Where did science originally come from ? Something Unusual maybe ?

[Jackalope]

Come on, LP, you know the way we do things here. If you think anyone has broken the Rules - and I capitalise the word to emphasise how prominently I take them - then do what we as Staff would have to do anyway and report them.

Not to mention that someone on staff isn't going to know something is happening until happens in a very public way. So please dont assume we aren't aware of it and are monitoring what's happening.

[emjay]

Or, as I said before it could be a chatbot that's gone awry... I think Microsoft needs to do a recall cos this one's got faulty programming.... parsing errors and infinite loops 

edit: this was in reply to Thumpalumpacus

[Cyberman]

You know what? I'm not going to bother responding to posts that are clearly deliberately not formatted sensibly. If you can't even be bothered to present what it probably pleases you to call your arguments in a considerate fashion, TK, I'm not going to waste my time unpacking them.

If you do need "instruction" as to quoting correctly, we have a handy-dandy BBCode guide here. We also have a guide to forum netiquette. Learn it.

[Jackalope]

This thread. It makes me want to stab and bludgeon things.

[Losty]

I think my posting skills are good enough for people with enough experience.  You may agree that some people are too busy to do things sometimes like I have been.  Do you want to give me instructions on how you think I should quote properly ?

When you reply to someone you will see this

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[quote='Stimbo' pid='1306872' dateline='1466299317']
The burden of proof does not apply to opinions; only positive assertions. Your continual claiming of the discursive high ground does not alter that.

To your second point re: "fancy colours", I think we both know exactly what I mean. Please keep me out of your little games, yes?

Finally, please learn to quote properly. It's not difficult. Replying within quotes as you are doing makes it unnecessarily awkward to follow the flow of your threads, inasmuch as there can be said to be one.
[/quote]

In order to quote properly do not write inside their quote tags but instead separate the parts and add your answers between the separate parts outside of the quote tags.

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[quote='Stimbo' pid='1306872' dateline='1466299317']
The burden of proof does not apply to opinions; only positive assertions. Your continual claiming of the discursive high ground does not alter that. [/quote]

Do you think you can prove that I have not used burden of proof right ?

[quote]To your second point re: "fancy colours", I think we both know exactly what I mean. Please keep me out of your little games, yes?[/quote]

Do you think you can prove I'm playing little games in this forum ?

Do you think you can prove that we both know exactly what you meant by "fancy colours" ?

[quote]Finally, please learn to quote properly. It's not difficult. Replying within quotes as you are doing makes it unnecessarily awkward to follow the flow of your threads, inasmuch as there can be said to be one.
[/quote]

I think my posting skills are good enough for people with enough experience.  You may agree that some people are too busy to do things sometimes like I have been.  Do you want to give me instructions on how you think I should quote properly ?

Now that I have taken the time to show you how, it would be wise to do so in the future. Quote mining or deliberately misquoting people is against the rules.

[Edwardo Piet]

You know, I actually feel bad for ThomasKelly252525 because he clearly has a rather severe case of IBS.

Irritating Buttface Syndrome

[Cyberman]

And on that delightful note, I hear my bed calling me.

[Losty]

And on that delightful note, I hear my bed calling me.

Sweet dreams

And can I see you in the lounge before you're off?

[Thomas Kelly252525]

Losty,

If you think my questions were malformed and you want to assert it here, then you may think you have the burden of proof.

I don't have the time to explain the questions to people who don't understand them.

Maybe you'll want to have a guess at the answers.

If you don't have time to explain your questions or have a discussion then kindly fuck off. This a discussion forum not a playground for douchnozzles.

Losty,

Do you think you can prove that I've not been willing to discuss ?

Do you think you can prove I have been using this forum like a playground for douchnozzles ? 

[Edwardo Piet]

ThomasKelly252525,

Do you think you think that I think that you think that I don't know you have demonstrably no life?