White disadvantage?

[Mottie]

An obvious swerve.
If you intended for it to read that you had only received the email once, you wouldn't have included the word 'once'.
You would have simply said ,"I had an email once telling me that funding was available for certain cohorts,.."

The inclusion of the word 'once' on this occasion, clearly refers to you having received the email some time ago, as in 'once upon a time', implying some time ago.

Just like with transam, just like with racing pigeons, just like with the New Zealand thread, just like with everything else, you have the inability to let something go. I bet you’re a real pain in the butt when you visit people - I bet they can’t get rid of you quick enough and I’d lay money that your invitations to social gatherings are drying up. Correct?

I said once because it happened once and just so that you are completely informed, it hasn’t happened again TO ME. It was for summer 2018. Good enough for you? If you need any finer, in-depth details to enable you to get closure on this, get back to me and I’ll see if I can help - I wouldn’t want you losing any more sleep on this than you already have.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

The only poverty around now is the moral and intellectual kind

Especially amongst the political classes.

And the RWLs here.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

Just like with transam, just like with racing pigeons, just like with the New Zealand thread, just like with everything else, you have the inability to let something go.

Or an unwillingness to let people get away with misdirection and distraction?

I had an email once telling me ...

That does mean "I had an email a while ago telling me...", or "I had an email some time ago telling me...", or "One time in the past I had an email telling me..."

Thats the way that English works.

So

And your email that you received once was , I would guess, at least 18 months ago.

Was focusing on the 'while ago/some time ago/in the past' element of the email to highlight that it is out of date if you think you can relate it to something which hasnt started yet.

But rather than proceed on the basis of how the English language works you decided to create a distraction by pretending that BD meant youd only had the email a single time, not that he was pointing out you'd had it a while ago.

Why?

Is it because you really dont understand how English works?

Or because you just could not bear to admit that he might have had a point?

 

[transam]

Just like with transam, just like with racing pigeons, just like with the New Zealand thread, just like with everything else, you have the inability to let something go. I bet you’re a real pain in the butt when you visit people - I bet they can’t get rid of you quick enough and I’d lay money that your invitations to social gatherings are drying up. Correct?

I said once because it happened once and just so that you are completely informed, it hasn’t happened again TO ME. It was for summer 2018. Good enough for you? If you need any finer, in-depth details to enable you to get closure on this, get back to me and I’ll see if I can help - I wouldn’t want you losing any more sleep on this than you already have.

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I dunno why you bother engaging with the fool tbh

ignore button

I won’t until some one tells me he has apologised to me

and has to be one of them unreserved apologies

dunno what the difference is but it sounds better than just an apology

 

[Captain Nemesis]

 

[JohnD]

And your email that you received once was , I would guess, at least 18 months ago.

once and just so that you are completely informed, it hasn’t happened again TO ME. It was for summer 2018.

The guess was correct.

 

[Mottie]

The guess was correct.

Well it had to be - I haven’t worked for 18 months as most of you remoaners know!

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Mottie has been furloughed for a long time. His information is well out-of-date.

Well it had to be - I haven’t worked for 18 months as most of you remoaners know!

That's why your information is well out of date.
Apart from the fact that you received the email three years ago.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

I had an email once telling me that funding was available for certain cohorts, one of which was white males that are now a targeted minority in need of help in the LA that I work in. Would you call that 'white privilege'?

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Now shall we compare your original comment to the email that you received?

 

[Mottie]

Apart from the fact that you received the email three years ago.

Yep, I said I hadn’t worked for 18 months so obviously longer than that. Splitting hairs again are we?

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

It was for summer 2018.

Yep, three years. I said AT LEAST 18 months ago. Splitting hairs again are we?

Not splitting hairs, just reminding you just how irrelevant that email was.
Now if you want, we could do some hair splitting about how relevant that email was, in comparison to your comment about white males being a targeted minority in need of help, and funding being available.
But it was over three years ago, so maybe your memory isn't what it once was.
I've used 'once' in the context of 'once upon a time'.
We could consider the word once in the context that you claim, and your memory was only used once.

 

[Mottie]

You need to get out more or find a real life friend.

 

[mattylad]

As a white man I feel really priveledged whilst driving my crappy old car and I'm overtaken by some young non white driver in his nice mercedes or BMW car whilst I press down on the pedals with my 2 year old cheap crappy shoes and the other driver is likely wearing some expensive nike's etc.

 

[Notch7]

Or an unwillingness to let people get away with misdirection and distraction?


That does mean "I had an email a while ago telling me...", or "I had an email some time ago telling me...", or "One time in the past I had an email telling me..."

Thats the way that English works.

So

Was focusing on the 'while ago/some time ago/in the past' element of the email to highlight that it is out of date if you think you can relate it to something which hasnt started yet.

But rather than proceed on the basis of how the English language works you decided to create a distraction by pretending that BD meant youd only had the email a single time, not that he was pointing out you'd had it a while ago.

Why?

Is it because you really dont understand how English works?

Or because you just could not bear to admit that he might have had a point?

Surely the salient point is that the email Mottie received listed "white males" as a cohort potentially available for extra funding.

Have you addressed that point - as it is most relavent to this thread

 

[Captain Nemesis]

No, the salient point is that when BD pointed out that Motties email was too long ago to be relevant, Mottie pretended that BD was interpreting "once" as a count of how many times Mottie had received the email. Mottie did that in order to create a distraction.