Walter Plinge

@gizmojoj @BradfemlyWalsh For reasons unconnected to your original claim. Do you want to try restating your original claim in a coherent form?

@fcqv @BradfemlyWalsh Because that would be pretentious.

Dear fellow people who can speak other languages: is it pretentious to pronounce foreign words right? Like, I don't want to say 'Van goff' or 'Van Go' for Van Gogh, because that's not how it's said but do I sound a dick if I say Fon Hockh with the throat sound?

@gizmojoj @BradfemlyWalsh So why do you choose not to pronounce it like a Finnish speaker?

@fcqv @BradfemlyWalsh 2nd

@gizmojoj @BradfemlyWalsh Which syllable do you stress?

@fcqv @BradfemlyWalsh The same way most people do, I guess. Same pronunciation if I'm speaking Norwegian or English, btw.

@matt_tennant @soniasodha @RichParkerLab Your original question was a lazily constructed false dichotomy. If you want an answer, try constructing a relevant question

@soniasodha @RichParkerLab Fancy taking a shot at my original question? Are Stonewall actually attending Birmingham Pride?

West Midlands emergency services have confirmed they won’t be participating in Birmingham Pride this weekend, citing legal uncertainty following a High Court ruling on uniformed attendance at Pride events. I want to be clear about where I stand.

@mar2vickers @Scott_Wortley Performance, but some people no longer want to talk to me after seeing it🤣

@Scott_Wortley Black Narcissus, Network, The Lost Boys.

On the assumption it is prople around my age who haven't seen it it is billy the kid and the green baize vampire because everyone needs to see it once And for the young people touch of evil or the third man, or a matter of life and death just because

@danwaterfield I would never go through the PhD mill, but I’ve supported a couple of people through it. It’s quite extraordinary that people could so thoroughly misunderstand the process

A large part of the viva in history was having my examiners go through everything I’d cited (a few hundred books and papers, not including primary sources) and checking whether they said the things I’d claimed they’d said.

Yeah you read the stuff you cite, and check those papers’ citations to see whether they’re supported.

@gizmojoj @BradfemlyWalsh If consonants are causing you a problem, let’s take a more simple example. How do you pronounce Helsinki?

@BradfemlyWalsh Ah shit my argument falls apart. Just don't roll your r's

@babybeginner Waiting till you find out how to make instant mayonnaise:)

Say what now? How come no one ever told me that roasted cookie dough was a thing? What other secrets are you all hiding?

@SarahVaci Sonia Sodha. Very clever, but with some views I really don’t understand, so I’d learn something either way. She’d probably also work out how to fix the lift😂

If you had to be stuck in a lift for 3 hours with someone famous who would you pick?

@jewstein3000 @slooterman @janecoaston Apologies. I think we may have been arguing at crossed purposes. I totally agree with you about the problem of access to good food for people with disabilities

@fcqv @slooterman @janecoaston Oh okay I see your point but then it became about the disabled, which is what I was addressing

WHO IS DELIVERING THE DOORDASH

@jewstein3000 @slooterman @janecoaston I thought the original point was about the young and the able?

@fcqv @slooterman @janecoaston It’s the same question because often my father can’t cook and I’m the only person who lives with him and I often can’t cook. So if you wanna drop by and prepare our meals, we’d love it

@jewstein3000 @slooterman @janecoaston It’s hard. I do meal prep for my parents. This is a separate question from the original point

@slooterman @janecoaston While we’re at it, interview my 84 year old father. Ask him what he relies on to eat.

@benryanwriter @TaylorLorenz My children have some weird views, but at least I brought them up to find how to cook the food they want to eat

Internet culture reporter and influencer @TaylorLorenz insists that the poor are forced, due to a lack of time or capacity to cook, to rely on DoorDash for sustenance, and that such meal delivery services “act as a tax on the poor.” She blames leftists for failing to grasp this.

@CaraPac46808618 @QcWynter @katbalmy You’re holding the telescope the wrong way round. Try starting with material reality, and let us know where you get to

@QcWynter @katbalmy adapting core concepts such as man and woman and so on. If you don't like the term social construct for description of subsets of the collection of individuals that forms society then what is it?

Enforcing untrue speech only works up to the point at which someone says, "no, I'm not going to do that". At that point a bullying state has to resort to punishment, as is now the case in Australia. That awakens the people to the evident unfairness. We will see what happens next.

@QcWynter @EddieSelling Hope you earned some decent wine while you were gone😂

@EddieSelling I'm back.

I must now be off. As ever, I wish everyone well, including my many detractors. I see you. I hear you. You are valid.

@BriannaWu @HelenWebberley I’m afraid she’s stuck in the past, unable to accept that the discussion has moved on. And her whole de haut en bas act now feels like fingernails down a blackboard

@HelenWebberley Helen, I go back-and-forth with you. I think you’re so good at making the case for our healthcare, but then you just say stupid shit like this to content, farm. Do you understand how un serious this makes us seem?

Andy, if they ask you whether a woman can have a penis, the answer is yes. Trust me, I'm a doctor. 👍

@wakou2 @BradfemlyWalsh @Nettleshippy Yup. But I still tend to go for the British superiority flex of pronouncing things the way I assume the listener will be most comfortable with😂

@BradfemlyWalsh @Nettleshippy Hmm you sure? There is no accent on the E, so it is a shchwa .. ə "uh" and so roughly "Duh-ga"

@HelenWebberley You’re a doctor, but you have no licence to practise medicine anywhere in the world. And nobody trusts you, because you have allowed yourself to become unmoored from reality

@TheDeadmanshand @Busanitian @RichardDawkins First World Rugby, then Athletics, Swimming, Cycling, IOC, and on and on, they’re all agreeing on their own. Why are you talking about legislation?

@fcqv @Busanitian @RichardDawkins I haven't lost this debate. You've not accepted my premise. That's fine. We don't have to agree. I didn't expect to persuade you. If sporting bodies were agreeing on their own, it wouldn't require legislation.

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

@painteyhands @clustertrumped @RichardDawkins @AlifiaChakera @q_ueering Honestly no, but I hadn’t realized he was a list candidate

@fcqv @clustertrumped @RichardDawkins @AlifiaChakera @q_ueering Would you have believed then he would actually be an MSP? 😳