Milum - what part of "no personal insults" don't you understand, you stupid fuck?

You really know how to hurt a guy, SPOOFE.

Sorry, man. It just slipped out without thinking. I don’t know what came over me, you offensive midget-munging piece of slapped-up turkey turd.

Forgive?

I was going to say that he was like an Elucidator clone but without the wit, erudition, intelligence and mastery of the language. But I may be wrong. :cool:

My favorite part of that thread was this:

Youngsters don’t have a monopoly on ignorance or rudeness. Men don’t have a monopoly on looking down on silly and smug comments. Wisdom isn’t limited to grownups. Smiling at “silly smug comments” reflects smugness itself. Various forms of “pooh-pooh” sound strangely juvenile in Great Debates.

Milum, you would be more effective in debating if you attack arguments instead of people.

Sometimes you remind me of a younger me – only with differing opinions. Now I am older and wider. :wink:

I handled the Milum situation not long ago, in a little milder manner, in this post.

Your post lacks specificity.

Freudian slip? :wink:

God forbid that we should be “overly sensitive”! Me, I look up to you as an example of how to kindly and gently make a point without offending anyone!

:dubious:

Except he has insulted individual Dopers on several occasions. Follow his posts- there is one giving a straightforward rec for whiskey and almost all the others are insulting. What particularly pisses me off is that he has goaded me into returning fire at least three times and I was the one the mods told to chill.

The quote attributed to Libertarian above, was actually originated by Liberal.

Carry on.

Same dude. Name change.

What the fuck is he picking on me for! I wasn’t even in that thread!

Me being one of them, within the last couple-few weeks. He got warned and everything. Damned if I can find the thread, though, even after repeatedly flogging the hamsters.

My mom told me I shouldn’t flog the hamster.

Is the OP and thread title intended to be ironic? :dubious:

“No personal insults” seems pretty clear to me. Though, honestly, I prefer the days when we could call each other putrid fistulae without fear of being banned.

Oh, no, not at all. He meant exactly what he said. What you are describing would have been clever, wryly sarcastic, and subtle.

I love Milum. I really do. He first came to my attention when he lectured me on federal standing when I was a federal law clerk, and has since then corrected me and the other SDMB lawyers on many points of the law. He has also corrected linguists on linguistics and Qagdop the Mercotan on medicine. I’m waiting for the day when he finally lectures The Bad Astronomer on astronomy, and maybe a hooker on fellatio.

Needless to say, I’m a big fan of Milum and have become something of a connoisseur of his posts. This one is an example of a Milumism I have termed The Pat on the Head: a refutation of the argument by dismissing the poster as young and foolish, lacking his age and experience. Here are more examples:

There are many, many other Milumisms, like The Imaginary Conversation, The Bizarre Analogy, The Lofty Assertion, The Thread Closure, and The Post Hominem, but I have not yet completed my anthology. That said, please, please, please don’t ever ban him. He is, in many ways, the very best poster on the boards.

Tongue-in-cheek, yes - Ironic, no. Insults are allowed in the BBQ Pit, but not in Great Debates.