The Dog Pit

[Madness]

I'm sick of a recent thread being polluted by heated conversation that is neither enlightening nor remotely related to the thread.  This is the dog bit, where you can go to town.  Put on your boxing gloves and practise your pugilistic performance here.  

Edited July 28, 2018 by Madness

[TomGoodheart]

Woof woof.

 

[jelida]

I love the idea, though pugilism especially regards politics can lead to ongoing animosity. There have to be rules.

My best mate and I have the 9 o’clock rule, on our weekly curry nights with our wives. The men (occasionally sons are present) adjourn to the pub at 7.30. By 9, when the women collect us (this may include daughters) the men are well oiled, and a couple of bottles of wine over curry doesn’t help. Things can get very heated, especially regarding politics. The 9 o’clock rule acknowledges that nothing stated or done after that time is actually worth a damn, and need not be apologised for later. Indeed it is a poor show to even refer back to the previous night. But angry debate is one of life’s great pleasures. So what are the rules here? It worries me a bit that once committed to record, an injudicious comment can be revisited and allowed to fester. Do we have any suggestions for a ‘9 o’clock rule’ equivalent?

Jerry

[1949threepence]

46 minutes ago, jelida said:

I love the idea, though pugilism especially regards politics can lead to ongoing animosity. There have to be rules.

My best mate and I have the 9 o’clock rule, on our weekly curry nights with our wives. The men (occasionally sons are present) adjourn to the pub at 7.30. By 9, when the women collect us (this may include daughters) the men are well oiled, and a couple of bottles of wine over curry doesn’t help. Things can get very heated, especially regarding politics. The 9 o’clock rule acknowledges that nothing stated or done after that time is actually worth a damn, and need not be apologised for later. Indeed it is a poor show to even refer back to the previous night. But angry debate is one of life’s great pleasures. So what are the rules here? It worries me a bit that once committed to record, an injudicious comment can be revisited and allowed to fester. Do we have any suggestions for a ‘9 o’clock rule’ equivalent?

Jerry

Agreed, Jerry. Mine would be:-

1/ Keep a sense of humour.

2/ Accept that others beside me have a right to their opinion. We're all different.

3/ I'm not always right. In fact there is usually no definitively right or wrong answer. Life is not 20 maths questions.

4/ Go in with the perspective that you can have a blazing row, but still emerge mates afterwards, shake hands and have that cyber pint together.Whatever's said in here, we leave it at the door and don't talk about it anywhere else.

5/ Never hold a grudge. It's not personal, it's politics. 

6/ I'm a rottweiler 

Edited July 28, 2018 by 1949threepence

[bagerap]

No one is "entitled to an opinion". They are however allowed an informed opinion. By which I mean that they know what they are talking about and not just spouting the last thing they heard /read.

[Peckris 2]

I think @bagerap was referring to the average kind of internet claptrap where people air their prejudices freely left right and centre. It's harder to do that in 'real life' where you have to look people in the eye, and you can hear their tone of voice and see their body language.

No opinion is fully and completely informed, but a link to a reasonable website (and I will leap to the defence of Wikipedia here) to back up stated facts, never goes amiss.

Edited July 30, 2018 by Peckris 2