Owd Spart, owned. Who'd a thunk it?

Scouse,you are making an assumption there, that you know enough about logic, rhetoric and the art of argument to make a judgement.

You seem to be basing your judgement on Vidal's admission that he can't provide an answer. Very Trump like on both your parts.

You keep our parts out of this Spart, if you know what's good for you. No happiness will result if you go in that direction. We are simply concerned about your lack of appreciation of the scientific method. Harper can do it, I can do it, heck, even educated fleas and Scouse can do it. Surely it can't be beyond your ability?

As probably one of the few people on the site who has published scientific papers to his name I am confident enough in my ability, thanks all the same.

An assumption based on no evidence Spart, you seem to have learned nothing. The fact that you are confident merely illustrates a lack of necessary insight. Your peers have reviewed your publications on here and I'm afraid have found them seriously wanting.

When you've worn-out your shovel Spart, fear not, I'll sponsor you with a new one.

Like a moth to the flame.........

I had a publication in the British Medical Journal where I incorporated into the article a reference to the red card received by Roger Davies in the Juventus semi-final in 1973.

That is actually a true story.

Wow

I've forgotten what you are arguing about.

Spart was correct about Swansea being crap, I thought they would do well with Brewster and young Robbie. Looks like I was wrong.

comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted about 7 hours ago

An assumption based on no evidence Spart, you seem to have learned nothing. The fact that you are confident merely illustrates a lack of necessary insight. Your peers have reviewed your publications on here and I'm afraid have found them seriously wanting.

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You should try reading them then Vidal. I said that your little lap dog Scouse was making an assumption. It is always OK to make assumptions provided that you state what the assumptions are. Everything which is engineered has a list of assumptions. Every policy document has a list of assumptions. The question then is are the assumptions reasonable. HS2 for example, the assumptions were always going to be miles out. No one can gauge the cost of construction, running or the demand. With chemical plant which I was involved with the assumption had to be reasonable or the design would never get past the paper study phase.

Well, I’lll say one thing for you Spart. Nobody is ever going to accuse you of skimping in your use of the word “assumptions”.

comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted about an hour ago

Well, I’lll say one thing for you Spart. Nobody is ever going to accuse you of skimping in your use of the word “assumptions”.

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Hadn't realised you were Nicholas Parsons incarnate.

Spart, you've stiched yourself up like a kipper.

It's very entertaining

Assumptions assumptions. Assumptions. Assumptions? Ahhhhh assumptions!

You know what they say, assumptions make an ass out of u and mptions.

One thing about proper scientists is that they are never afraid to admit when they are wrong, because it’s all a part of the learning process and of moving forward. In fact, if anything they are glad to be wrong.

You didn’t get Einstein saying he’d seen something written down somewhere on a website and so it had to be true. Charles Darwin didn’t assume that because he’d read a book where it said that all the animals were plonked down on the ground one day by a deity that it was incontrovertible fact. That’s what distinguishes them from lay people like Spart.

Lewis is a hotbed of fundamentalist creationism. I will treasure the........... "animals were plonked down on the ground one day bu a deity" bit - but will use it sparingly.

Never afraid to admit I was wrong Vidal, just happens so rarely. Einstein refused to admit that he was wrong about quantum mechanics. "God doesn't play dice with the universe" and he still might be right about that, although the maths is against him.

Darwin had read books that animals weren't plonked on the ground, no one works in a vacuum (something Aristotle thought didn't exist) and Epicurus had a theory of evolution over 2000 years ago. Darwin also had a co-worker in Wallace. There were also Greek philosophers who didn't believe in an Earth centred universe. Just that no evidence was available at the time so the Ptolemaic and creationist theories held out until sufficient evidence emerged to challenge them. What I have been saying all along, a theory holds until it is disproved by something better.

Well this puts the old 4-2-3-1 argument into the shade!

Doesn't it just Heb. I was just trawling through the diatribe that surrounds Vidals eloquent prose and thought I'd stumbled across an open university chat site inhabited by blokes with beards and tweed jackets with leather elbows. Which, in Spart's case, may well be true?

Anyway, where is Silky? We have a game down these parts tonight and I need to make a bold prediction!

It's such a relief that Scouse had the sense to completely disregard one of Spart's typically peremptory and dogmatic pronouncements. He told Scouse that there was no possibility at all of his flying to Milan at the weekend. Not that he MIGHT not, but that he certainly WOULD not. Had dear old Scouse paid any heed to Spart, then he wouldn't have been able to enjoy the thrilling spectacle of the Milan derby. Instead his entertainment would have consisted of staring through the barbed wire that surrounds his property, observing the local scallywags and ragamuffins undertaking the traditional removal of hubcaps which forms an unchanging part of the urban landscape in that locality.

for Scouse. The moral of the tale: listen to Spart at your peril.

Had the plane been blown off the run way like the one in Turkey last week then it would have been Scouse in real peril. Plus plane travel significantly increases your chances of being infected by the tango virus.

Do cars have hub caps anymore?

I just don't know about all this but I feel very honoured to be a member of this erudite society. Thanks very much for JA 606