I received an email via the contact form this morning from a guy in Bromley (his IP address comes up as Brierley Hill, so I assume it must be the Bromley in the West Midlands). He identifies himself as \u201cAmused from Bromley\u201d.<\/p>\n
Just to remind people that the guy selling Alcopal<\/a> is from the West Midlands, too, but that must just be a huge<\/strong> coincidence, and there is no connection whatsoever.<\/p>\n Anyway, he says:<\/p>\n Are you or this website trying to be satirical? If so it is only mildly funny but if not it has become amazingly hilarious!!! I have read some of your pages and sorry but you are such a bigot. Why don’t you try to write a “piece” that doesn’t involve insults? Any fool can say “Dickheads” and “chavs” as a way of demonstrating how upset you feel. Maybe if you look through a dictionary you may find some alternative words to use rather than searching the internet for other news stories that clearly contradict what you are stating as fact. Some serious research involves getting up from the desk and walking\/driving to the local library and looking through some books, periodicals and newspapers (think of the tabloids as sensationalist’s not serious news!).<\/p>\n By the way the “reports” do lighten my day so please do not take this too seriously as we all have a right to comment.<\/p>\n Yours very amused.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Just to clarify what I said in my About page, this is MY<\/strong> blog, and I write in it what I<\/strong> want to write about. I don\u2019t do group hugs (or the equivalent in blog form) and write about stuff I just agree with (maybe except under music and technology). I comment on things I <\/strong>have an opinion on. And I write it in my OWN<\/strong> style. So I\u2019m not \u201ctrying\u201d to be anything, and if you don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t read it.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s just remind ourselves what the purveyors of Alcopal – and those who want to buy it – are trying to do.<\/p>\n The dictionary definition of \u201cbigot\u201d comes up as:<\/p>\n – a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, esp on religion, politics, or race<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, the number of positive messages I get far outweighs the total of THREE I have ever received which have been critical, so my views (and there are nearly 3,000 of them so far) are at least shared by a lot of others. But let\u2019s play along with this, and ignore the fact that just creating a blog or having an opinion on various things doesn\u2019t in itself turn someone into a bigot (although lesser intellects reading said blog might easily convince themselves otherwise, especially if they don\u2019t understand that definition properly), it would be fair to say that someone who is completely in favour of Alcopal and what it sets out to achieve is as much of a bigot as someone who – like myself – doesn\u2019t see it quite so favourably.<\/p>\n Given the choice of being the type of bigot who wants to drink and drive, mask the fact and possibly kill people as a result, and risk begetting kids with six fingers or who have to pee out of their belly button (without being sure it won\u2019t actually cause that), or the other kind, who is against that type of driver mentality by virtue of his profession\u2026 well, I know which one I\u2019d choose every time.<\/p>\n I think it\u2019s still fair to say that someone who really does want to promote Alcopal in any way whatsoever, knowing those facts or possible facts, could reasonably be described as a dickhead. Of course, I\u2019m not naming any individual – Alcopal is, after all, a multi-national product, and can be pushed<\/strong> to the public by anyone who can afford it, just as it can be taken<\/strong> by any member of the public who can afford (and is stupid enough) to buy it at the present time if they so choose.<\/p>\n EDIT 3\/9\/2012: <\/strong>Some of the comments reacting to a post about Alcopal on another blog<\/a> typify the mental capacity of the sort of people Alcopal is aimed at. If you told them the earth was flat they\u2019d believe it if they thought there might something in it for them.<\/p>\n\n