Man, I don't know why you don't like Harry, he likes you as long as you don't use that negro dialect.
[/QUOTE]Oh yeah, that's one of the reasons I don't like Harry Reid!
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[/QUOTE]Oh yeah, that's one of the reasons I don't like Harry Reid!
GasBandit
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Actually, if you listened to the democrat candidates, pundits and supporters, Obama's opponent last election was George W. Bush.[/QUOTE]
Considering McCain voted with Bush 95% of the time, might as well have been. :sneaky:[/QUOTE]
Except that's a complete fallacy, since Bush never got a vote in the senate, and if you judge by the same criteria, even Harry Reid voted "with Bush" most of the time.[/QUOTE]
Is that why I don't like Harry Reid?
You know exactly what I mean. Or you don't and I'm sad for you.[/QUOTE]
I know what you're trying to insinuate, which is false. McCain was tarred as being "the same as Bush," which he wasn't and isn't. Granted, he was still the wrong candidate... but he was not Bush.
Actually, if you listened to the democrat candidates, pundits and supporters, Obama's opponent last election was George W. Bush.[/QUOTE]
Considering McCain voted with Bush 95% of the time, might as well have been. :sneaky:[/QUOTE]
Except that's a complete fallacy, since Bush never got a vote in the senate, and if you judge by the same criteria, even Harry Reid voted "with Bush" most of the time.[/QUOTE]
Is that why I don't like Harry Reid?
You know exactly what I mean. Or you don't and I'm sad for you.[/QUOTE]
I know what you're trying to insinuate, which is false. McCain was tarred as being "the same as Bush," which he wasn't and isn't. Granted, he was still the wrong candidate... but he was not Bush.[/QUOTE]
Everything he said during the campaign was pretty close Bush's policies. This made it pretty easy for me to decide where my support lay. Besides, you say "tarred as being 'the same as Bush'" like it's a bad thing.
GasBandit
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Actually, if you listened to the democrat candidates, pundits and supporters, Obama's opponent last election was George W. Bush.[/QUOTE]
Considering McCain voted with Bush 95% of the time, might as well have been. :sneaky:[/QUOTE]
Except that's a complete fallacy, since Bush never got a vote in the senate, and if you judge by the same criteria, even Harry Reid voted "with Bush" most of the time.[/QUOTE]
Is that why I don't like Harry Reid?
You know exactly what I mean. Or you don't and I'm sad for you.[/QUOTE]
I know what you're trying to insinuate, which is false. McCain was tarred as being "the same as Bush," which he wasn't and isn't. Granted, he was still the wrong candidate... but he was not Bush.[/QUOTE]
Everything he said during the campaign was pretty close Bush's policies. This made it pretty easy for me to decide where my support lay. Besides, you say "tarred as being 'the same as Bush'" like it's a bad thing.[/QUOTE]
Oh it was most definitely a bad thing. The reason the Democrat party was swept into power in 2006 was because voters, even conservative voters, had become disgusted with republicans "spending like drunken democrats" (if only they knew, eh?), and in particular bush budgets that bloated over the trillion dollar mark with new drug entitlements and other discretionary spending. No matter you be on the left or the right, being compared to Bush was not a favorable comparison : The left hated him for the war on terror, the right hated him for... well, what I just said. You don't get Bushesque approval numbers because everybody's mad at you for just one thing.
As for the campaign, if there's anything we can definitely take away from the Obama presidency is that what you say during the campaign is in no way indicative of where your loyalties and priorities lie... you say what you think you need to say to get elected. Previous to his run for the presidency, McCain was the poster child for RINOs, often called "the liberal media's favorite republican" for his repeatedly demonstrated tendency to break ranks and cross the aisle. Plus, there was McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy... neither of which exactly got him any conservative brownie points.
GasBandit
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The '08 election summed up in one sentence
Come on, man! That was two very short paragraphs! And there was even an extra line feed between them!
GasBandit
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1) Your text size is totally jacked up. Hold CTRL and roll your mouse roller down a click or two.
2) You're squishing the forum to only take up half your 1440 horizontal pixels, IE trying to make a site intended to be viewed @ at least 1024x768 (preferably 1280x1024 or more) be scrunched into an, at most, 800x800 block. No wonder it looks like a wall to you, it's more along the lines of a tower of text.
3) What size is your monitor? If you're running at 1440x900... which is what I'd expect a 19 inch or less monitor to be.. if you're running a 22" or larger monitor, you probably aren't at native resolution.
Here's how the post looks when properly viewed (my monitor at work isn't widescreen, but it's a 19" 1280x1024)
2) You're squishing the forum to only take up half your 1440 horizontal pixels, IE trying to make a site intended to be viewed @ at least 1024x768 (preferably 1280x1024 or more) be scrunched into an, at most, 800x800 block. No wonder it looks like a wall to you, it's more along the lines of a tower of text.
3) What size is your monitor? If you're running at 1440x900... which is what I'd expect a 19 inch or less monitor to be.. if you're running a 22" or larger monitor, you probably aren't at native resolution.
Here's how the post looks when properly viewed (my monitor at work isn't widescreen, but it's a 19" 1280x1024)
Krisken, stop being such a dolt. It looks really stupid to cry over reading 10 sentences. You're making GasBandit look good 
Offer a suggestion= Crying and make Gasbandit look good.Krisken, stop being such a dolt. It looks really stupid to cry over reading 10 sentences. You're making GasBandit look good
Sometimes I don't get this place.
