Well, yes, but to his or her credit, I suspect that glee is a full time teacher. I had the duties of a full time teacher, but just for those two summers.
Don’t think I am unaware. I am aware just fine. I am simply flaming to get rid of anger, at this moment, before I get to the hard work of revising my posting style.
Not exactly my point, but don’t mind me.
Don’t worry, I never paid you any mind before, and I am not about to start now.
Gee, Scott, you could have replied the same way to the vast majority of serious posters on this board. 
I was pre-pubescent in the 1980’s, and have absolutely no clue who the Pet Shop Boys are or were. 
My advice to Scott would be to spend a month or two (or three) doing nothing but asking questions. Honest ones, not snarky ones. Try to figure out why other people believe as they do, and see how they back up those beliefs. Quit trying to “win” arguments, and start trying to learn somthing.
My original intent was simply to lurk, as I said back in the text heavy post 54. However, I think I like your answer better, John.
Metacom, I have a serious question for you. I don’t mean to sound annoyed. You said you haven’t heard of them. Would you, like I suspect many people would, assume I listen to Boy-bands, based on the name “Pet Shop Boys”?
No.
What makes you think the problem has anything whatsoever to do with a perception that you listen to “boy bands”? Giraffe was illustrating your annoying tendency to fly off into meaningless and/or distracting tangents - for example, unneccessarily explaining who the Pet Shop Boys were - not calling you to task for listening to “boy bands.”
If you really are that fucking thick, no amount of lurking will teach you a thing.
<bart simpson> A Scott Plaid pitting is the time of year when people of all political backgrounds come together, and yell at him. </bart>
I’ll tell you what. If you want to try taking that advice for a week, I’ll do the same. You pick the start date, and neither of us can post anything in the GD forum except questions.
While that sounds like a nice idea. I don’t see how it would work for you. After all, while I think you are wrong-headed, politically, and I doubt you will change your views, I see you being pretty damn reasonable. I would rather carry out such a deal with Bricker, Shodan, or one of the other, “Bush/the way the law works is always right. Why can’t you see that?”-type posters.
P.S. Can you please elaborate on this idea?
Cool, thank you. Now, I have been going though a lot of past threads. I will post my thoughts tomorrow. A few thoughts though, over trends in my thought patterns. I see I have certainly posted a lot. Well, that is what happens when I post from a job I don’t care for in the least. I figured I would be fired from it, personally. (Not because of my attitude, but because that is what they were doing, at the time.) No such luck. I suppose I shouldn’t have actually done work on weekends, at home.
It seems like when I started here, I insisted that the plainly obvious truth was that “Religion is bad, m’kay?” Then, I attempted to confirm exactly the same points to how this board works, and that didn’t really work out. Now, I went on to express myself less. A few months later, I received the following compliment, in this thread .
Now, no one would be more surprised then me to hear these words. Liberal is one of the people I am opposed to the most, for his habit of never admitting when he is wrong. (Yes, I know what you are thinking.) Why is that he complimented me then, based on the behaviors that have earned me this pitting, if any of this is true. Well, for one thing, I scored some hits against him in earlier threads, I suspect. For another thing, despite all that Shodan and Bricker are saying, I made some comments which proved how those two are wrong. Lastly, I suspect that it is till recently, I shut the hell up. I used a delicate touch on commenting on posts, and while I still believe that religion is a great cause of problems, I didn’t talk about it to much. A much better move for me, at least till I develop my writing style more.
Actually, I don’t understand why you posted that. Lib doesn’t admit when he’s wrong if his opponent thinks he’s wrong and he doesn’t agree. (Much like the rest of us.) But he does admit he’s wrong when he agrees with his opponent’s refutations. Many of us, I’m sure, would like it if Lib were more easily convinced. But such is life.
Carry on.
I don’t think it matters too much with whom you strike the deal. I wouldn’t expect the two dealmakers to wander thru GD in lockstep asking questions in the same threads all the time.
My reasoning for offering the deal was two-fold: 1) To make you feel less like you were being singled out and 2) I think all of us could stand to be asking a LOT more questions than we do. I wish I were more inclined myself to do more asking and less lecturing. No one ever learned anything by making declarative statements. 
I was originally going to offer you a wager to see who ould go the longest without making a statement, but that would turn it too much into a game. I’d be perferctly happy to go completely on the honor system, since I’d expect to get as much out of the arrangement as you did. I really do look at this MB as a great place to learn, and I think I’ve learned a lot since I joined. Not so much by posting my own ideas, although it’s good to have them challenged, but by asking questions and reading what other people write.
Thanks tom.
Giraffe–I emailed you with a Pit question. Did you get it?
Scott–glee has a lot to teach you if you will simply listen with an open mind. He (I assume the male gender) is quite brilliant, really. It would be a mistake to dismiss his help cavalierly.
This is going to be fun. I may need two lunches for the pitting that will follow. :eek:
I’m thinkin’ maybe some carrot sticks and a mineral water.
Scott’s going to be the one who needs to bring the lunch. Shodan and Bricker are gonna eat his.