Pitting Amateur Barbarian

[Green_Bean]

@Maserschmidt

What an asshat. My response at the time:

You should have deleted your name from that quote and claimed that it was a cogent argument that agreed with your stance.

[Saint_Cad]

Hey Niterover, Belichick and Brady are cheaters and therefore I apply that label to all New Englanders. And there was pass interference on that play. You know the one I’m talking about.

[Ukulele_Ike]

AB tried to take away my Cuisinart!

Early inventions that were widespread, then obsolete in a generation

Also, jsgoddess is SO famous, I’ve seen her naked.

– Ukulele Ike, Shrewd Yankee Peddler

[wonky]

@Ukulele_Ike

Also, jsgoddess is SO famous, I’ve seen her naked.

Hi, Mom!

[Saint_Cad]

@Ukulele_Ike

Also, jsgoddess is SO famous, I’ve seen her naked.

Pics or it didn’t happen.

[Penfeather]

@erysichthon

What fun is that? It’s much cooler if you bolster your arguments by citing something formatted to look like an academic paper! Unfortunately, it’s somewhat less convincing when people notice that it’s a self-published paper parked on the website of your own vanity press.

What’s really hilarious is the clumsy verbal sleight-of-hand he employs; he actually says, “This paper makes…” as if it’s the paper making the arguments, not him. He can cite himself and have some deniability if he gets caught! This is tantamount to setting up a sock puppet account and saying “I never said that other username wasn’t me.”

AB has made it abundantly clear that he considers himself the world’s preeminent Heinlein expert, so it’s a bit disingenuous for him to insist that he wasn’t making an argument from authority. After all, this is the guy who whines and complains that the Wikipedia editors won’t bow down to him.

You forget that he has the world’s greatest Heinlein-fu, and was only prevented from taking his rightful place at the very zenith of Heinleinology by the jealous machinations of scoundrels and blackguards.

[erysichthon]

@Ukulele_Ike

AB tried to take away my Cuisinart!

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AB certainly is fond of boasting about his skills at mundane, low-tech tasks:

@Amateur_Barbarian

If you can’t get a good shave (smooth, comfortable, lasting) shave from a single-blade safety razor, the problem is likely that you never learned to shave properly. The only faint advantage 2-5 blade razors have is that they accommodate sloppy, amateurish technique a little better, at many, many times the cost. It’s like living on McD’s food because you never learned to boil water.

I’m thinking of starting a laundry thread to see if he gets all snooty about his technique with a washboard.

[Accidental_Martyr]

@erysichthon

AB
I’m thinking of starting a laundry thread to see if he gets all snooty about his technique with a washboard.

Washboard? Surely he just beats his clothes against rocks in the creek.

[Crotalus]

@erysichthon

AB certainly is fond of boasting about his skills at mundane, low-tech tasks:

I’m thinking of starting a laundry thread to see if he gets all snooty about his technique with a washboard.

I think he would probably describe the wonders of his 30 year old Maytag, which he repairs himself.

[lost4life]

@Accidental_Martyr

Washboard? Surely he just beats his clothes against rocks in the creek.

Rocks in a creek? Don’t you know there are people too poor to afford rocks in a creek. Sure I could tap into my $3 a week food budget and buy some rocks and a creek, but…oops, wrong pit thread.

[Darth_Panda]

@Accidental_Martyr

Washboard? Surely he just beats his clothes against rocks in the creek.

I’m sure he beats something in the creek.

[FuriousGeorge]

@Accidental_Martyr

Washboard? Surely he just beats his clothes against rocks in the creek.

There is actually definitive evidence to prove beating your clothes against rocks in a creek is better than washboards and washing machines. I wrote a wiki article on it to back me up. Here, let me find a link…

[Crotalus]

@FuriousGeorge

There is actually definitive evidence to prove beating your clothes against rocks in a creek is better than washboards and washing machines. I wrote a wiki article on it to back me up. Here, let me find a link…

I’m sorry, the editors of Wikipedia disappeared your article. Too much original research.

[FuriousGeorge]

@Crotalus

I’m sorry, the editors of Wikipedia disappeared your article. Too much original research.

Damn those Wiki people. How can they not recognize such genius from THE most respected reesarcher in the field of making shit up about washing clothes?

[Crotalus]

@FuriousGeorge

Damn those Wiki people. How can they not recognize such genius from THE most respected reesarcher in the field of making shit up about washing clothes?

Post your brilliant, definitve, ground-breaking report under a fake name, and fill it with cites that you made up and posted on your own web site under your real name. No one will ever catch on. You’ll be as famous as jsgoddess!

[FuriousGeorge]

@Crotalus

Post your brilliant, definitve, ground-breaking report under a fake name, and fill it with cites that you made up and posted on your own web site under your real name. No one will ever catch on. You’ll be as famous as jsgoddess!

Brilliant!

[wonky]

@Crotalus

Post your brilliant, definitve, ground-breaking report under a fake name, and fill it with cites that you made up and posted on your own web site under your real name. No one will ever catch on. You’ll be as famous as jsgoddess!

NEVER! Not that I’m claiming to be famous or anything.

[Crotalus]

@jsgoddess

NEVER! Not that I’m claiming to be famous or anything.

If you were famous at all, you’d find your real name cited in five or six threads. You would grin.

[wonky]

@Crotalus

If you were famous at all, you’d find your real name cited in five or six threads. You would grin.

I just looked me up! I’m cited way more than that!

Of course, it’s always me saying my name, but there’s a proud tradition of citing to ourselves on the dope. My name is my cite!

[FuriousGeorge]

@jsgoddess

I just looked me up! I’m cited way more than that!

Of course, it’s always me saying my name, but there’s a proud tradition of citing to ourselves on the dope. My name is my cite!

According to FuriousGeorge in this post, this should never be a thing.