Cry was a poor word choice. But complain. This is a discussion forum, not Twitter.
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makare
Still a big wall o text gas. Dear god.... can't you be a little concise? Seriously, stop bitching about congress and start cutting the pork from your own posts.1) Your text size is totally jacked up. Hold CTRL and roll your mouse roller down a click or two.
2) You're squishing the forum to only take up half your 1440 horizontal pixels, IE trying to make a site intended to be viewed @ at least 1024x768 (preferably 1280x1024 or more) be scrunched into an, at most, 800x800 block. No wonder it looks like a wall to you, it's more along the lines of a tower of text.
3) What size is your monitor? If you're running at 1440x900... which is what I'd expect a 19 inch or less monitor to be.. if you're running a 22" or larger monitor, you probably aren't at native resolution.
Here's how the post looks when properly viewed (my monitor at work isn't widescreen, but it's a 19" 1280x1024)
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makare
These are GB paragraphs. 1% sense 99% blah blah blah.
Just trying to do Gas and the world a favor by cutting the blah.
Just trying to do Gas and the world a favor by cutting the blah.
You have to keep your target audience in mind. Once (on the image boards) I posted 3 sentences together, and got about 6 TL;DR responses. Heh.
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makare
You have to keep your target audience in mind. Once (on the image boards) I posted 3 sentences together, and got about 6 TL;DR responses. Heh.[/QUOTE]
Were they three pointless sentences? That would be a factor.
You have to keep your target audience in mind. Once (on the image boards) I posted 3 sentences together, and got about 6 TL;DR responses. Heh.[/QUOTE]
It has NOTHING to do with target audience. The human mind is set to ignore blocks of text. It's why resumes are built with blank areas in mind.
4 C's, people. Clear, concise, complete, and correct. It really isn't a hard concept.
Of course, we could just keep writing the same rambling crap over and over and say "I win" when people have no clue what you are talking about.
Green_Lantern
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is that tatto real? It looks so fake.
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Yeah, you'll never see that last C here Krisken.
GasBandit
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Look, I'm sorry, but if 7 sentences divided into 2 paragraphs is too much for someone to handle, that person needs to go back to elementary school. Yeah, people hate huge amounts of text and nobody reads them. That's why all scientific journals just copypasta twitter feeds, and why Harry Potter sold so horribly.
It's a forum, not IRC. Discussion often merits lots of words. Complaining about lots of words is asinine - it's the 1-sentence snark posts that should get the ire. Hell, I remember when it took at least 5 paragraphs of 10 sentences each to merit a TL;DR... there has been quite the dumbing down around here since then I guess.
It's a forum, not IRC. Discussion often merits lots of words. Complaining about lots of words is asinine - it's the 1-sentence snark posts that should get the ire. Hell, I remember when it took at least 5 paragraphs of 10 sentences each to merit a TL;DR... there has been quite the dumbing down around here since then I guess.
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Kitty Sinatra
Well yeah. Invader left.
TL;DR
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Kitty Sinatra
Oh damn. How did I miss that opening?
Look, if you want to obfuscate your point by rambling in 7 sentences what could be said in two, that is your problem, not mine. It isn't "dumbing down" to use clear and concise sentences.
I'll make it clear for you. If I have to read run on sentences that don't make sense, you can argue with yourself. I know how much you like having someone to argue with though.
I'll make it clear for you. If I have to read run on sentences that don't make sense, you can argue with yourself. I know how much you like having someone to argue with though.
TL;DR
GasBandit
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TL;DR[/QUOTE]
That's an ignore
[/QUOTE]Boy, you're just the squickiest little mangina ever, aren't you? You could give nancy lessons to ThatNickGuy.
Go on, ignore me, you little bitch. You're absolutely pathetic.
Short enough? Or is it still TL;DR?
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makare
I have no problem reading 20 paragraphs that are worth reading. But yours are just nonsense and blather. THAT is the problem. Krisken's only mistake was trying to get you to stop being a jabbering idiot and actually make sense for your own benefit. That will never happen, he is so naive. In the end you have always believed and will always believe that more words= correctness.
And be serious except for the times when he's singing back up for you, you ignore Covar too because he never has anything worthwhile to say. Also the only people you really pay attention to are the ones who disagree with you so that you can whip out the wall o text and bore them into submission.
GasBandit
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I have no problem reading 20 paragraphs that are worth reading. But yours are just nonsense and blather. THAT is the problem. Krisken's only mistake was trying to get you to stop being a jabbering idiot and actually make sense for your own benefit. That will never happen, he is so naive. In the end you have always believed and will always believe that more words= correctness.
And be serious except for the times when he's singing back up for you, you ignore Covar too because he never has anything worthwhile to say. Also the only people you really pay attention to are the ones who disagree with you so that you can whip out the wall o text and bore them into submission.[/QUOTE]
TL;DR
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makare
I have no problem reading 20 paragraphs that are worth reading. But yours are just nonsense and blather. THAT is the problem. Krisken's only mistake was trying to get you to stop being a jabbering idiot and actually make sense for your own benefit. That will never happen, he is so naive. In the end you have always believed and will always believe that more words= correctness.
And be serious except for the times when he's singing back up for you, you ignore Covar too because he never has anything worthwhile to say. Also the only people you really pay attention to are the ones who disagree with you so that you can whip out the wall o text and bore them into submission.[/QUOTE]
TL;DR[/QUOTE]
more like too much sense;don't care.
ITT; DOGPILE GAS!
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