Given the thread subject’s penchant for logorrhea, I predict that this won’t end anytime soon.
OK, Gyrate too.
Regards,
Shodan
Shodan, this BBQ thread is freaking genius!
**Starving Artist **can’t resist responding and the sheople can’t resist debating with him therefore submitting themselves to the pitting!
Awesome!
Yay!
Don’t you people ever just get sick of this? Don’t you ever get tired of endlessly repeating the same old tired self-congratulatory crap? We get it - your side is amazing and wonderful and lovely and the other side is mean and nasty and evil and stupid. Wonderful. We’re all very happy that you’re so damned satisfied with what you think - try not to sprain your elbows patting yourselves on the back. But don’t you ever just stop and think, “what am I actually going to accomplish by saying this again?” Doesn’t it ever strike you as old and tired and dull and just mind-numbingly repetitive and stupid?
Because it sure as fuck does me.
Agreed. Fuck it. Let’s all never post anything here again. Who’s with me?
I see what you did there.
That’s just like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you’d say.
Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
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That’s beautiful.
Yeah! Their side sucks!
You are so screwed.
AARP has ninjas on retainer ya know. Sleep with one eye open tonight.
Worse: they’ve got Sam Fisher.
And I keep arguing because, sometimes, someone on the other side of the debate actually presents substantive arguments that make me think, and who actually addresses the issues I raise without assuming that I hold the opposing viewpoint purely on partisan grounds.
See, the problem here is you. It’s posts like this that turn this kind of thing into a side-vs.-side thing.
You’ll notice, if you read the OP, that I never once mentioned SA’s politics. This thread is not–at least it didn’t start out to be–a criticism of what SA believes; rather it’s a criticism of HOW he’s come to believe it and how he defends it, and how he refuses to take in any information that he hadn’t already drawn final conclusions on in his youth.
It’s a criticism of a specific individual and his specific methods of interaction. Your post, Smeg, and others like it, are what turns this kind of thread into another pointless us-vs-them screed.
I’m open to criticism of my OP, Smeg, but only if you’ve read it.
Dude, that was a tongue-in-cheek post. Nothing more. I probably should have used a smiley. The rest of my comments about Starving Artist are genuine, but that post was not intended to be taken seriously.
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Fair enough. I did read the OP, and I see what you’re saying. But let’s face it, it was inevitable that the thread would turn into this type of argument, because every political thread here turns into that kind of argument, especially when the one particular person you choose to criticize is practically synonymous with a particular political stance around here, and especially especially when the pitter and pittee are on opposite sides. It is that utter futility and predictability that is irritating me this morning. And we could begin listing which people are generally responsible for that, but then that would be just more finger-pointing, which is exactly what I’m talking about.
And saying that I am the problem is more than a little laughable, considering I have almost never participated in any political thread of any kind in my near-decade on the boards. I have quite deliberately kept my political views off of the boards because I don’t have the slightest interest in debating them.
As for this particular thread, it had already degenerated into an us-vs-them screed long before I showed up, and my goal, if any, was to call attention to that fact in a vain attempt to reverse or ameliorate it. It wasn’t aimed at the OP in particular, but more at the mess the thread had rapidly, inevitably, and oh-so-predictably descended into.
I pit dopers who pit themselves pitting dopers who pit others who engage in the same behavior that they do in the pit while pitting the arguments of** Starving Artist.**
Do you postulate the existence of dishonest Lions fans?
Really, what’s the incentive there?
That being said, I vote for Elv1sl1ves over Starving Artist. But I don’t think he is some sort of liar, I just think he’s dumb as a post.
I need some sort of diagram with circles and arrows to parse that sentence.