and what does the World Health Organization got to do with it?
Ah yes, the Basque = Spanish issue. How could none of us see the light when you laid your case out so brilliantly.
I think I can guarantee that no one in either of those two threads has lost any sleep over it.
When I first saw Larson, I thought he was ripping off Gahan Wilson. But what the fuck do I know?
To be fair, I should have written “Basque ⊆ Spanish”. Only slightly less outlandish.
Yes, maybe delusional *is *an appropriate word, since no one ever said any such thing. (I’d said that Basque was one of the many “Spanish” languages in that–and *only *in that–it was one of the many languages spoken in Spain. I made it very clear–though apparently not clear enough–that I didn’t mean to suggest that it was *linguistically *related to Spanish; only that it was *spoken *in Spain. But it didn’t matter then, and even less does it matter now: what someone actually said is far less important than a gratuitous pitting of lissener.)
I hope there are no gratuitous pittings of Revenant. That would upset Revenant.
Gratuitous? Well, I suppose, in the sense that it didn’t cost you any money.
Sorry, I don’t tip bad service.
Did you not see the “People That Don’t Tip” Thread
And beaten by a nose…thanks rayh!
Message board emotionalism is a growing problem worldwide. WHO is trying to stem the tide of flaming posts and gratuitous Pit threads which is on the verge of threatening the very fabric of the mental health of our worldwide society. Even the pygmies in New Guinea.
ok, makes sense
I’m sorry, but I’ll never be able to read lissener’s posts about what a film and media connoisseur he is without thinking of his post the other day in which he questions my love of Shogun because it was “dated”.
Ummm, yeah, maybe that’s because it was set in feudal Japan, you fucking nitwit. :rolleyes:
OK, now THAT was funny. Do you have any idea what “dated” means? It’s because it was made in the 70s, and it *looks *like it was made in the 70s. (Yes, it aired in 1980; it was essentially made in the 70s.)
First off, how did the pygmies get to New Guinea? And secondly…no, never mind, what about the New Guinea pygmies?
You know, lissener, if I sit down to watch a British TV show about a criminal psychiatrist, I expect it to look like a British TV show about a criminal psychiatrist. I expect English accents, dingy offices stiff upper-lip supervisors with sang-froid attitudes toward all this new-fangled forensic psychiatry muckabout and brilliant deductions based on psychiatric insight with absolutely no basis in actual psychiatry.
When I sit down to watch a TV show that was filmed in the 70’s and broadcast in 1980, I sort of expect it to look like a TV show that was filmed in the 70’s and broadcast in 1980. I don’t know what you expect. Maybe you expect Tom fucking Cruise to pop out in a designer samurai outfit and vampire teeth driving a race car or something, but the fact that a 1980 TV show looks like a 1980 TV show doesn’t really phase me or anyone else with some semblance of grounding in reality.
It’s not that you’re the only one who notices. You’re just the only one who cares. And that goes for pretty much every pretentious, addled, obnoxious, noone-else-but-you-gives-a-flying-fuck-at-a-rolling-donut opinion you have ever spouted about any movie or comic or cartoonist or action figure ever freakin’ made.
Now that’s funny!
Wow. You really have no freakin idea what the hell you’re talking about, do you?
No . . . I guess we’re sort of alike that way.
Of course, I’m not the one pretending that I do.
Maybe lissener is simply an advocate of a principle my nephew jokingly told me about. He is a jazz musician and he said that bluffing is easy. If you want to trump anyone’s claim that so-and-so is a great guitarist you simply name an earlier influence. You keep going like this until you get to someone that no-one actually alive today ever heard.
That’s just laughable. Since when have I “followed you around”? This is the first time I have had any interaction with you in quite a long while. The fact that you allege I am “following you around” when I have interacted with you in no more than at most a couple of threads in the last year is just an indication of your ludicrous sense of self-importance. It’s not like I even post in every Pit thread about you. (Admittedly, it would be hard to keep up.) And the notion that I might be losing sleep over anything to do with you is utterly hilarious. 
That fact that you think that not only I, but all of the linguistic experts and native Spanish speakers who expressed an opinion on the matter in that Pit thread were wrong and you were right amply demonstrates, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that you are delusional. No further evidence is necessary. Anyone who participated in or read that thread knows the facts of the matter, and that it is you, not I, who are mischaracterizing it.
For anyone who cares to evaluate the evidence on their own, the thread is here:
Lissener’s obnoxious behavior in GQ
Thanks. You have your wish. I am not only at peace, I am laughing my ass off.
Still, it was kinda fun hearing about Fat Freddys Scat again. Sweet laughter.