AEGYPT, with all due respect, I construe your comments as the equivalent of “Everyone stands around here upright and vertical. But CURIOUS GEORGE has the courage to walk around with his head stuffed up his ass. So at least he’s a refreshing change from the rest of you.”
Different is not a priori better.
I’ll flame you when C.G. actually gets around to argueing his position, instead of performing his cut & paste diatribes that other bad writers wrote. Using a xerox machine is not to be confused with being an iconoclast or debating skills.
If you’re gonna do this…do it right. You have to clearly demonstrate that you CUT and PASTED this crap from some e-mail you received from the Bolshevik Plumbers and Exotic Strippers Cabal.
Links:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=93412
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=93424
I thought Socrates got the 'lock because he was nailing all the young boys in town before the politicians could get to 'em.
That just doesn’t seem to be CG’s style.
What if our Curious George was the inspiration for that other Curious George’s stories?
Curious George Takes a Job - …then tries to lead a worker uprising against the exploitive, bourgeousie scum running the place. Resigns rather than be a cog in the evil corporate wheel that is grinding the unfortunates in other countries into dust.
Curious George Rides a Bike - …to avoid any complicity with America’s evil imperialism and rape of the environment to feed its petroleum jones. In this book, C.G. becomes dismayed to learn the role petroleum played in the manufacture of his bicycle’s frame and tires, so he walks instead. But then he discovers that his shoes were made in a Southeast Asian factory where people earn less than they do in the USA. So he takes to rolling around naked to get where he wants to go.
Curious George Gets a Medal - … from “Pinkos and Proud,” Pittsburgh chapter.
Curious George Flies a Kite - … but, uh, curiously, he seems to have more problems with the US government than a government that puts you in jail - or worse - for flying a kite.
Curious George Learns the Alphabet - Just wait a decade or so. He might even be able to use it to form intelligent sentences and arguments that make sense. One step at a time, people.
Curious George Goes to the Hospital - But feels a lot of self-loathing at the effective care he receives there, because of his hatred for the profit-driven, corporate medical conglomerate. Yearns for slow, inefficient, socialized medicine.
But what about the Bunny Rabbit he gets to take home at the end?
Hey Wump! Look over here!
Hmmmm…they hated and persecuted Socrates because of his unpopular views. And we hate and persecute George for HIS unpopular views. Yep, you’ve convinced me. George is really a wise, wise man doing us a favor by pointing out our bigotry.
Oh, wait. Nope, he’s really just an asshole who knows how to use CTRL-C, CTRL-V. They laughed at the Wright brothers, they laughed at Einstein. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. I really hate the argument that people with unpopular views are MORE LIKELY TO BE RIGHT, simply because they have unpopular views. Uh, no.
Are you sure?
I could have sworn that’s what my whole college radio career was all about.
And if it’s not what the hell was I doing playing Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel?
Troll troll troll troll troll troll!!!
Fuck all of you people. My experience has been that a “troll” is anyone who fulfills two conditions: 1) They don’t agree with you, and 2) They are shitty arguers. Neither of these things is a crime or against the rules. But message board afficianados take their “turf” so fucking seriously that these things always have to turn into a fight.
Never met Curious George, don’t really care. Maybe he’s an asshole. But it seems to me that all he’s really done is taken some things that he feels express his own doubts about what’s going on in Afghanistan and put them up, probably with the intent of “making people think.” Whether this noble intent is accomplished or not is not the point. If you disagree, so the fuck what? Just ignore him.
But quit labeling people, people. You all get so keyed up about a fucking message board, for god’s sake.
“I don’t know how to build a nuclear reactor, but it seems to me tha all you have to do is pour some vinegar into a cup and dance around it smothered in mustard.”
Hmmm… I count four uses of the word “fuck” in your post. You are truely a paragon of calm and restraint in this thread where everyone else is getting all “keyed up”.
:rolleyes:
Oh, eat my ass.
A troll is, among other things, someone who consistently and repeatedly posts inflammatory material, often just copied and pasted from some esteemed source such as “Radical Students of Assboink University against the Atrocities of Bush”; posts material that has been argued to death before and refuses to join in the argument themselves, instead wanting to sit back and watch the reactions of others; or a person that when presented with clear facts and cites as to why they are wrong, continues to post the same shit over and over and over.
Do your research next time. Your very post itself is now a troll, as your words in this paragraph show you really don’t know the issues, you’re just reacting. Congrats.
