I am a supporter of the movement "pro-life" and at the same time I am a supporter of the EU, but I noticed that most of the pro-life is anti-EU

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See, its so difficult to pin down ages when your reading words on a screen rather than seeing faces.

Based upon your postings, I’d probably have judged you to be around mid-late 30s (although I wouldn’t have taken you for a woman), as opposed to college age.

Interesting how the way people write and communicate through that medium, can create a widely different impression of their person than you might have meeting them face-to-face or talking over the phone.

Out of curiosity, what was the age range of the th-fronting Scots you mentioned? I’d be happy to view the video if you would like to PM it to me, as I’ve honestly not come across it.
 
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See , its so difficult to pin down ages when your reading words on a screen rather than seeing faces.
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To the contrary. People reading my stuff correctly identify me as methuselah-like. If they saw me they would think me an Adonis-like 32. 😉
 
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Hard to support the EU as it now is and subsidiarity.

Subsidiarity (Catholicism) - Wikipedia
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If I want the beach cleaned more frequently, I’ll petition the local council. If I object to a stadium being redeveloped then I will petition the state government. If I want the tax system changed I will petition the federal government.

Isn’t this how it works where you live?
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I think the poster’s point is that as the EU government grows in power, more and more decisions are being moved from the local communities to the national capitals & from the national capitals to Brussels.
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I think that the poster’s point is wrong. Maybe the poster can give us some examples.
 
It does have the value of providing a way of addressing a mixed ensemble. We once had in BrE “you chaps” which did the same job, and was if anything even more knowing.
 
Thar’s not my old school tie, old boy.

And while I did once have lengthy hair I have taken it down to almost nothing now because it’s so much less bother. Can’t be doing with all those longwinded instructions to barbers who then proceed to do something quite different.

Grey? Well perhaps just a smidgeon. 🙂

“You lot” is still used if jocular rather than pejorative — jocular because it has a bit of a drill sergeant sound (You ‘orrible lot!).
 
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I really don’t think I want to know what you pictured me looking like in real life, given that you thought I might have been about 50 years - rather than just 5 years - your senior 😅
 
I think @Kaninchen claimed to be middle-aged. But who knows what that means?
 
A blank box!

What can I say, I’m a man of mystery and as sui generis and impossible to define as the EU, so it would seem 😛

To be honest, I’ve not actually got the deepest Scottish voice or the most distinctively or heavily accented. My voice isn’t anywhere near high but it’s not particularly deep either, just kind of “middle of the road” in terms of male voices.

As I’m sure I’ve told you before, for some reason, very few people recognise my voice as being Scottish when I’m in England or abroad. People often say things like, “oh, you have a really nice Irish accent mate” or “where are you from, I like your accent but I can’t quite place it?”

Back in my university days, a student from Glasgow asked me what country I was from! When I replied I was just like him, he was shocked (he had a very clear Glaswegian accent). He told me I had some kind of impossible to define “Mid-Atlantic” vibe going on, apparently, although British.

When I was a child, people used to think I had an RP-English-like voice.

Then, I had this posh female lawyer in her 40s, tell me at a dinner party that I had a “very mellifluous accent” (whatever that means!) but again she didn’t have a clue where I originated from.

I can assure you though, that the people I know in Scotland all have moderate to very accented voices. I don’t have a clue why my accent is so weak relative to theirs (which is generally polite-spoken standard English with some colloquilisms but clearly Scottish), although I know some people with very strong accents too.
 
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I’ll pick up my sword and swing it above my head to protect the lady who’s honour you have besmirched. Sir, you are a cad and a bounder. Mocking? Perhaps, but only in a very gentle way. Spewing venom? Not at all! It seems we are entering the world of the thin-skinned, tangerine hued, prematurely blonde politician. (that’s mocking btw). Don’t get me started on venom spewing!
 
Hahahaha. Vouthon is unmasked as Ebinezer Balfour. (Marks to all who get the reference without recourse to Google). Don’t worry about the Scottish accent. It’s safe - I am bilingual. Equally at home with speaking in the tone of say, the late John Smith or, on a good day, Malcolm Rifkind, but can understand and without thought, drop into the patois more akin to the sage of Govan, Rab C Nesbitt.
 
In jest I should think, I found the faux-chivalric language rather funny myself!

It was like the spirit of Don Quixote had possessed @AuldP for a minute.
 
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Lighten up. Of course I’m kidding, I don’t have a sword! You are still a bounder though! Lol
 
Tone my friend. All about tone (and absence of body language).

So many arguments have erupted online because folk misread tone and end up at cross-purposes.

Especially if one of them has a wry wit and the other thinks they are being deadly serious.

The internet is a constant powderkeg and I often feel like I’m treading on cyber-eggshells.
 
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Touche!
This is the problem with online interactions. We can post things that we think are amusing/correct/bloody wonderful and find the person we are conversing with doesn’t quite agree. Its too easy to say we should all show restraint, but unless we are face to face then we will all end up posting things that we would perhaps not say directly to someone. You are probably a really nice person, but the online me still thinks you are a cad! Lol
 
Goodness, this thread has really wandered far from home.

It’s meandered more than the Mississipi river.

We began with a conspiracy theory about the EU, apparently, having a secret “globalist” (and “leftist”, of course) plan to impose abortion on the entire world; went on to talk about the finer points of the US constitution; moved on to debating dialects and accents; started trying to guess each other’s ages and looks, and have now come round to talking like knight-errants and ruminating on the perils of cyber-communication in the age of the snowflake.

I’m dizzy.
 
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So it is, if you define European conservatives as centre-left or socialist, which from an American perspective no doubt they are. From a European perspective the Christian Democrat politicians who have largely driven the exercise are conservatives. It may be that the American perspective is the outlier.
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The Anglican theologian John Milbank believes that the US needs to get over it’s hysteria about socialism and “catch up” with Europe by embracing moderately social-welfarist Christian Democratic conservatism, as Europe did in the 1950s:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1126019022535954434
 
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Returning to the topic at hand, aren’t there serious concerns that if the EU where to break up that Russia would be encouraged to invade further territory? A big issue for the EU has been having Russia on the doorstep. What are Russia’s policies on abortion? They currently seem to be extremely hostile to gay rights. What about the fact that Russia and many of the former USSR nations in Eastern Europe are losing young people and their demographics are taking a suicidal plunge. Is that affecting opinions on abortion?
 
Yes, Russia is also fighting for the spheres of geo-political influence. If the alternative idea of the Union of Independent States has been wrecked,


Russian propaganda still uses other levers of shaking the foundation of the EU, and shatters the prospects for future EU members.
Eastern European countries aspiring to the EU are conservative in their views, and the peoples of the Caucasus are even more conservative.
I think the Caucasian peoples are in general an enormously non-confessional independent civilization.
This is a conservative point of return to values.
Here, in general, a special psycho-type of people. They are historically fighting with empires, here preserved a genuinely male type of the medieval warrior knight.
These small nations are the point of resistance - resistance against immorality and spiritual degradation of civilizations.
This is the zone of attraction of utopian warlike ideas, heroic personalities who are ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of values.
Not long time ago, so called “parade of equality” was attempted in Tbilisi, and Georgian Orthodox priests, together with the people, reacted so aggressively that international observers even accused the authorities of inadequate security.
There are quite a few regions in Eastern Europe, where the only fear on the road to the EU is that kind of tolerance, which will never be reconciled.
 
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