... and other pretentious phrases.
Who is Athos? He's a character in a series of novels by Alexandre Dumas, the most famous of which, "The Three Musketeers", has been made into a number of very enjoyable movies over the years (and "The Musketeer", which missed the point a little). The person posting as "Athos" is a late twenties, gainfully employed white male who happened to get vaguely interested in Politics while wandering online...
As Iain Dale conducts an experiment it comment quality control, those of us without blogs are left unable to riposte the remarks of the active blogging community. No bitterness here, it merely spurned me to do what I had been tempted to before: set up an account on Blogger so I could post the occational rebuttal on my own terms... and get an easier time of posting comments on a multitude of blogs.
For the moment, this post exists to let people insult me for what I post in other threads before I get around to making actual comment... so lets put a few things down:
1) I have no plans to use my real name on this blog and I doubt I will ever rate the attention of being 'outed'. Please don't bother.
2) I promise not to post in the third person. It has been done (well and badly) before and even if I do it well, I'll still be copying.
3) I don't promise to care what you say to me, or to not care: I can get offended if I want to and ignore people if I can't be bothered to reply. Sorry, but I thought I'd lay it up front.
4) Potty mouths are acceptable, although they will likely make me think less of you.
5) Pointless posts are just that and are unlikely to remain: this includes posts denouncing other posts as pointless.
6) I hope everyone can be nice to each other and take opposing viewpoints into account, even if they do not agree with them. I don't expect it, but a man can dream.
2 comments:
It seems that we pretty much got into this for the same reasons at the same time although I wanted to follow up on several Guido threads.
Trouble is now finding things to post about when you know that many bloggers seem better informed than you. Oh that and a short attention span doesn't help either.
Good luck with yours.
G
Thanks, and best wishes to yourself also.
I find that the dificulty comes in successfully uniting "time in which one can blog" and "something I feel like blogging about".
Ah, well... I'll fall back on waiting until I have something worth saying before doing so.
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