Wow!
I spend an entire boring day at work clicking on this forum occasionally and nothing happens, then I go out for a couple of hours and it goes nuts!
All this on a thread about courtesy!
Firstly, let's lay this Blackadder/Mr Bean discussion to rest.
Richard Curtis writes both (as well as Four Weddings and a Funeral and The Tall Guy and Not the Nine O'Clock News and the Vicar of Dibley). He writes genius comedy and examples of this can be seen in all of these.
Several of the Bean sketches were taken from Rowan Atkinson's stage show in the eighties.
Blackadder's genius came from pairing Richard Curtis with Ben Elton. Blackadder 1 (written by Curtis and Atkinson) was okay but is generally considered the weakest of the four, despite being fairly groundbreaking at the time.
Bean was discontinued because Rowan Atkinson got fed up with winning Europen comedy awards (particularly Montreaux).
To make a strict delineation between the two as different types of comedy representing different personality types is ridiculous.
Right, hope that's settled.
With regards to Ian's humour:
Ian, I like you and have mentioned your importance to the board elsewhere, but to consider yourself as having a sense of humour... we haven't really seen much evidence of it.
I'd love to see you lighten up a bit, but as you yourself have said you only want to talk about philosophy.
Hell, you've even given up reading the news to concentrate on this.
Philosophy might be to some an interesting intellectual game, but to study it at the expense of all else seems obsessive. Especially as, almost by definition, it is not something you will ever be able to gt any answers from.
With regards to Darat looking up Ian's joke:
I can't believe you did that.
With regards to SezMe's comments on Ian's 'analysis' of Dr A:
If that is a serious attempt by either of you to attempt to comment on someone's personality then I am slightly in awe of your simplicity of thought.
Ian, regardless of how others may have picked on you throughout life, Dr A is a highly intelligent poster with a fine sense of humour.
On these boards we don't ridicule a person. We can't. It's all just words on an internet forum.
What we can do is ridicule posts a person makes. Sometimes this seems justified, other times it doesn't. But it can't ever really be a personal attack as we don't know each other.
You must understand that a lot of what you post is disagreed with by most of the posters here. Sometimes we argue the point, other times we mock it. As you do to others.
I'm pretty sure you have called other people idiots, stupid and ignorant far more than we have to you.
But it's not personal and shouldn't ever be seen as such.
And SezMe ought to try having more of his own opinion rather than just latching onto an insult of someone by another poster.
I don't generally agree with Open Mind, but he is absolutely correct in his post above.
On this sceptic forum we have several very vocal 'believers' who are allowed to express any opinions they have as stridently as they like (so long as they refrain from personal abuse).
You don't tend to get that in other forums.
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