What is God’s Evolution??

[Shaker]

Offence is taken, not given.

[BashfulAnthony]

Offence is taken, not given.

Oh, really?  Then what is the point of disseminating such garbage?

[Shaker]

Oh, really?  Then what is the point of disseminating such garbage?

It might help to render the absurdly pompous, prudish and professionally faux-offended less so.

[BashfulAnthony]

It might help to render the absurdly pompous, prudish and professionally faux-offended less so.

  No it won't, and you know it.  It is done purely to offend any Christian who sees it, from the basest to the most worthy, regardless.  That is your intention, and it is all one would expect from such a vicious and vitriolic person.

[Nearly Sane]

  No it won't, and you know it.  It is done purely to offend any Christian who sees it, from the basest to the most worthy, regardless.  That is your intention, and it is all one would expect from such a vicious and vitriolic person.

This is excellent, extending the Bashful Uriah character across the threads - 'ever so 'umble', good sir

[BashfulAnthony]

This is excellent, extending the Bashful Uriah character across the threads - 'ever so 'umble', good sir

Give up now, before you make yourself look even more absurd!

[Shaker]

It's not NS who's looking absurd here, Bashers.

[Nearly Sane]

Give up now, before you make yourself look even more absurd!

Ah poor, poor Uriah

[Nearly Sane]

It's not NS who's looking absurd here, Bashers.

I am off to get some dinner, I'll leave Bashful Uriah to his 'umble pie.

[BashfulAnthony]

Ah poor, poor Uriah

Not nearly as poor as old NS though. The forum's foremost over-the-top merchant.

[ippy]

"Job,"  what job?  I think you rather overstate their influence.  Most of what they say is for effect; but chiefly for money, from gullible and obsessed individuals such as yourself.

They've got a lot of religionists wound up including you, so they  are doing a good job there, B A.

ippy

[BashfulAnthony]

They've got a lot of religionists wound up including you, so they  are doing a good job there, B A.

I'm not wound up, Ippy.  Haven't you cottoned yet:  I spend my time here mostly winding them up, and pretty successfully.  Poor NS thinks he's got one over on me tonight, but the poor old you-know-what, has got his characters mixed up.  Uriah Heep was obsequious and 'umble:  I'm neither, as you might have noticed!   

[ippy]

They've got a lot of religionists wound up including you, so they  are doing a good job there, B A.


I'm not wound up, Ippy.  Haven't you cottoned yet:  I spend my time here mostly winding them up, and pretty successfully.  Poor NS thinks he's got one over on me tonightt, but the poor old you-know-what, has got his characters mixed up.  Uriah Heep was obsequious and 'umble:  I'm neither, as you might have noticed!   

I can appreciate everybody needs a certain amount of ego or we wouldn't have the nerve/confidence to go out of our front doors.

ippy

[BashfulAnthony]

I can appreciate everybody needs a certain amount of ego or we wouldn't have the nerve/confidence to go out of our front doors.

ippy

Some of the guys on here don't go out the front door;  they have such egos, they go right through it!   

[Nearly Sane]

I'm not wound up, Ippy.  Haven't you cottoned yet:  I spend my time here mostly winding them up, and pretty successfully.  Poor NS thinks he's got one over on me tonightt, but the poor old you-know-what, has got his characters mixed up.  Uriah Heep was obsequious and 'umble:  I'm neither, as you might have noticed!   

Obviously the great thing about BU here is that misdirection of claiming stuff that is incorrect about UH but living up to it superbly

[BashfulAnthony]

Obviously the great thing about BU here is that misdirection of claiming stuff that is incorrect about UH but living up to it superbly...

Look up Uriah Heep, because you clearly have no idea what you're talking about: then I never had you down as having any kind of literary knowledge.  I've been called every kind of thing, mostly arrogant and pugnacious; so it makes a change to be called the opposite.  It does, of course, mean you can't all be right.  In fact, none of you are:  no surprise there!  I'm not sure to whom I can compare you:  it all depends whether you've just got back from the pub!     

[Nearly Sane]

Obviously the great thing about BU here is that misdirection of claiming stuff that is incorrect about UH but living up to it superbly

Look up Uriah Heep, because you clearly have no idea what you're talking about: then I never had you down as having any kind of literary knowledge.  I've been called every kind of thing, mostly arrogant and pugnacious; so it makes a change to be called the opposite.  It does, of course, mean you can't all be right.  In fact, none of you are:  no surprise there!  I'm not sure to whom I can compare you:  it all depends whether you've just got back from the pub!     

Uriah, he try talk. Quote hard, Bashful Uriah sad

[BashfulAnthony]

Uriah, he try talk...

Go and sleep it off, old fella!   

[Nearly Sane]

Go and sleep it off, old fella!

to paraphrase Dennis Healey on Howe, your attacks are like being savaged by a dead Heep of Uriah

[BashfulAnthony]

to paraphrase Dennis Healey on Howe, your attacks are like being savaged by a dead Heep of Uriah

He's lovely really.  Has no enemies, despite his abusive nature.  Mind you, his friends despise him!  Poor old fella!

[Nearly Sane]

He's lovely really.  Has no enemies, despite his abusive nature.  Mind you, his friends despise him!  Poor old fella!

Poor Bashful Uriah

[Shaker]

I've been called every kind of thing, mostly arrogant and pugnacious;

Don't forget prudish and hypocritical!

so it makes a change to be called the opposite.

Actually, no - don't forget that the whole point of Heep's character, the very thing that makes him so creepy and pathetic, is that his "humility", in being so frequently and forcefully expressed, is not only nothing of the kind but becomes the polar opposite. It's like people who make a point of often saying how modest they are - the very act of doing so negates the impression sought. It's called a performative contradiction.

[BashfulAnthony]

Fon't forget prudish and hypocritical!Actually, no - don't forget that the whole point of Heep's character, the very thing that makes him so creepy and pathetic, is that his "humility", in being so frequently and forcefully expressed, is not only nothing of the kind but becomes the polar opposite. It's like people who make a point of often saying how modest they are - the very act of doing so negates the impression sought. It's called a performative contradiction.

Unlike you Shaker, I have no faults, except perhaps my modesty.

By the way:  what's a "fon't"?   

[BashfulAnthony]

Poor Bashful Uriah

It's only the atheists who are poor, old fella,  mainly because they all seem to be, well, thick.   

[Shaker]

Unlike you Shaker, I have no faults, except perhaps my modesty.

By the way:  what's a "fon't"?   

It's a minor typing error used by you to avoid having to try to deal with the substance of a post, thus revealing your intellectual shortcomings.