Posh doesn’t mean Port Out Starboard Home? I’ve been living a lie.
They’re/their/there; learn the fucking difference or I’ll tape open your eyes and force you to sneeze.
Oh, and it’s a website, not a sight or a cite.
Unless it is a cite, but to cite it, you go to a website.
Unless it’s a sight to see or for sore eyes, but I bet it’s still displayed on a website.
It’s “could have,” “would have,” and “should have,” not “could of,” “would of,” and “should of.”
Speak well, not speak good.
Lesbian, not lesbain.
Amateur, not amature.
ahem
Gee, Dooku, who pissed in your IV drip?
[sub]Here’s a hint: If I’m talking about someone in specifc, I’ll mention him or her by name. See your name up there? Didn’t think so.[/sub]
You did. I just grow tired of reading a thread then seeing someone take a big dump on my employer with some enormous brush about “stealing everything” and “innovating nothing.” Especially when MS employees are called brain-damaged in the same breath.
If I said “People from Havre are a bunch of brain-damaged idiots” do you suppose it would upset you personally?
33. Nobody cares about your fucking platform hijacks.
- Garcon means boy.
If you’re describing a series and say that “each [whatever] was more [however] than the next,” you’ve probably just said the opposite of what you mean.
Either that, or I have.
Dooku: I don’t expect this post to penetrate your skull, but for the sake of everyone else I want to make it clear that I never called any person brain-damaged. I merely called the products made by Microsoft brain-damaged.
The two dictionaries I checked said both are acceptable, although minuscule was the preferred spelling.
THANK YOU!!! I’m not alone! My friends forward me these things all the time and it annoys the hell outta me. I reply to the messages with links that say “This is a hoax” and they still do it!
Ummm you said the n-word! 
…which leads too…
- “Niger” is pronounced as NY-JER, not N****R
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Democrats do not hate God. In fact, a great number of us love God.
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Dumping French Wime in the gutter only make you look bad. You are buying something for the sole purpose to destroy it- right. You just gave your so-called enemy money.
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The French are not our enemy.
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Electing a leader on the basis of him being a action hero- you do relise that he plays charachters- he is not them.
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When a legislator begins the recall the day after the election, he ain’t doing it because of economy. It’s called sour grapes.
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Not supporting the war does not mean a person does not support the troops.
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All black people don’t speak eboincs, live in the ghetto, or like rap.
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There are things such as mixed race people. It is very rude to ask us “what are you”
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Bush is not “a good moral charachter”. Stop acting as if he is a choir boy.
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The media is not libreal. If it were, the Bush twins family scandals would be over every tabloid every day; if it were Chealsea Clinton, it would be everywhere for months.
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The Republican party is not a more Christian party.
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Hi Opal.
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Having more education than someone else means you have more paper- you have no superiority, so stop acting like it.
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In the end we are all the same.
mademoiselle, I respectfully disagree with your last two points. (Respectful disagreement in the Pit? Lawsy, but we’s high-class now!)
Education is often a sign of someone’s ability to attain knowledge and useful skills, and of someone’s attainment of those skills in a given field. Donald Knuth, for example, has much more education than I in the field of computer science, therefore it is very reasonable to assume that he has more knowledge of the field in general, and more skill in specific aspects of the field, than I.
Of course, my argument falls down in some cases. As a high schooler, I was probably more competent than a certain amount of more-educated professionals in any given field simply based on those people’s abysmal incompetence. To take another extreme, Donald Knuth is a genius and doubtless would be more competent than I even if he had much less education. In most cases, however, education can usually be used as an accurate yardstick of, if not intelligence, then at least competence.
Your last point is somewhat more esoteric, and I will only accept it with qualifications. No, I’m not religious, simply conscious of the legacy I choose to leave and the impact that legacy shall have on others. (And, no, I’m not a Democratic former President, either. ;)) I like to think that my legacy will be more positive than Charles Manson’s legacy, if not as far-reaching. So, if you accept the notion of legacies into your calculation, I don’t think you can defend your final point.
If, however, your analysis stops with the physical body, I agree: I shall end up just as dead as Charles Manson, Mohandas Gandhi, Iosef Stalin, and Thomas Jefferson. In that respect, your final point is correct.
I very much disagree. My father is a college grad, and my grandfather was not. By all accounts he was brilliant. A living book- ask he a question, and he would give you an answer, the right answer. I have a relative in Grad school. Is she stupid? No. Is she wise? er…
Didn’t Picasso’s teachers tell him to leave art school because he did not need it? He therefore had no degree.
Here is what bothers me.
Person A- I Disagree with you.
Person B- Well, I have a MBA in xyz.
Person A- That’s great. But it doesn’t make you right.
Person B- (in mind: what do they know? They didn’t go to college. Fool) Okay, uh listen, why don’t we watch some TV or something?
Not everyone can afford college. Not everyone wants to go to college. Yes, the piece of paper is very nice, but these people are being intellect snobs.
I had a “friend” who did this to me all of the time. I would say anything, and she would look at me like I was some kind of idiot. Yes, I’m horrible in math, and therefore choose not to take advanced math. But she sucked in English/Creative disciplines which I excel at. I don’t care if you have a PhD from MIT, it just means were different, not that you are better.
I know so many intellect snobs so full of bloody pretension. Having a degree does not make you smart, no matter where it’s from. We all know of people who got a foot in because of connections who could not go otherwise to any school, forget Ivy League.
It does.
I did not mean legacy. JFK and Dalhmer for instance are both dead, but have very different legacies. But- they are still dead. No social classes, no races, no whatever in the land of the dead.
BTW, I’m a 3rd year college student, so I’m not putting down higher ed., but rather intellect snobs.
Hooray - one more bit of ignorance stamped out. This thread was worth it just for that!
Blame wishy-washy descriptivism. Well, I apologise if “miniscule” (ugh!) is an acceptable U.S. spelling… I was writing from a British perspective, and no British English dictionaries that I have seen accept this spelling, so British numbskulls have no excuse. What is a miniscule anyway? Another name for a kindergarten? :rolleyes: