So… Eric or Don Jr.?
Am I confusing him with some other misogynist?
He has some sort of Topic Ban, let me check what that is.
BRB
@Spice_Weasel issued a Topic Ban:
So Shagnasty is not banned, just topic banned. He didn’t bother making the transition to Discourse. His last thread was the apology:
This was after 2 years of not starting any threads at all.
While misogyny spans a vast range of assholes, and it is hard to identify just which asshole said what, I am fairly sure Mr. Nasty got banned.
Perhaps he got unbanned in the shift to Discourse?
In any case, if I were a mod, I would re-ban him.
What a horrible person.
ETA - not banned, just topic banned, but I would have gone full ban.
I wasn’t a Mod for the decision making, but if he had been banned, there would be a record. There is not.
If he chose to come back now and didn’t cause problems, I see no reason to ban him for past posts. But if he did cause problems, I doubt his leash would be long. But this is just the opinion of a single mod and not anything official. Decisions like these are made by the entire team in the Modloop.
Speaking as a long time poster, he always pegged my BS meter and I largely passed over his posts, especially his anecdotes. That is a rare for me, that I categorized someone that way.
Hard choice, but I think Jr. wins by a hair.
That would be easy enough to do. We’ve had a few doozies.
He probably had a career writing Penthouse Forum letters. That said, I hope his apology was sincere and he has changed for the better.
Maybe. At any rate, if your mod powers could be reinstated for just long enough for you to ban him for real, I’d be down with that.
Somewhat pedantic (the best kind of pedantic!) comment:
I saw this quote, and since I’m supposed to lecture a group of early career engineers on how to write a technical white paper, I thought I might use it. But I don’t like to attribute quotes without some sort of…provenance.
So I plugged the entire phrase above (including all the quotation marks) into Google and exactly one hit came back- this thread. So I tried Hemingway and various subsets of the words and Hemingway plus quotes, and writing, writers, and editors. I must have read a 100 Hemingway quotes. No phrase that even mildly resembles this quote.
So I got a little innovative and used the first half of the phrase and the word quote. That led me to a quotes site that attributed it to Mark Twain. But no cite as to where or when Twain wrote or said this. So I added “attribution” to my search and found a paper on writing that included this quote and the words “misattributed to Mark Twain”, So I substituted “misattributed” for attributed in my search and found The Quote Investigator, which attributes the quote to most likely have come from William Allen White, with a strong cite from 1935, and earlier partial versions as early as 1917, quoting Mr. White, an editor from Kansas. With the exact wording of “If you feel the urge of ‘very’ coming on, just write the word, ‘damn,’ in the place of ‘very.’ The editor will strike out the word, ‘damn,’ and you will have a good sentence.”
So, while the quote sounds very much like advice Hemingway would give, it is actually from William Allen White.(nerd mic drop)
Everyone should remember the following:
Over 37% of all quotes on the internet are wrongly attributed - Abraham Lincoln
That is a damn good post!
My wife would mention that Mr White is the namesake of the University of Kansas School of Journalism, while one of my sons would point out that the University of Missouri School of Journalism has a (much?) better reputation.
One might even say a damn better reputation.
I love it. Well done.
Yeah, and Hemingway did not write Baby Shoes, either. He certainly didn’t write it on a bet at the Algonquin, because he was not part of that crowd*. He was rarely even in the US during the heyday of the Round Table.
*You know who was an occasional visitor to the Round Table? Harpo Marx. I assume he talked!
This is the kind of quality Straight Dope content I remember!
I’m a fan of that quote, as a writer who uses too many curse words. My initial drafts have upwards of 400 fucks. No, I don’t keep them all.
Truthfully I’ve gotten pretty far with the advice to tone it down on adjectives too. Yes, adjectives. Really, extraneous words in general.
This. Lots of people have one-in-1-million real stories that really happened to them. A very few have two such accounts. Anyone with dozens, doesn’t.
I love this thread. I’m with the OP: ordering milk at a bar is childish, especially in this case where the food exec wanted to treat the woman to a nice evening. I often go out with someone who doesn’t drink alcohol. She orders mineral water with gas, or a non-alcoholic beer, or an espresso: things that adults drink when they go out.
But lets turn this around. Imagine they had met a film festival and he invited her to the movies, but instead of watching the film that just won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, she wanted to go see Minions III.
He met her at a food festival, is it surprising he expected someone more in-line with his tastes and interests?
I’d date the heck out of her.
People who use labels like “childish” or “unsophisticated” to describe folks who don’t like what they like are assholes.
You know what I call a woman who orders exactly what she wants at a bar? Confident.
You want to treat someone to a nice evening? Don’t be a judgemental pick.
I agree, although Minions II was so awful I’d want to know what it was about the hypothetical Minions III film that attracted her, just as I’d be interested to know why she’d ordered milk.
It’s not a dealbreaker; it’s a conversation starter.
ETA: Just discovered that, according to Wikipedia, “Minions: The Rise of Gru debuted at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival”. So there!
Stop relying on Wikipedia, you unsophisticated child.