>
>"Roger Millin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Adrian suggested:
>>> Crack open the paddle needed to hold the far gates closed the first
>>> time you pass it. (That also makes closing the gates easier, BTW.
>>> Common working days practice).
Well snipped
>>There are many things that we don't do now that were common in the
>>past, keeping slaves, sending boys up chimneys and bear baiting, to
>>name but three, but just because they were done in the past is not
>>necessarily a good reason for reinstating the practices.
>
>Agreed. But all those were practices that caused serious damage to
>the (e.g.) slaves, boys, and bears. They weren't good practice ever.
>Not good comparisons, as leaving gates open causes benefits, and
>was/is good practice.
>
>Martin
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>And just because you don't agree with someone's argument it doesn't make
>>their argument incorrect.
>
>True (but maybe you might put "necessarily" before "make").
>
>But if someone's argument is supported by (and depends on the support
>of) incorrect data, then that does make it incorrect. It is that type
>of argument that I both disagree with and reject, if I supply the
>(correct) facts.
>
>Adrian
>
>Adrian Stott
>07956-299966
Many thanks I haven't been so well entertained for ages. ROFWL
Sue nb Nackered Navvy
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