I’m not whooshing you. I’m being sincere, and I do sincerely apologize. And I am NOT being condescending. I should have just let it go, and I knew that.
You mean some other method besides linking to the offending quote?
I didn’t even know it was a redneck vernacular. I thought I was Americanizing a Brit one.
I thought you were too. Obviously this isn’t conclusive of anything, but a quick Google search for “can’t be arsed” had 10 times as many hits as one for "can’t be assed.
If we can have ignoramity, then why can’t we also have assed? Conrad, Burns, Joyce, Naipaul, Nabokov . . . and now DSeid and Dio. New words, new usages and ongoing changes keep English fresh and fun.
I did too, and I was frankly goobsmashed that you’d try to take the pee.
That puts Opee saying “Gee whizz!” into a whole new perspective.
I’m sorry, it will be impossible for me to lighten up until the company that sold my company our new acquisition realizes that the shipment history data that they are providing me to import should, in fact, contain data from months named August! Yes, shipments from August 2009, August 2008, and so on should be included in the fucking files with the inconsistent layouts and imcomplete transactions that you are throwing over the transom and saying, “This is all we got,” while you’re doing it. Not to mention that . . .
Wait, did I just give away my real name?
ivn jumping in - priceless.
Thing is that even though what you say is exactly right, he saved himself from the depths of some other posters (e.g. one whose name begins with c and rhymes with oat, I really don’t even want to say the name lest a vanity search brings her forth like saying Beetlejuice three times!) - and he was rapidly getting there. His very belated admission of “being wrong”, albeit far short of his recognizing and acknowledging his complete dickdom even if his “fact” turned out to be correct, was something that can at least keep us from putting Dio tagged as one of the insane Dopers to be avoided at all times like a plague.
Well, god forbid that you, the ultimate arbiter of stunning mediocrity, put someone on your little register of posters who do not live up to the rigorous standard of meretriciousness that you personify. If only Diogenes the Cynic knew how close he came to being thrown, as it were, into the stygian pit that is your disapproval.
Oh wait, he does.
Because you made sure to point it out, and that’s totally not a dick move.
ps: Curlcoat, Rand Rover, SmashTheState, Stoid. All of whom are actually more entertaining and unique than yourself. One of them is actually smarter than you, as well.
Hey, you misspelled my name! Totally! Almost as if…nah, that can’t be it…
Yeah, but “piss” isn’t an exclusively British term, just a more vulgar term for “pee.”
I mean, when I was a kid, I could say “I have to pee” without getting in trouble, but if said, “I have to piss”, I’d get my mouth washed out with soap. (And by the way, I speak from experience: that ain’t much fun.)
Is that out of four, five or ten?
Well I gotta admit, the parallelism of “mediocrity” and “meretriciousness” is pretty neat (although my guess is that you meant to sarcastically use “meritoriousness” rather than “meretriciousness”, which means attracting attention vulgarly, as in a prostitute dressed to sell herself on the street, which makes no sense in context, but still …) and “stygian” - I’m impressed. See, we can insult creatively without calling each other cunts! Even **ivn[/n] can!
Sorry if my feeling that Dio’s delinquent denouement amounted to a bit of bathos, given his high handed and stubborn idiocy up to some eventual point where it suddenly dawned on him to actually consider what so many had cited to him. Nevertheless I am happy that he has avoided that stygian pit, for Dio is often too strong a voice to have to suffer the consequent etiolation.
OTOH “one of them is smarter than” me? That you call an insult? After a parallelism, a misused “meretriciousness”, and “stygian” - disappointing.
Yeah, but “take the piss” is definitely not an American term. And, by the way, the proper response to someone who is taking a piss on you is, “Pull the other one, it’s got bells on,” and not, “Wait until we get in the bathtub.”
It’s an old statement but still true: the U.S. and the U.K. are two countries divided by a common language.
And then there was the South African’s way of taking a piss. We were sitting at a long table in a public bar, with the South African beside me. The fellow sitting directly across from the South African had an odd, confused look on his face that quickly turned to disgust and anger as he frantically stood up and tried to jump back from the table. Yes, the South African was taking a piss under the table on the fellow sitting across from him.
Was the South African black? That would explain …oh, hang on it wouldn’t.
No, I meant it in the sense of superficially significant or plausible, yet specious, which describes the majority of your work on the SDMB.
Perhaps next time you look up the big words on Google you should check more than one link.
He was white, out of their military. Made me wonder how they train their military.
Well I am flattered that you have read and noted the majority of my “work” here! Honestly I never thought what I post was notable enough for anyone to pay much attention to it as a complete corpus. A few fun discussions, I learn a little, add a little. The bulk of my ops sink like stones, I think. Really, I am not one of the big personalities here. I am happy that there are others who are more “entertaining” and that I am not one of them. I prefer to be the entertained. And thank you for doing your part!
As to your Dioesquian defense of your lexicological lapse, well, let’s replace the word with your chosen definition and see how much sense it makes:
“Well, god forbid that you, the ultimate arbiter of stunning mediocrity, put someone on your little register of posters who do not live up to the rigorous standard of superficially significant or plausible, yet specious posts that you personify.”
God forbid that I put him on the list of those who do not live up to a standard of superficial speciousness? Now that makes no sense. Sarcastic use of meritoriousness, that makes sense. But if you prefer to claim to have intended something just nonsensical, fine by me. You remove your post from remaining as evidence that we (even you) can insult effectively without resorting to cunt-calling though. Oh well.