Homer said:
Ahem. Have you checked the thread title recently? Just what did you expect when you started this thread?
Responses to posts such as yours usually require the minimalist approach. Just like any other spectacle, they need only be pointed at with mouth agape, and allowed to speak for themselves.
Please! This isn’t Sophocles’ Greece! People have lives here. Not all of us have four hours to sit around and debate rhetoric that will change nothing.
Yes, have you read the OP lately? The idea was not to cause a train wreck on another topic, when the pit is the proper context in which to argue with me. Not to just show up with a quippy witticism and then leave. But thanks for your great addition to this thread.
How true, and how quickly this was discovered. In all honesty, I have never made a point. Also, I have never made a worthwhile addition to a topic. Again, I never have said anything worthwhile, reasoned, or of value. So, in retrospect, what you claim is indeed fact. So thank you for pointing it out.
Why, it’s StoryTyler! And she deemed me, yes, me worthy of speaking to!
Moving away from sarcasm, if you’d read the quote in context, with your thinking cap on (c’mon! I know you have one!), you’d realize I was making a self-deprecating remark about my erstwhile sense of humor (or, often, non-humor). Perhaps if you’d tear yourself away from the knee-jerk judging that I’ve seen so much of lately, you’d open your eyes to the often well reasoned points I have made, in this post and others. But you won’t. So you don’t. No loss of mine, other than time explaining and re-explaining myself.
I agree completely, and that is a large part of the reason I have chosen to largely pull myself out of this topic. That, and time concerns.
–Tim
We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first “lost generation” nor today’s lost generation; in fact, we think we know just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak.
I don’t know about the rest of ya’ll, but I myself wouldn’t mind seeing the Affirmative Action discussion migrate over to Great Debates. (Easy for me to say, since my only contributions thus far have been occasional one-line, snide remarks - ha!) It is, in my humblest of opinions, a Worthy topic, and it deserves better than to be discussed under the comically sadomasochistic title of this thread.
Homer,
you said ‘Please! This isn’t Sophocles’ Greece! People have lives here. Not all of us have four hours to sit around and debate rhetoric that will change nothing.’
Well I could reply in YOUR style, Homer:
Hey! I know it’s not Greece - it’s the INTERNET.
I’ve got a life too, you know. I’m typing this in my own house on my middle computer, while playing computer games on another one and listening to my top-of-the-range CD. I bought them out of my income from my good job which I got because of my intellectual qualifications and pleasant manner (AND I’m a white male).
It might take you FOUR HOURS to think of and type something, but my posts only take a few minutes, because I’m clever. (You can check this by seeing how many threads I’ve posted on in the last hour.)
Now the above is rather confrontational, and you probably feel ready to reply strongly.
Well, that’s how many of us feel about some of your posts. As I have repeatedly said, why not take some time to calm down and express yourself better. As I also said before, I think you and Speakeasy are annoyed by lack of economic opportunity, but you won’t help your situation by attacking the wrong target (and you will also give a poor impression of yourself).
Why doesn’t the sun come out at night when the light would be more useful? (Pratchett)
Um, Sophocles wrote plays (specifically the Theban plays, Ajax and Electra).
The rhetoric guy you’re thinking of might be Socrates. And you’re right, he didn’t change anything apart from the entire course of Western thought. Possibly why he is so little-known today that even an intelligent, well-educated and erudite chap like Homer gets him confused with a contemperaneous playwright.
Yes, like this one:
And like this one:
And this:
And there’s always:
Homer, these are not “well reasoned points.” They are statements, and if you actually put any reasoning into them, then you are quite thick.
There’s one thing in this whole thread – and most likely on the whole board – that you’ve written that rings true:
Rich
Apparently your points are NOT well-reasoned, or so manny people wouldn’t be telling you to stop talking out of your ass.
Timmy dear, do you ever wonder why you must spend so much time explaining and re-explaining yourself? Could it be because you’re always talking out of your ass?
Poor Timmy - still can’t back up all those “well-reasoned points” he made (even though he’s explained and re-explained), so he’s taking his ball and going home.
Wimp.
StoryTyler
I am too in shape! :::muttering::: Round is a shape.
C’mon up and see me sometime.
So, the response to the Topic title would have to be “No you can’t”
<font size=4>Homer, listen very carefully. WE ALL STOLE YOUR DAMN CAR RADIO. Yes. We. The Straight Dope Regulars created a fiendishly clever plot to steal your damn radio, just to piss you off & ruin your Zen-like serenety. And that’s why all of us are disagreeing with you. Just because it makes you mad. We’re all out to get you.
The whole world is in on it.
It’s a conspiracy.
A Commie Plot.
The Red Menace; yup that’s us.
