“Fill in the dots”? English is not your first language, is it?
Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it helps (slightly) to explain your opacity.
Holy smokes, you don’t even really know what “euphemism” means, do you?!?!
“Afraid of heights” is not a euphemism, it is a direct, unambiguous description. There is no blank to fill, no dots to connect.
Why be so extravagant? There is an old, simple, short English word. Clear and precise.
Ironic?
That’s you don’t know what euphemism means
Every news story I can find describes him as “self taught” and none of them says anything about a pilot friend, so I’d ask you to show a link to where you read that, but I’m getting the impression that you don’t do that. It ultimately doesn’t matter to the point I was making, though, which you omitted in your answer. Abagnale could have gotten a “pilot friend” to show him how to fly, but why would he bother? His con was free plane trips and fake checks, the ability to fly a plane was irrelevant.
Yes, the fact that he was illegally flying and landing a stolen plane without attending flight school or having a pilot’s license is rather the point of the story, as “licensed pilot flies plane legally” doesn’t generate much interest. I’d ask what that has to do with the point you’re making, but nobody knows what that is.
That’s really unfortunate, because you have what could be the seeds for a good discussion here, but you’re steadfastly unwilling or unable to have it. If your point is over the relative worthlessness of certain PhD’s in the so-called soft sciences and you were willing to lay out your premises plainly and clearly present your arguments accordingly, an interesting discussion might follow and you might find some here in agreement. Instead you insist on this:
and this:
Nobody is interested in guessing at your meaning. Ironically, Socratic method and Socratic questioning are learned skills taught in the humanities, and frankly, you either lack those skills or are putting them to poor use here. Your questioning is not leading to a natural discussion and a clarification of the ideas that you are putting forth. People are not frustrated with you because you’re getting them to admit to harsh truths that they’re uncomfortable with, they’re frustrated with you because you won’t say what point you’re trying to make and they’re having to guess at whatever it is that you’re getting at.
While we’re on it, “afraid of heights” is only a euphemism if you’re using it to describe somebody so drunk they can’t stand up. If you’re using it to describe somebody with a fear of high places, it’s not a euphemism in any sense of the word.
Why don’t you just tell us why you can’t pilot an airplane? Whatever the reason is, I’m sure no one here will think any less of you.
I already think less of him for his inability to phrase an argument. I think he should return his high school diploma. (I assume he didn’t go to college, but if he did, he should return that diploma as well.)
Well I, for one, have found Don Simus’ arguments to give me plenty of revelations on how to increase miles per gallon.
No, that ship has sailed.
As well as decommissioned, scuttled, and currently serving as an artificial coral reef.
And yet divers in the submerged wreck still can’t find what the point was.
Well, that’s probably because they’re divers, not licensed pilots.
Because, apparently, if you can get a pilot’s license you can accomplish anything.
Maybe we can get Clarence Oveur or Roger Murdock to solve the Riemann hypothesis or P versus NP?
It’s a well known fact that Amelia Earhart didn’t actually get lost, she just discovered a marvelous proof that couldn’t fit in the margins of her plane’s dashboard and made an emergency landing to find someplace to write it down.
It took a while.
I can.
Why don’t you respond to Pravnik’s post, Don Simus?
I stand corrected. Apparently he can’t make his point.
I think their are not licensed divers either.
I wonder if he still remembers what it was.
So no responding to Pravnik then?
OK, here’s another question:
What is current location of Moose and Squirrel?
They indeed defecate when the danger gets extreme. But when the danger is merely potential they act like you described - close their eyes. What is the name for people of such character?