Let's pretend we're in Hile Troy's Think Tank

[samrw3]

Do you have any links to support such drivel?

[sgt.null]

why post links when you won't read them?

[deer of the dawn]

Are you oppressing him because he's illiterate? You're politicizing education. When the unlettered masses rise up, what will become of you bookish elitists?

[sgt.null]

I'm elite? I'm salt of the earth .
A man of the people.

[TheFallen]

Did you even read my last post? You're increasingly eye-poppingly swivel-eyed in your mischaracterisation of my oh so obvious position.

I've just noticed this thread...

...and this post...

...and had to check twice that it wasn't actually me that posted it.

This is blatant plagiarism! And far FAR worse than that Stevie, you take my words and twist them into a shape that maintains the exact intent of their meaning! How can anyone possibly sink so low?

And without offering royalty payments to boot?

And without liberally peppering their posts with deliberately esoteric and archaic expressions such as "to boot" (or "overweeningly", to proffer another exemplar)?

And without conceitedly resorting to seasoning every other sentence with mots justes from other languages, which of course have to be italicised to draw attention to their studied cleverness?

And without pre-meditatedly choosing to use alternates like "proffer" instead of "offer" and "exemplar" instead of "example" in an overweeningly successful endeavour to prove sans doute that the poster is blessed with near-godlike intelligence?

I despair of the eye-poppingly swivel-eyed, the mouth-foamingly slack-jawed and the knuckle-draggingly spittle-flecked, all of whom (NB the accusative declension there) wouldn't know how to use a hyphen to put together a compound adverbial or adjectival construct if their benighted little lives depended thereupon.

(Oh and don't forget to select adverbs such as "thereupon" instead of "upon it" whenever possible. Or to ensure that you add the correct accents to words such as élitism.)

[sgt.null]

TF - you took the post out of context. As you are wont to do. Typical.

[StevieG]

You love your $20 words (to quote an insult hurled by a former member), don't you TF. So, just to piss you off, I am going to hurt your brain and dispense with grammatical correctness and commas let alone apostrophes and hyphens or capital letters or anything that anybody with even the slightest grasp of the english language may add to help this overbearing and nonsensical diatribe because it makes me feel better and then I will redeem myself by increasing and bolding the font to emphasise my point whatever that may be...

So you see, by my flawless logic I have disproven your theory and made you look a fool. Oh, and another thing: I would now like to take your comments completely out of context and ignore the rest of your post in order to counter your entire argument, because that is essential if you want to pretend you're in the Tank.

the mouth-foamingly

Damelon, TF just personally attacked me, and has always done so in order to deflect from my logical and indefensible position. Damelon! Do something!

[sgt.null]

The mods are only here to protect their pets.

[TheFallen]

Stevie, I will resist the temptation to fisk your oh so ludicrous post above and forensically dissect your drivelling inanities by inserting at least 20 quotes sourced thence for deconstruction and analysis.

To so so would undoubtedly and promptly highlight the innumerable logical fallacies that you have committed (including, but not limited to false equivalency, false dichotomy, straw man argumentation and of course cum hoc ergo propter hoc)... but with respect of course, doing so would also be merely to cast pearls before swine.

I will however point out the truly horrifying prejudice with which the following snippet is oh so drippingly redolent:-

You love your $20 words (to quote an insult hurled by a former member), don't you TF.

First and foremost I shall number my responses in order to achieve added gravitas.

1. To value my words as only being worth $20 each is quintessentially obviously a blatant ad hominem attack. However, given the triple standards applied by those who run this forum, lamentably no action will be taken... no matter the cast-iron justification for taking such.

2. You have the temerity to use dollars as your kneejerk go-to standard of value? DOLLARS? Regardless of whether you're referring to the US currency or its even more Mickey Mouse Australian equivalent, your thoughtless and instinctive racist predilections are hereby plainly evidenced for all to see.

That is indeed both archetypal and breathtakingly insouciant racism... any right-thinking person will be compelled to enquire whether you are in fact so blinkered by your hyperpolarised prejudice that you cannot recognise such within yourself?

