Okay, now I got a good lock on ya. You’re 14 at the very oldest, and you probably don’t have too many friends, so you like to hang out on the internet a lot. You most likely have a number of net-buddies (chat room and email pals), and I’d be willing to wager that you have an entire file full of soft-core porno that you pray your parents will never come across. Am I getting warm? If you are by any chance past your teenage years, you most likely didn’t continue your education beyond high school. You throw around sophmoric concepts that you think make you sound intelligent (such as this very loose interpretation of Freudian-inspired pseudopsychology that nobody who continued beyond Intro to Psych would ever utter). And you’ll probably reply by saying that you’re 25, very popular, have a underwear model for a girlfriend, drive a Mercedes S500, went to Princeton, and are a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist.
And I also know that if you’re not a sock-puppet (which is likely), you’ve at least lurked around here for quite some time. Or you could just be a savvy Internet message board veteran (this is admittedly my first and only MB, so I don’t know if the stuff that goes on here goes on elsewhere), which would seem to jibe with my original theory.
For the record, we’re not the ones who are:
a) using shorthand
b) jumping into arguments with no base of knowledge, or
c) spouting off (and misapplying) Intro to Psych concepts.
(And, might I add, it feels strange to be aligned with Wally. This is new.)
Also for the record, I had not even read this sentence when I made my predictions at the beginning of this post. It seems to confirm my hypothesis.
So does that.
Rousseauster
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” -Winston Churchill
Don’t have a lot of friends, but the ones I do have I can honestly call friends and not just acquaintances.
No net buddies.
Between work, a kid and girlfirend I have only a few hours a week to spend on the net.
You wouldn’t have a FILE full of soft-core porn, you’d have a DIRECTORY or if you are a microsquish zombie a FOLDER. Only UNIX or LINUX would look at it as a file and they still typically call it a directory.
But I digress, I don’t have any porn, I have no need for it, my girlfriend takes care of that.
No, still quite cold.
never did college, but have an English credit
I’ am a geek, I’ll admit, work with computers making decent pay.
[ul]Divorced
[li]1 kid,[/li][li]91 Jeep Cherokee[/li][li]Girlfriend is actually a waitress.[/li][li]as stated, never went to college, therefore no degree,[/li][li]and no Nobel prize, sorry.[/ul][/li]all in all, 1 out of 9 correct. including the assumption on how I’d be replying
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Yep, I lurked for a few days, but, I’ve been reading Cecil’s column for a 3 years, even saw several episodes on A&E.
a) using shorthand - I see it’s too much for ya, so I’ll stop with the shorthand.
b) jumping into arguments with no base of knowledge. - As many have stated, I simply made observations.
c) spouting off (and misapplying) Intro to Psych concepts. - I might be guilty there, but the attempted insult seemed so childish.
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There goes the hypothesis.
Morkster - Let’s see how my UBB code works out…
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Well, since this is still supposed to be a thread for bjOrn, I have one question for him.
Do you understand that your posts are not understood/intelligible/readable by the vast majority of people here the vast majority of the time?
Wranglings about “style” and whatnot aside, I’m just curious if you really understand this. If you do, then you’re just an idiot; if you don’t, then you should take people’s observations a little more seriously.
Keeping in mind that what I said was not a topic to debate, but rather a statement of fact, you just said that you are satisfied that no one understands anything you say.
Well, I think that about wraps it up for me, folks. Thanks for coming, and don’t forget to turn out the lights when you leave.
and who are you to be stating facts like that? who are you to state the truth of facts like that? who are you to assume that a statement is a fact? who are you who cares?
bj0rn - chickens for sale…!
(You know, I find it helps to copy it to WordPad and then fix all the punctuation errors, etc., so they’re not so distracting. Then I usually light some incense, sacrifice a chicken to the spirit of Kate Turabian, and get really drunk. Then it actually starts to make sense.) - notthemama
I am a person who has actually read, understood, and thought about this thread (not to mention your posts) - the majority of people on this board do not understand your posts. Fact. Period. If you disagree, I suggest reading, re-reading, and re-reading again this entire thread, and all the other threads posts about you. But since the whole reason people get so frustrated withyou is that you have trouble understanding other people’s posts, I guess you haven’t been able to comprehend this thread yourself. You don’t understand us, we don’t understand you. Time to move on.
And who am I to care? Just another person who posts here, who I presume you want to understand what you have to say. Isn’t that why we post here in the first place, for conversation? If you’re unintelligible, then there’s no conversation to be had.
really? thats the second statment of this nature you make, first you say that nobody understands me, now saying that i do not understand anybody else. tell you what, i am not going to claim your statements as false, i cant. just like you cant state them as true.
dont know if you have read this… therefore my plan is to speak as best i can
there are a lot of things i could say, but saying them would be wrong. and i guess saying this is wrong too…
bj0rn - chickens for sale…!
(You know, I find it helps to copy it to WordPad and then fix all the punctuation errors, etc., so they’re not so distracting. Then I usually light some incense, sacrifice a chicken to the spirit of Kate Turabian, and get really drunk. Then it actually starts to make sense.) - notthemama
bjOrn, if you would read this thread, and the others devoted to you, you would see that I’m speaking the truth - you are incomprehensible most of the time. And when people try to talk to you about it, you don’t get it. Is that because you don’t understand what they’re saying, or that you don’t care? OK, maybe I was wrong - maybe you just don’t care that you’re unintelligible.
I’m not sure what relevance it has, as it’s from 5 months ago and your writing “style” hasn’t changed one whit, it seems.
Are you capable of writing comprehensively? Yes - hell, this post proves it. Do you consistently? No - most people still don’t understand you most of the time. (Yes, some people do understand you some of the time, but the evidence suggests most still don’t most of the time.)
Saying something isn’t wrong, but saying it so other people understand you is the primary goal of a typewritten message board such as this.
[ :rolleyes:]
esprix: do you know how to count?
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bj0rn - chickens for sale…!
(You know, I find it helps to copy it to WordPad and then fix all the punctuation errors, etc., so they’re not so distracting. Then I usually light some incense, sacrifice a chicken to the spirit of Kate Turabian, and get really drunk. Then it actually starts to make sense.) - notthemama
No, but comprehension is determined not by if people SHOULD understand but if they do. If it is true that most people do not understand Bjorn, then it is a truth to say that most people don’t understand Bjorn. What is hard to understand about that?
the truth is: most people dont even know me, have never read any of my text, do not understand english and/or icelandic nor have access to the internet.
[something i shouldnt say :rolleyes:]
if 1% of given readers understand a given text, what does that say about the other 99%?
[/something i shouldnt say :rolleyes]
bj0rn - chickens for sale…!
(You know, I find it helps to copy it to WordPad and then fix all the punctuation errors, etc., so they’re not so distracting. Then I usually light some incense, sacrifice a chicken to the spirit of Kate Turabian, and get really drunk. Then it actually starts to make sense.) - notthemama
The “popular opinion,” as stated by the majority of posters on this board, is that bjOrn’s posts are not understandable. That makes what I’m saying a true statement.
As I said, there are some people that do, and he is not unintelligible all the time, just most of the time, which goes to the fact that he can post understandably, but the majority of the time seems to choose not to.
Which, now that I think of it, explains why you understand him, Boomer - you have also proven that you are capable of posting intelligibly and sensibly, but you choose not to for the vast majority of the time.