We don’t ignore him for the same reason we don’t ignore the crazy man with the tinfoil hat standing on our front step and screaming about the Grey/Bush/Khadaffi Konspiracy, a trickle of urine running down his leg and staining the snow. Because he’s an asshole.
I hate the word “irony”, but I don’t know what else to call it.
I thought this was going to be a thread about “dubbya”.
I too haven’t read curious george yet butt I gather from your comments that Spock would consider his comments illogical.
This looks kinda fun… Can I play too?
** curious george wears pasties on his nipples.**
Golden Retrievers are poorly named, as I have yet to see one with a Pooper Scooper.
Mebbe you just really dug Theme from Pigdom Come or DI-19026?
I would just like to add that C.G. has ruined a perfectly good thing for me. My wife’s first (and therefore most loved) horse was named Curious George. She had him for upwards of 10 years before he died of a stroke. When she tells me a C.G. story, there’s usually a cause for tears in one’s eye. Now of course, I’m picturing the horse cutting and pasting bogus anti-dressage propaganda and challenging me to defend my position. Sigh…
aegypt, have you read c.g.'s posts? He doesn’t have unpopular views - he appears to not have any views. A huge percentage of his posts is simply a cut-and-paste of something he read on the Internet, with nary an original thought is sight. Even if I agreed with everything he cut-and-paste, I’d ream him a new one for lazy conduct. He doesn’t argue a blessed thing.
And, finally, many of the people irate with him do not represent mainstream opinion. As this thread, much less the ones linked, demonstrate, he annoys people both waaay to the right and waay to the left. Don’t you be calling elucidator in the “mainstream” - he’s thought of killing people for less than that, before he remembered it was against his principles.
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Yay! Of course I realize you don’t want to be my friend, but that was pretty funny.
Do your research next time. Your very post itself is now a troll, as your words in this paragraph show you really don’t know the issues, you’re just reacting. Congrats.
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tsk tsk tsk, my friend. I said I’d never MET the guy, not that I hadn’t read his posts. This is a common mistake made on message boards. You see, PEOPLE (are you with me so far?) are…get this…REAL. You can’t “meet” them on a message board. You can only READ them, filtered through modern technology and miles of optic cable.
I have been reading Curious George as well seeing others constantly accused of trolling. And with all the facts firmly in place in my head, I still deny the “troll” label. For him. Do what you want with me. There are plenty of bigger things in my last post to nab me on without resorting to false accusations of trolling.
For example:
We don’t ignore him for the same reason we don’t ignore the crazy man with the tinfoil hat standing on our front step and screaming about the Grey/Bush/Khadaffi Konspiracy, a trickle of urine running down his leg and staining the snow. Because he’s an asshole.
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An excellent point. As well as:
I hate the word “irony”, but I don’t know what else to call it. **
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I know, I know, and I was painfully aware of it as I reached for that “submit” button. But what the hell? But I felt bad about it afterwards. Isn’t that worth something? This is the reason message boards drive me crazy.
But I stand by my opinion that “troll!” is called out to freely (your own post is a perfect example…as many good points as you had, what prompted you to label me a troll beyond pure spite?), and Curious George is not a troll.
Yay! Of course I realize you don’t want to be my friend, but that was pretty funny.
Do your research next time. Your very post itself is now a troll, as your words in this paragraph show you really don’t know the issues, you’re just reacting. Congrats.
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tsk tsk tsk, my friend. I said I’d never MET the guy, not that I hadn’t read his posts. This is a common mistake made on message boards. You see, PEOPLE (are you with me so far?) are…get this…REAL. You can’t “meet” them on a message board. You can only READ them, filtered through modern technology and miles of optic cable.
I have been reading Curious George as well seeing others constantly accused of trolling. And with all the facts firmly in place in my head, I still deny the “troll” label. For him. Do what you want with me. There are plenty of bigger things in my last post to nab me on without resorting to false accusations of trolling.
For example:
We don’t ignore him for the same reason we don’t ignore the crazy man with the tinfoil hat standing on our front step and screaming about the Grey/Bush/Khadaffi Konspiracy, a trickle of urine running down his leg and staining the snow. Because he’s an asshole.
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An excellent point. As well as:
I hate the word “irony”, but I don’t know what else to call it. **
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I know, I know, and I was painfully aware of it as I reached for that “submit” button. But what the hell? But I felt bad about it afterwards. Isn’t that worth something? This is the reason message boards drive me crazy.
But I stand by my opinion that “troll!” is called out to freely (your own post is a perfect example…as many good points as you had, what prompted you to label me a troll beyond pure spite?), and Curious George is not a troll.
damn. look what i done this time.