What party would Barbara Boxer belong to in the UK?

[angus]

Man, don't do this to yet another section of the board.  You have already taken over "individual politics" with your assinine Opinion OF Joe Blow threads.  Are you going to take over this one with a profusion of What Party Would Joe Blow Belong To In CountryX?  It is not amusing.

[angus]

BECAUSE IT'S A RIDICULOUS QUESTION
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BARBARA BOXER IS NOT AN ENGLISHMAN

I MIGHT HAVE MORE AMUSEMENT IF HIS PEURILE QUESTIONS IN THE OTHER THREAD HADN'T RESULTED IN A TOTAL FAD IN WHICH IT WAS TAKEN OVER, BUT OBVIOUSLY IT WAS.

IT IS A NONSTARTER.  DON'T PLAY HIS GAME.  DON'T RUIN THIS BOARD.

[angus]

Am I overreacting?

Do you people like what Individual Politics has turned into?

Seriously, if you do, then we are on completely different frequencies about this board.  I think it is a serious forum, not a frivolous one.

[angus]

But she's AN AMERICAN.  She's a yankee doodle dandee.  It is an unanswerable question.  In any superposition of the wavefunction in which she is an English person, all bets are off!  In that version, you too may be an english person, or a mountain goat in Bulgaria, or a bacterium on the ass of a flea on the ass of a dog.  In such a version of the universe the parties of the UK, as you know them, may not even exist.  In such a superposition of states, this forum might not even exist, and the USA may exist only as a rebel colony of France, Spain, or the UK.  Or of Nigeria.  Or of Botswana.  Who's to say?  It's an invalid question.  It cannot possibly be answered!  Also, it's a shallow question.  It has no particular relevance.  It doesn't matter to anyone or anything what the answer to the question is, or even if there is one.  And worst of all, it will start a spam of this board like the one started in Individual Politics.  You know how these copycat threadstarters are.  There's a dearth of originality, and once a fad gets going, suddenly the first five or six pages of a board is filled with the same question, where only the direct object or subject is changed!  You have seen this before, if you allow it, you will see it again.  I am not a fan of censure as you know.  I do not support the criminalization of prostitution, drugs, etc.  But I have to draw the line somewhere.  This sort of question has the potential to start the same sort of trend that was started elsewhere.

Clearly I am the only one who foresees this possibility and I am the only poster who challenges not only the validity of the question, but who also has the balls to call on it.  Either I am seriously deluded, or you're all misguided.  Either way, whether it's a discussion which is unintelligent by design, or whether I'm not intelligent enough to notice its relevance, I have nothing intelligent to add to this discussion.   fine, I'll end my rant.  I won't ffck up your thread with any more of my bitching. 

[angus]

this ain't bitter, man.  bases are bitter.  acids are sour.  In fact, the German word for "acid" is Sauer, as in Sauer Kraut (literally, "acidic cabbage").

On this type of thread, I have nothing but acidity.  Don't get the two concepts confused, asshole.

This ain't alkalinity!  It's pure acidity!  No doubt it's the result of my stomach acids churning at the thought of all you dumbasses deigning to post in such an assinine thread.

you see Pim's "refusal to accept the premise" here comment?

Well, NO sh**t!!!  it's an invalid premise.  Of course he doesn't accept it.  NOR SHOULD HE.

Nor should anyone!

[angus]

ah, look Boss Tweed.  I said I wasn't going to bitch anymore, so I won't.  In fact the last post wasn't so much bitching as responding to you.  And you're a young boy.  And smart and well-read and interested in public policy, so you deserve a little education here.  Here's the thing.  Of course it's a question one might ask.  One might ask many questions.  One might ask a librarian what time the library closes, for example.  That's a fair question, in the sense that the librarian can be expected not only to have that information, but to be able to politely provide it upon request.  This isn't that type of question.  What party would Tony Blair be if he were a Yankee?  First, Tony Blair isn't.  But you say, well, if the wavefunctions collapsed in such a way such that Tony Blair were a Yankee, what party would he be in?  Well, now such a superposition of states (you'll study about superposition of states in your junior-level college physics courses), a different universe exists.  And in such a universe, cats may be green, mountains may be holes in the ground, while valleys may be large objects which rise above the clouds.  In such a version of the universe (which may or may not exist!  who's to say?) Tony Blair may be a Black, Jewish, American lapdancer who is a libertarian gun-nut.  See the problem?  (of course, the simple answer to give people when they ask such a question is that Tony Blair would be a Democrat, given only the choice of D and R, and everyone and his grandmother knows that, so it certainly doesn't merit an entire thread.  But more evidently, the shape of his head has less to do with the current intranational alliances, yes I meant intra-, and more to do with his socialization, which may well have been very very different had he been socialized in a different country.  What party would Chairman Mao belong to?  Hitler?  Moussilini?  Lao Tzu?  Renee descartes?  Who knows?  Who can possibly know?  what you're asking folks to do is suspend disbelief, and what you're asking folks to do is make huge assumptions about the socializations of individuals which cannot possibly be validated.)  But--and this is important!--the fact that it's an invalid question isn't my prime concern here.  My primary concern is that when BRTD tries to prove how shallow he is, he does more than succeed.  He starts trends.  (yes, I may be blaming him on something that he didn't start.  I'm old.  Smoked too much grass and drank too much booze in my youth--a lesson to you, young man--but still, somebody started it, and he's an easy and likely target for my current abuse) and the trend in Individual Politics was one picked up with a vengeance by posters such as A18, which is a little surprising, since he's fairly intelligent and very very stuffy.  Certainly not the sort of guy you'd expect to pick up that ball and run with it.  Anyway, that's the source of my grief herein.  Haven't you ever sauntered in to Individual Politics and wondered that it's chock full of Horrible Person/Freedom Fighter threads?  Are you a horrible person?  Are you a Freedom Fighter?  Is it possible that some folks are neither a freedom fighter nor a horrible persone?  Is it possible that most folks aren't?  Nelson Mandela?  Hell, he's just a victim.  A smarter-than-average guy who's a bit rebellious and was at the wrong place at the wrong time.  Certainly unfit to "run a nation" but not a horrible person, not a freedom fighter.  Same for any of those other people named.  Why do we have to waste such space on such questions, which at best are normative propositions with no correct answers, and at worst a complete waste of space?

[angus]

okay, I surrender, TN2024.  I apologize for calling you a moron earlier.  You're a big boy and can make up your own mind.  I obviously haven't conveyed the deep sense of impropriety, and if I haven't yet I guess I can't.  I'll just give it a rest.  Peace.