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Can was pause this fun until I've had my morning coffee and taken my morning shit?
That's more like it. Every time Blue ever uses the word "you" it should be replaced by Sly's name. While this threatens to make Sly the center of the universe, that is an accomplished fact so there is nothing to lose. From now on, we must all type Sly's name instead of the pronoun "you."
Nice touch. I just noticed that "he" was "you" the first time I looked at it. Another very touchy pronoun that starts flame wars. He. I request that all "he"s in Blue's posts be changed from now on to Sly's name.
I do not favor replacing the pronoun "we" with "was." Unless it's the common refrain after a game, "We was robbed." That would add class. "Can we was robbed pause this fun until I've had my morning coffee and taken my morning shit?"
Sly changed my pronoun "your" to his own name. Apparently you complained to him. (He'll deny it.) Can you tell me exactly how I insulted you? Even if you took it as such, since when is criticism against the rules here? You have started at least 20 threads lately against Hillary or the Democrats. Yet you and Sly think you can escape being drawn into the responses.
When I wrote the post, I considered 2 possibilities:
1. You faked not knowing that the South has always legislated racism.
2. SlyPokerDog is too dumb to know this.
I decided to make the non-insulting assumption, 1. Would you and Sly prefer that I had argued 2 instead of 1?
Sly changed my pronoun "your" to his own name. Apparently you complained to him. (He'll deny it.) Can you tell me exactly how I insulted you? Even if you took it as such, since when is criticism against the rules here? You have started at least 20 threads lately against Hillary or the Democrats. Yet you and Sly think you can escape being drawn into the responses.
When I wrote the post, I considered 2 possibilities:
1. You faked not knowing that the South has always legislated racism.
2. SlyPokerDog is too dumb to know this.
I decided to make the non-insulting assumption, 1. Would you and Sly prefer that I had argued 2 instead of 1?
I just found another one! In my response to a complaint that I had insulted someone who says I insulted him for assuming he's not dumb enough to not know the South has always legislated racism (Blue says it wouldn't have been an insult if I'd assumed he's dumb enough not to know that), Sly edited my response in which I explained that I had chosen the more flattering option, the option assuming that Blue is too smart to not have known.
So when I flattered Blue and told him my guess was that he's too smart not to know the obvious, Sly jumped at the opportunity to insert his own name where I had typed "you are." This megalomaniac Sly is out of control. Is he running for office? Why does he replace all pronouns with his own name? We can all agree, whether Democrats or Republicans, that he is power-hungry and must be brought under control.
I just notice a mistake that egomaniac made. He changed 2, but not 1. This shows that Sly doesn't think straight, which makes him even more dangerous. As my grandmother's generation used to say, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and applied inconsistently, it sucks even more.
1 didn't read it as a personal insult so there was no reason to change it.
Do you (oops, I mean, Does Sly) have any formal education in distinguishing between
1. insults you surmise are intentional (the ones you change)
2. insults you guess aren't intentional (like the one above you didn't change)
3. insults which are intended as flattery (the one you changed)
4. insults which are insincere
5. sincere insults which accuse someone of being insincere
6. insincere insults which accuse someone of being sincere (in this case, dumb as a rock)
7. insults which are insults only because they accuse someone of being insincere
8. insults which are not insults primarily due to accusing someone for being insincere, though they do so (e.g. "I could kick your ass, motherfucker. Oh by the way, you're fibbing.")
I think you've played it out long enough jlprk. Time to have a glass of whiskey or something and relax.
Says the guy who's dominated the OT board for a couple of weeks with nonstop election threads, but gets insulted if any responses to his won threads are directed against him.
Sly, his comment said my name. Are you going to change my name to yours? Also, I feel insulted by the word "Sly." Change that, too.
Says the guy who's dominated the OT board for a couple of weeks with nonstop election threads, but gets insulted if any responses to his won threads are directed against him.
Sly, his comment said my name. Are you going to change my name to yours? Also, I feel insulted by the word "you." Change that, too.
I am not sure what your problem is.
1.) the forums here in OT are meant for whatever we want.
