I pit "criticizing the Plan without giving it a chance to work"

The BBQ Pit
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It’s called analysis, moron. See, there’s this thing we do known as (not to use any big words with four whole syllables like ‘analysis’) ‘figuring out whether a plan will work before you try it’. Which, perhaps, you might try because every other plan you’ve had has failed badly.

As a pit, yes, this is lame. I’m too apoplectic to conjure up a linguistically splendid pitting but needed to vent before my head exploded. However, with the kind assistance of thesaurus.com, I’ll borrow these synonyms for ‘stupid’, ‘bungler’, ‘ass’, and ‘dolt’ which only scratch the surface of my feelings about your fuckwittedness:
ass, blockhead, boob, booby, cretin, dimwit, donkey, dork, dumb ox, dumbbell, dunce, dunderhead, fool, halfwit, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, jerk, kook, meathead, mental defective, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, pinhead, pointy head, simpleton, stupid, tomfool, twit, yo-yo, blockhead, bonehead, dolt, donkey, dope, halfwit, idiot, imbecile, jackass, jerk, numskull, schmuck, twerp,airhead, ass, blockhead, bobby, boob, chump, clod, dodo, dope, dumdum, fool, goon, idiot, ignoramus, lamebrain, lunkhead, oaf, sap, simpleton, stupe.

There are some duplications. That only means that you’re doubly so. 2008 is too far away, damnitall. I live for the day when something happens that will finally wipe that smirk off your stupid face. Of course, that would require that you actually comprehend the scope of the damage you’ve wreaked and that means you’d need the ability to - oh - think.

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You should attribute alphabetized lists of synonyms that you copy from other sources.

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My problem is that this plan has already been given a chance to work. Twice. It’s failed twice before, why should this time be any different?

Saying that he got it from thesaurus.com isn’t good enough for you?

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Or how about “We did give your plan a chance to work dumbass! What the hell do you think we’ve been letting you do these past 5 years? Plan 1, plan 2, plan 3, plan 4. They’ve all failed. What are you going to do when this one fails? Ask for another chance to watch another plan fail before we criticize?”

I believe the phrase is “3 strikes your out.” How many strikes do you think you should get?

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Whaaa? Is there something wrong with what I said other than the fact that it doesn’t apply in this instance?

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What? Is there something wrong with just saying, “Sorry, I didn’t see that.”?

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Is there something wrong with just laughing off something said by someone you hate?

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Seriously, is there something wrong with simply apologizing that you missed the attribution?

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Oh, Jesus. Why do you have to make every thread all about Frank?

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There aren’t enough rolleyes in the world for that one.

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Kiss and make up, you two.

I would expand this pit to all general notions of “let’s put this Plan in place and re-evaluate it later.” It ignores the inertia in government. Starting new spending, or founding a new agency or sub-agency, is ten times easier than it is to eliminate that new growth once it proves useless (or even harmful.)

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Well, you could just admit your error, seeing as how it was a fairly minor one to begin with (though you chose to address that instead of the OP’s point), instead of overreacting when I pointed out what you missed.

Dude, this is about you getting pissy when I pointed out that Quiddity Glomfuster had indeed cited his list. All Frank did was call you on it. By the way, you have four posts in this thread. Frank has three. How is this about Frank, again?

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About that plan…It worries me. Given the caveat that hippies are not widely known for tactical and strategic acuity (even though I kill at Civ III…), this one strikes me as straight out of the George Armstrong Custer Strategic Compendium.

Please Mr. Custer…I don’t wanna go!..

The Plan, so far as I’ve heard, is to thrust our force into hostile neighborhoods, clear out the “bad guys”, and then…we stay there. We locate our troops within potentially hostile territory, in a clearly defined space. And then, if there’s any major concentrated attack, we rely on Mr. Malikis army to save our bacon. They will rush to our assistance, and fling themselves into harms way…on our behalf. Because they just love us to pieces, love us half to death.

And just so no one gets the idea we’re taking sides here, we’re going to mount an incursion into Anbar Province, because that’s where the AlQ are. Mixed and mingled with all of those Sunni. In the only Sunni dominated province in Iraq. And we’re going to do this with 4,000 troops. The entire province. 4,000. Marines, granted, but still…

…Duck yer head, Charlie, duck yer head! Szzzziiiiip! Oooh, I beat that smarts…

I should very much like to be wrong here, but it sounds like we’re going to stir up that ants nest and then dangle our troops as bait. And then when the bad guys attack, we will crush them with Mr. Maliki’s wholly non-sectarian army (who love us, as I mentioned…)

How quickly will they arrive? If the bad guys quietly amass a couple hundred or so fanatics to attack our guys position, how quickly will Dolta Force arrive? Ten minutes? An hour? Pencil it in for Wednesday, after lunch?

Is this a brilliant strategic ploy, masquerading as shit-wittitude, or is it just what it appears to be?

If you think its a bad plan, the time to criticize is *before * we get a bunch of guys killed. Not after you “give it a chance” to blow up in your face. I thought that was obvious.

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My dears, I’m a ‘she’.

Amendment accepted. Move and carry?

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I oppose this plan, yet have nothing better to offer.

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Time for your meds again, Liberal. Your heading down that path again.

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I was guessing.

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Shock and ewwwww!

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I liked the Daily Show’s accurate characterization of this as “Magical Thinking.”

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My response to Captain Carrot was an admission of error. It was intended to be a humorous one. Would a smiley have helped? Or a username like IddyPiddyTiddy? Or an evacuation of the bone up your ass?