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Originally Posted by meat
The word "rant" doesn't mean what you think it means, and certainly not in the context that you're using it.
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hmmm...well, lets see here. The Oxford English Dictionary's definition of "rant" (and hence MY understanding of it) is as follows...
. v. 1 intr. use bombastic language.
2 tr & intr. declaim, recite theatrically.
3 intr. speak vehemently or wildly.
4 tr & intr. preach noisily
. n. 1 a piece of ranting, a tirade.
2 empty turgid talk
mea maxima culpa, I stand corrected that not everything to which you respond is a rant. In fact, a lot of the posts to which you respond are often far from rants, merely measured opinions which, while being far from idiotic, generally tend to differ from your own somewhat limited perspectives...
BUT...I think you have to admit that your OWN responses fall under at least one of the 6, aforementioned definitions of the word "rant", every time
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Just because politically you are a little right of Attila the Hun does NOT necessarily make YOUR opinions and views either sensible or correct!
YOUR pal
Glyn
PS You are obviously bright enough to recognize "a red rag to a bull" as a colloquialism, NOT a literal statement. Anyone with ANY sense realizes this, and that the bull reacts to the motion of the 'rag', NOT the color.