Comments on: Make up your mind http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/ "The thinking Laborite would as lief be found in bed with a cobra as in a committee room armed with 'arguments' from the Tory press." --- Truth, Perth, 19 June 1915. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:29:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joseph http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-5720 Joseph Sun, 07 Nov 2004 01:41:30 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/#comment-5720 And now, predictably, poll results are skewed the other way. But Jesus, I shouldn't post comments when I'm drunk. <!-- three strikes score: 0. --> And now, predictably, poll results are skewed the other way. But Jesus, I shouldn’t post comments when I’m drunk.

]]> By: Robert http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-5711 Robert Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:30:28 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/#comment-5711 Btw, have you heard of a feed reader? I don't have to hit F5, I automatically get notification of new posts. <!-- three strikes score: 0. --> Btw, have you heard of a feed reader? I don’t have to hit F5, I automatically get notification of new posts.

]]> By: Robert http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-5710 Robert Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:23:48 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/#comment-5710 Racist Rose: I care because the conservatwats are stalking a friend of mine. And they're a pack of hypocritical morons who deserve to be shown up as... well, as a pack of hypocritical morons. <!-- three strikes score: 0. --> Racist Rose: I care because the conservatwats are stalking a friend of mine. And they’re a pack of hypocritical morons who deserve to be shown up as… well, as a pack of hypocritical morons.

]]> By: Greg Restall http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-5709 Greg Restall Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:42:03 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/#comment-5709 Actually, I care, if only a little bit. I care because I work at the University of Melbourne, and it's been revealing to see the quality of the rhetoric on the conservative side of student politics. Given the quality of Farrago this year, I suppose I should have guessed... <!-- three strikes score: 0. --> Actually, I care, if only a little bit.

I care because I work at the University of Melbourne, and it’s been revealing to see the quality of the rhetoric on the conservative side of student politics. Given the quality of Farrago this year, I suppose I should have guessed…

]]> By: Rose http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-5708 Rose Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:05:29 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/#comment-5708 Robert, sweetie, I may be new to this game, but: who cares? Have you nothing better to do than obsessively visit Two Cents pressing F5? Sad, sad man. <!-- three strikes score: 0. --> Robert, sweetie, I may be new to this game, but:

who cares?

Have you nothing better to do than obsessively visit Two Cents pressing F5? Sad, sad man.

]]> By: Joseph http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-5707 Joseph Sat, 06 Nov 2004 10:34:54 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/06/make-up-your-mind/#comment-5707 This is why politics and quizzes do not mix. I go to the post you mention, see the options, and reflexively click the "No -- I am a terrorist sympathizer who hates Jews" option, even though I am not a terrorist sympathizer and I love or at least like most of the Jews I know, doing so merely because I thought it was the option these spiteful and vicious humans were inviting me <em>not</em> to click (also because I would not like to see Arafat, or anyone else, dead), and now 100% of all respondents are suddenly in favour of terrorism and anti-Semitism which is a) false and b) has nothing to do with the topic at hand, viz. Yasser Arafat and his impending demise -- the fundamental problem here being that LiveJournalesque quizzes never have the option of "All of the above syllogisms are wholly specious" which is the one I would almost always select. It is the option I would almost always select. <!-- three strikes score: 0. --> This is why politics and quizzes do not mix. I go to the post you mention, see the options, and reflexively click the “No — I am a terrorist sympathizer who hates Jews” option, even though I am not a terrorist sympathizer and I love or at least like most of the Jews I know, doing so merely because I thought it was the option these spiteful and vicious humans were inviting me not to click (also because I would not like to see Arafat, or anyone else, dead), and now 100% of all respondents are suddenly in favour of terrorism and anti-Semitism which is a) false and b) has nothing to do with the topic at hand, viz. Yasser Arafat and his impending demise — the fundamental problem here being that LiveJournalesque quizzes never have the option of “All of the above syllogisms are wholly specious” which is the one I would almost always select. It is the option I would almost always select.

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