First VegForLife had your radio. The it was passed to glee; then pleddison. Later, it was smuggled on llama-back to Kellibelli in Canada. Coldfire has it now. We bring it to all the SD get togethers, and pose with it for photographs; all the while laughing madly at our witless dupe (that’s you, dipstick-breath). Last time, Unca Cecil & all the moderators posed together for a group photo, holding YOUR DAMMED CAR RADIO.
It all ties in with the Illuminati. Trust me on this.
So, you can forgive all those minorities that you blame for the loss of you freaking, cheap car radio; & spend your time hating us.
Save The Endangered Jackalope! Send Cash Now! If You Do This, I Will Use The Cash To Save Any Jackalope That I Happen To Find! Send Cash Now! Before It’s Too Late! My Bills, I Mean The Jackalope’s Bills Are Due The 15th Of The Month!
This has been a message from the Illuminated Committee To Save The Jackalope. Fnord.
Dear Dan,
You are now one of my favorite posters!
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
Hey, I want my beer back. That radio sucked hot wind from a yak’s felched ass. All it ever plays is Boy George tunes. Not fair at all, even if I only gave you Crappy American Tasteless Beer® for it. At least I can use it as a target for the .357 Magnum at the pistol range.
“A zebra does not change its spots.”
~Al Gore, 1992~
Oh, for Pete’s sake, guys.
It was NOT a radio that was liberated from Homer. It was a CD player. A cheapo at that.
I can’t get the shuffle mode to work.
Underneath my clothes I am completely naked.
Very quiet all of a sudden.
They just don’t make racist poseurs like they used to.
Why do I have the feeling that we will soon be seeing less and less posts from Homer and more and more foolish posts from some new member?
That would be because he lied.
He can’t take it.
Who said that already…???
Yooo-Hooo! Homie! Homie-Claus! Homa-Roonie! Homa-Rama! Come HoooOOme! All is forgiven! (Yeah, Right!)
Save The Endangered Jackalope! Send Cash Now! If You Do This, I Will Use The Cash To Save Any Jackalope That I Happen To Find! Send Cash Now! Before It’s Too Late! My Bills, I Mean The Jackalope’s Bills Are Due The 15th Of The Month!
This has been a message from the Illuminated Committee To Save The Jackalope. Fnord.
WallyM7: It’s the button to the right of the volume dial. But it only works if you’ve already hit play. Damned confusing, I know.
BTW- Did I leave my Blink 182 CD in it? I still can’t find it…
JMCJ
Die, Prentiss, Die! You will never have a more glorious opportunity!
::crusty eyed:: Uh, hey. How’s it goin? ::rubbing eyes:: Sorry, I must have dozed off there.
glee:
C’mon! That’s not my style! There’s not one single racist, inflammatory remark in the whole thing! And, my three computers aren’t side by side, two are back to back in the fifth bedroom on the second floor.
TomH:
Ahh, thank you. I did mis-speak. It must have been the fact that I had to read every single recovered greek drama and poem, fragments and all, this semester. But, I wasn’t saying HE didn’t change anything, I was saying YOU and I won’t change anything by debating this stuff. Well, nothing other than maybe someone not so set in his ways viewpoints.
VegForLife:
Thank you for ripping five quotes completely out of context. But the sixth stands true.
StoryTyler:
Thanks, I had forgotten that I talk out of my ass alot. But, darn it, you sure did remind me.
Voltaire:
Not really. I said I could take the abuse, any and all, that anyone wanted to dish out. I didn’t say I could take four hours a day of smackin gums over a dead topic. Sorry.
Daniel:
Oh dear LORD that was funny. I think that was probably one of the few times I’ve ever laughed out loud reading a post.
WallyM7:
Actually, it was a Rockford Fosgate RFX-8120. Lists for $300. Eight disc changer plug in back, dual pre-outs, 4x40w peak, 4x25w RMS, IR remote, detachable face, etc. Very nice.
But yes, I did catch it feltching yaks on more than one occassion. I was getting quite tired of that.
Corrado:
Yes, it is the button to the right of the volume, but it’s called “Random”, and the CD plays automatically. There’s not even a play button.
Sorry about that, I was in Iowa. Or was it Dodge City? Who knows. Not my boss. Had a week off work, I was pulling 12 hr naps, lots of PSX, some DirecTV (mom got us one for X-Mas, WOOHOO!!!), and tons of eating. Lots of family about. No time to post.
Off topic, has anyone played Tony Hawk Pro Skater? It’s great. I highly recommend it to any and all. What’s your highest pointage for a single combo? I got 25.6k once.
–Tim
We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first “lost generation” nor today’s lost generation; in fact, we think we know just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak.
Bump
I AM THE GREATEST!
Even if I was posting under another name!