He tried to carry on as if it is life as normal, but my treatment of him is still rather cold. He never said anything about the presentation, just the usual “hi” and “bye” stuff.
Plenty. Not only that, but many of them are academics, and none of them cry like a baby when i disagree with them in a scholarly setting.
And you continue to weasel, refusing to address the actual issue of what level of academic interaction friends should be allowed to engage in while in an academic setting. Everything you’ve said (or, more correctly, not said) suggests that you believe any question or disagreement would be a betrayal. I guess it’s possible you really are that stupid, but i prefer to give you the benefit of the doubt.
So quit weaseling and declare yourself. Tell me what type of behaviour is and is not acceptable in situations such as those described in the OP. I’ve answered your question, so answer the ones i asked you, to wit:
and
If you’re not even willing to address that issue, but prefer to simply keep repeating the same assumptions that i’m asking you to defend and explain, then you can go fuck yourself, and i will consider my participation in this thread at an end.
Mhendo, I’m afraid you’re never going to understand this. I can point out the basics: you help your friends, you don’t hurt your friends, you trust your friends, your friends help you, your friends don’t hurt you, your friends trust you. But it’s a relationship, not a set of rules. For most of us it’s obvious whether someone is a friend or not and we don’t need to be told how to be a friend. However, it appears that it’s an alien concept to you (which I guess explains your bitterness) and I feel sorry for you because of that.
I’m Phil from accounting, no other demons trolls or zombies were available at this time.
You mean your irrationality on this subject? You’re right about that.
Finally you say something that makes a modicum of sense. That’s exactly how i feel about all my friends. And i realize that one of them pointing out an error that i’ve made, or disagreeing with me, doesn’t mean that they’re trying to hurt me, and doesn’t mean that we’re no longer friends.
And i feel sorry for you if your friendships are so fragile, so fraught with constant concern over whether you’ll offend them, that you tiptoe around one another in order not to cause offence, and consider it a mortal slight to express a difference of opinion or correct a mistake.
I think, up until you hit this particular thing, you can chalk it up to what happens in acadamia. However, once you hit the fact he knew what you were going to say, and waited to hang you, your instincts are right. This is not a friend. I would stop saying Hi and bye. You are not being overly sensitive.
Arg… preview is my friend… this is what i meant to point out in that last post.
If not for this, it could be counted as just correcting a mistake. With this, I see someone I would not want to be around ever again. He used the fact he had seen you practice to set you up. That is not a friend.
This isn’t that complicated.
- ExtraKun befriended **‘Bob’ ** despite his friends not liking him because he felt a bit sorry for him and brought him into his circle of friends.
2.** ExtraKun ** was working in one group, ‘Bob’ in the other, but both groups included Kuns group of friends and they all worked together on their presentations.
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Both groups practiced their presentation several times so everyone in both groups were aware of what the other group was going to present. They were helping each other.
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"Bob’ gave his presentation
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ExtraKun gave his presentation. Instead of informing ExtraKun of any errors in his presentation while they practiced several times, he waited until he was in front of the class to correct him.
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ExtraKun felt he was stabbed in the back because Bob waited to try to embarrras him in front of the class to explain an error instead of informing him while they practiced and were helping each other.
This wasn’t an academic interation, it was a case of Bob being a dick.
Thank you Furlibusea. Wanna watch Sponge Bob with me and share my fries? 
I should have pointed out earlier that my arguments in this thread revolve around the more general issue of friends interacting with friends in these academic settings.
If the OP’s situation is as he described it, then his “friend” is indeed a dick, and not much of a friend. Asking the question in class when you’ve just heard the presentation for the first time is one thing; asking the same question in class when you’re heard the presentation before, and had the opportunity to correct the error on previous occasions, is something else altogether.
I thought you said you were going to stop participating in this thread. I guess your friends aren’t the only ones who have reason not to trust you.
Fuck off you cowardly little cuntslime.
Can it be Animaniacs?
Good God, is this still going on?
The university experience is necessarily both cooperative and competitive. A person who neglects to warn you of a flaw in your presentation so that he can take advantage of it to look good at your expense later is admittedly not your best friend: mhendo and I have long since conceded that. Nonetheless, the challenge itself might have come from anyone, even a stranger the OP would concede had no obligation to him and his, and the fact of the matter is, if the challenge had been satisfactorily answered, as it should have been regardless of the challenger’s name, there would be no issue here. The guy Extrakun thought was a friend performed the same function, perhaps for selfish reasons, that strangers or even true friends should have performed out of self-interest, and the result would have been exactly the same. The clash of ideas is what the university experience is all about. Getting challenged about your usage in a college seminar room is about as meek and mild a contest as I can imagine. The point is, friend Extrakun may be right to characterize this antagonist as “not his friend”, but it would be wrong for him to think all those who disagree with him are in the same boat.
Oh. And, Little Nemo, it’s time for you to play the quiet game. I’d seek mhendo, who will apparently tell me exactly how I’m wrong about things, as a friend, long before I seek the approval of people who can’t tell friendship from sycophancy.
agreed
It’s beautiful to see the total disconnect here- academia versus socialization.
The OP shows emotion, and all the argument is against his academic misstep; not how he can reconcile an emotion of betrayal. All that is missing is someone telling him to “suck it up and move on.” No one answered the question in a way that would help the OP deal with his perceived backstabbing, other than a reference to the most important point- did you talk to the “friend” about this?
Yes, the OP could be in the wrong, but how does he get over this for his own well being?
Madam, I’m Adam.
I guess I just have to suckit up and move on 
Good for you, ExtraKun. I do wish for you more honorable companions as well as more perspicacity in your scholastic endeavors. Please remember, though, the predisposition of people in that part of the world (where I was born, roughly) to resolve things via argument rather than quiet consensus. It’s a different, but not necessarily an incorrect, means of arriving at a conclusion. Best regards and wishes.
So let me see if I have this straight. Mhendo claims that publicly being called out is a healthy part of the academic process. I, and others, politely point out that we disagree. Mhendo rebuts us with logic like “Fuck off you mouthbreathing moron” and “Fuck off you cowardly little cuntslime”. Mhendo’s supporters step in to ask me to be quiet because I’m upsetting him.
Yes, this has certainly convinced me on how an academic debate should work.