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Point taken numbers, but I think most people would agree that someone starting a thread and then extending on their subject with comments like watershed and impact on children, better be able to back that up with hard evidence. In spite of being challenged on that point by me in several posts, Tarot has chosen to not only ignore it, but then further insults all of our intelligence by claiming to be a victim of heterophobia! He/ she further responds to me with a comment about not having children etc. Anyone looking at the post you are now trying to pick apart (from me) and looking at the post I was replying to, in context, would be able to see why Tarot deserved the talking down he got. If Tarot knew anything about sexuality and psychology, he/ she would never have made the comemment about watersheds in the first place.

lol. You need a qualification to drive a bus don't you? Alas I only have an ordinary driving licence.

I think there will be no coalition (to give a majority) possible for either Labour or the Tories. I think we are heading for minority government and may see another General Election within 2 years. The conservatives are now starting to sound like a broken record on the SNP thing. I tend to think that floating voters will be choosing the best of a pretty unimpressive bunch, or not voting at all. Neither of the two main parties has done anything to try and woo new votes, mainly because the Tories have been too busy trying to negate the impact of UKIP on them and Labour have been reeling from the prospect of losing seats to the SNP in Scotland. Thjere's not really much from any of them to get excited about imo.

That's right Jeremy. I'm not going to say exactly what I do for a profession in a public forum. Why would I? Not an odd thing to say at all numbers. Tarot is being deliberately obtuse and trying to avoid taking responsibility for his/ her comments. I don't have to be polite about that, esp as all prior posts that try to reason with Tarot have been so deliberately ignored. lol@spark67 Phil Mitchell? Really? :D

I definitely think you have to be assertive when cycling. But that doesn't stop drivers who think all cyclists ride at 2mph and therefore manoeuvre in front of you. I think you always have to expect the unexpected however you travel on the roads, be it by cycle or by vehicle equally.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I originally read that hashtag as milffandom. Ha Ha, best line of the thread so far :D

Tarot. I have two kids of my own and I regularly treat youngsters as part of my profession. There is nothing YOU can teach me about child psychology. Did I miss something, when as an undergraduate, I read all that research into sexuality and prenatal hormonal chemistry? And what about all the research into human neurobehavioral development? Tarot, if you can find me just one credible research paper providing a link between exposure to gay characters in soaps and development of sexual orientation, then I promise to stop treating you like a muppet.

The Police haven't asked for help though. One officer (who needs to question the job she's in if a dark footpath frightens her) made a comment at a ward meeting, I am assuming as part of a general discussion. Let's think about this. Who walks that path in the dark? Will lighting suddenly stop people trying to get into the reservoir grouds for the view etc? Lighting won't change a thing, but it will waste electricity and the money it costs to implement it. It would be different if it were a heavily used footpath. But it's not.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm guessing you don't want to borrow my Queer as > Folk boxset then? > > Louisa. Ha ha! Why didn't I think of that? The best that Tarot can do now is to defend him/herself by claiming persecution for being a heterosexual bigot! Tarot, you started the conversation. You might want to conveniently bury your head in the sand and pretend otherwise, but I remind you just one more time that you said that gay storylines before the watershed would damage children. YOU said that. If you are going to write stupid ignorant rubbish like that, defend it. Don't start playing the victim when people challenge you on it. Take responsibility for the crap that you type.

And Murdoch wonders why anyone would want to break up his newpaper empire?

Oh for heavens sake Tarot, are you for real? You justified your question by talking about watersheds and the imapct on children. Many people far more intelligent than you have pointed out why you are displaying signs of homophobia but you are too stupid to even know what they are talking about it seems. There's only one reason why anyone would mention children and watersheds. That reason is because you, in your total moronic ignorance think children can be turned gay if they see lots of gay characters.

The Beano is safe (I think)

Isn't it all just the result of major parties having reached a point of desperation? Instead of facing the truth, that neither Labour nor the Tories are popular enough, they are clutching at straws in a desperate attempt to avoid the inevitable hung parlioament. The media has also been totally complicit in pushing the SNP and UKIP into the limelight as well. For me personally, I have found the Tory behaviour quite off putting. They have been far worse than Labour with scaremongering and put downs. Cameron never answers a single question or point made about their failings over the past five years. I think that alone has cost them wavering voters. I've gone from abivalence towards him, to a total disrespect.

Heard that report on the radio too Laur. They are just too easy to steal. That's part of the problem.

I never understand the point of posts like this. We all encounter idiots on the road every day. Imagine if we all remonstrated in a public forum every time we do so.

As far as bots go, he's pretty good! :D

Are there any gay characters in Doctors tho? Don't they have magazines that are all about soap characters and storylines? As though it's real life? Who buys those?

LOL Louisa is back! :D

Is Tarot any relation of Louisa by chance? :D

I did wonder Otta ;)

lol Heterophobes! Do you feel presecuted now Tarot because no-one shares your same bigotted viewpoint. You haven't actually responded to a single point made, all of them far more sensible than your view that children can be adversely affected by seeing gay characters in a soap drama. Have ANYTHING to say about that? Head, cloud, cuckoo land comes to mind. Meanwhile, Dot I believe is an android. That's why she looks not a single day older from her appearance in the first episode.

A not very bright homophobe?

Yeah I agree Jeremy. That last post from you Tarot says to me that you are scared of gay people, and their representation in programmes your children might watch. If you actually knew anything about sexuality, and it takes many forms, not just gay or heterosexual, you'd know that most people don't choose how they are. Do you really think all those heterosexual storylines are what make children turn out heterosexual? Tell me, how did you CHOOSE your sexual preference? What is known from data, is that in the past, gay children suffered huge traumatic stress in having to keep their feelings secret. Imagine that Tarot. A world where 90% are gay and you are one of the 10% heterosexuals. You see no characters on TV like you and no-one ever talks about your straighness in anything but negative terms. Some people even wnat to put you in jail for it, or worse still hang you. See how ridiculous your comments are? But it seems you don't like much else on tv either. You don't have to watch. There are many other forms of content to watch. Netflix is very good.

lol true keeky :D But try telling the missus that! She watches everything.....

That's awful midi and it does seem as though insurers try it on in the hope they get away with liability. The message to me seems to be that if your fight your corner, they cave in.