• Names are a funny one.

    Most people don't have a choice in their name, it's something that's given to them by their parents. Along with their schooling ("No Mater, I don't want to go to Eton, please send me to the local secondary modern.")

    I tend to stop reading a comment if someone refers to "Dildo" or "Hattie Mancock" or "de Pfeffel", etc.

    It's also bottom of this scale, which isn't the best foundation for an argument:-

    (From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement)

  • I tend to stop reading a comment if someone refers to "Dildo" or "Hattie Mancock" or "de Pfeffel", etc.

    This. It's like my own automatic content filter which identifies the poster has a pre-disposed anti- agenda and I immediately dismiss their comment. See also use of B. Liar, Golden Brown, Hameron, Theresa Maybe etc etc. BEEEP goes my emergency bullshit alarm, dismiss content.

  • It's like my own automatic content filter

    Bingo.

    Including name calling in your argument selects your audience a bit.

    A name-caller is less likely to get any credible push back because why would anyone bother?

  • This. It's like my own automatic content filter which identifies the poster has a pre-disposed anti- agenda and I immediately dismiss their comment. See also use of B. Liar, Golden Brown, Hameron, Theresa Maybe etc etc

    I think that Hameron is fair game. I haven't heard that it was his parents that forced him to fuck that pig's head, was it?

  • i am suspicious of people that refer to boris johnson as "boris" or the execrable "bojo".

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