My fault. I should have linked to this when I said that.
Lord Ashtar’s comment about leftists was to do with Liberal’s comment in this thread, second post down.
:smack: The board is running slow for me today.
Ah, now all is clear. I retract my previous statements.
It’s not an excuse. Saying that OCD is an excuse for behavior is like saying that cancer is an excuse for dying.
Uh huh. Right.
“Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate.” I’ll bet I don’t have to tell you who wrote that, since a version of it is in your sig.
You’re assuming an entity for which there is no direct evidence, and unnecessarily introducing it as an explanation, when there is no need for it, given the posted information. Even the more precise version, including Chatton’s anti-razor, makes no provision for the argumentative tactic you’re using.
There’s no direct evidence that Mr. Green Bean has any form of OCD. It’s certainly a possibility, but it’s simpler, given the evidence, to assume that he’s simply an impatient ass, or that his behavior is being influenced by some ordinary externality (bad day at the office, wife trouble, bad traffic, etc.)
Speaking of which, I really have no idea why you seem to want to equate Platonic melancholia with OCD. In the first place, even according to Plato, there are nearly zero pure Melancholics. Most people fall under the “Eight Compound Temperaments.” In the second place, Plato was wrong. He based an analysis of human behavioral tendencies on spurious, incorrect assumptions. Psychology has nothing to do with the regulation of the Four Humours. Black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm have no impact at all on human behavior. It was a nice try for the time, but ultimately it holds as much water as Lamarckism, aether, or Cold Fusion. Utter fallacy. You’d do well to abandon it as such.
I assumed it was a joke based on the above. I mean, if you seriously adhere to a provably fallacious version of biology, then it really means I am “fucking clueless” about your particular brand of crazy, and boy, am I ever glad of that.
I certainly don’t mind giving someone the benefit of the doubt, if deserved, but according to the information we have, he was being (possibly dangerously) aggressive toward an innocent person. This is inexcusable.
“My assholishness is a disability.” is lame no matter who says it. Frankly, it’s rather insulting to people with things like OCD that actually manage to conduct themselves in an appropriate, polite manner when dealing with others. :rolleyes:
I hate people like Mr. Green Bean guy. You can tell those people have never had to work in retail.
I did a stint at Six Flags when I was a teenager. On one of the hottest days of the year, I was working in an isolated concession stand all by my lonesome, and I had a giant line. Inevitably, I ran out of syrup for the diet Coke. Being all by myself and overwhelmed by customers (oops, I mean “guests”), I could not alert a manager to the problem. So the diet Coke was out of order for awhile.
Big buffalo of a man asks for a large diet Coke.
Me: “I’m sorry, sir. We’re all out of diet Coke.”
He explodes. He cusses me out for a good minute and then storms away.
Against my will, I burst into tears.
And my nose began to bleed because of the exhaustion and heat.
Fortunately, the rest of the customers were nice and kept telling me not to worry about that man. Their assurances that I was doing a good job made up for my humiliation.
In the third place, it wasn’t Plato. It was Hippocrates.
It’s nice when that happens. It’s also nice when people don’t say stupid shit like OCD is just an excuse for assholish behavior.
My mistake, but your correction is immaterial to the argument. Hippocrates was still wrong, and the fact that you are “not joking” about basing your understanding of the biological aspects of psychology on something as demonstrably false as the Four Humours is rather pathetic. Tell me, is it elephants all the way down too?
And there is still no evidence that Mr. Green Bean has OCD. Unnecessarily multiplied assumptions, thy name is Liberal.
Errr, turtles, that is.
I was about to say something too…I thought to myself, “elephants? Is that the lady said? Man, my memory is going…”
I blame Pratchett. Ever since reading a few Discworld novels, I keep confusing my world-supporting turtles with my world-supporting elephants. 
I’m sorry, isn’t that what you’re saying?
On the other hand, Lib’s quaint view of biology does have one upside. You could have stuck a knife in Mr. Green Bean, and gotten away with it on the grounds that you were bleeding him of his excess bodily humours.
What the hell has Lib been snorting and where can I get some?
Jesus Christ, Lib, I have OCD. So do a few others on this board. We don’t act like that.
HEHE!!! I thought my little sister and I invented that technique. Works every time doesn’t it?
I am 1-for-1 in my attempts.
Our latest success
was regarding a rude drunk at a hockey game (a drunk at a hockey game??? NO!!!).
We talked about how “some people who behave like that in front of their kids”.
And “we should call the cops, and describe this guy before he leaves, and let them know how inebriated he is”.
Well then Lib out with it. Are you speaking for a group that you’re not a part of, or are you upset that people don’t pay enough attention to your plight?
Take a solid position, then defend it. Unless you’re unable to, in which case, we’ll feel really sorry for you, and then walk on eggshells in order to not offend your frail sensibilities.
I’m sure that people who can actually function in life with OCD, would love to make you their champion.
“Sure, the people I represent are all insufferable assholes, but why would you judge them? It’s your fault for being insensitive when they decide to attack the emotions of a “normal” person. People with OCD are by their very nature, assholes. You should consider it a blessing to be cussed out by a person that has no control over their behavior and emotions. They have the right to insult, defame, infuriate, and ridicule any and all people, since they’re special.” :rolleyes:
Lib, you’re doing a pretty good job at digging that hole, are you sure you never worked for the county before?
You’re acting like it now.