ambushed, you need to get off of mommas. I just got off of yours.* Oh and the proper insult is COMBAT boots.
*Couldn’t pass this up.
I can’t believe ambushed wrote in post 75 a Bible-length saga which did exactly what people were on his case about to begin with.
Just in case it isn’t clear.
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Most people think that the substance of your side of the argument about the scientific method is correct.
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Most people think your people skills are really, really bad and that negates point 1 above.
Folks won’t care much about the substance of your argument if they are so turned off by the manner in which you make the argument.
Gyrate’s comment was the only good thing about this thread. I want the last 15 minutes back.
I said something similar, albeit much less politely, in post #17.
Trust me, ambushed, your best option here is to ask the mods to lock this, go start a serious GD thread about the validity of the scientific method, and pretend that this whole mess never happened.
Oh, and never mention hillbillies again.
Curiously, OP hast not returneth.
Would you? Discretion being the better part of valour, I’d like to think that he’s read these posts and has become a little more circumspect.
Gyrate has made a couple of excellent posts in this thread, I hope the poster takes the advice he offered.
His responses can take days to compose.
Maybe his internet privileges have been suspended.
(Quick movie trailer first.)
I’m torn between reading this as “compost” and “decompose.”
Cat Whisperer, maybe it’s a little of both?
If I had put in the enormous amount of time and energy into my indefensibly long-winded screeds as ambushed has…YES!
Completely agree about Gyrate as well.
Quite literally! You can’t rush a genius at work, you know.
Ambushed, you win on formal debate points (and extra points for being factually correct) but your tone, constituting a serious, almost comically overblown overreaction, is going to cause people not to take you seriously.
When **Frylock **accuses you of overelaboration… there’s your wake-up call.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.
Woa woa woa woa woa.
Wait wait wait.
Hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on.
Wait.
Wait.
Now wait.
Is this about that time I wrote that pissy overly verbose email to a prof and decided to share it here for some reason?
Because I explained…
I mean, I thought I made it clear that…
:smack: Oh never mind.
My reputation precedes me–and I didn’t even know I had one.
(I mean, don’t most of my previous and subsequent posts go to show that…
I mean…
Never mind.)
Yeah, that’s what I was referring to. In fairness, though, that did seem to be a one-off.
Reminder:
No warning issued.
Gfactor
Pit Moderator
Huh. I guess this thread gets Ivn’s Pit Cop Seal of Approval™. Or he’s on vacation.
To be fair, more than anyplace this side of a Junior High girls bathroom, the Dope values tone over content: if you can’t shoehorn what you have to communicate into the local idiom, it really doesn’t matter how true or valid it is. People here will refuse to listen to you until you make yourself sound exactly like them. To a certain degree, of course, it’s understandable; you need to make yourself understood. But the mob will come down on you harder for perceived tone than for clarity, which can sometimes be self defeating. At any rate conformity of tone is often enforced with a savagery beyond that brought to bear on any other infraction, as this thread and countless others demonstrate. It’s really the last unquestioned bastion of Doper intolerance, and I for one don’t hold out much hope that it will ever be openly acknowledged, let alone addressed and considered.