Wasn't that second article a parody?
Girl Won't Date a Nerd
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I think people are getting all confused.
There's the original piece.
There's a parody.
There's a response on the same blog website by another girl who rips the original piece's author apart.
There's an article with a response from the guy who was targeted by the original piece.
You'll probably have to specify which one you're talking about, or quote portions of it, if you don't want anyone else to be utterly confused.
Not that confusion is a bad thing, it's par for the course around here.
There's the original piece.
There's a parody.
There's a response on the same blog website by another girl who rips the original piece's author apart.
There's an article with a response from the guy who was targeted by the original piece.
You'll probably have to specify which one you're talking about, or quote portions of it, if you don't want anyone else to be utterly confused.
Not that confusion is a bad thing, it's par for the course around here.
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Chibibar
Original - The girl is a bI think people are getting all confused.
There's the original piece.
There's a parody.
There's a response on the same blog website by another girl who rips the original piece's author apart.
There's an article with a response from the guy who was targeted by the original piece.
You'll probably have to specify which one you're talking about, or quote portions of it, if you don't want anyone else to be utterly confused.
Not that confusion is a bad thing, it's par for the course around here.
parody - awesomesauce!
Response - she did a good job
Guy response - he is classy, but also the article did give him some positive feedback
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Chibibar
Amy's first one was a parody
the 2nd post is the guy's response.
fade
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Whatever. Your disagreement with my opinions does not constitute a misunderstanding on my part, no matter how much you'd like it to be true. I stand by my claims in other threads. I stopped reading when it became clear that no one was interested in a contrasting opinion, they just wanted to pat each other on the back about their own.
fade
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And that's about 99% of the problem on this forum. Everyone wants to read emotion into posts that isn't there. If you guys want to have a separate opinion, go for it. I'm not going to cry about it, but don't expect me to agree with it or not debate it either. If you don't want to debate, I leave. Not out of emotion, but because it's no longer interesting, or facts I present are completely ignored. What's the point then? I'm not going to hurl personal insults.
I like your contradicting opinions Fade, it keeps the conversations going and the debates interesting. If everyone just agreed with each other all the time it'd be ridiculously boring. I know I've purposelly taken the extreme opposite side of a thread just to keep it interesting. I'm not saying you do it purposelly, I just mean that contridicting opinions keep the forums alive.
Oh yeah, and stop being so mad
Oh yeah, and stop being so mad
Everyone is entitled to express their opinions regardless how disagreeable their opinions can be to others. That explanation is far from the truth of things.
Now that you’ve asked, to be frank, your posts don’t even make sense more times than not. You think that the few replies you earned recently from is something new? Perhaps for some others but for me it’s been an issue for awhile now and I simply didn’t have the motivation to give a damn before I moved on to the next post after a classic “What?” expression formed on my face. I know several people felt that way at some point or another but I’ll allow them to post their thoughts themselves.
Odds are it’s the vibe you put off that gets such a negative reaction to your posts. That is certainly something noteworthy. Especially when your opinions come short simply because quite obviously you missed the point once again or didn’t bother to read other forum posters content in the same thread before you formed your own. Sometimes people felt it was disrespectful, some others comical but it has happened more times than I could count.
Furthermore, you tend to contradict yourself in your posts and you generally post in a way that is simply… off-putting. Perhaps it’s simply the way you express yourself or that your English is poor, I really can’t tell at this point.
*shrug*
In conclusion, perhaps it’s a question of being able to garnish your posts to be expressed more intelligently with some more gusto in your selection of words that would provide a tastier content to read instead of being scrolled over. You could also research your opinions a bit more and inject a dose of wisdom in the forum threads, which you’re more than welcome to, as long as it conforms to the topic at hand without seeming oddly placed once again.
However, kindly note that to contradict something once or twice every so often is completely normal. To find oneself contradicting every single time paints a person in a different light altogether.
Is this interesting enough for you now?
Now that you’ve asked, to be frank, your posts don’t even make sense more times than not. You think that the few replies you earned recently from is something new? Perhaps for some others but for me it’s been an issue for awhile now and I simply didn’t have the motivation to give a damn before I moved on to the next post after a classic “What?” expression formed on my face. I know several people felt that way at some point or another but I’ll allow them to post their thoughts themselves.
Odds are it’s the vibe you put off that gets such a negative reaction to your posts. That is certainly something noteworthy. Especially when your opinions come short simply because quite obviously you missed the point once again or didn’t bother to read other forum posters content in the same thread before you formed your own. Sometimes people felt it was disrespectful, some others comical but it has happened more times than I could count.
Furthermore, you tend to contradict yourself in your posts and you generally post in a way that is simply… off-putting. Perhaps it’s simply the way you express yourself or that your English is poor, I really can’t tell at this point.
*shrug*
In conclusion, perhaps it’s a question of being able to garnish your posts to be expressed more intelligently with some more gusto in your selection of words that would provide a tastier content to read instead of being scrolled over. You could also research your opinions a bit more and inject a dose of wisdom in the forum threads, which you’re more than welcome to, as long as it conforms to the topic at hand without seeming oddly placed once again.
However, kindly note that to contradict something once or twice every so often is completely normal. To find oneself contradicting every single time paints a person in a different light altogether.
Is this interesting enough for you now?
