Caitlin Moran: how to start – and win – an argument online

[sim667]

You don't "invoke" Godwin's law, it just exists, rather like Murphy's Law.

I couldn't think of the right word

 

[brogdale]

I couldn't think of the right word

In which case you should have invoked Urban's law...and used 'cunt'.

 

[two sheds]

Or if it's something you disagree with for any non-specific reason 'liberal cunt'

 

[William of Walworth]

Just read the article, almost of which was 'all about her'. Unsurprisingly, but the tone was very, very irritating to me, even when she said the odd half-way sensible thing.

 

[Idris2002]

some excellent prole medal polishing in that. Finest I've seen since sadiq khans speech accepting the nomination to run for mayor of london

Try this on for size:

"But the real excitement comes when the higher-ups encounter someone who’s unafraid of them. When the gardening manager – a key member of the Mocha Seven – took over the security department, all guards were summoned to the boardroom. Anvil sat next to me. He’d got his name from the ’84 pit strike, when a copper’s baton had snapped on him."

Us and them: life at the bottom of the campus heap