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General advice for newcomers to Free Republic

Posted on 10/26/2010 2:39:17 PM PDT by MalPearce

Speaking as a Brit who's just joined...


TOPICS: Free Republic Policy/Q&A
KEYWORDS: sionnsar; sniff; zot
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To: humblegunner

i’m slow and old and lots of stuff doesn’t work


161 posted on 10/26/2010 4:11:48 PM PDT by jusduat (probably lost)
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To: jusduat; humblegunner
i’m slow and old and lots of stuff doesn’t work


162 posted on 10/26/2010 4:15:03 PM PDT by 50mm (I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
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To: LiberConservative

I criticize Bush all the time, with nary a problem.


163 posted on 10/26/2010 4:15:15 PM PDT by Politicalmom
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To: 50mm

so are your posts (re: your tagline)


164 posted on 10/26/2010 4:17:33 PM PDT by jusduat (probably lost)
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To: MalPearce

Shhhhhhhhhhhh.. You can’t say things too loudly, the Obambi Gestapo is watching. Would you like some tea?


165 posted on 10/26/2010 4:17:36 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: MalPearce

Advice to n00bs?

Don’t drop the soap around Lazamataz.


166 posted on 10/26/2010 4:18:07 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pablo lives jubtabulously!)
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To: humblegunner

trolls are too special for upper case.


167 posted on 10/26/2010 4:18:09 PM PDT by Tax Government (Democrat: "I'm driving to Socialism at 95 mph." Republican: "Observe the speed limit.")
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To: gunnyg

“Nice flag!”

I think it is flying upside down :)


168 posted on 10/26/2010 4:21:40 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ("It isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so" Ronald Reagan)
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To: Tax Government
trolls are too special for upper case.

That must be why you fail to use it.

169 posted on 10/26/2010 4:21:46 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: jusduat

Touché. LOL


170 posted on 10/26/2010 4:22:48 PM PDT by 50mm (I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
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To: MalPearce
What would they use for weapons to fight for their families and their country?

My gun collection (probably just slightly smaller than the Royal War Museum) has several models of Smith and Wesson revolvers we provided under Lend Lease to augment those ghastly Enfield and Webley things. Us Yanks sent privately owned arms to the UK in it's darkest days. Shame the goverment destroyed most of them after the war, that's thanks for you.

171 posted on 10/26/2010 4:26:17 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pablo lives jubtabulously!)
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To: 50mm

That was fun, but it’s my bedtime now. I’ll check back in a few weeks and see if he’s still here.


172 posted on 10/26/2010 4:26:23 PM PDT by jusduat (probably lost)
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To: little jeremiah
I have already met one dogmatist on FR and it wasn't you.

A dogmatist is someone who holds a specific ideological view as an absolute, and doesn't tolerate a divergent or dissenting viewpoint.

FR Example: if someone firmly believed that gays cannot be conservatives AT ALL, that is fine and it doesn't make them a dogmatist - it's a perfectly valid position to make.

If that person went one step further and refused to even debate the issue with someone who didn't agree, and they either complained to the Mods or descended into verbal abuse, then the evidence would suggest that that person is a dogmatist.

I'm a dogmatist myself in more than one respect but for now, I'll only give one example: I don't consider a "debate" to be a "debate" unless there's a variation of opinion being discussed.

The interesting debates in English politics are ALL in the Conservative camp. That is why, if someone tells me they're a Conservative AND they want to "debate", they better act like it! If they proceed to shout out any different opinions that they don't want to hear, like some whiny left-wing prole, I'll call them on it. Shutting down legitimate right wing debate is the sort of thing Commies do. It is as ANTI-CONSERVATIVE as saying Obama's the best thing that happened to America, or saying there's such a thing as gay marriage. That's my dogma.

173 posted on 10/26/2010 4:28:55 PM PDT by MalPearce
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To: MalPearce
Very sharp wit?

Not intending to be witty at all.

Just a question that occurred to me based upon your posting.

Let me assure you of one thing. I actually hope you are a UK Conservative (meaning using the term in the same sense as a U.S. Conservative).

If you are, then we gain input/insight from a Conservative from another part of the world, and an country known (at least until recently) as a firm ally of America.

If an American had posted the same general info as you did, I would have had the same questions.

It pains me to read about the transition of the UK over the years from a Churchill inspired, strong, independent nation, into a gun grabbing/smashing, subsidiary of the European Union.

The other night I watched a great show about the Battle of Britain, and about the brave people of England who fought off the Nazi war machine, with their chin up, a defiant nation.

I just can't believe that those were a people who would allow a nanny state government, working as a subsidiary of a bunch of Brussels bums, to take away their rights, and their means of personal defense.

I truly hope your country can stop that downhill slide, and head, full steam, in the other direction.

I wish you well, but am not confident that I will see it happen.

174 posted on 10/26/2010 4:30:05 PM PDT by Col Freeper (FR is a smorgasbord of Conservative thoughts and ideas - dig in and enjoy it to its fullest!)
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To: Ronin
Somehow I knew you would find this thread.

Like a moth to a flame.

175 posted on 10/26/2010 4:30:07 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: MalPearce

Did you perhaps have acquaintance with one “Mad Ivan” of Free Britania?


176 posted on 10/26/2010 4:30:45 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pablo lives jubtabulously!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
has several models of Smith and Wesson revolvers

Thou art a troll most foul!

177 posted on 10/26/2010 4:32:23 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: KC Burke
Rather than trying to play devil’s advocate, why not simply post your sincere opinon or belief on an issue being discussed.

I prefer the Devil's Advocate position, since that implies enough intellectual capital to know it requires supporting argument.

Beliefs and opinions are useless without at least one cogent, rational reason for the position. Unfortunately too many old and new Freepers haven't grasped that.
By the way, hypotheticals are not argument.

178 posted on 10/26/2010 4:34:16 PM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: Tijeras_Slim

OH! Did I mention my new .308??? SWEET!


179 posted on 10/26/2010 4:34:49 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: humblegunner

I thought you told us that you lost it in a terrible boating accident....


180 posted on 10/26/2010 4:38:04 PM PDT by Politicalmom
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