..but Clippo was having a joke against somebody who had used sarcasm against him. We do need to loosen up at times. Direct swearing and cursing insults or libellous comments are clearly out of order, but so is trolling around other people's posts looking for insults where none were intended.
If I call mkpd a git that is clearly out of order, no matter whether I think he is or not, but if I state that mkpd's arguments are fatuous, lack intellectual authority, are based on a disingenuous approach to argument and contain logical fallacies whilst his invective has descended to playground level then surely I am merely articulating my opinions in a cogent and sentient fashion deprived of the cheap and base insults that have abounded on this forum in the past. I could hardly be called insulting, could I?
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