Fighting ignorance my ass...

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–>a Loudon Wainright moment: “Deaaad skunk in the middle of the road…”

Where have all these mewling idiots escaped from? Stellar social skills…they come into a party, look around and promptly pronounce judgements ranging from “you don’t meet my expectations” to “you suck”.

Thanks for sharing. Tsk, tsk. Oh, well. Goodbye.

This is just plain, crying pathetic.

At least trying to display a little intelligence, backing up assertions, putting opinions right out there for free-for-all open discussion is wrong…how? And c’mon, anybody who’s ever spent a damned half hour in MPSIMS shoulda figured out there’s room for casual, social stuff.Of course MPSIMS residents tend to be intelligent sorts who are just hangin’ out: having fun, not stupid.

It’s a fast crowd but also a fascinating, hilarious, fair crowd if given half a chance.

Don’t like it immediately? Well, maybe you didn’t look around enough or let people get to know you. But hey, your call. Given it time and still don’t like it? Okay, no size fits all. Then just LEAVE. It’s amazingly rude, not to mention stupid and futile, to pitch a tantrum all over a large, diverse group of people you barely know.

Know what? You sound like a petulant schmuck but your instincts are dead-on. This isn’t a match made in heaven.

We will somehow cope in your absence. We’re looking forward to the experiment.

:wally

Veb

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First one to make a funny!
Jack Batty, you’re my hero. I love those movies!

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Okay, this one’s an oldie but “If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?” -George Carlin

Actually as a newbie I must disagree: while I have seen a few complete pricks on these boards I’ve also seen quite a few people disagree rationally on another board and then agree (rationally) on another. And, I’ve personally learned a shit-load here.

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Oh crap! It wasn’t Carlin it was Gallagher. Shit! Shoulda used Google.

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Mommy?

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Bwaaahaaahaaaaaa!!! Thank goodness I wasn’t actually drinking my coffee when I read that.
I bleached my hair from brown to almost white, but still sort of yellow. Then I put red dye on it, and got ORANGE!!! Beware the red dyes, use them with full understanding of the rules of color combination.

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Just don’t be tracking it into my apartment. That mat is there by the door for a reason.

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So I dyed my hair today… I HATE IT! This is the second time this has happened to me and, after last time, I vowed it would never happen again because I would be more careful. But I wasn’t careful. And it happened again.

The color in the bottle did NOT = what the box said! Last time this happened, my hair was supposed to be dark brown when I got done. It was red. Now it’s black. BLACK! And I look horrible with black hair!

:cries:

GAH!!!

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:: Provides a nurturing shoulder for Silver ::
There, there, my pet. No need to cry. You need to allow, cooler wiser heads to judge how good you look with black hair … wouldn’t, um, have any pictures, would you? [sub]Mmmmmm … black hair. Yummy.[/sub]

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Photog,

I really want to ask a serious question. I don’t really mean it as an insult, although it might well sound as if it was so intended, but I assure you, in this case I am really fighting ignorance.

You signed on the board in February, posted 44 times, as of October. So, today you come to the stunned realization that we, as a group are beneath your contempt, and without recognizable intellectual worth. We waste your time, and posture in place of discussing things, pretend to knowledge we do not possess, and are totally undeserving of your attention. So, did it take you seven months to realize this?

Why do you read this mindless crap, anyway? I mean if it is bilious drivel, with delusions of grandeur, just what the hell are you doing at the party? Seven months? You spent seven months deciding that you were just too far ahead of the Straight Dopers as a group to bother with us?

So, my question, then. Are you stupid? If you are not stupid, just why out of the seven billion pages available on the net do you keep coming back to one you find undistinguished, and unenlightening? This isn’t just a screed posted to insult you, but a serious inquiry on a subject that has caused me questions for years. What is it about the Web that encourages people to subject themselves to things they don’t like over and over, for months, or even years at a time.

Long ago I wrote a twit filter for my email, so that obnoxious assholes would get a mechanically generated reply to any email to me, stating directly and simply that no human contact was available to them via that channel. On a whim, I included a counter. One incredible moron wrote to my twit filter seven times! I don’t know what they said, since the email was deleted before I ever checked. But what is it that makes people like you (by your own description) continually abuse themselves by participating in things they don’t like? I really don’t get it.

An honest assessment of just what stimulus provides you with enough reward to repeat the behavior you now say is totally worthless would really fight ignorance.

Tris

“The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.” ~ Alexander Jablokov ~

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Nuh uh!

And, I feel that I must reveal the following: Nyquil gives me hiccups.

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You know, with over 1100 posts I have corrected my own grammar dozens of times (and only those which NEEDED to be corrected) and I cannot recall a single instance of another doper jumping on my typo.

So either my typing has been mearly perfect, which is not the case, or this is not something that actually happens.

Unless he’s complaining about people with wierd typing skills like random shifts or lack of spaces.

p.s. I like cake.

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Oh suck it up, will you? I honestly haven’t seen any particular cases where anyone has gotten all that pissed off when something is wrong. Sure, people point it out if they disagree or there is an error, but they don’t rip you to shreds (unless of course you deserve it). And if you still don’t like it, DON’T FUCKING COME HERE!

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This is too funny.

Rather than dwell on the potentially hysterical jokes dealing with flatulence or suffocating Photog by cramming his head in it, I prefer to reflect upon a potential future here at the SDMB:

[dreamsequence]

Poster 1: The existance of God is objectively unprovable and thus creationism is a bunch of mythical stories.

Poster 2: Well, since you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your own personal savior you’re rotting in hell. So there. Plus the world is only 5,000 years old, and the dinosaus were in fact the Philistines referred to in the Bible. Plus, is you where clothes that are blended, like 1/2 polyester and 1/2 cotton, we should get to stone you cause thats in the bible too. In addition…

All of a sudden Mangetout’s ass comes swooping down, crushing poster 2, and leaving a well reasone argument in it’s place.

All the SDMB: Oh thank you Mangetout’s ass. You’ve saved the day yet again.

[/dreamsequence]

Ahh the future…

P.S. All spelling errors in this post are intentional for the purposes of getting some Dopers off. You’re welcom…

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Coming up next… the Jack Chick of Whining, Self-Righteous Pretentiousness!

(Merriam Webster says “pretentiousness” is a word, dammit!)

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No, no, no! Doesn’t anybody ever do a search! Cecil on funky, which means “smelly”. And “delic” means “pertaining to a deli.” So “Funkadelic” means “smelly stuff from a delicatessen,” such as a garlic meatball hero.

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This has been an entertaining thread. I only want to add that in the short time I’ve been here, SDMB has helped me during a time of being a little on edge. That is, I’ve been a bit on edge, and that’s not the normal me. SDMB has given me amusement, insight, information, and a feeling of community during one of the darkest times of my life. The other dark times were losing loved ones, including my dog. And when some poster quotes me and responds with some sarcastic words, so what? They don’t really know me. FWIW

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Of course, in reality, in the case of both psychedelic and funkadelic, the suffix -delic derives from the Greek delein: to make manifest.

Yeah, I know, I’m screwing up your joke but I’m just so desperate to prove I know more than you :smiley: .

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*Originally posted by Hamlet *
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Hilarious visual. He opened a can of swoop ass. Hee hee.

:::lights up a smoke after the ecstatic experience of reading “reasone”:::

Was it good for you?

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So then, wiseguy, what does “funk” mean in Greek then? Hunh? HUNH? Answer me that!

:smiley: