# I praise Roadfood and pit Liberal **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 25, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-praise-roadfood-and-pit-liberal/309774 "2005-06-25T06:33:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-praise-roadfood-and-pit-liberal/309774/101 "2005-06-28T16:39:01Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Or maybe he just cracked a friendly joke. Finn, I’ve figured out the problem between you and me. You take everything too seriously. You don’t always listen attentively. You parse meaning too deeply. And you project your own biases onto nearly every discussion. In short, we’re a lot alike. I say this in all seriousness–you have a great sense of humor. By which I mean, of course, that you make me laugh. Sometimes quite a lot. At the risk of sounding dramatic, laughs are often few and far between, and are all the more precious for it. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-praise-roadfood-and-pit-liberal/309774/102 "2005-06-28T16:46:02Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Or maybe he just cracked a friendly joke. A third possibility, certainly. Sorry if I misinterpreted your remarks, but I’d also suggest that communication might not be occuring as clearly as wished. **Contra** and I seem to have read the text in a similar way. Text based communication does not have the benefit of body language, and at least from where I sat it seemed like you were calling bullshit. To offer an olive branch, [here are zombie dogs.](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15739502-13762,00.html) > [@Liberal](#): > > Finn, I’ve figured out the problem between you and me. You take everything too seriously. Been accused of that more than once. > [@Liberal](#): > > You don’t always listen attentively. When talking to someone at a party? Sure. While enaged in a debate? Not so much. > [@Liberal](#): > > You parse meaning too deeply. I think I parse it just deeply enough. But that’s what a background in linguistics, philosophy, English, etc… will do to ya. > [@Liberal](#): > > And you project your own biases onto nearly every discussion. Objective observation is, of course, impossible. We all approach issues from our current perspective, and cast the debate in terms which we are most ‘comfortable’ with. I see the world the way I do, you do the same, and our arguments come from those perspectives. > [@Liberal](#): > > In short, we’re a lot alike. I’ve been toying with that view for a while now, actually. Maybe the same pulled through a mirror, or some such. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-praise-roadfood-and-pit-liberal/309774/103 "2005-06-28T17:05:22Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > I say this in all seriousness–you have a great sense of humor. By which I mean, of course, that you make me laugh. Sometimes quite a lot. At the risk of sounding dramatic, laughs are often few and far between, and are all the more precious for it. I like the contrasts — seriousness - humor, dramatic - laughs — the satisfying sort of rhetoric one would expect from someone called “Contrapuntal”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-praise-roadfood-and-pit-liberal/309774/104 "2005-06-28T17:06:34Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > To offer an olive branch, [here are zombie dogs.](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15739502-13762,00.html) I’ll just skip all the rest of it, and take that. Thanks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-praise-roadfood-and-pit-liberal/309774.md?page=5)