# Where's the insult, Aspenglow? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 5, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-insult-aspenglow/948122 "2021-08-05T20:58:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-insult-aspenglow/948122/9 "2021-08-05T21:47:22Z")
My last eight posts in that thread. Unless you’re telling me just to shut up, I don’t see where I’ve insulted anyone here, merely disagreed with them (and mostly not even that): **[Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)** CairoCarol [6h](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-ads-partner-in-crime/948030/49) A simile is a type of metaphor. **[Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)** [6h](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-ads-partner-in-crime/948030/52) I like jokes when they’re funny. **[Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)** [6h](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-ads-partner-in-crime/948030/55) I do say so. A simile is a type of metaphor that uses “like” or “as.” **[ Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)** [6h](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-ads-partner-in-crime/948030/57) Czarcasm: Using the term _incorrectly_ , as you insist on doing, will just confuse people. It ain’t me who’s using it incorrectly. I don’t use it. I don’t even approve of it. It’s all the people, some of them in this thread, who are defining it willy-nilly and expecting others to understand their clear meaning, which is what I’m trying to point out. Everyone understands what it means? Yeah, sure, if it means nothing. **[Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)** [6h](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-ads-partner-in-crime/948030/60) CairoCarol: all similes are metaphors, which is precisely what I asserted, and which you denied. **[velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)** [Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/g/Registered) [6h](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-ads-partner-in-crime/948030/62) Roger\_That: Can anyone make this expression make any sense to me? Well, we’ve tried, and we all seem to agree, and you just keep arguing with us. Why is that? **[Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)** [5h](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-ads-partner-in-crime/948030/63) Don’t know. You’re a pretty argumentative bunch. Take [**@CairoCarol**](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cairocarol) --I say “all similes are metaphors” and she comes back with a link that asserts exactly that point, so I say that I agree with her link, and she asks me to “at least click on my links,” and then proceeds to quote the part that supports what I told her in the first place. And I’m argumentative? **[Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)** chela [5h](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-ads-partner-in-crime/948030/64) Pretty good. So this is what my personal ad says as of now: “Do you want to walk with me down the trail of life, making memories along the way? Can you make me laugh, and are you sensitive to my needs, as I am sensitive to yours? Do you have an ear to lend, can you keep my secrets close? I love music, some types more than others, of course, and I’m equally comfortable dressing way up or just kicking back in a t-shirt and shorts. Most of all, I want someone who wants love, and who knows what to do with it. Are you my partner in crime?” Have I said anything? Tell me please, and I’ll edit it right out. This is just [GENERIC CONTENT-FREE PERSONAL AD] with some verbosity tossed in. You know absolutely nothing about the person who wrote it. 3 Replies **[Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)** [4h](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-ads-partner-in-crime/948030/71) Shoulda worked “Age is just a number” in there, too. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-insult-aspenglow/948122)._