Alright, it may look kind of self-serving of me to post to my own old thread but it really seems like fauxpas could benefitfrom it.
fauxpas, you may not care that you are badly representing teens here, but guess what: we other teens do. It’s not every day that a teenager can actually be treated like an intellectual equal in a debate. The SDMB offers us that opportunity, since we just have to present ourselves well and we’ll be taken seriously. I strongly suggest that you do the same, since we’ve managed to make this place our home and really don’t want a bunch of arrogant little pissants on Winter Break to screw things up for the rest of us. Thank you.
Not something to be proud of, except for the teen part–that is, if you can act your age; after all, there is a degree of maturity to be had in the teen years.
Many of us don’t bother to click that “ignore” button because we don’t want to see only a part of thread which seems interesting.
If you think your time here’s wasted, take a hint from yourself and quit wasting your time…and others’.
Point of fact: you’ve haven’t tried to help a bit since you’ve been here.
Other than being almost as incoherent as you, yeah…he didn’t do anything.
a) If you realize that your actions are a bad representation on you, why do you continue with those actions? A mature person learns from such a realization.
b) Your rambling, ill-written, badly misspelled, logicless posts have yet to approach “speaking correctly.”
c) Accusing the vast majority of the posters on this board (who, btw, are able to construct a post that does not ramble, is well-written, is not badly misspelled, and contains logic) of being jealous of you is quite the funny joke. Oh…you were serious?
I’m a teen, and have been lurking here for years. I don’t post much, but when I do, I try to make sure that I know what I’m talking about; fauxpas dosen’t seem to realize the value of that.
fauxpas, you need a serious attitude adjustment - or maybe just a little growing up.
fauxpas says: I don’t make this stuff up, blah, blah, look it up.
No my little pubescent font of knowledge, you have to provide the argument, back it up with logic, and provide cites when asked for them. That is how questions are answered and debates are won. YOU provide the links to said evidence, especially when you start talking about eating causing fluctuations in the subconscience thus making you hungry when you wake up or whatever bullshit, far out and away psuedo-scientific garble you were uttering. EVIDENCE, not incoherent ramblings.
Just to clear up any confusion at all (which is a stretch in this thread), I’m 25, going on 26 this January. Feel free to join me for a few pitchers of beer on my birthday.
This is also how one avoids getting the dreaded F on essays in school. If you’ve learned nothing else from your time here, fauxpas (which really should be spelled faux pas, but I digress), this summation from Epimetheus will do you a world of good for your entire academic career.
I totally agree with the OP, and would direct it to trader and Smiley as well. Just slow down a bit, think before you post, and take the time to make your post legible, that’s all anyone asks of anyone on this board when you get down to it.
Ummmm, Tripler is the cutest guy in the AIR FORCE of the U.S. that I have ever known and I live in a city where there are tons of AF men and of course women.
I am pretty sure he’s in his mid 20s.
Been wrong before though, but I am pretty sure he’s in his mid 20s.
I get the feeling that if most established dopers had their way every doper would be exactly the same.
I haven’t seen most of fauxpas’s posts but I recognise this thread I am in right now as the usual and quite tedius follow-this-rule follow-that-rule do-this-do-that step-in-line show-no-individuality don’t-annoy-the-mods self-righeous kind of thread.
I am starting to think that established dopers are bullies.
Before you jump on me - this was a first impression. I haven’t read all of the thread. I will do that now - I have a feeling though that none of it will surprise me.
If you guys really wanted someone to post in good english and follow the sdmb rules then you’d tell him/her nicely. Surely you know that talking down to them will be much less effective and often have the opposite effect.
(obviously that does not apply to anyone who may have been nice to fauxpas/rule breakers in general)
racinchikki - Why be an arse ? ** Lobsang ** i can dig it man. Although me associating myself with any right now will smear them. I have to say i agree.
It was a Rhetorical statement racinchikki. I didn’t mean it literally. It’s something people use in intelligent conversation often. It’s called style.
If I said to people in life what ‘old’ dopers say to new dopers in SDMB I’d get my face re-arranged. Many many times.
Although I used to be one that felt I was “being attacked” when in reality I just needed to listen a little more to what people had to say rather than look at every detail as an attack upon me.
I think I have a solution to the fauxpas issue. Whenever he posts an incoherent question or response, reply in an appropriate fashion.
Example:
Can be replied with:
“Well my puzzling carpentar of a moronic shoeboxes collectour…HAHAH.”
Wouldn’t that work? This would force him to learn to make sense, or to stop bothering everyone. Appropriate (read: false) replies may be made to his questions until he respects other’s questions by posting appropriate and logical answers, putting his threads in the correct forums, and by making descriptive questions and non-decieving subject lines.
