All ball-breaking aside, I actually don’t think I’m the smartest poster on this board. There are a number of very smart people here, which is why I like it. I would bet I’m not the only TNS member who posts here, in fact; but the others are most likely reluctant to have this kind of sour-grapes vitriol heaped upon them, so they keep mum about it.
My mama says that stupid is as stupid does.
-Forrest Gump
Terrible movie.
How about “death toll as high as the number of police shootings of innocent and/or unarmed victims necessary to cause actual change in police policy”?
“All men excrete” is not a valid major premise? Interesting. I’d never heard that requirement in any of the logic classes I’ve taken. I’d like a cite for this, please.
ETA: found a cite that says otherwise, although it’s old and very hard to read.
No shit!
But a valid observation.
A non sequitur, even as you and I likely agree about how those policies should be changed.
You were not Warned for insults, per se. You were Warned because you insisted on posting in an insulting manner after a Mod had already enjoined all the posters in that thread, naming you in particular, to back away from insulting language so that the thread could continue as a discussion rather than as a brawl. The post following yours provides a logical argument that paralleled the argument you appeared to be making, but unlike your post, it contained nothing that would be construed as a personal attack.
So, you failed to follow a Mod’s instructions,
were Warned for that failure,
and now claim that you were given a different Warning than the one you received
and further claim that a post with no insulting language was “essentially the same” as the post for which you were Warned for hostile language.
(I don’t know how much you had to pay to join that “intelligence” club, but you were seriously overcharged if it was a buck.)
I would ordinarily just say something dismissively sarcastic and pithy like “Uh huh…yeah”. But this is the Pit, and you are insulting more than just my intelligence (and I don’t mean in the obvious literal sense that you and a number of people are engaging in), so I am going to be more direct than usual.
What you are trying to peddle here is a steaming pile of horse shit, and I ain’t buyin’. I may be many things, but I’m glad I’m not a craven and shameless liar like you are. Your intellectual deficits can’t be helped, but your integrity, or lack thereof, is something you can control.
Good day sir. I said good day!
Well, he said it was ten dollars, so in that case, he was overcharged eleventy-hundred percent!
“Forrest? Yer Mom was stupid too.”
If you really can’t see the difference between your post and one the following it, you truly are an idiot. But we already know that because of your incompetence concerning the stupid Drumpf extension, plus your claim that people are out to get you because of your politics.
I’m sure it’s too much to hope for that this means you’re going to stop posting.
Yes, that is obviously too much to hope for. Obvious, that is, to anyone who’s not too thick between the ears to know the difference between GBCW and “good day sir”.
I am amused though that you just contradicted whoever it was up thread that said moderators have no particular desire for me to be gone.
So…you were specifically told to “keep it under control,” here:
Specifically addressed, no less. Then you posted this:
Your idea of “civil,” no doubt.
Then the very next post, which you claim is no different in content (how about tone? Do you see any difference there?) than your own, here:
And you, but not DSeid, get warned here:
You honestly can’t see a difference between your post (“I’m not going to waste time and effort begging you…I’m all out of fucks to give…” and DSeid’s (“Very seriously do or don’t…if you see no meaningful difference…you should not bother voting…Bye.”) ?
Those strike you as the same?
No two posts are identical unless they are identical. But yes, I believe those two posts amount to the same thing. I would have been perfectly content with expressing the exact verbiage in that next post, and not have felt like anything I was trying to say was left out. I didn’t even have any real history of negative interaction with the person I was addressing. Captor and I have carried on in friendly terms for literally years on my “rise of the robots” thread.
The fundamental point though is that people write posts that are that confrontational, and then some, all the time without getting warned. (I have written many myself, which is exactly the problem.) There are certainly forums that just don’t allow even that much bristling or condescension toward a fellow poster, and they have a character that is completely different from this one.
ETA: I would love to see someone raise their hand and say “I can’t stand that fuckwad SlackerInc, but that really was a bullshit warning.” Insult me as much as you like, but just be honest.
Thus demonstrating, once more, that someone seriously owes you ten bucks.
(Hint: you were not Modded for the idea (such as it was) that you expressed, but for the open hostility and rudeness you displayed after being told to ratchet it back. If you think that DSeid’s post displayed the same hostility and rudeness that yours did, you genuinely have a serious cognitive problem. Nowhere did he rudely tell anyone to go play in a sandbox, thus calling them children, as you did. Nowhere did he tell anyone that they “felt” pure and righteous, indicating that their position was insincere.)
Leaving, then? My goodness, that would make it a fine day indeed.
You’re even thicker than Colibri, as you are apparently lacking in basic literacy skills. Try reading again, real slow-like:
Say my name, dammit. Just say my fucking name!!!:mad:
ETA: apologies. that outburst was totally uncalled for.
<cowering> Heisenberg!
I learned it from you, okay? I learned it from you!