Point in case, I’m pretty sure even the Ancient Greeks wrote something like this, and everybody knows nothing new has been written since those times… :rolleyes:
Couldn’t you at least ask for a quarter point?
But then, considering the caliber of your recent pittings, I suspect you’re edging into negative numbers.
Are there a lot of magic mushrooms growing near you, Lib? Because, really, they’ll make you imagine things.
Well, I think you make good arguments too. I like a variety of styles, from Poly’s microscopically detailed citations to Tris’s shrugs and smiles made of poetry. I think that if you look closely, you’ll see in Contrapuntal a certain ability to empathize with others. For effective debating, that is as important an attribute as any. He is also growing over time. Almost all of us bring something positive to the table. Lately, I’ve begun giving more of an effort to figuring out what that is in everyone.
Out of curiosity, what issues do you have with Contrapuntal? I find him to be a generally intelligent and insightful poster, myself. Or are you just being an overly judgmental twat as you seem so often wont to do?
Well my suggestion is you don’t wait until you resubscribe to express the truth.
You could start in this very thread right now. What a nice change it will be.
Maybe he’s reading between the lines.
My experience with his ‘insight’ is repeatedly having been called a liar myself because he failed to comprehend the answer he had been given and observing him call someone else a liar over something similarly lacking in substance or information.
ETA: seems it’s a word he’s fond of; 47 posts have him using it.
I didn’t know much of him, but what I’ve seen hasn’t impressed me at all. It was him being judgmental that put me off. I’m willing to change my opinion, but I’d need to see better from him than I have thus far.
I can’t fault you for that
I don’t actually know Valteron at all, I don’t care about his presence/absence from this board. However, whenever I see a post of his, I am drawn to the strange titles he is wont to place above his entries.
What’s the deal with [SIZE=2]tomndebb anyhow? Is he some kind of anti-anti-christ or what?[/SIZE]
You got some links for those of us with no time to wade through hundreds of posts looking for examples?
I’m intrigued about why someone who has suuuuuch a high IQ* can’t even manage to spell the usernames of people he is directly responding to (in some cases where he’s even quoted them in his own posts!) correctly.
*that is clearly blowing us all out of the water, it’s so high he can’t even tell us what it is!
Well, my coffee mug refutes your IQ scores. But then my stapler thumbs its nose at my coffee mug. And now my desk calendar is trying to lead everyone in a folk song. It’s all so confusing!
The piano has been drinking/
my necktie is asleep/
the combo went back to New York/
the jukebox needs to take a leak
the carpet needs a haircut/
and the spotlight looks just like a prison break/
the telephone’s out of cigarettes/
the balcony is on the make
the piano has been drinking/
not me
Heh. I flashed on:
veal cutlet walked down the counter and beat the shit out of my cup of coffee…
coffee just wasn’t strong enough to defend itself
This thread can only be improved with the inclusion of some Tom Waits lyrics.
And this:
http://www.threebrain.com/weeeeee.shtml
Note: Prolly NSFW, may get you fired, jailed, deported, or pregnant.
Easy peasy. Do a search on username CContrapuntal and keyword ‘liar’.
I would say it started with this thread—that is when I first noticed it myself.
his final response to her in that thread
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8254012&postcount=620
On the last page he basically called her on her inability to answer his question. She maintains she answered it–and he has maintains she didn’t and she weaseled out of the thread. Seems he called her on it again in one of the patented "liberal’ thread too.
Oh, that chestnut. Yeah, I’m on his side in that one.
Right. The thread in which everybody was explaining why they should be nasty to people who are late where I was the one saying they shouldn’t be so judgmental. :rolleyes:
He utterly failed to comprehend what he was told and continued to ask a stupid question based on his total lack of understanding. And he’s called others liars as well. Refusing to deal with someone who can’t comprehend a point is not ‘weasling out’. It’s ignoring a gnat.
I’ll help there.
**Contrapuntal **to Quiddity Glomfuster: You’re still a fucking liar. in the A note on the (now closed) thread which was started by Quiddity Glomfuster. And IMO was closed much too quickly, but mercifully, I guess.