To wit:
Those people don’t realize that the ONLY way we can possibly cure aids AIDS[sic], cancer, diabetes, heart disease, blindness, etc, etc.,[sic] is by giving animals experimental medicine, watch watching[sic] them as they probably suffer and die, then write writing[sic] down the problems, and keep [sic] trying continuing to try.
Just for starters.
Fuckwit.
And Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of PETA, is reportedly diabetic.
[Robot Devil] How ironic! [/RD]
AFAIK, she’s not the only one among PETA’s top brass on insulin, either.
Isn’t most insulin used by diabetics today, synthetic? That wouldn’t be hypocritical, right?
Insulin as we know it wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for German scientists experimenting on dogs two centuries ago.
One century ago, sorry.
I kinda like that. I’m going to start describing myself as a “carnovolactic vegan”.
To drop a troll turd in the Pit, and then run away, never showing his face again.
I second Arizona Tech. For the sake of argument, the english wasn’t perfect, but a sentence in a quote is obviously all [sic] anyways, and furthermore, it was not a series of independent errors, but a consistent sentence structure (all the same tense, even if it was technically wrong) that a lot of people seem to use. I parse the sentence just fine with the consistent tensing, even if it isn’t technically correct. The pedantic use of [sic] is a cause for :rolleyes:, especially when the argument fails on its own merits.
Damn, look who found a blue pencil. :dubious: Too bad the job of “annoying corrector of minor errors” isn’t open, you’d be a cinch. :rolleyes:
The point about using [sic] in a quote I won’t argue with, since I tend to agree (note: I wasn’t the one who did it). But the accusation that those [sic]s weren’t pointing out errors of composition is just wrong, and that I’m not going to let slide. All we have on this board is the written text, and it behooves every participant to write as clearly and correctly as possible in order to convey the intended meaning.
Though it would appear it’s all wasted effort in this case since our troll-turd depositor seems to have departed.
Hey, DrDeth, if you like wading through sloppy mangled semicoherent writing, have at it. I certainly wouldn’t deny you the pleasures of cherishing ignorance.
I don’t. But your “(sic)s” didn’t make it any easier to read. Next time, just call him a semi-illiterate fuckwit and I am with you. 
I had a beautiful young lady work for me many many years ago. Sweet, funny, and did I mention drop dead gorgeous. The absolute perfect girl next door if you had excellent taste is picking a house. Damn good employee to boot.
She was severely diabetic. Injected insulin several times a day.
Every time I hear of PETA and no animal testing I think of her. I think of how without the animal testing that lead to insulin she would be dead long before I met her. I love my animals, I love my dog, but if it was a choice of my dog’s health and hers, it is no contest. I would kill my dog with my own two hands to save her life.
ok ok, you’re right, I did error in the way I called out ITR, since I naturally assumed that the [sics] were attempting to refer to supposed typos/actual errors of writing. And I admit, they are, I suppose, errors in grammar/composition.
But, as I stated, I still firmly maintain that the writing, such as it was, was perfectly clear enough, especially since the errors were consistent.
shrug, dead issue I suppose, no argument here, move along folks.
As I pointed out in my post immediately preceding this post by you, those WERE NOT MY [SIC] INSERTIONS. NOT MINE. They were done by ITR champion, not me, in a long multi-quoting response to the OP. I simply answered this post:
No, they weren’t typos. They were compositional errors. Okay? All clear now?
On preview: No harm, no foul, enigm4tic. 
Too late to edit into the preceding post:
I’m a proofreader by vocation, a writer by avocation, and driven to varying degrees of frothing fury by crappy composition. :mad:
When my wife and I got married we didn’t have much money. We had to make do with a flank steak.
You must have taken a lot of ribbing about that.
No not ribs, flank steak
Sheez!
Hey, I got no beef with you.