Nope. Just a little exchange between us. I don’t believe I’ve ever even spoken to him before. Didn’t really like this, though: “If the responses were less condescending maybe she would have engaged in a back and forth discussion and learned something by it.”
I just don’t like when smug assholes like this blame everyone on the boards because the occasional new member joins up who can’t stomach the thought of anyone disagreeing with them.
So now, I am a smug asshole? You claim you were reacting to the post that was a response to yours. Can you at least keep your argument straight?
This was your post starting this argument: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7373196&postcount=177
Can you explain how my post you quoted above makes me a smug asshole? Perhaps your understanding of the word smug is different from mine. I have been apologetic and tried to answer the questions put to me. You on the other hand decided you could dismiss my intelligence because my punctuation is sloppy.
I think your post about smug asshole was misdirected. Check the mirror; you will see the real target of your post.
Jim {Should **Exy ** and I take this elsewhere? I was rather enjoying the thread before he showed up}
Excuse me? Didn’t I quote - in my last post, no less - the post that I thought indicated you were a smug asshole? Didn’t I quote the exact sentence?
I wasn’t starting any sort of argument when I asked why we’d want that poster back; it wasn’t until you blamed everyone else for her departure that I got annoyed with you.
Taking my words to mean I was blaming everyone else is quite a leap. Thank you for the lesson in twisting meanings.
BTW: What is the definition of someone who evaluates someone Else’s intelligence based on spelling mistakes or punctuations?
I would say that is a smug self-righteous asshole.
Jim
Oh, good. Now the thread has become much more entertaining than back when people were, you know, enjoying themselves. I’ve always felt the one thing we were short on around here was pissing matches. Thanks, guys!
You also told me this: “You can continue to be insulting and condescending as the whim takes you and I will continue to try and be generally polite. Neither way is better than the other.”
But I’m sure you’ll continue trying not to take any responsibility for what you said. Because as you’ve explained above, when you said, “If the responses were less condescending maybe she would have engaged in a back and forth discussion and learned something by it,” you apparently didn’t mean that the responses were condescending or that it was other people’s posts that caused her to run off. Right? You don’t actually mean the words you say, so it’s unfair of me to expect you to take responsibility for them.
Incidentally, I wasn’t the one who called you “retarded”; sorry for making fun of your inability to write at more than, say, a fifth-grade level, but your completely inarticulate response to galt (and your problems go way deeper than punctuation, to be perfectly truthful) was a bit too rich to pass up.
Tell you what Exy can have the last word on this.
I was enjoying the puns and jokes. I let everyone get back to tipping cows.
Jim
So I won’t get to see you try to justify the things you said?
Damn. I love watching gymnastics.
Hey Excalibre, why don’t you open a Pit thread?
We were happily grazing here, y’know?
We were asked to stop pissing on this thread. I think we are both in the wrong. Let’s both show some maturity and either drop it or continue in a new thread.
Jim
Stop taking the pizzle.
Haven’t we worked through the entire cattle-og of cow puns yet?
It would buffalo me to discover that, bison chance, there were no more cow puns.
Threads like this make me glad the computer cow chip was invented.
Jim, the problem is that Excalibre is a dick IMO and is the opposite of a bully. He is the geek that gets beat up IRL and seeks to appear a badass on line. Any attempt you make to placate him will only appear as weakness to him and encourage further assault on yourself. Blow him off.
. Now, now that comment isn’t very kine. Though maybe you’re just 'lowing in the wind.
Yeah, someone had to horn in, didn’t he?
I don’t want to pile on either party here, but they’re both right: What Exit? needs to work on his grammar and stop trying so hard and Excalibre needs to cut down on the Wheaties and swich to decaf. Excalibre, I see the same things you see, and sometimes it annoys me too when people try too hard. But where we see things differently is here: There are lots of people who try too hard IRL, and it can be mildly annoying but generally get along and make friends just as well as other folks otherwise. I have a lot of friends whose style and verbal mannerisms are similar to What Exit?'s, and although the intensity is a little, well, too much at times, they’re fun and interesting people overall just like Jim. And there’s something he’s better at than most of those people I know IRL, too: backing off. If you had said something like–well, I don’t know, but if you had expressed your point in a vaguely civil manner he probably would’ve agreed with you, said something like “Ha, well, seemed like a fun idea at the time” and forgotten about it. Excalibre, you probably know I have a lot of respect for you, but I have to agree with Ensign Edison that you’re coming off like a high school football captain stuffing classmates into trashcans. Misuse of capitalization and punctuation is annoying, and so is forcing a joke, but IMO not half as annoying as a lot of things that a lot of other Dopers do on a pretty regular basis.
I don’t agree with Nic2004, though. Talk about too intense–kind of reminds me of his criminal justice theories.
Why? By now this is all a moo point.
Oh stop crying over spilled milk!