Engage with your criticism? I've answered all your points previously. You ignore them and just repeat the same stuff so I don't bother. It's funny that you accuse others of what you do yourself.

As for the use of the term, 'machoman' well that has been yours and you have used it to smear, which tends to suggest the rather feminized view you have of masculinity.

As for your family life....what you consider yourself is for you Fagin. If it's true that you are regarded as a good parent by generations of your children then great, though we only have your word for it.

However, your past commentary upon your passed parents on here (excepting the last one) hasn't been great. So that suggests that it isn't all harmony around you.

You think I feel I have something to prove? I'm not sure what, it's been a reasonably successful life considering where I started. I'm not a physical coward though and I don't moan about male traits and glorify female ones....Not that female traits aren't great, it's just that I prefer them on females.

Edited by Stirlingsays (06 Oct 2020 7.47pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

You don't answer points! Unless they come from one of your fellow travellers when you are quite happy to join in a confirmation bias fest. It's not your style. Maybe you are so self-obsessed you don't even realise it. You misrepresent what people say and then attack them for what they didn't say.

My comments about my mother need to be seen in context. They are only made as direct personal evidence of how much society has moved on in its views on racial differences. Unfortunately, some have not moved on and seem to think we all need to go back. Which is why I make the remarks to you!

Oh, I think you have something to prove alright. It comes through in your comments time after time. Once again you may not even be aware of it.

Not being a coward and being macho are very different things. In the first you don't back down to bullies. In the second you are the bully. I don't back down, but I also don't confront. There is more than one way of handling a bully!

I accept people for what they are. It's another part of the ways society has moved forward. At 76 I am still learning and am not reliant on the attitudes I held in my youth.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

It was like that when I found it. I didn’t nick it or nuffing.

You make the ridiculous point that the meaning matters less than the quote and here you are waffling about the very meanings of words.

The difference between 'will' and 'shall' are negligible, similar to 'meek' and 'gentle'.....As stated, if you are going to really be exact you go to the original Aramaic....Or for second hand the Koine Greek text...You concerning yourself with exactness over the English translation...which has undergone god knows how many versions is pretty limited.

Give it up Maple, you were caught in your own game of pedantry with your trousers down....and it's not an edifying sight.

But at least with you, these conversations have a hint of amusement within them.....arguing over bugger all can raise a smirk or two.

Edited by Stirlingsays (06 Oct 2020 9.39pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

True true. Why do I get the feeling that it will be the new inexperienced investors left holding the next stock market timebomb?

Oh ffs!!!

What a pansy.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)