Dour
Well-Known Member
Sounds like there were some quite intelligent posters - Dawkins, not one of them.
'Imagine that you, as a greatly liked and respected person, found yourself overnight subjected to personal vilification on an unprecedented scale, from anonymous commenters on a website. Suppose you found yourself described as an “utter twat†a “suppurating rectum. A suppurating rat’s rectum. A suppurating rat’s rectum inside a dead skunk that’s been shoved up a week-old dead rhino’s twat.†Or suppose that somebody on the same website expressed a “sudden urge to ram a fistful of nails†down your throat. Also to “trip you up and kick you in the guts.†And imagine seeing your face described, again by an anonymous poster, as “a slack jawed turd in the mouth mug if ever I saw one.â€