How Many Questions In 'news' Can One Ask?

[buildersmate]

How many questions per week is one able to ask in this section per week before one gets permanently excluded for abusing AnswerBank?

I do hope the answer is around 12, then we'd all be put out of our misery for ever.

[sp1814]

AOG

Oh dear...as I thought.

Only ONE of the posts I used was using the Daily Mail as a news source? On all the others, I was actually attacking the Mail.

Can you not see that?

Thought it was obvious.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// You really should, at your age aog, know which way up our National Flag is flown, unless of course you really are distressed that you got it wrong, in which case wewould, I'm sure, understand. ///

Don't be so idiotic of course I know the correct way up for our national flag.

Are you not intelligent enough to realise that I did not actually create that avatar myself, it was one taken from an existing internet site illustration, and do such illustrations have to be perfect in every way before they are allowed to be used as an avatar, if so I think that you should spend your time trawling through the rest of the avatars on answerbank to see if they are correct in every way and meet with your approval.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

Thank you so much for that Andy, I feel most honoured for your extremely very well constructed supportive post.

[andy-hughes]

My pleasure AOG.

I think we senior Gentlemen of the AB should be seen to support each other in times of trouble.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// So are you saying that your post about Joss Stone had absolutely nothing to do with news - you just wanted to post something negative about black people? //

/// Do you understand why some people think you might be a bit...you know..///

For your information my post about Joss Stone had absolutely everything to do with news, but your accusation that I wanted to post something negative about black people was only a figment of your somewhat inferior complexed imagination.

I take this obvious 'chip on your shoulder' comment and accusation from you most offensive, or does being white not make me eligible to be offended?

Incidentally I have now posted a response in my Joss Stone thread.

[Baldric]

///it was one taken from an existing internet site illustration, and do such illustrations have to be perfect in every way before they are allowed to be used///
If you are prepared to use an imperfect representation of our National Flag as an avatar, something which represents you on this site, how on Earth can we rely on anything else you say being an accurate representation of the facts?

[Bazile]

What's the definition of ' left wing ' and ' right wing '

[LazyGun]

@Bazile - your left wing has an L on it, your right wing an R... :)

[Bazile]

No , seriously - i need to know if i'm a left winger or a Right winger

[LazyGun]

This site might help to clarify things a bit for you, Bazile, although the result will not be as linear as left wing or right wing...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

[Bazile]

When i first stumbled across this site , i remember a controversial poster , going by the name of Ward Minter ( am i allowed to say his name ? )- if not W--D M----r .

Do you think AOG is a reincarnation of WM

[ummmm]

Bazile - Nothing like him.

[andy-hughes]

I can concur with Ummm's answer Bazile - WM was really not a nice person at all, very very rude and unpleasant, threw out insults left right and centre.

I conceed that AOG can be irascible at times, and certainly opinionated, but he is not to my knowledge rude or offesnive, and his caustic comments are always in self-defence.

If WM is here under another name, it is not AOG, you can be sure of that.

[doctordb]

Bazile, the origins of left and right wing go back to per revolutionary France with the liberals sat on the left of the chamber and the nobles on the right.

[Bazile]

Right - Ho

[Bazile]

My Right - Ho was in response to Andy and ummmm - but the same for doctordb.

Thanks as well lazygun - i'll do the test when i have a mo - do i get a certificate at the end ?

[jake-the-peg]

A good yard stick (IMHO) about extreme political views is that the extreme Left want to seize control of all companies and have them run by the State, - a socialist aspect wants most large scale industry to be run by the state.

I don't see many people of that persuasion on here but a few like me would think that some denationalisations like the Rail Network have been less than successful.

Right wing politics nomally strongly supports a social hieracrchy - In the UK far right politics is usually associated with Nationalism - the strong identification with the nation or tribe to the extent that descrimination of others outside of that group is strongly encouraged.

You can have left wing nationalism but it's never really been a feature of UK politics.

I can think of quite a few right wing nationalists on here.

The funny thing is that many seem to think of themselves as centre-ist and that therefore those to the left of them must be extreme-left wing

[LazyGun]

@ Bazile No certificate, although you might get a piece of paper with a L or an R printed on it :)

You just get the personal satisfaction of seeing which famous political figures best match your own place on the political spectrum - For me, it right next to Attila the Hun, for some reason... :)

[bednobs]

interesting -i am mpst similar t the dali lama

[LazyGun]

@bedknobs ; I prostrate myself, oh saintly one :)

Did it match your expectation, or do you think it way out?