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The irony… she burns…
Really makes you wonder what audience this guy thinks he is speaking to.
Apparently he has not yet gained sufficient experience to realize that all of the knowledge in the world is of little use in a conversation if you are unable or unwilling to express it in a manner that your audience is willing and able to comprehend.
A page or so back I decided that it wasn’t worth the effort to try to tease whatever nuggets of potential value existed within his paragraphs of masturbatory blather. But if it makes him happy, I guess that is of some value.
We’ve all agreed that different people have diferent capacities for “wisdom” (however defined), and different capacities and desires to improve. It still seems surprising to me that this guy doesn’t feel that no matter how incredibly brilliant he may be now, that 10-20 more years of study and experience will not make him even wiser than he is today. Hell, I’d find it pretty depressing to think I had peaked/plateaued in my 20s. But it takes all kinds . . .
There’s simply nothing more orgasmic than to watch people congratulate each on having done, essentially, nothing. tears up
I can’t stand the irony. explodes
I’m amused he/she’s pointedly ignoring the error I caught him/her in.
Having skimmed ashman165’s posts, I must now express my sincere gratitude to the members of my dissertation committee, who when faced with 570 pages of my own scholarly drivel responded with good grace and constructive comments. I don’t think I could have done the same. Then again, they may have some wisdom and experience that I lack.
One of these days I’m going to transform that mass of blather into a nice 30 page paper.
Heh! Cute thread. Life has taught me that we were all young and stupid once. I cringe when I remember some of the crap I spouted as a young’in.
The difference is, for which I am very grateful, that the stupid things I said lay decently buried in the past. This young fellow has posted his wisdom for the world to see. Can you imagine reading this stuff 20 years down the road? Yikes!
I have a son thats 23 and if I saw a thread like this that he had written i would be laughing my ass off. I also would be sure to save it for his 40th birthday.
Some one got some growing up to do I think. (but thats normal at 20). If the young people reading this thread think that perhaps we are laughing at you or a wink wink nudge nudge thing its mostly that we all were like that. Over time we changed. Hopefully you will look back and smile as well.
Simply improving your understanding of the number system and your reading comprehension would have led to the obvious conclusion that I’m not 20. Thanks though!
I propose a definition of the word that describes the way many, many of us mere mortals use it -
ar·ro·gant
- so far up one’s self that one is seeing pink
Would that depend on what one has eaten? Or, um, is this another orifice you’d rather be up in?
Maybe I shold have “seeing brown”. That would fit the second colloquial definition -
ar·ro·gant
- so far up one’s self that one is seeing [del]pink[/del] brown
- full of shit
So… “seeing brown” it is then. 
So now arrogant and idiot are equal in rank and indeed apparently synonymous? Well, that would seem to fit how people use it, because it surely doesn’t get used within the confines of its definition. Well, not if the use in this thread is any indication anyway.
I’m late to this party. Jesus H Christ, I just spent the better part of this afternoon trying to unfuck a serious problem at work. Without going into details, it necessitates going to the partner, telling them straight up that even though they had some fraudent communication with a now ex employee of the multinational I work for, we will not honor that bullshit as seeing how there is no signed contract. If they care to sue us, fine, we probably won’t see them in court because their mother ship in Japan would never allow it.
The whippersnappers were all for a “win win” situation that doesn’t exist outside of a crack smoking fantasy. In fact, compound a potential fraud with a real one. Instead of just go in to the partner, have the hard conversation, let 'em know the TS rule reigns supreme here, and with that train wreck behind us, we can start from zero if they want to work together.
This train wreck never should have happened, never should have got on my plate, and now I have to waste at least 1 productive day cleaning up the mess when the rest of the team could be out driving new business (myself included). And if someone had been more seasoned than the 5 year guy that started this whole mess (and got justifiably whacked for it), this never would have started much less escalated.
One wonders why such an unseasoned person was put in charge of, or allowed to have substantial influence over by the more seasoned people in the first instance.
Of course, your argument that some young people lack seasoning and wisdom hardly does anything to alter my argument that some younger folks are better situated in both regards than some older people. So, congratulations on arguing a necessary corollary. If some young people are more experienced and wise than some older folks, it’s necessarily the case that some do not. One would think a little logical reasoning would make as much quite plain.
Does this moron actually believe anyone has disagreed with this? Did anyone claim that no younger person could conceivably possess greater “seasoning and wisdom” than every older person? If not, then the sole “disagreement” would concern the relative percentages of such populations.
Maybe a tad more “seasoning” will allow this blowhard to learn that arguing with folk who do not necessarily disagree with you tends to make you look silly. Whether it was his intent or not, his posts were generally perceived as primarily concerned with displaying his brilliance, rather than effectively communicating and convincing.
Thank you, DianaG. I was trying to formulate a response to ashman165 but you nailed it.
Ashman165, sweetie … um, do you have a little too much free time on your hands? The world is chock-full of problems and there aren’t enough people to do all the work that needs to be done. Someone with your enthusiasm and energy and, let’s face it, tenacity could really make a dent in some major problem.
Tally up the time you’ve spent dragging the OP out into **four frigging pages **of gigantic, long-ass posts and tell me that with that time and energy you couldn’t, I don’t know, balance the budget of a small, struggling mid-American town. Or learn a language from scratch. Or bake a bunch of bread for a homeless shelter.
Something.
Anything.
One wonders why you are of the opinion that posting online somehow prevents one from doing something else with one’s life. I’m also profoundly curious why you think a couple of paragraphs is a long-ass post. What next? I go out on weekends and party with my friends, thus I’m no longer capable of doing things Monday through Friday? Do better.
One of the chief problems in the world is poor state of its education, which is why there are oh so many ignorant folks running around. This, even though done in my leisure time, does help with that a bit.
Kittenblue, my mind is boggled that you agree understanding something isn’t somehow related to, well, understanding it. Intellectually understanding something is to understand the thing. It’s not a condition of mankind to “grasp” a concept and fail to understand it. But so long as you agree with someone, I suppose that’s what really counts.
Ouch! So your not 20 something. Well that makes your posts … interesting. As I said its expected that young people say or do things that will seem foolish later on in life. To do so when you are not young would indicate a lack of maturity. I will choose to believe that you are different in real life then your online persona shows. Good luck!
The grammar says it all.