For Newsnight: should we end universal benefits for better off pensioners?

goodnight sweet friend!

If this be madness yet there's method in't.

Be careful of the radioactive source !

I have a theory about string, at least it might be several theories covering that bit you've kept in your knapsack for emergencies which disappears when you finally need it, and the bits that tie themselves in knots.....

but I digress

Just off to check up on that pussycat.

And of course it is Schrodingers cat I'm talking about! Does anybody agree with me that these two theories are diametrically opposed? And where do we place the String Theory within this conceptual concept?

Terribly sorry folks. Meant big bang!

Oh! I don't know? If you take maxwells demon and oppose with the probability theory of whether the cat is alive or not?
Could this actually answer the big band theory?

Not very likely, though, is it?

Ah, but. If the question could trammel up the consequences and catch with its surcease success?

Got it in one, Bags!

Bags.

I think I will take that advice. If anybody could have told me in simplistic terms I think they would have done so by now..

Just so, elegran.

Pogs, dinnae fash yersel! Tain't worth all the stooshie and stramash

Just so, Elegran.

*Bags Those could be the posts which everyone would like clarified, but the elaborations just get more labyrinthine.

Which bit, exactly? There is a lot of it.

I am so glad I am thick because I cannot understand one b----y word of what you are all saying.

If I had to try and sort this rubbish out it would take me a length of sundays.

Can someone please in very, very simple terms explain what this all means.

You are kind, anno

That's because you aren't a patronising kind of person, Bags.

Things are beginning to make sense to me now, but there are some posts which, on first reading, made me just think "Eh?" or, in Lancs parlance: "Yer wot, luv?"

I will be interested to hear if anyone comes up with that word butty wants. 'Patronise' comes quite close, don't you think? I've never felt that I understood patronise properly though.

Bathos is almost what you are looking for, butter but not quite.

That is more "She returned home in a towering rage and a number 12 bus"

Butter, Pope said it but not in a single word:
To 'damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer.'

I think deserving was being flippant, Butter!
Of course, I could be wrong....(hedging my bets here )

Have not has - it is infectious.

I still want to know if there is a word that means ............
to elevate and demean all in the same sentence ....or have I gone off the rails completely with this thread? Not that it would matter .......
Does anyone know??

It has its moments of sanity, Bags, but is currently into textual and stylistic analysis, with particular reference to the vagaries of grammar and parsing in flyting.

The Scottish Chaucerians could do it and still have their syntax and meaning intact. Their versions has lasted 900 years or so, too.