Reply #285: Er, no, anitfascist...

[Conspirationalist]

WHY, anyway, do "Tsunami threads" or any other thread have to be ghettoized?!

This blog forum does the job of separating topics really well anyway; it's one of the few I've seen where people really do stay on-topic... (And don't go round the bend reciting poetry or something.)

Having said that; I will now address the topic of "tinfoil hats"!! "Tinfoilia" and so on and so forth - real ticklish additions to the lexicon! Haven't heard them before!

Well, I have heard about tinfoil hats. They're supposed to block out radio signals - and they work.

But I tell you what image the metaphor/insult constantly puts me in mind of when I see it here - and it makes me laugh! You know what image I see in my mind? A character out of Irish writer Eoin Colfer's very popular "Artemis Fowl" novels! (You see, I have this yen for fantasy fiction, particularly "crossover" - Pullman and Potter as well. I love the wit and wisdom - and non-bigotry - of "children's fiction".)

Yes; your denunciations make me think of the faery character Foaly, the centaur, out of Artemis Fowl. He works for the Lower Elements Police and wears a tinfoil hat. He's also their top technical expert. (Colfer reckons that elves have moved on a lot technologically in the past couple of hundred years, so that their technology is just a few steps ahead of ours.)

And he's no fool!

That wayout enough for you??

Any Colfer fans on this forum?? Tell me where you usually hang out, so that I can go there too and stay on-topic!

You should be kind to me as a Brit because I'm new and an outsider; like one's first day at school. Of course this is an alien environment for me; it's full of people passionately defending a party which I feel sympathy for, but cannot vote for!

I might prefer it to Labour in Britain though. Support the glorious leader? Neah, hate him! Bush's poodle.