Terrible things people call their childrenFollow

And yet you regularly get schooled by every dink in this place

Did you go to school in a kennel or something?

Edited, Jun 12th 2014 8:52pm by Jophiel

There's a fallacy that explains this forum nicely.

You and I could pick two opposing positions out of a hat and 90% of the posters on this forum will agree with you over me Joph. Let's not kid ourselves about this fact. I've stated many times that if I wanted to post on a forum where everyone agreed with me, it would be pretty trivially easy to do, but that would also be boring as hell. Take that however you want, but don't fool yourself into thinking that how many people agree with you on an online forum at all reflects the accuracy of what you're saying.

Says the guy who is trying to imply that the only reason people disagree with him is that there is a conspiracy clique working against him.

Oh dear lord.

Is the book in question Everyone Poops?

My entire life experience has been this way. I just know how things work with incredibly small amounts of information.

We agree that you hare working with incredibly small amounts of information. So...that's some common ground, I guess.

The reality is that you've chosen not to challenge yourself in your life because you are terrified of failure. Which, honestly, is a good instinct. You'd clearly fail in almost any setting where people weren't dazzled by the slightly above average. Personally, I don't really understand that sort of fear on anything but an intellectual level. I mean I can see how it might develop, but I can't really relate to it. I fail all the time. Obviously I could have coasted through life as a lawyer or professor or politician or whatever. I'm white and brilliant and after a while was well connected and rich. I could (and can now) do pretty much whatever I wanted after the age of about 25. What I wanted to do was compete. I couldn't do the boring job you do for 20 years. I just wouldn't have the tenacity for that level of banality. Show up, punch a metaphorical clock, don't **** on the carpet, rinse and repeat until you die? No thanks. I find raising my kids tremendously interesting at the moment, but maybe I'll get bored and hire someone to do it and write novels, or learn to paint, or go back to school. What I won't do is hang around and play runescape and measure my success against guys who work at McDonalds. Although I'm sure that's super fulfilling for certain personality types....


Uh... Wow are you bad at reading comprehension. What's funny is that you honestly seem to be unaware of it.

It's really not that freaking complicated Smash. Remove the extraneous phrases to see if the usage is correct:

"when combined ... they ... act as a verb phrase"


Right, unless you put in the past tense. Which you did. So, you know, COMPLETELY INCORRECT BY ANY AND EVERY MEASURE. I didn't create verb usage rules to make you look silly, but they do exist.

Sorry. I bet you thought you intuitively understood how that worked, huh? You didn't :(

Edited, Jun 12th 2014 11:10pm by Smasharoo

An example of what I mean by "ostensibly":

Were you to present my ex with an complex diagram of an electrical circuit she could, with almost certainly no errors, solve for all the voltages and such.

But don't, for the love of all you hold dear, let her attempt to set up your A/V system.


That, too.

Edited, Jun 12th 2014 9:17pm by Bijou

"Bandwagon" has nothing to do with you being consistently and hilariously wrong about basic factual things where you decide you just "know better" than the "experts" and attempt to school everyone. Polling, legislature, court verdicts, scientific studies, etc. I understand that you have a fragile ego where you've convinced yourself that you're the smartest guy in the room but people aren't laughing at you when you try to tell everyone how polling works because of a "bandwagon" effect. It's because you're just laughably wrong.


What you call "bandwagon" to shield your feelings anyone else would call credibility.

Edited, Jun 12th 2014 10:30pm by Jophiel

If agreeing with a certain person and/or group 90%+ is the criteria for bandwagoning, then I imagine there's an excuse behind his zealot like devotion to the GOP that exempts him.

I commented on it in August of 2013: Linkie

Only possible explanation: time travel. There's no way you make that comment without jumping on my bandwagon first.

Also asked him directly in January of this year: Linkie

Well sure, you're a time traveler, we've established that already. The more important question is why you're wasting time not killing Hitler.

If I killed Hitler, forum etiquette would go to hell, since it would invalidate Godwin's Law. You have to think these things through, man!

Do I have to do things exactly like him, or can I deviate slightly? Because I think history books would be more interesting if they suddenly read six million clowns.