend to get in the way of the righteous apoplexy they enjoy so much), isn't it about time that they had their own section where they can sit around congratulating themselves on how un-PC they are, and reminisce about mythic versions of England without bothering the rest of us?

Perhaps you could call it 'Daily Mail Island'? They always seem to enjoy it when I make reference to that.

[kags]

May I give you 3 stars for that Waldo?

[kempie]

WaldoMcFroog - since you admit to being a contributor to the threads in question, why do you use "they" instead of "we"?

[smudge]

Waldo - If you don't wish to read or participate in 'certain' threads - you can aways skip past them you know!

[jno]

could call it 'RightBank'

[THECORBYLOON]

Would folk who contribute to RightBank be RightBankers? I'm sure that's rhyming slang.......

[Quizmonster]

I know, Waldo, that you and I do not see eye to eye about many things, but I am totally with you on this one.
I myself stopped responding to threads on politics, law and morality here long ago because, whilst many people on AnswerBank appear keen to comment on such matters, pitifully few of them seem capable of doing so with a genuine grasp of the facts or openness of mind.
Indeed, the News category of AB, in terms of both questions and answers, appears nowadays to be little more than a supplement of The Daily Mail, as you suggest. That is, it is awash with the same ill-informed mantras or puerile and biased inanities, many of them clearly bordering on the demented. (No names, no pack-drill!)
In the face of such invincible ignorance and bigotry, the only rational response is...silence. So, until the standard of discussion rises to, say, "university quadrangle level" rather than its current all-too-common "primary playground level" - a prospect for which I hold out little hope - I shall continue to abstain.
By that token, the above is all I shall have to say on this thread.

[january_bug]

I agree with you Waldo - fab idea. Plus, it who help otherwise reasonably smart people like me from falling for it so often! I was fooled twice last week and feel a prize idiot for it. I really should know better by now! Still, I have my radar switched on now - but a RightBank for the RightBankers would be a good idea - (TCL - was pmsl when I read your post above!)

[AB Editor]

Hi

Thanks for the suggestion. (I think that's all I'll say about this for the time being :)

AB ED

[Loosehead]

As long as we can have "LeftyBank" for the Lefty bankers no problem

[jno]

y'know Loosehead I'm surprised you didn't suggest the opposite of RightBank was WrongBank...

[january_bug]

I wish I could give jno 3 stars!!!

I think the Rightbank would be over-populated, and the left bank almost empty actually. :-)

[kags]

I' m not bothered if someone is a rightbanker or a leftbanker - as long as they can give properly thought-out and coherent arguments to support their stance! Contributors who just read and accept the inflammatory nonsense printed in certain daily newspapers, without thinking it through, questioning it and trying to take a broader view is what bugs me. Ok, off soapbox now and onto the Cab Sav!

[january_bug]

kags - just don't try getting back onto the soapbox after you've finished the bottle. I wouldn't want to fall off and get a UDI now! (unidentified drinking injury!) :-p :-)

[kags]

Too late - have staggered back on................. just to say it wasn't cab sav it was a bottle of white, but that's not really relevant.

[Cappuccino]

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Careful now.