Ode to the low hanging fruit?
I hear that Jerry Sandusky had some low hanging fruit.
What? Too soon?
When I was a kid, and used to play class-organized flag football (where you had two flags attached by velcro to a belt, and “tackling” meant both flags were removed), I have a very specific memory of our quarterback, who wasn’t useless necessarily but somehow was always picked to be quarterback for no good reason I could ever see. Anyway, I remember one day him breaking free of the pack of boys who were clotted around the line of scrimmage. I remember him charging forty or fifty yards, gleefully shouting, and, brazenly triumphant over his apparent game-winning touchdown, strutting into the end zone.
Of course he was utterly oblivious over the whole distance that both flags were long gone.
I already did, right here in this thread. Please take the barest of effort to read before you say things like this.
Well, they sure would, wouldn’t they. And then I wouldn’t be fucking saying this. He explicitly and expressly called for a more incremental, step-by-step approach, explicitly saying that this would accomplish outcomes more slowly, and that the way things happened - the "co-mingling’ was premature and unnatural.
I took pains to quote his material in this thread. I am offended by your charge of distortion. It’s deceitful and ugly, and speaks to your character.
As a reminder, here is the post from this thread:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17947707&postcount=105
I’ll even summarize here beyond the summary I provided there:
You’ve disappointed me as well.
Do you have a point? Other than the one atop your head?
It was more than dishonesty – I’d call it downright sociopathic. If that’s what you call “winning”, I’d much rather lose.
Hopefully to take a long walk on a short pier.
Hate to be the one to give you the bad news…but no, there are aplenty. Moreover they sort of Rule The Planet with no Aluminum Caps[sup]®[/sup]. Not a conspiracy but rather an observation: how many current leaders are working for the betterment of their nations?
As for SA, the more you speak about – or respond to – the better he feels. Thus suffice it to say I wish him no joy.
It is a challenge to meet everyone’s intellectual standards when suffering from carpenter’s syndrome, I will try harder next time.
Moron.
The quotes aren’t from the Paterno thread. You can’t find cites of your own, nor do you read anybody else’s. Idiot. And you have the chutzpah to call me a dishonest piece of shit? You are pathetic. Your ideas are execrable. Your opinions are addled foolishness. What comes out of your mouth/keyboard is of less value than the piles my dog deposits on the lawn. You are a buffoon and a laughing stock. Your “positions” are indefensible by anyone having the slightest contact with reality. You are a one trick stupid-pony whose single trick draws nothing more than pointing and laughter. I don’t bother to deride you very often because it is just too easy – like having a philosophical discussion with a two year old. Not a very precocious two year old either. And now, having provided cites that demonstrate that you are nothing but a craven asshole and a steaming pile of bucolic end product, I’ll watch you hand wave like a one armed paper hanger with the shingles. And I’ll laugh. Oh, and I’ll be in good company when I do so, being joined by every other person who reads this thread. Ha ha, dipshit; ha, ha.
I m sorry for your condition and hope a woodpecker can make it all better. Trust they’ve cracked your skull years ago.
Gives hope.
Who the hell is this guy?
For someone who has been here a day, and made 3 posts, you seem mighty familiar with things here. You remind me of someone who used to post here.
I’m still trying to figure out how he knows I have carpenter’s syndrome.
Sherlock?
Memory lacking as well? It is a challenge to meet everyone’s intellectual standards when suffering from carpenter’s syndrome, I will try harder next time.
Get better.
I don’t know whether to do ::face palm:: or whoosh on that one.
** Heffalump and Roo **!
Since the thread has flipped a page, and you have previously struggled to read posts occurring earlier in the thread, I’m linking you back to my reply:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17960564&postcount=444
I do not want you to miss it again. I await your reply.
Okay everybody. I’m going to put my smart phone down for a while. Just saying, so that you know I’ve left for a little bit, but I anticipate returning later. You youngsters and your tech!
That’s amazing that you’re holding on to all of that over one sentence in a huge wall of text that’s stuck on page 17 in a health reform thread. You created a whole convoluted argument based on snippets from unrelated posts in unrelated threads where the arguments were not discussed in context.
But good on you. You got him to reconsider and change his mind. He now says that progress would not be slower under another policy. Is it back to moral now?
I’m beginning to see what both grossbottom and Starving Artist have been saying about you.
Please go away. You’re not nearly as clever as you think you are.
An insult from a snacker. I must be stepping up in the world.