Sorry about how every one of you 'rational' truthtellers turns out to be a glass jawed wimp when you get the slightest pushback.

He doesn't need any of that - he's vaguely familiar with the concept of formal logic, and he's a man in the tech industry, so everything he thinks is purely rational and objectively true.

I really worry Adams would be on the 'political correctness gone mad' tip or an obnoxious politicised atheist a la Dawkins if he was still alive (this is largely because of Dawkins and Stephen Fry rather than anything Adams ever actually said).

Yes.

I would have also accepted "the shaft."

"It's well written and he stresses that he knows this is controversial"

That's totally fair enough. I just think it's a bit much when people pronounce the impending death of English because other people have stopped worrying about an arbitrary rule invented by crusty academics in defiance of the actual historical and grammatical development of the language.

Why though? It's just a convention fabricated by the people I mentioned before. If it doesn't change the intended meaning of the sentence, what does it matter? What would have been unclear, ambiguous, or clumsy about your sentence just then if you'd ended it with 'ought to'?

Did you mean to respond to a different post? I genuinely have no idea what relevance this has to what I said.

There's no real reason for a sentence not to end with a preposition other than some Oxbridge pendants in the 19th century were embarassed that English wasn't a Romance language and wanted it to behave more like Latin. See also: split infinitives.

As a non-American, I don't wish to speak out of turn, but IMO someone like Trump was virtually guaranteed when you, as a nation, reacted with horror and indignation to the crisis of confidence speech.

Did you get a medical degree? If no, you're not a licensed doctor.

When you say Commander, we're talking Cobra, right?

Me too! That is in fact what I was relying on when I read the spoilers in the first place, and it totally worked.

Yeah, and if Sean Hannity only had a couple hundred thousand YouTube followers no-one would be taking him seriously either. Again, if you think the story here is "individual people believe silly things" you're missing the forest for the trees.

I don't disagree with the broader point, but the left wing nuts are almost completely on the fringe, with no real power or influence outside (and even this is pretty debatable) some university campuses. The right wing nuts include the President of the United States. It's silly to think we should give them equal weight…

Outstanding.

Cool, interesting how you responded to a perceived overreaction with an even weirder and more tangential one.

This seems like a long bow to draw to continue defending Bill Maher for being a silly dickhole.

Weird how you never hear about all the right wing straight men moving to Saudi Arabia or Iran to become feminist and pro-gay activists. I mean, if the internet is anything to go by there must be hundreds or even thousands of you, and it's clear from the context in which you bring up these issues that your concern is…