I'm a lot like fade, I think, in that I tend to think of the alternatives, the opposing point of view, the counter-examples when I see people making some kind of claim. It may come across as being contradictory but it usually isn't meant to be. In part, at least, I think it is because fade and I are trained as scientists. Skepticism is critical for our jobs. We look to falsify, to prove wrong, because no matter how many friends of friends you had that said that they saw bigfoot, it doesn't make it true. And so, like fade, the first thought I often have after reading someone's post is "...but what a minute..." It isn't because I am setting out to troll people, it is a reflex. I'm not even a negative person by nature. But I am always looking for the counterexample, because they carry a lot of weight in my line of work. It may make me a little less sociable, I guess, but that's a side effect, not the intent.
1.) If I am publishing a paper, yes. If I am throwing my thoughts out on a forum, no. See the thread about Gold for me arguing my point of view with very little experience in economics.
2.) If it is for my job, usually yes. If it is a forum post, I've been caught skimming before. I would think everyone has.
3.) I believe there is a warming trend. I'm coming around that it is anthropocentric, which is the bigger issue, but I've been skeptical about it for a long, long time. I am coming around on it, though, and my main issue with the climate change debate is that simply isn't an effective way to change people's behaviors. Assuming we are the cause of a warming globe, simply telling people that or invoking new regulations is not going to work very well.
Must have been one sneaky mofo admin. Of course we don't have one of those so it's a mystery for the ages.Ooh! A stealth edit on the spoilered picture!! How'd that happen?!?
fade
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Jay, I can't even read your post with any respect, because you've made it ironically clear in the past that you simply don't read what I write. You tend to reply to something I never said at all, or you resort to some insult. Some of what you said here isn't even true. I tend to back up everything I say with a clear example. I can't help that you don't find it clear. The arguments I get from most of the other people here indicate that they read and understood what I said, even if they don't agree. I get the impression from your posts that you read the first sentence, decided you disagreed, and then replied assuming the rest of my post was wrong. I see this because when you aren't insulting me, you tend to point to things I did in fact say. You've practically admitted to this in your own post.
I'm sorry you don't think posts that say simple things like "people seem to be okay paying for the same additional content as long as it's physically and temporally dislocated from their original purchase" are clear. That was one you threw up an image macro several times for. I couldn't see much difference then, and I can't now. If you can, good for you. Make a coherent counter-argument that consists of more than a Tommy Lee Jones image. Tell me why you think I'm wrong without spitting bile. I'd respect it and probably counter back, or concede. In any case, you seemed to particularly hate this one, and it was in direct argument to things said earlier in the thread.
As far as these "recent replies" go, really, there's only one person on this forum that tends to reply that way. You pop in after everything I say and express some kind of discontent to try to get my hackles up. It isn't working, and like this, it drags the thread off-topic.
Contradict myself? Show me. Give me an example or 2. If it's so off-putting, you ought to be able to conjure up a few examples.
I usually remain emotionally attached from these discussions, but I do find your attacks on my intelligence and English skills amusing, if nothing else. Give me some examples of my poor English and intelligence and poor research. I can certainly provide you with evidence galore that my English, intelligence, and research skills have been recognized by some fairly high authorities.
I'm sorry you don't think posts that say simple things like "people seem to be okay paying for the same additional content as long as it's physically and temporally dislocated from their original purchase" are clear. That was one you threw up an image macro several times for. I couldn't see much difference then, and I can't now. If you can, good for you. Make a coherent counter-argument that consists of more than a Tommy Lee Jones image. Tell me why you think I'm wrong without spitting bile. I'd respect it and probably counter back, or concede. In any case, you seemed to particularly hate this one, and it was in direct argument to things said earlier in the thread.
As far as these "recent replies" go, really, there's only one person on this forum that tends to reply that way. You pop in after everything I say and express some kind of discontent to try to get my hackles up. It isn't working, and like this, it drags the thread off-topic.
Contradict myself? Show me. Give me an example or 2. If it's so off-putting, you ought to be able to conjure up a few examples.
I usually remain emotionally attached from these discussions, but I do find your attacks on my intelligence and English skills amusing, if nothing else. Give me some examples of my poor English and intelligence and poor research. I can certainly provide you with evidence galore that my English, intelligence, and research skills have been recognized by some fairly high authorities.
Read the first line... lost interest as I disagreed with you not having respect for me since you obviously had in replying to my trollbait with that long post. The rest of the content is therefor invalid.
This above post lacked a well planned out opening which could have been taken care of easily with some proper research.... again.
This above post lacked a well planned out opening which could have been taken care of easily with some proper research.... again.
fade
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The irony is palpable. Nothing here makes sense. No respect is needed to read something and argue with it. I said I couldn't read it with respect, not that I couldn't read it. Like Quigley with the handguns. He said he didn't like them, not that he couldn't shoot them. The remaining irony is that you pretty much summed up my entire post that you didn't read in your response, kind of confirming what I said.
Actually, MindDetective hit it on the head anyway. I don't need to research to call into question a point of view. If you believe that, then you must also invalidate most of the world's court systems, peer reviews, graduate defenses, education systems, etc. I don't have to prove that you did it, I only have to prove that my client didn't.
If it was trollbait, whoop-de-doo. Congratulations, I guess. I guess that tricking someone into arguing is somehow a win?
... Hey guys whats this thread about?
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Chibibar
good gravy y'all!
I can't tell if you did that on purpose.
It's true! And, worse yet, she hasn't done anything further to embarrass herself in days. The internet may move on.
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Biannoshufu
I usually hate fade's opinions because they differ than mine and that clearly makes him a horrible person.
But this thread is a win for him.
But this thread is a win for him.
Also, find MTG worse then Jeffrey Dahmer...
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