I locked horns with **FinnAgain **in the past, but that was for politics, however he is more on the money than many posters I know on the subject of getting good citations.
I will have to agree with him in this case.
**SmashtheState **just resorts to Goggle vomits *, just on the Aspartame subject he showed that he is blind to time and relevancy. It seems to me that his points on mental health are also outdated.
For all the hate against “appeals to authority” the fact is that when the authorities sited are recognized researchers in the field, or more up to date, then there is no fallacy.
**FinnAgain **was BTW the first one in the SDMB that came with the term. So I stole it.
I’m not saying FinnAgain is wrong in his particulars, just that he’s pinning his arguments on trivial asides, and arguing by beration as opposed to persuasion. He’s being obsessive about and shows all the signs of obsessiveness, from extreme nitpicking, to demonizing anyone who doesn’t hate his opponent as much as he does.
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Well because in this instance, I am perfectly calm, and not the one who is showing signs of a possible meltdown.
Well, I have told him before that he likes to use a bazooka to kill a fly, however, on some occasions some bugs that appear in the forum that look like they would deserve a missile being thrown at them.
What’s got me the most bemused in this is that I am not really disagreeing with Finn’s particulars but he has to attack me as though I am. Makes him look pretty nutty.
At this point all of this is just rather funny. I think they’ve both got each other pegged.
Before you think that I was agreeing with you, I will have to say that the nutty ideas from SmashTheState deserved to be nuked out of orbit, just to be sure.
I think rather than a bazooka, a better analogy is a gatling gun. FinnAgainAndAgainAndAgainAndAgain has written War and Peace here, just hammering home his little strawmen and nibbling away at whatever his point is (his posts are just too repetitive to waste time on).
Maybe his assurances that other people are all crazy might be covering for his obvious OCD. He’s apparently got a lot invested in “winning”.
Either way, he’s a rabid douchebag, and a poor writer. The latter is probably the worse sin, especially given the deluge of drivel he has managed to crap out.
Wow,you got me there. That was a comeback worthy of the groom in a Klingon wedding. Sadly, it’s not up to the snuff of most 3rd graders, but given that they are all smarter than you, and probably a bit more worldly, I can’t blame you for having such a flair for ineptitude.
ETA: P.S., your smug little emoticon combined with an Aliens reference? Pure goober. Your mom called and she said she’s tired of your “bridge” clogging up the garage.
In any case the fact is that **FinnAgain **was correct and even you had to acknowledge that he had the cites. You only showed that you are glad to stand up for the willful ignorant. QED.
This is why you and he are examples of the kind of piss-poor thinking that passes for debate these days. And it’s willfully ignorant, you sucking chest wound of ineptness.
He was WRONG that aspartame didn’t break down into methanol and aldehydes. He might be right that all of the artificial sweeteners are harmless, or that the amounts of the chemicals released are harmless. This was never debated by me. But he was wrong about the chemistry, and he is a stultifying blowhard, and he still is knocking down that same straw man.
He did not provide cites in the GQ thread, where they belong, and only three pages into his rabid repeat-o-posts did he bring out cites, which did not address the point that he was wrong on and that actually proved he was wrong. So yeah, his protestations of being some sort of master argumentationist ring a little hollow, because basically he shouts and shouts and calls people stupid and gets incredibly invested, and still has this fucking idea that he’s interesting and not a waste of oxygen.
You posts, on the other hand, are the sort of smug and smarmy crap that comes from holding a bunch of unexamined views that make you feel like “part of the gang” when you talk about them at your weekly anime parties. And hey, according to FinnAgain, you’re his bootlick, because it’s not like you’re adding anything here. But I better wrap this up; you’ve gotta be late for your job at Burger King.
You are just showing that I did hit the bulls eye. Repeating your say so’s do not make them correct.
BTW, it has been my experience that posters that think that they are scoring points by diminishing the grammar of the opponent, are in reality the most insecure people in the forums.
Wow. You’re impressing me more and more. I didn’t think chimps could learn to type in English. Apparently I was mistaken (but not by much. Lern2grammerspell.)
