Hang on
looking at your profile, you were what, 10, when the Tories were last in power?

Excellent rational analysis of the party, its ability or not to govern and its supporters based on experience, then?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 16:52, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Oof!

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 16:56, Reply)

Hold on
so you're saying that only by living through the governance of a party can you formulate an opinion on whether or not you think you should support them?
(Bazongaloid, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 16:56, Reply)

This is why I cannot vote for the Whig party
for shame.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 16:58, Reply)

That's right.
I also deny the Holocaust because when I went the Germany I could see no sign of any active slaughtering WHATSOEVER.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:00, Reply)

No, that's not entirely what I meant
I find the idea of someone who's never seen a Tory government whilst out of nappies suggesting that all tory supporters are cunts a little ..... sweeping. Or idiotic.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:08, Reply)

Yes but 17 is hardly "just out of nappies" is it.

( Peej, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:14, Reply)

fair enough
I still think that describing about 30% of the country as cunts because of their political beliefs is sweeping and idiotic. But, you know, knock yourself out. It's a free country.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:21, Reply)

A good 96% of the country
are cunts.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:24, Reply)

The rest of them remember to book their Tayyabs table in advance

(Bazongaloid, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:26, Reply)

'I like this'
in a very smug way.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:44, Reply)

but that's because they are cunts
not because of some arbitrary classification that is essentially unconnected to their cuntyness.

It's a cunty venn diagram, if you like, but with overlap, not a subset.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:28, Reply)

The GREAT thing about history
is it's written down and can be readen.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:02, Reply)

^ BLATANT LIE.
No it can't. If it could, it would be possible to learn about all sorts of things though the ages without having to personally experience them.

And that is of course a laughable proposition.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:04, Reply)

I just imagined that we could have some idea of what people were like before written language existed
as if people used to live in rudimentary wooden shelters, or caves, and hunt animals with rocks. That certainly raised a chuckle I can tell you.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:06, Reply)

As far as I know
things have been like the 1st of March 2010 since the beginning of time.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:08, Reply)

You're just fucking weird mate.
What ARE you like? I'd say 'you couldn't make it up' but clearly you can!! Rofl, lol, rspca etc
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:09, Reply)

"rspca"
I'm using that in an IM conversation next time someone uses too many "lol"s or smiley faces.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:31, Reply)

what, you mean in the way that everything written down in the last 30 years is true?
you mean THAT way of learning from history, then? I wondered why there was a Lancaster bomber on the moon, now you come to mention it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:12, Reply)

"If you don't learn from History, then you are doomed to repeat it"

This is worrying as I know fack all about the 14th centuary and I'm worried about catching the black death
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:04, Reply)

Try being me.
If it's not the Persians I'm scared of, it's that utter cad Hannibal and his pesky elephants.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:07, Reply)

it's those
pesky Thracians I can't trust
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:09, Reply)

They really are cunts.
Like those Scythian archers. Fucking mercenary wankers.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:10, Reply)

I'm with you on the Persians. personally it's Xerxes who terrifies me
he could do anything, at any time!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:12, Reply)

the less
said about the peloponnesians the better as well.

they can go get fucked by a hoplite for all I care
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:13, Reply)

yeah.
and political history, particularly recent history, is very, very subjective. Oh sorry, everything written down is true, isn't it?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:10, Reply)

Yes because there is just the one master account of history
and thus only 1 viewpoint that simply must be trusted.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:12, Reply)

that would kind of be my point
except I can't spot if you are being sarcastic or not. online.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:19, Reply)

I am being sarcastic.
There is not only 1 master viewpoint of history.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:24, Reply)

I was nearly 17 at the 1997 election
But thank you for your kind comments on my youthful looks. And yes I have never been able to vote out any Tories but I have voted in general elections and as I am only a year and a bit off being 30 I think I have had more than enough time in my life to know that they are a bunch of cunts. Also after three years of marriage to find out that she is a Tory explains a lot.

Thank you
( Peej, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:14, Reply)

you've aged well, then.
And, just out of interest, would you randomly ascribe the term "bunch of cunts" to any other large group of people?

and how do you know they are cunts? what have they done to give you this impression?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:18, Reply)

U2 fans are definitely a bunch of cunts

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:20, Reply)

steady on
stop ruining my opinions with fact.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:21, Reply)

sorry
I haven't slated U2 for a few days, and was getting antsy
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:22, Reply)

I would,
and do so pretty much every day.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:31, Reply)