# Can we get on the same page, please? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 2, 2001, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-on-the-same-page-please/60529 "2001-04-02T19:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-on-the-same-page-please/60529/21 "2001-04-21T21:57:51Z")
First off, I totally agree with the OP: a thing of beauty. Second, this is a big reason I love the SDMB. I occasionally participate in other message boards, and sometimes continue to do so, but the intellectual honesty here keeps bringing me back. Whenever somebody engages in this kind of poor debating tactic, a dozen other posters can be counted on to jump all over them and demonstrate why their position should be questioned and restated more fairly. The board’s methodology, in short, lends itself to self-correction, unlike the many other boards where this kind of stuff never gets addressed because the participants aren’t disciplined enough to stick to a rigorous thought process. Oh, and third, **Libertarian** ’s concession above makes my heart grow two sizes. I think you might be a little too hard on yourself; engaging in strawman behavior is an easy trap to fall into, which I sometimes do myself, and you’re nowhere near the worst offender on this score. But even so, self-examination is, IMHO, rarely a bad thing, and if it raises the already-high tone of the board yet another notch, that’ll be better yet. Kudos all around. (Wait a minute. Isn’t this the pit?) Motherfucking assbaby stapleface shitrocking pantsmonkey. (Ah, yes. Much better.) ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-on-the-same-page-please/60529/22 "2001-10-11T18:43:01Z")
But Bush really IS worse than Hitler. So what’s the problem? [sub]For the humor-impaired, that was a joke.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Stiletto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Stiletto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stiletto)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-on-the-same-page-please/60529/23 "2001-10-11T20:33:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*:: hangs head in shame:: I stand corrected **Bildo** , and I say this, as **FOG is my witness** , I will now let my knees jerk as they will without restraint! let there be a kettle/pot reference in every post! \*\* You know, **wring** , you should be careful saying things like that. **FOG** will strike you down. 😉 Seriously, though. I already thought so, but now I am absolutely sure. **wring** is very cool. 🙂 Thank you for this thread. I agree completely. -Stil ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-on-the-same-page-please/60529/24 "2001-10-11T21:17:06Z")
Anyone who does not agree with wring is a rat bastard, plain and simple, no two ways about it!! How can you possibly disagree? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-on-the-same-page-please/60529/25 "2001-10-11T22:39:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tradesilicon \* > \*\*Anyone who does not agree with wring is a rat bastard, plain and simple, no two ways about it!! How can you possibly disagree? \*\* Not just a rat bastard, but also exactly the sort of asswipe who would endorse the actions of the Third Reich. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-on-the-same-page-please/60529/26 "2001-10-11T23:06:40Z")
Sounds like a particularly dishonest form of [Petitio Principii](http://education.gsu.edu/spehar/FOCUS/EdPsy/misc/Fallacies.htm#petitio); or is it better described as ‘poisoning the well’? Either way, an insightful rant. I never did subscribe to the ‘you must call someone a goat-felcher in every tirade’ bandwagon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-on-the-same-page-please/60529.md?page=1)