That's ok, I find Comment Is Free to be full of self-righteous pricks bleating on about "common sense" and "human nature"
like they think arguments are won by being the most patronising man in the room, never considering the possibility that they may be even less-informed than the supposedly ignorant trolls, whose jokes they entirely fail to understand, and who they therefore assume to be pathetic children to be sternly lectured and guffawed at, the only alternative being to try communicating rather than lecturing, which would mean questioning their own prejudices and assumptions and facing up to the realisation that they are just as uninformed and ignorant as the sheep they despise, only just not as self-aware, and that just wouldn't do.

So I'll stay here, thanks.
( Zuowan, Fri 13 Dec 2013, 14:26, 2 replies)

You raise an interesting point
I'll look out for them ;-)
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Fri 13 Dec 2013, 14:28, closed)

On a slightly more serious note
You are of course right, people who go barging in armed with facts (particularly those who only believe they are armed with facts) add little to a debate if they miss undercurrents of humour, injokes, etc

But on the flipside, when the trending reply to some point of government policy is 'They should reduce the interest rate so the government can borrow more money and achieve [target x] sooner!' what do you do with that?

The easy thing is to go along with it, have a good laugh, sock it to the evil Tories, hope its a joke of some sort and hope people are pretending not to realise that the demand for borrowing sets the interest rate which is the cost of money.

If you're more interested in a socially beneficial policy that wont crash and burn, however....
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Fri 13 Dec 2013, 15:00, closed)