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This is how you end up when you refuse to talk to people who don't already agree with you about everything.

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I dunno, I thought this post made a couple of half decent points.

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"but when the government tries to make more tickets available, the website crashes again."

There are then calls to delay the funeral to extend the Lying in State so that all ticket holders get the turn they booked.

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I'm not sure why I even bothered to read this article about a man ('m not driven to violence) who's potato face I could quite happily punch, just for him existing. I listened to him a number of times on LBC after I gave up with radio 4. He is so inconsistent execept when in being wrong that I cannot understand what goes into make up his wooly thinking, if thats what it is; thinking. Anyway I found Talk Radio and happily no longer listen to his inane wanderings.

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You do realize he's quite a troubled soul don't you? Think of him as the break between the adverts. You'll get more out of it. Billtong anyone?

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O'Brien is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with both our society and our media. He's a truly appalling and grossly hypocritical individual in every possible way.

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Oh he's really annoying, but I wouldn't go that far. He'd ignore you, so just ignore him back.

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For JOB everything has to be about how the ignorant and gullible masses are duped by the elites.

This is all to make his listeners feel all smug and intelligent because they haven't been duped.

We shouldn't be surprised that he's found a way to use this approach when discussing the queen's death.

He manages it for everything else.

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JOB lost the plot a long time ago - would be great to see him debate even this simple topic with you. He won’t of course.

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JOBbbie doesn't do debate, because he would lose. He is basically an ignorant bully.

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Bit like the Brexit vote, for good or bad queuing has leveled the playing field for everyone. It is far more accessible than any regulated ticketing system. Time and effort is the currency not money.

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I very often have a similar thought:

“Somebody somewhere has very deliberately conceived a plan to have tens of people snaking through Tesco visibly, publicly and performatively queueing to pay for their shopping at the self-service checkouts.”

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Although I agree with the basic tenet of your argument, and I agree that James O'Brien is nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is, indeed he is plain wrong about most things, I wish to take issue with your silly, self-defeating expression "Just Asking Questions". I loathe this post-modern, millennial expression, as if there's something wrong with just asking questions. By ridiculing the asking of questions, you encourage a culture of secrecy and vilification of those who have enquiring minds, and for whom the official narrative makes no sense. It's good that James asked the questions - if one has nothing to hide, one has nothing to fear from simply answering his questions and setting him straight. It should NEVER EVER EVER EVER be appropriate to deny people the right to ask questions about how and why things are the way they are. I never wish to see this anti-intellectual, pro status quo attitude in your publication again.

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The point of Just Asking Questions is to plant ideas in people's heads that are so ludicrous that they dare not say them out loud.

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"If one has nothing to hide, one has nothing to fear from simply answering his questions and setting him straight."

The problem is that "just asking questions" people don't actually listen to the answers. In a vacuum, JAQ is a great attitude to have, but in practice it's a red flag. JAQs are never actually intellectually inquisitive, they are always people seeking confirmation bias for normally batshit opinions.

Your argument is akin to "what's wrong with being a social justice warrior? Surely it's good to fight for social justice?" And yes, it is, but we all know that being an SJW is about more than that.

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Surely the definition of a conspiracy theory is a bunch of unanswered questions that together link in the believer's mind. By answering the questions satisfactorily, one can nip in the bud "batshit opinions", by writing off the questions without answering them, it only increases their confirmation bias that there is something to hide.

Regarding SJW's, I would argue that social justice per se is a made-up concept, there's just justice, and justice applied to individuals would naturally permeate society, but that's by the by!

Nice chatting. I take on board your point.

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Love this hypothetical scenario!

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How To Be Wrong (answer: be a central planner).

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Given the hall was completely rammed from opening to closing and nearly everyone who wanted to get in got in, I'd say it was perfect illustration of market forces finding the optimum cost-effective solution to a straightforward problem - something which a pseudo-intellectual middle class left wing pillock like JOB couldn't get his head around if his life depended upon it.

Let's face it, if he didn't have a radio show the guy would be driving his other half mad every morning Just Asking Questions about the use of Milk with Cornflakes.

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Bravo. He is such a sorry excuse for a human being.

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Like poor Majid, he's completely lost it.

Bitterness and envy at not feeling 'part of it'.

What a rancid turd he is.

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JOB explains everything by claiming that the gullible, stupid and often nasty masses are being duped by the elites.

This is so his listeners feel smug and intelligent because they haven't been duped.

We shouldn't be surprised that he's it done regarding the huge news topic of the queen's death.

He manages it for everything else.

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Does anyone else on here get involved in the 10 o'clock Rush? That is when Nick Ferrari finishes his stint, and one has to switch the radio off before that awful O'Brien begins his polemic.

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