THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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Space for spicy opinions in our daily serving of intelligent debate  

Space for spicy opinions in our daily serving of intelligent debate  

Another week goes by, and the Trumpophobes have been ranting away in their beetroot-faced, saliva-spraying glory once again.

But I am puzzled by contributor Egon, who writes eloquently, but doesn’t seem to be reading the same paper as me. On Monday and again on Friday he claimed that some of us – and he specifically referred to “Wilcox, Pike and HHB” – do “not bother to reply to sensible arguments” and “refuse to engage in debate”.
Now hang on a minute, Mr Egon. Last Sunday, Wilcox and HHB contributed fifteen column inches of reason and factual evidence in response to the preceding week’s Trumpophobic flatulence from the beetroot patch. I would have joined in with a few column inches of my own, had I not been suffering temporary paranoia at the prospect of 60 million exploding breasts, as I reported last Saturday. (That’s now thankfully over following the soothing words of Horace Beasley on Monday.)
When I compare the writings on both sides of this and other debates, I observe that some of us Have Your Say-ers present facts and reasoned opinion on the issues of the day, while others resort to judgmental rhetoric, failing to address the issues at all but simply denigrating, ridiculing and humiliating anyone who does not accept their odious views. But I guess, at the end of the day, we wouldn’t want it any other way, would we? Thank you, Nation!
Nigel Pike
Phang Nga 

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