Today I learned...

[Devon Malcolm 12,544]

6 minutes ago, AshC said:

Sorry I shouldn't have got involved, have a good night.

We'll take that as a no, then.

[Chris B 3,662]

Maybe the thread should be renamed 'Today I didn't learn..."

[AshC 447]

Cheers guys. No wonder the left never win an election here. Any views outside of the echo chamber and you're a dunce or a racist monster or both. It's an exhausting subject and I apologised for getting involved. That should be that. But I'm sure it won't be.

[Keith Houchen 15,539]

The C in AshC stands for “Cancelled”

[AshC 447]

Sorry you feel like this. I'm as left as they come. All skeletons are the same colour. But put the boot in if it makes you feel good, by all means. The 87 final will still be one of my favourites. Cheers.

[SuperBacon 7,158]

God, you get cancelled straight away for giving a half hearted, vague, non descript opinion on the Off Topic section of a wrestling forum these days.

[Keith Houchen 15,539]

3 minutes ago, AshC said:

But put the boot in if it makes you feel good, by all means

This kerfuffle is a decent example of what you say, though. Person A states something as fact, person B (and CDEFG) ask for an example of it, just one example, person A doesn’t or can’t give one and acts hard done by. 

[WyattSheepMask 3,233]

4 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

TIL that the last people executed in Britain, 'legally', was in 1964.

I think I already knew this (Today I Relearned?), but this has sort of shocked me a bit. That's not that long ago is it?

Further to this, while that was the last execution for Murder, the death penalty wasn’t officially abolished until 1969. However, the death penalty remained in law (although wasn’t used, obviously) for crimes such as Treason until 1998 when it was withdrawn under the Crime & Disorder Act.

 

Edited November 17 by WyattSheepMask

[patiirc 248]

25 minutes ago, AshC said:

Cheers guys. No wonder the left never win an election here. Any views outside of the echo chamber and you're a dunce or a racist monster or both. It's an exhausting subject and I apologised for getting involved. That should be that. But I'm sure it won't be.

The left?

Echo Chamber?

Dunce?

Monster?

 Apparently that makes you 'exhausted'? and we're the baddies.

If you want to talk talk, dont presume, as said before. 

Also if you think something is potentially offensive before saying it, then do not say it because it's probably offensive..  Tada!

[Just Some Guy 50]

3 minutes ago, WyattSheepMask said:

Further to this, while that was the last execution for Murder, the death penalty wasn’t officially abolished until 1969. However, the death penalty remained in law (although wasn’t used, obviously) for crimes such as Treason until 1998 when it was withdrawn under the Crime & Disorder Act.

 

The last person sentenced to death in the British Isles was on the Isle of Man in 1992.

Mind you they were still birching you for being drunk until fairly recently.

 

[Chris B 3,662]

22 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

 person B 

When Keith can't remember your first name.

[mim731 1,237]

My favourite stroppy flounces on here are always where the person comes back multiple times and makes it worse. Lovely stuff. 

[Nexus 312]

Snowflake needs saying to get Bingo, right?

[Nostalgia Nonce 1,334]

4 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

There’s that one as well about how the last legal  execution in France by guillotine happened after Star Wars A New Hope came out. (It wasn’t Lucas)

In Paris, there are five stone slabs set into the pavement of Rue de la Roquette. These were the foundations for the guillotine.

[Arch Stanton 833]

The pile-on feels massively unfair to be honest. It's pretty obvious that AshC hasn't tried to offend there. I've seen a similarly unnecessary pile-on in the Covid thread today too. It's not a good look, this place is better than that.