At least show a modicum of respect for cultural heritage... pounds sterling is clearly the only appropriate plat du jour ici, as even the most intellectually challenged cretin would realise. Surely that is not too much for even one as self-radicalised as you to manage?

Because after all, BCM (British Currency Matters).

[sgt.null]

Long posts don't mean you've said anything.

[TheFallen]

...whereas short posts demonstrate that you have nothing worthwhile to contribute.

(No doubt owing to a woeful inability to grasp the subtleties of the topic under discussion in the first place).

Oh yes and...

RACIST!

[Skyweir]

Fucking hypocriticalistic numpties .. the lot of yer ... and yes I make my own words up as is my pleasure and my right in this strange world” that claims rights, and inexplicable presumed “liberties“ .. and I have zero regard for the supercilious linguistic expertise that some are wont to assert

Oh most beloved of brethren and sisteren shall we wax Tank-lyrical of long, lonely, meaningless posts, posted ad nauseum simply in attempt to assert some faux claim to intellectual superiority which in erratic execution they irrefutably deny

And no doubt also decry

Are we all to embrace the intractable linguistic rules of grammatically compliant constructs and lose all that makes us individual, sovereign and autonomously distinct?

Asking for a friend
(and that my friends is a delightful dig at Null )

[TheFallen]

...and yes I make my own words up as is my pleasure and my right

To be more accurate, you make up words because you have no other choice.

..and I have zero regard for the supercilious linguistic expertise that some are wont to assert

Almost right... except you meant "zero understanding of".

Asking for a friend

I'm not in the least surprised that you feel the need to. You never know... maybe your wish may come true.



Oh, and...

RACIST!!!

[sgt.null]

Misogynist!

[Skyweir]

Crazy hate-filled, nasty, awful, liberals

[sgt.null]

Orange man bad.

[StevieG]

Jesus, TF... (note that I am using 'Jesus' instead of the acceptable alternative 'FFS'. I will save that one for another post)...

Now I am forced to use the roll-eye emoji to demonstrate my frustration and exasperation.

You may think I am highly prejudiced, or even racist regarding BCM. But let me inform you that I have many friends that come from the British Isles including that fine upstanding gentleman Lazy Luke, as well as Peter, whose verbosity rivals even yours TF (at least in terms of words per post). Similarly I have many friends in the land of the US dollar including that brainwashed religious flunkie Wos, useful idiots such as <insert name here>, alcoholics or mentally challenged "word salad" utterers such as that nihilistic fellow, 4chan specialists like Nano... and so on.

In addition, I have friends in the land of the Australian dollar such as Sky (although she hails originally from Scotland which is why she's so <insert insult here>), and even the South African Rand where Av, the dope smoking stoner resides. So you see, it doesn't matter one whit whether it's pounds and pence, or dollars and cents. But go ahead and call me racist. Don't think I haven't noticed you using the word 'Zee' when referring to a fellow poster, when he should more properly be called 'Zed'. And I swear I've seen you use the word 'ass' instead of 'arse'. And now that I have insulted everyone, I will throw in a laughing emoji for no other reason that to admit I have overstepped the mark, and that the moderators may be deflected or confused enough not to instantly ban me.

I see you have already employed the 1, 2, 3 technique, as well as the logical fallacy technique, and the other languages technique. I'll raise you one and throw in a 'nice try' comment which is my attempt to indicate that I am knowingly cognisant of your pithy attempt to undermine me. I was going to add 'woke zealotry' to my arsenal but I see you already have that covered in your signature - you are indeed a worthy adversary from the River Wey.

I'll conclude by commenting that I'm tired of this pointless discussion, and have decided to take a break from the Watch since that is what one does it seems. I'm certain that my decision will serve to adequately fuel people's guilt for a moment or two...

[sgt.null]

Why do you bring religion into it?

This is not the Close

[StevieG]

Null, it is officially an accepted word in the Tank. However, to give you due respect I will henceforth use 'FFS'.

[sgt.null]

good. Those bastards in the Close wish they had the traffic the Tank does.