Oh boy, I have a date with an administrator!
[sub]my plan to seize the SDMB is coming to pass…muhuhahahahaaaaaa…[/sub]
Oh boy, I have a date with an administrator!
[sub]my plan to seize the SDMB is coming to pass…muhuhahahahaaaaaa…[/sub]
Oh, no, it got posted twice. Curses, foiled again, and again.
Oh, no, it got posted twice. Curses, foiled again, and again.
Gary Kumquat At first I was going to rip out a new asshole for you, until it became clear to me that you are utterly making a fool out of yourself. You clearly have difficulty with comprehension in reading. Its not your fault , but perhaps that of the Scottish school system. Let me walk you through my rebuttal.
Well I have extensively responded to that point, and see no reason to belabour it further. If you wish to call that a lie, I’ll just respond not true.
I never ever claimed that cites were provided to back my point. What I did say was that your question "What racist cliche?"was responded to by others the first time including the provision of a cite clearly showing that “a spade is a spade” was the cliche in question. Later I offered the proof that you had your original question answered by actually providing a cited rebuttal.
What I said was that he didn’t take offence. You can read it your way if you wish, but for me, take is a verb expressing action, and up to a few posts ago, Squink did not respond.
Kumquat: What racist cliche
Kal:I assume “Call a spade a spade” is the cliche referred to.
Kumquat:Please tell me he’s joking?
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_b...ssages/886.html
If you didn’t accept** Kal’s** answer, why did you rebut the cliche that Kal identified?
No problem. Perhaps you might learn something and be a little less offensive.
Well a serious inquiry of a non-whinging sort requires a serious response. Besides, I must distract from the dimwitted sideshow going on spades.
Well, that is true enough on one level.
Sure it is. Entertainment value. I find it irritating to have to correct the same drooling idiots again and again, so I compensate myself with entertaining myself. Perhaps it is unfair, I am used to people listening to me on my areas of expertise, above all when it is rather clear I know more than they do.
Thanks. I don’t particularly find it useful to discuss such things here. However, I have my work cut out for me.
You do it to entertain yourself? Listen, I’ve never agitated for your banning, and I do not do so now, but I do think that if specific reasons for banning were to be articulated, near the top of the list should be “evicerating one’s opponents simply to amuse oneself (and in the wrong forum, at that).”
I can sympathize with the need to be entertained, but why don’t you do us all a favor and invest in a VCR?
I’ve always thought it would be interesting to have a poster of Coll’s (alleged) erudition on the Mideast combined with Poly’s temperament.
As you wish, although I did not say “simply to amuse myself” at all. If I meant that I would say that, as you well know. Rather a byproduct of beating the dense upside the head with a pan, I consider it necessary.
killfile Col remember?
Nothing makes me more open minded and eager to be enlightened on a subject than someone who feels I need to be beat upside the head with a pan because I’m not quite the scholar he is.
in other words Coll,
You catch more fucking bees with HONEY, you know?
My erudition or not, Libby old boy, is what it is on the Board. If people think I am learned, then I have so proved it. If not, not. Just like in the genetics disputes, if you gots the goods, you gots em and you can lay em out and refute me, if not stop fucking whinging.
I think there is nothing wrong with evicerating one’s opponents, provided they deserve eviscerating. I’m certainly guilty of doing just that on occasion, and I’ll admit to having hit “submit” with a great deal of satisfaction. I think the manner of evisceration is what is in question. Polite evisceration seems to be ok and that’s what I’ve stuck to on this board(outside the pit at least, and mostly even in my pit posts). So, since I’m sure Collounsbury is every bit as capable of sarcasm and obscenity-free biting commentary as I am, I think it’s a viable option. How about it Coll?
Enjoy,
Steven
Coll spewed:
I’m not “whinging”, you rat’s ass. For me, you’ve turned the whole topic of the Mideast and its eternal squabbles into something I don’t give a shit about.
It’s never necessary to post to a message board. It’s not necessary to explain your POV at all; it’s not necessary to do so in a manner described by you as “beating the dense upside the head with a pan;” and it’s not necessary to entertain yourself while you do so. I consider your distinction between “amuse” and “entertain” to be a transparent quibble and I find the idea that you by necessity must be as rude as you very often are to be both laughable and sad.
You are uncivil because you choose to be uncivil. Please do not insult my intelligence or delude yourself by implying that you have to be. My question is why do you do that, and if the answer truly is “because it entertains me” then my deep regard for your intellect must by necessity be tempered by your admission that you are entertained by behaving badly – by intentionally savaging the feelings of others in a manner that is more often than not far out of proportion to their perceived sin. That, sir, is the action of a child. The fact that you are also extraordinarily intelligent may make you a boy-genius, but it doesn’t make you an adult.
If you did it more often people would get used to it.
Well, well. If I may:
Good, laugh and pity as you like. Rather more importantly you rather missed my point. The distinction was hardly between entertain and amuse (actually I didn’t notice I substituted the synonyms) but simply. Little word, changes the dynamic slightly. For me at least, probably not for you.
As you like, don’t particalarly strive for anything on those grounds, electronically.
BTW, Lib, I rather think of myself more as a groundhog than a rat, furry tail’s rather more stylish you know.
Well, I think I’ve cleared up what I wanted to clear up. You can get back to the spaces discussion as you like.
Jodi may be conflating your posts with one of mine that suggested that you, like me, were here primarily for your own amusement.
There’s nothing wrong with choosing to be uncivil, when it is entertaining/amusing. Imagine a television program or a message board where everybody was civil to each other. BO-ring!
Of course, if Collounsbery insists in violating GD rules, he should be shot immediately and then cremated and his ashes sold as kitty litter, and not high-end kitty-litter either, but as some cut-rate supermarket brand suitable only for white trash customers who keep cats as an emergency food supply for when Daddy gets laid off from the spray-on hair warehouse, which often happens because he’s been drinking too much sterno on his lunch breaks, lately.
I slay me.
To borrow from my beloved Boris… Intelligence is not a virtue. Compassion is a virtue, patience is a virtue. Generosity is a virtue. Intelligence is merely a characteristic.