2.) that means many forum threads can be created for different topics of discussion
3.) forum rules for insulting people still apply.
Just because you don't like the amount of election threads in an off-topic forum area, doesn't give you carte blanche to insult people.
None of the threads I created were personal insults to members of this forum.
Can you explain what my insult was? I've explained it about 3 times now, as the choice between assuming you're ignorant of history vs. the assumption that you aren't. You just continue to state that I insulted you. You haven't explained how, or responded to my 2-option analysis.
I read it as an insult, if I got it wrong I sincerely apologize. My only intent is to promote healthy discussion and debate.
When I typed "you" in the "Can you explain what my insult was?" post right before the "I read it as an insult" post, I was addressing Blue. I understand that with this new confusion over the word, you (Sly) thought I was asking you (Sly) to explain why you (Sly) said I had insulted him (Blue). But in this case, I meant the word "you" to mean "you," not "Sly."
Do not confuse the definition of "you" in that post to be the same as the definition in this post. In this post, since I am addressing you (Sly) the word "you" means "Sly." But in the post to which I referred, "you" meant "Blue."
So what's the answer, Blue?
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When I typed "you" in the "Can you explain what my insult was?" post right before the "I read it as an insult" post, I was addressing Blue. I understand that with this new confusion over the word, you (Sly) thought I was asking you (Sly) to explain why you (Sly) said I had insulted him (Blue). But in this case, I meant the word "you" to mean "you," not "Sly."
Do not confuse the definition of "you" in that post to be the same as the definition in this post. In this post, since I am addressing you (Sly) the word "you" means "Sly." But in the post to which I referred, "you" meant "Blue."
So what's the answer, Blue?
My answer is:
You can insult me all you want. I don't care. But if Sly censors something then he did it for good reason...If I were you, I'd just drop it and move on.
You continue to claim that I insulted you without being able to explain why it was an insult, while trying to sweep it under the rug. You keep appealing to authority, Sly, to bail you out by defending you. He himself, in his indubitable wisdom, is similarly unable to explain why it was an insult.
Here is the summary so far.
Sly basically says, "I keep repeating that it was my interpretation that you insulted him. I can't explain why or how I determined that."
Blue basically says, "I can't explain why, but I keep saying you insulted me. Ask Sly to explain because he's smarter than me. I think it has something to do with you hinting that I'm not smart, but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to explain why I think you insulted me."
Jlprk basically says, "But I said you ARE smart...so smart that you couldn't possibly be dumb enough to mean what you said, so you must be pretending not to know that the South legislates racism."
You continue to claim that I insulted you without being able to explain why it was an insult, while trying to sweep it under the rug. You keep appealing to authority, Sly, to bail you out by defending you. He himself, in his indubitable wisdom, is similarly unable to explain why it was an insult.
Here is the summary so far.
Sly basically says, "I keep repeating that it was my interpretation that you insulted him. I can't explain why or how I determined that."
Blue basically says, "I can't explain why, but I keep saying you insulted me. Ask Sly to explain because he's smarter than me. I think it has something to do with you hinting that I'm not smart, but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to explain why I think you insulted me."
Jlprk basically says, "But I said you ARE smart...so smart that you couldn't possibly be dumb enough to mean what you said, so you must be pretending not to know that the South legislates racism."
You continue to claim that I insulted you without being able to explain why it was an insult, while trying to sweep it under the rug. You keep appealing to authority, Sly, to bail you out by defending you. He himself, in his indubitable wisdom, is similarly unable to explain why it was an insult.
Here is the summary so far.
Sly basically says, "I keep repeating that it was my interpretation that you insulted him. I can't explain why or how I determined that."
Blue basically says, "I can't explain why, but I keep saying you insulted me. Ask Sly to explain because he's smarter than me. I think it has something to do with you hinting that I'm not smart, but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to explain why I think you insulted me."
Jlprk basically says, "But I said you ARE smart...so smart that you couldn't possibly be dumb enough to mean what you said, so you must be pretending not to know that the South legislates racism."
