RealityChuck, you're an ignorant twat.

[emcee2k]

@Beware_of_Doug

So he’s volatile, obsessive, and at times grandiose. I’d expect no less of a history buff and nostalgiac. We’re all that way - we live on the fringes of society and reality.

Yeah, that first sentence describes at least half the regular posters here.

And I clicked the “several posts schooling you about the facts” link in the OP, expecting as someone else in this thread put it: “a smack down”. It wasn’t several posts, it was one. And he seemed confused on who was making what claims in the thread, and didn’t even really address the points in the post he was replying to.

[Una_Persson]

@CalMeacham

Sadly, my book has won no awards. It’s done “pretty well” if your definition of that is “breaking even”. I expect my next royalty statement to actually be in the black for the first time. After over a decade on sale. (Don’t go into publishing for the money)

Thanks for the clarification.

While my books have never garnered any fame, they have all been written on contract. As a result I’m considerably in the black even if they don’t sell a single copy. There’s still actually big money in Sahara-dry nonfiction text books and mind-numbingly dull technical volumes.

[Frylock]

@RaftPeople

In WA state it’s illegal and the state patrol focused on pulling people over that were doing this about a year ago.

Their goal is traffic flow and having cars blocking the passing lane was seen as working against that goal.

I know, like I said, for pragmatic reasons, driving at the speed limit in the left lane is foolish.

[MOIDALIZE]

He’s riled me once.

[Rachellelogram]

This pitting, unlike RealityChuck, appears wise and true.

[Evil_Captor]

@Una_Persson

Thanks for the clarification.

While my books have never garnered any fame, they have all been written on contract. As a result I’m considerably in the black even if they don’t sell a single copy. There’s still actually big money in Sahara-dry nonfiction text books and mind-numbingly dull technical volumes.

sure, if they feature time-traveling Nazi dinosaurs!

[Ludovic]

@Thudlow_Boink

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I’ll never look at this phrase the same again after Jay and Silent Bob.

[Wheelz]

@CalMeacham

So i wrote about decaying corpses (before they were cool), variable stars, and oral transmission.

I prefer an automatic.

[VinylTurnip]

@MOIDALIZE

He’s riled me once.

Awesome. He was a condescending dick, and you got the warning.

[mhendo]

@VinylTurnip

Awesome. He was a condescending dick, and you got the warning.

I don’t know. It seemed to me, in that case, that RealityChuck actually answered the question pretty well.

And if all you can muster as the content of an OP is “Ugh, why?” you probably shouldn’t whine too much if people don’t give you the type of answer you’re looking for.

[Paranoid_Randroid]

@mhendo

I don’t know. It seemed to me, in that case, that RealityChuck actually answered the question pretty well.

And if all you can muster as the content of an OP is “Ugh, why?” you probably shouldn’t whine too much if people don’t give you the type of answer you’re looking for.

MOIDALIZE probably deserved that warning, but c’mon — it’s not as if people don’t realize that television stations schedule programming according to profit maximization. Dropping in to point that out just makes someone look pedantic and combative (and silly).

[Crotalus]

@Paranoid_Randroid

pedantic and combative (and silly).

Sums up my impression of** RealityChuck**. Thanks.

[Beware_of_Doug]

@emcee2k

Originally Posted by Beware of Doug
So he’s volatile, obsessive, and at times grandiose. I’d expect no less of a history buff and nostalgiac. We’re all that way - we live on the fringes of society and reality.

Yeah, that first sentence describes at least half the regular posters here.

Yeah, but still, Chuck has a particularly cool sense of the historic.

[Tom_Scud]

@Paranoid_Randroid

pedantic and combative (and silly).

@Crotalus

Sums up my impression of** RealityChuck**.

Also not a bad description of the SDMB.

[VinylTurnip]

@Beware_of_Doug

Yeah, but still, Chuck has a particularly cool sense of the historic.

That must be nice. At least the two of you can sit in your yurt at the fringes of society and regale each other with tales of the distant past, when people could still stand being around you.

[Crotalus]

@Tom_Scud

Also not a bad description of the SDMB.

Throw some kindness, meanness, humor, lack of humor, intelligence, stupidity, erudition and ignorance, and that’s the SDMB.

[Derleth]

@Crotalus

Throw some kindness, meanness, humor, lack of humor, intelligence, stupidity, erudition and ignorance, and that’s the SDMB.

And old jokes, and people who hate old jokes, and a near-fanatical devotion to Cecil Adams!

[Frank]

@Derleth

And old jokes, and people who hate old jokes, and a near-fanatical devotion to Cecil Adams!

And smilies.

[Paranoid_Randroid]

@Derleth

And old jokes, and people who hate old jokes […]

“On the next Maury: Opal-greeting death rays who burning your dog and masturbate like motherfucks while diving to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and the people who hate them. Don’t miss it.”

[D_Odds]

The way Reality Chuck expresses his views on Aliens and salt have put him on my pay-no-mind list. He’s an authority in his own mind (as opposed to me, who should be a recognized authority on everything under the sun…but no one seems to realize that).