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A place to go to if you're inside a thread and you get into pissing contests* or ad hominem attacks.
:) . . *A pissing contest is any argument that just goes back and forth between two individuals but never gets resolved. Here's the context of how this thread came to be. Just follow the links like breadcrumbs, and work your way backwards in time, from post #897 to 896 to 894 to 892 to 874 to ... |
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So now we discriminate against the outside.
I see how it is, what with you and your damn logical fallacies. Don't you know the internet IS the outside, where logic is a toaster's bedroom. Take that! What has the world come to..... |
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lol man, lol.
ad hominem is like one of my favorite words. Although I typically have problems with precisely the opposite problem, which is where an obsession with logic or with the obvious and evident leads one to forget the intention, and one just grows lazy and claims that the argument doesn't convince them rather than making any effort to understand the other hominem. And then I often make the accusation that "you don't believe in humans". What would the opposite in Latin be, con hominem? You need to make you arguments more con hominem. |
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I'm all for ad valorum. Yeah, that's where the real action's at!
Or ad nauseum. Ooo, I almost forgot about that one! |
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What is this ridiculous thread? I can start better threads in my sleep.
What's with the all-caps first word in the title? Don't you KNOW you're not supposed to use all caps? It's like you're shouting!!1 Use your inside voice! Idiot. ;) |
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Pissing contest ? Huh ???
Are gay guys allowed in you contest ? ... I would defeat you all yark yark yark !!! |
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To be fair to all though... let's get the rules straight. No aiming! |
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Now here's a useful thread if there ever was one...
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Yark yark yark ! :D
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If he called it flaming he was afraid it would attract more people like totololo. (ya dumb *****) http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/wa...smiley-027.gif http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/wa...smiley-010.gif |
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:D I just wonder what word was under the ***** ... As a non native English speaker ... it's difficult to guess, and so less fun. :D
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Ahhhhhhhhh.... Relieved now.
Tim |
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Hey! How did my shoes get wet?
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Sorry YoDude... I crossed streams with Tim.
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Dr. Peter Venkman: What? Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams. Dr. Peter Venkman: Why? Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad. Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm a little fuzzy on the whole "good/bad" thing here. What do you mean, "bad"? Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Dr. Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal! Dr. Peter Venkman: That's bad. Okay. All right, important safety tip. Thanks, Egon. |
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Let's examine that. Here are some quotes from my original post, that drew what I called insults: "In some ways, these esteemed people are talking like they have conferenced and developed talking points to use against the supporters of the Nokia Internet Tablet as we knew it. It's kind of like political threads, in which people use pre-rehearsed arguments, obviously having learned the technique from Communist Party propaganda techniques back in the 1950s, even if they weren't around then. Those of us who have supported Nokia here also have our talking points too, because we have been arguing for the Nokia Internet Tablet for years. But it's strange that there are so many of these aliens now. (Disclaimer: I have nothing against aliens. It's those antennae that I find disconcerting.) " Note that I used a number of qualifications. I said "in some ways" these "esteemed people" are talking "like" they have talking points. The question is, is this equivalent to telling me that I'm as crazy as someone who thinks the mafia put a radio transmitter in his LSD? I say it's not. Is it impossible that people conferenced about the reaction that this announcement might draw and developed arguments against it? No, it is not impossible. Is it impossible for the mafia to put a radio transmitter in LSD and transmit someone's thoughts? Yes, it is. So, if I am being paranoid, it is a much milder level of paranoia. Did I attack some specific person? No I didn't. But my 'critic' DID attack some specific person, me. The effect is that this critic is silencing me, and I am lumped with him as being in a 'pissing contest'. Are we equivalent? No, I am not in a pissing contest with this person. I have not attacked this person. This person has attacked me. |
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I hope there is a shower near the contest's place ... :p
... what ? ... why ? ... why don't you want me anymore in this contest ? It was goïng to be fuuuuuuun ... :( |
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That's not me on the picture, I swear !
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Well, I was just about to sit down and enjoy my breakfast. Some of that enthusiasm is gone.
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:D... Sissy ! :D
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Let's see you beat this
http://www.imageenvision.com/sm/0012..._christmas.jpg EDIT OK, elephant wins the pissing contest in the "quantity" division, and Santa wins in the "writing in the snow" division |
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LOL, lets see if anyone can beat these.
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:eek: Daperl : disgusting, wicked, perverted ... sissy. :D
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totololo, I realize this is a bad place to ask, but what is your avatar? (Perhaps if this post receives "thanks"es it will show that I'm not the only one to wonder about this). :p
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Justjoe, don'worry, this thread is soooo stupid that anything will be OK here ...
My avatar is a little stuffed Totoro, like in the japanese anime "tonari no Totoro" probably translated as something like "my neighbour Totoro" or in french "mon voisin Totoro". It's a very good anime movie directed by Hayao Miyasaki. |
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Sometimes you may read "Gniark gniark gniark" too, and "Mwaaaaarf" |
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totololo, reading that there is no way I ever would have figured that out, so thanks!
/me hits the spot where a thanks button would be. Joe |
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Justjoe, Whaaaat ? you don't know Totoro ???
Shame on you ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro |
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Wow.
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/me slaps gerbick around with a large trout
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