Seriously, am I being whooshed? The comma between “plausible” and “yet” is the key here.
For the mentally impaired: You are a mediocre poster. You often call other posters idiots because their posts aren’t the superficially clever yet ultimately worthless type of drivel that you respond to, eg conservative bad, poster is troll, official SDMB meme, group hug for fat perverts.
Capiche?
Steadily and for some time, I figure.
Definitely a pre-existing condition.
ivn, While I am flattered that you’ve paid enough attention to my body of work to have an opinion of my relative value or lack thereof, I am curious … why are you stalking me … so quietly? I mean you’ve been here over a year and obviously are neither shy nor laconic - you have no hesitation in slapping down any meretriciousness that you may meet - yet I am unaware of us crossing paths before in past threads. Oh I am sure that there must have been a few over that year but honestly none that I recall you in whatsoever. Briefly scanning your posting history it appears that we’ve rarely posted in the same threads. You’ve lurked in all these threads I’ve posted in apparently, noting the speciousness of my posts, and yet never before deemed my meretriciousness offensive enough to slap me down? Damn. I guess you must think that I am even mediocre in my mediocrity! That must be it.
Honestly I plead guilty to be pretty middle of the road here and in that sense fairly mediocre. I’ve no problem with that. I don’t mind being in the middle of a pack that I mostly respect. But you really need a laxative because you are way too full of shit to last much longer without some serious consequence, toxic megacolon maybe. And yeah, insurance won’t cover that.
And while I have mostly been having fun with you, I would request some examples of my calling other posters “idiots” because their posts were not superficially clever yet worthless (yeah “cite please”) - I mean maybe once or twice I’ve called someone an idiot in the Pit but not for lack of cleverness, superficial or otherwise. More just because, well, the poster was not only an idiot but insisted on being an obnoxious idiot. Fun is fun, and low opinions of me and my posting history may be justified, but I do insist they at the least be based on crimes I’ve actually committed!
Oh, feel free to respond with that you can’t be assed. It would be a nice way to bring this now too long of an exercise to a full circle closure.
Yet he keeps responding to you. Imagine that.
I sincerely hope you both belong to the ESL club or are actually in grade school, because you both appear to be highly deficient in both vocabulary and in looking things up on teh internets.
For the nemesis of the Superfriends with the fittingly penis-shaped head: Click on a username, search for all posts by that user. I’m actually impressed that this has apparently driven you into such a tizzy that you had to post about it twice.
For the Tolkien tard LARPing with a Nerf sword:
re·spond (r-spnd)
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3. To react positively or favorably: The patient has responded rapidly to the treatment.
Thank you for providing examples of both the terms “moron” and “meretricious”, you bottom-feeding illiterate.
So you’ve pretty much given up on getting Miss Congeniality this year? Probably wise.
The following is the unofficial ivn1188 post rubric. Not quite all steps in the rubric are followed at all times, but the below is a closer approximation of ivn1188’s tediousness than he actually merits.
Assert that conversation partner is a member of the “clique”. This is justified on the grounds that:
1a) ivn1188 claims to have divined this from a “Find All Posts By User” or
1b) Opinions contrary to ivn1188’s thought heroes are ipso facto indicators of clique membership
Assert that conversation partner is either fat or is a social outcast. See 1a and 1b above for identical justification.
Pedantic and picayune criticism of other posters’ use of language, coming at the expense of actual comprehension. A certain thread on intelligent design comes to mind, where our friend spends nearly three pages on a personal non sequitur before admitting it is orthogonal to the actual thread.
Assertion that conversation partner is an idiot. Here ivn1188 indulges in rather sub-Ciceronian rhetoric. He makes liberal use of conventional insults (bottom-feeding, moron, illiterate) combined with Latinate words he lifts out of this year’s Kaplan guide to the SAT (specious, meretricious).
It is not a great stretch of the imagination to look at my username and the fact that I have ancient posts about, gosh, swords, and conclude that I am a nerf larper. This would, of course, be absolutely meretricious and impossible for you, or anyone else, to bear out in actual fact. But, as usual, that does not stop ivn1188.
In case you wish to insult me with further gratuity and inaccuracy, here is an SAT wordlist just for you.
You can do better than a 550 next time, I’m sure of it.
Why, those words aren’t so fancy! First is really obvious, any schoolboy might say “A badger and a wolverine appear to be very similar, but they are actually different specious.” And the other, who can forget Cambells Soup ads? “Cambells Soup! Its mmmm-mmmm meretricious!”
Ya’ll don’t fuck around when it comes to The Science of Posting on the SDMB.
Maeglin Ah! I had thought that he had just started babbling incoherently. Using the miracle of search technology I realize that he’s make some connection between my name and a character from Superfriends, Darkseid, apparently a god of evil. Heh. News to me and interesting. Not the reference to my name but I wonder where the writers came up with that name. For me it is a very uncreative use of part of my family name with no cleverness whatsoever - I wonder if the writers were similarly alluding to a real and similar name when they did that. Why else “Seid”?
Is "click the user … " supposed to be his response to provide examples of me calling posters idiots for failing to be meritricious enough? I am gathering from your post that it is. Huh. What a strange response. Odder even than Dio’s “can’t be assed”.
I seriously begin to wonder if he really is significantly mentally ill, which would make taunting him much less fun. I mean if he’s just a full of himself obnox then poking him with a stick is all well and good. But if he really is ill then it isn’t right …
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I had to look up Superfriends as well. And to think I was a kid then, too. I suppose I was too busy doing non-geeky things.
I am going to go out in a limb here and guess that the writers picked Darkseid because it sounds like Darkside.
Find All Posts by user his his peculiar form of handwaving. Anyone who argues with him is an idiot because, with a wave of his magic Find All Posts wand, he can in theory prove that his opponent is some sort of basement-dwelling loser.
I don’t like to speculate. But like everyone else who has ever tried to engage with him, I have to wonder what motivates him to stay, since the SDMB is evidently incompatible with either his intellect or his temperament.
Hard to imagine, a show so geeky that even I missed watching it. Nah, it’s only that I was too old by then (1984, I was 25). Finishing med school and getting married. Another few years and I’d be watching geeky shows again as the young geeky Dad with his preschooler but by then it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Oh, I know that it sounds like DarkSide; it’s the Germanic proper name spelling that makes me wonder.
And thanks to google I now know what a LARP is! Boy the things you pick up around here!
Come on now, DSeid, he’s supposed to be getting under your skin here.
I didn’t know you guys despised me. I thought I was only disliked.
The hell Ivn1188 has the best post. Did you miss post #138? There’s your winner.
I wouldn’t wonder too much. Wiki tells me the planet of the bad guys is called Apokolips, so I suppose the writers just liked to mess around with words. I bet they didn’t even know it was a proper name.
Our friend really does seem well-informed about the geekery he seems to loathe. I wonder if he has some sort of past.
Darkseid was a well-established comic-book character before being made into a recurring cartoon villain, I feel compelled to point out.
Further, he technically only appears in the seventh and final season of Super Friends, aka Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show. This was followed by his appearances across a one-season run of The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, the first Hanna-Barbera series that firmly and finally dropped the “Super Friends” label and adopted a more serious tone. Personally, I think this might eventually have morphed into something similar to what Bruce Timm would end up producing, but no matter.