Why, Why, Why?!?

[BR14]

Failures do so hate smugness.

[NotAllThere]

I voted remain, but now accept and support leave.

I voted remain, and I've always accepted that the majority of voters voted leave. But I haven't accepted that leaving is better than remaining (because it isn't), nor that it is undemocratic to work towards not leaving (because it isn't).

[Zigenare]

I voted remain, and I've always accepted that the majority of voters voted leave. But I haven't accepted that leaving is better than remaining (because it isn't), nor that it is undemocratic to work towards not leaving (because it isn't).

How do you know?

[Whorty]

How do you know?

Because, unlike the likes of you, he can read more than the Express of Daily wail, understand facts and isn't as thick as mince.

[Gibbon]

That's your choice.

My choice is to think you're easily led by the Tory's Project fear and lies. That, and you're living up to your online name

Hardly the former, but with the latter you show some kindness and obviously given all the classical links in my posts you are surely intellectual enough to know who my namesake is referring to:

[ Gibbon] had genius in large measure, as well as untiring industry and accuracy in consulting his sources. Though he was unsympathetic to Christianity, his sense of fairness and probity made him respectful of honest opinion and true devotion, even among those with whom he disagreed. These qualities, expressed with his command of historical perspective and his incomparable literary style, justify a modern historian’s dictum that “whatever else is read Gibbon must be read too,”

Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall | Britannica.com

BTW thanks for the applause

[NotAllThere]

How do you know?

Let me clarify. By "because it isn't", I mean "because in my considered opinion, it isn't, and nothing in the past three years has done anything to dissuade me". Just as most people do when they make definite statements on potentialities.

I'm deeply sorry that you were triggered.

[Gibbon]

But I haven't accepted that leaving is better than remaining (because it isn't), nor that it is undemocratic to work towards not leaving (because it isn't).

I agree with the first clause, but have to differ with the second.

[Whorty]

Hardly the former, but with the latter you show some kindness and obviously given all the classical links in my posts you are surely intellectual enough to know who my namesake is referring to:

... and you must be intellectual to know I was referring to this

[Gibbon]

... and you must be intellectual to know I was referring to this

Really, you shouldn't post selfies on here!

[Whorty]

Really, you shouldn't post selfies on here!

It captures my best side