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Thing that bugs me the most about this... ...email has nothing to do with the web so why bring Tim B-L into it?
by timmillwood 12y ago
Thing that bugs me the most about this...
...email has nothing to do with the web so why bring Tim B-L into it?
- Fastidious 12y agoHe used it to prove a point. I understood it as "I am proud of Tim B-L, and what he brought us. Let us be proud British, and not bloody asses, and stop this disclaimer non-sense."
- toyg 12y agoTo avoid appearing as the stereotypical grumpy ol' luddite. It's just a rhetorical device: "hey, I love the internet like the next guy, but...". Politicians often use codified sentences as shorthand for concepts that are already well-understood by the rest of the House; some are more creative than others.