Members who can't read.

[hermes]

Toffee & Brightness,

Do what I do, sit on the fence or come and sit on the fence with me

Don't go near Masona's fence, he'll have you creosoting it before you know what's happened.

 

[masona]

Sorry, creosote banned since 2003, anyway what's wrong with fake tan

 

[markie]

Sorry, creosote banned since 2003, anyway what's wrong with fake tan

So is putting bits of glass bedded on a wall i believe, better stick with the fake tan,

 

[ban-all-sheds]

It appears we have some members who can't read.

Unfortunately by the time I had typed my reply another thread had been locked.

Toffee Wrote.

well, you did wind me up with your comment, which incidently was not followed by a wink or a smile.

Really toffee???? news to me, have another look at this.

FWL-engineer/big spark was another good debater along with the most disagreeable(to me) but extremely polite Damocles, a very well informed member who I suspected was BAS, (when I posted under another name )

Pay particular attentiopn to these at the end of the post. There are there when someone is joking!!!

I don't take offence though and do understand it must be difficult for the weaker sex.

That has no ring of truth about it at all.

Yes, Adam was indeed interesting, I used to enjoy his posts before I joined. I seem to recall he had a new girlfriend, perhaps he's found a better use for his digits than typing.

Most of the interesting posters have now gone, been driven out by extreme left wing PC dross and the influx of WI members I suspect.

The debates are not as cut and thrust as they used to be, whether this is the members or Mod's I don't know.

FWL-engineer/big spark was another good debater along with the most disagreeable(to me) but extremely polite Damocles, a very well informed member who I suspected was BAS, (when I posted under another name )

So 2 humour marks after the first paragraph.

None after the second.

None after the third.

And the ones in the fourth come before the closing parenthesis, so what with that, and the fact that you'd started off by tagging individual paragraphs, there is no way they can be considered as applying to the whole post.

So not only no ring of truth about your later claim, but a distinct ring of quite the opposite...

 

[paulbrown]

Thanks very much BAS.

So 2 humour marks after the first paragraph.

None after the second.

None after the third.

And the ones in the fourth come before the closing parenthesis, so what with that, and the fact that you'd started off by tagging individual paragraphs, there is no way they can be considered as applying to the whole post.

So not only no ring of truth about your later claim, but a distinct ring of quite the opposite...
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Good scientists have originality. Good engineers make designs with as little originality as possible

I take it you will explain the difference between a sentence and a paragraph now?

 

[markie]

Thanks very much BAS.

So 2 humour marks after the first paragraph.

None after the second.

None after the third.

And the ones in the fourth come before the closing parenthesis, so what with that, and the fact that you'd started off by tagging individual paragraphs, there is no way they can be considered as applying to the whole post.

So not only no ring of truth about your later claim, but a distinct ring of quite the opposite...
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Good scientists have originality. Good engineers make designs with as little originality as possible

I take it you will explain the difference between a sentence and a paragraph now?

Don't forget bas is the wise one.

 

[Brightness]

Thanks very much BAS.

So 2 humour marks after the first paragraph.

None after the second.

None after the third.

And the ones in the fourth come before the closing parenthesis, so what with that, and the fact that you'd started off by tagging individual paragraphs, there is no way they can be considered as applying to the whole post.

So not only no ring of truth about your later claim, but a distinct ring of quite the opposite...
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Good scientists have originality. Good engineers make designs with as little originality as possible

I take it you will explain the difference between a sentence and a paragraph now?

Paulbrown, you mean you don't know the difference?

 

[kendor]

correct me if i'm wrong but isn't a smiley a graphic and not text, how do you "read" a graphic?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

The same way you read anything else. When children are taught to read they go (went?) through the "kuh" "a" "tuh" cat stage, but once reading is fully developed most people don't continue to sound the words out, or "read" through them one syllable at a time.

They become symbols and are read in one operation. Punctuation marks are used as a guide to the symantics, and sometimes the syntax, of the text, and smileys can be viewed as another form of punctuation. In the same way that some punctuation marks take the place of the pauses in speech, they take the place of inflexion and body language.

 

[kendor]

yes i realise what the smileys mean by looking at them but i don't read them like text though I just look upon them as symbolic and not text.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

But (known) words are also symbols.

 

[kendor]

Now your getting technical! ok CC so continuing from there are they merely images collated into our brains and interpreted within?
there must be an absolute interpretation of what words mean but why do we seperate pictures from words? Is it the saying every picture tells a story that you are perhaps basing your comment on?
Personally i think words used properly can be almost absolute not totally as all our friends in the legal system would be out of work whereas a picture can be interpreted in many different ways unless you aware beforehand what the picture is intended to portray or inform to another.

 

[Softus]

It appears we have some members who can't read.
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There are there when someone is joking!!!

Yeah, I'm one of them - I read the beginning of your sentence as "They are there...".

Has hypocrisy always come easily to you paulbrown?

 

[Brightness]

PMSL Softus

 

[kendor]

Loads of posters myself included tend to miss typo's , that shouldn't be grabbed on by others as an opportunity to pis*take.