Maybe so. I just think, no one’s perfect when it comes to this sort of thing.
I see you’re back to being Col. Dax.
I’m an indecisive person, and a vain one. So, back to the Col.
No one cares, man.
Yes, Justin, I did acknowledge it.
Hence the words “from now on” & “from here on out”.
I realize my view of verbal sadism is very broad, but I am not misusing the word,
i’m just not being lenient with it, which i realize is unorthodox.
But i see verbal sadism everywhere I go, in the speech of everyone I encounter.
It is a mainstay of American culture, as far as I can hear.
Condescension begets superiority; superiority begets sadism.
In a loveable coincidence,
on my lunch outing earlier,
I eased into the book i’m currently reading
only to find the exact topic i was trying to chisel:
“And suddenly it was all clear.
All those gentlemen and ladies and boys and girls sitting at tables in the café — they were right, unquestionably right. As they talked, they became more and more certain of how right they were. And their certainty about being right was built on ridicule, devastation, and scorn for other people. They more they talked, the more they were right, the more their rightness demanded its tribute of words, threats, and gestures. as that tribute piled up, all the others, those who were in the wrong, became increasingly alone and unhappy. I looked out the window across the street, and I saw other people sitting in other café’s: they were right, too. This immense, single-minded rightness had split the world into two camps: those who had right on their sides (which is to say, everyone), and the others (which is to say, again, everyone).
How many stupid battles, how many noble and just battles take place during an ordinary day in any of our lives?’
~ Margherita Dolce Vita, page 70.
& Ivan, if you didn’t care about something, you would not have replied.
I wonder what you think no one cares about…
no need to take everything so personally
@Shotzi
“Who are these people that are the problem? I have a feeling I’m one of them. That makes Shotzi’s tum tum hurt and his eyes get wet. Don’t turn on me, board! I’ll do better!”
You start out by mocking the thread with your usual uninspired attempt at humor — “This thread is like Eminem rhyming within the rhyme. Pretty deep, guys. Prit-tee deep” — yet as soon as it dawns on you that you might be implicated in their complaint you turn obeisant and grovel for acceptance. Hitch up your pants and be a man, you snivelling drunk. You remind me of Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses, minus Lee Remick, as you’re revolting to women.
My god, the shithead is back.
TROLL ALERT
PLEASE IGNORE THIS THREAD NOW
THANK YOU
I agree my attempts at humor are uninspired and the vast majority of women do find me rather unattractive. I don’t know about revolting, but maybe. I’ll try to be a man. I appreciate the advice.
Anyway, what I was originally going to post is that I miss a ton of action on this board because I don’t read posts more than a few sentences long. I don’t really notice anybody acting shitty but me and the guy telling me to pull my pants up. I think this board is a lot friendlier than others I’ve posted on, which, granted, is only like one or two other boards.
“You start out by mocking the thread with your usual uninspired attempt at humor…”
Pretty hypocritical for you to criticize uninspired humour.
TVC Shithead, you owe my friend Shotzi an apology.
Lol. I’m really starting to like this board.
Is the grovelling rummy that thin-skinned that he needs an apology from me?
^See what I mean?
PLEASE STOP REPLYING
This thread got dumped into the crapper in a hurry. It’s unfortunate that opinions don’t matter anymore. So, I guess that this is nothing but an exercise in futility. But, I’m going to step out an a limb anyway. It was inevitable, with all the cynicism, sarcasm and irony in the world I should have seen it coming. It has become nearly impossible to form a clear thought, let alone articulate it.
In spite of any ideas to the contrary, the sun will rise in the morning to another day and there will still be an infinity of opinions to shape that moment. No matter how meaningless those concepts are. But, wait a minute, I just made a meaningful statement. How silly of me, I must have over-stepped my bounds because, no one has ever has ever impacted culture with a thought – not Bergman, not Kurosawa, not Lennon, not McCartney, not Mozart, not Beethoven, not Captain Kangaroo. There never was an purpose to the consciousness to which we were so humbly bestowed. Yes, I’m just a cynical A**HOLE like anyone else.
That said, just remember one thing, you are the bearer of all that shapes your perceptions, and thus, quality of life. If you are not willing to grant another the latitude needed to form thoughts and ideas, you have chosen to diminish your own effectiveness as a human being. I contend that you are responsible for your own misery. So, the next time you have a hard time getting your point across, take a good look in the mirror.
No, I’m not an existentialist, that ilk has never had anything decent to say about anyone.
Everyone’s opinion does matter, not only to themselves but (should) to other people. I give my opinion and expect everyone else to. I argue my point and expect everyone else to. If you’re only interested in your own opinion then why give it?
Zzzzzzzzz…
it doesn’t?
My whole point was to get at least one person to realize that their opinion does matter. Sometimes it takes a little jolt.
While Shotzi says this thread is lame he says absolutely nothing else. He must not have an opinion at all, LOL. Now that’s deep, saying something without saying anything at all. Bravo!!!
My opinion is that your post was boring and pretentious. I don’t need you to tell me you’ve made a “meaningful statement”. I don’t think it was meaningful at all, it was stupid. The only part of your post I agreed with was when you called yourself an asshole, but I assume you didn’t really mean it since you’re obviously in love with yourself and your meaningful statements and your impact on culture and your quality of life and your soap box. In other words, zzzzzzz…
If opinions don’t matter, why are you here in this forum? Why are slinging you crap all over the place? Obviously what I wrote had an impact on you. It turning you into a raving lunatic. You took everything that I said personally. I simply made a rather meaning statement and said so in my original post. You on the other hand continue to say absolutely nothing.
If our opinions didn’t matter nobody would write in this forum, I think the great thing about the internet is that you can relate and talk to people you might not even know existed or had the same opinion or different, just like you, so it doesn’t matter what you say, you are still part of this cute thing you got going in this topic about people’s opinion, it matters enough to the people that respond to it, and that’s that…
Frank, I was content with indicating that your post was so boring it put me to sleep, but then you had to go and mock me for not having an opinion. I had already expressed my opinion pretty succinctly I thought, but you were unable to catch on so I broke it down for you. Now I’m allegedly a raving, crap-slinging lunatic who is deeply impacted by your prose. Yeesh. Since you asked, I post here for fun. Some people post interesting thoughts here and there and others do not. So far, you’re in the latter group. I hope that doesn’t upset your anti-existentialist world too much. Take solace in the fact that your opinion, thus far, is completely irrelevant to me, meaning that, if you so choose, my opinion can be irrelevant to you as well! See how that works? I thought you would.
Good talk.
Shotzi,
If I haven’t said anything interesting, then why are you dissecting every minute detail?
As for the mockery, every one of your posts have been couched in a scornful tone. If there is anyone here being condescending, it is you. And yes, you have been mocked. Thoroughly, I might add.
Let’s not be so cheaply ironic as to perpetuate a fight on a thread that was initlally devoted to asking why we fight on this forum.
Col. Dax
“You do often keep your own threads going while not contributing as much to other people’s…”
Well, he does normally have some of the best threads on the site, and many others continuously post irrelevant, or unnecessary threads (my political thread for example). Most of the people that have responded here are not guilty of this (myself not included), but NEH is one of the best posters on the site. I think he’s earned the right to bump his threads when he wants to.