"harry" wrote in message
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On Saturday, 8 August 2015 11:53:22 UTC+1, Arfa Daily wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 00:13:39 +0100, Arfa Daily wrote:

Don't call me **** fer brains you arrogant opinionated arsehole. And
as
ever, you are wrong, as one of the official dictionary definitions of
the word hero, is

"the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc." Quoted
synonyms are "lead" and "star"

All of which, I think, qualifies George Cole in his role as Arthur
Daley
in Minder.

Umm, no. It qualifies Arthur Daley - for he was the character, not
George
Cole.

Well, I'm not going to argue semantics. I knew what I meant. You knew
what I
meant. Everyone knew what I meant. Except of course Harry, who has no
understanding of using a word in a colloquial way. All I sought to do was
acknowledge the death (and life) of someone who I thought was a great
comic
actor in general, was exceptional in the part of Arthur Daley, and was
the
inspiration for the 'net nic that I have used for twenty years or more
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Having said that, Arthur was much more of an anti-hero.


I'm not so sure about that. Arthur believed that he was a fine upstanding
member of the community, and it was this dichotomy that was responsible
for
much of the (often very subtle) comic content of the part Cole was
playing.

Arfa

He was a grest comic and paid well for it.
End of story.
Many true heroes ended up dead or maimed.
Unrecognised.
Comparing Daley with true heroes is despicable.

Comparing you with a rational human being, is stupid ...

As ever you were first out of the gate wading in with an unwarranted
personal attack on me. You completely failed to understand the nature of the
post, and when it finally did dawn on you that you were being a ****, you
start squawking away with your straw man arguments. Go look up the word
colloquial, and then see how it refers to my use of the word "hero" ...

Arfa