And what, exactly, is wrong with being pro-boner??
Why, I’ve been pro-bonor my entire adult life!
And at least half of my childhood (if you count adolescence as part of childhood, that is).
As a matter of fact, I’m so pro-boner that I’ve been known to dress provocatively in an effort to encourage more of them! sweet smile
I’m thinking Chicagoland because I’ve seen him expressing interest in Chicago SDMB get-togethers.
Would you get off this fucking retarded idea that **Rand Rover **is a child? Or are you going to suggest that he hired someone to come as him to SDMB events, too? :rolleyes:
Don’t forget about Dick Army, Colon Powell, and George Bush.
Hrm, I finally dug up the threads I was thinking of (1)(2), and I have come to the realization that either I’m conflating them with discussion of another poster or there was a followup “this is what the Dopefest was like” thread I’m missing. ElvisL1ves, I retract any part of my statements that in any way cast you as an idiot for not believing **RR **is an adult after people have met him (at least unless we turn up a post where someone has met him). I still think you’re wrong, just not quite so retarded.
Gee, thanks a pantload. :rolleyes:
If he’s a kid, that at least gives him an excuse. If you want to take that excuse away, then go right ahead.
Yeah, I do. Because I genuinely believe he really is this much of a petty, smallminded adult, deserving of no consideration whatsoever.
I would like to respond, but the mail carrier just brought me another handful of restraining orders.
That first link actually raises an interesting parallel to this thread. Specifically:
Tipping has a lot of similarities to pro bono work: it isn’t required that you leave a tip, and no real harm will come to you if you don’t (unless you go back to the same restaurant and the server you stiffed remembers you), but there is a very strong social expectation in place and most people will consider you a total asshole if you don’t tip.
So I’m wondering if RR does tip, and if he does, what distinguishes it from pro bono work. After all, why part with a penny more than is required of you for the meal transaction?
Are you sure? That requires believing there has been a woman so desperate as to bear him a child.
These statements:
Are in conflict with this statement:
In the first two, you claim that the sine qua non of a “requirement” is the existence of a sanction for non-compliance.
In the latter, you acknowledge a situation can exist where a valid requirement exists but is not met, and yet a sanction does not exist, owing to the practical difficulties of imposing a sanction.
Why (apart from the obviously self-serving nature of your analysis) do you conclude that the pro bono requirement is not simply a case of a valid requirement with no sanction, owing to the practical difficulties of imposing a sanction?
It’s so *cute *how you guys think **Rand **is going to do anything but bluster, backtrack, or blow you off.
There are women out there who are just as childish as Rand Rover. Women were writing Ted Bundy love letters when he was in prison; I have no doubt that someone who’s merely a rich asshole could find someone similarly shallow to suck him off.
Oh, I don’t expect anything more substantial from him than insults about my intelligence. But it is fun to put obstacles in his way and see if he trips. And hey, he might even reveal that he doesn’t tip, ensuring this thread goes on for another 30 pages. 
Oh, and FWIW, I think tipping is the better analogy here. There are definitely potential sanctions to poor job performance, even above the level of getting you fired or sued: no promotions, no bonuses, bad raises, and putting yourself at the head of the line for layoffs. Not tipping, on the other hand, seldom has any effect on you outside of getting frowny faces from people who think you should tip.
You are using the phrase “practical difficulties of imposing a sanction” in two different ways in the different contexts. In the pro bono context, the rules themselves clearly impose no sanction. In the competence context, the rules do impose a sanction, but reality may intrude to make the sanction not actually imposed in every situation where it should be.
Let’s look at speeding again. The rules clearly state that a driver shall no
T speed and clearly provide a sanction for speeding. Therefore, it is a requirement that a driver not speed. The fact that as a practical matter many people do speed without being sanctioned does not mean that not speeding is not a requirement.
All fucking right! Bricker and RR in a knock down, drag out struggle over precise semantic parsing! Fuck WWF, this is the shit!
Where the hell am I going wrong then? 
You didn’t say “Pretty please”??? Heh.
I don’t understand why people would take my comments in this thread to mean that I only do things that are required. I guess they just see all the discussion of what a set of rules require and get confused. To be clear, nothing I’ve stated in this thread would lead a reasonable person to believe that I don’t tip simply because there’s no set of rules requiring tipping.
SFG, we’ve always had a little friendly banter going, but this thread seems to have caused Ýou to take a turn to the dark side. Is it because I said your legs looked fat in that picture ýou posted?
From the OP:
There’s a similar ethical obligation to tipping, with the same set of requirements/lack thereof. You have a tendency to stand on sociopathic principles even when it makes you look like a grade-A jackass. So it’s not like it’s an unreasonable thing to question.