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Originally posted by daisymay:
but we didn't have step classes or souffl`e (how do you get that ` to hover over the e ? ) competitions.
You type & then e then acute
like this
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There's a whole bunch of similar stuff in the Practice your UBB here thread, about 8 or so pages in (some of it written by me, and some by babybear, so you could search on either of our usernames).
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SWAT (aka the former Mr PInk)
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Originally posted by daisymay:
28 never hindered us giving information or teaching about homosexuality - but we didn't have step classes or souffl`e (how do you get that ` to hover over the e ? ) competitions.
While I'm opposed to 28 on princple I'm sure that resource teachers will always find a way round it to give the relevant information.
Let's not forget opinion has changed over the last 20 or so years and people are generally more tolerant (and with the forthcoming Sexual Offences Act Hetrosexuals will be treated equally if they indulge in lewd acts in public)
I've often wondered if someone had kissed or sexually come on to me when I was an adolscent wether my life would of taken a different path and I'd saved alot of people a lot of grief but then I wouldn't have alot of the things I've done or been to alot of the places I've been to or had my two beautiful children.
[Away for a week and the second thread you check has awful UBB code.]
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SWAT (aka the former Mr PInk)
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Someone told me the otherday I couldn't possibly be Gay as I had no desire to see Mama Mia (are Abba songs regarded as Showtunes thesedays?) and spent my saturday evenings either playing or dancing to records by black americans.
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Originally posted by The Former Mr PInk:
(are Abba songs regarded as Showtunes thesedays?)
Only Dancing Queen, which is also the Ultimate Wall of Sound Experience, from the string section down to the deliberatly very slightly out of tune honky-tonk piano.
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IntellectByProxy
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Originally posted by The Former Mr PInk:
Someone told me the otherday I couldn't possibly be Gay as I had no desire to see Mama Mia (are Abba songs regarded as Showtunes thesedays?) and spent my saturday evenings either playing or dancing to records by black americans.
Is your signature deliberately misspelled ?
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Next you'll be telling me that you don't like The Sound of Music, and own a Play Station.
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Originally posted by Merseymike:
Next you'll be telling me that you don't like The Sound of Music, and own a Play Station.
I have never seen The Sound Of Music, and I aspire to a Playstation. What can this mean?
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Originally posted by IntellectByProxy:
quote:
Originally posted by Merseymike:
Next you'll be telling me that you don't like The Sound of Music, and own a Play Station.
I have never seen The Sound Of Music, and I aspire to a Playstation. What can this mean?
That you are a small child whose parents are very poor?
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SWAT (aka the former Mr PInk)
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Originally posted by Merseymike:
Next you'll be telling me that you don't like The Sound of Music, and own a Play Station.
One out of two ain't bad (Though The Wizard of Oz is one of my favourite all time movies.)
[UBB not HTML. Remember next time.]
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SWAT (aka the former Mr PInk)
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I have never seen The Sound Of Music,
Where have you been?
There is no escape.
[Damn right there's no escape. Go practise code and learn how to get it right.]
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Intellect : have no fears. You're not gay. Gay men know every line of the Sound of Music down to the last wimple, and we would never, never , even consider buying a play Station - the ultimate hettie boys toy
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Hettie is that the opposite to homo?
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Mersey, when did we stop calling them Breeders? When you say "Hettie" I think of old film stars. Clearly I've missed a newsletter or two from Gay Central. And I loved my Playstation 'til my ex got rid of it so I would "put attention to ME!" (meaning, of course, him). But then, I'm an indifferent dresser and loathe the gym so clearly my gay gene is not fully functional. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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tomb
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In all the time I have been coming to the Ship of Fools, this has got to be the most weird-ass thread I have ever encountered.
From the initial post to all the pseudo-purgatorial Section whatever-number speculation, we now descend to Abba.
And show tunes.
Any straight guy with even modest pretentions to sensitvity is eventually confronted with the myth that gay men are the arbiters of taste, popular culture, and "cool."
Then the cognitative dissonance sets in.
Really now, what male, regardless of the ambiguity of his sexuality, is gonna allow himself to be seduced by another guy during a romantic interlude spiced up by pink zinfandel and Julie Andrews singing "I could have danced all night"?
And if they had any doubts, my God, listening to "Dancing Queen" would be enough to send you to the doctor to get testosterone injections until you had hair growing out of the back of your eyeballs.
I propose a new pogrom against gay people. It won't be based on their Unnatural Sexual Practices, but upon the fact that they have Horrible Taste.
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SWAT (aka the former Mr PInk)
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Originally posted by Merseymike:
Gay men know every line of the Sound of Music down to the last wimple,
Must be genetic.
I seem to be fighting a losing battle.
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IntellectByProxy
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Originally posted by tomb:
I propose a new pogrom against gay people. It won't be based on their Unnatural Sexual Practices, but upon the fact that they have Horrible Taste.
Exactly how many gay people have you eaten, Tomb? And is it a representative sample (so to speak)?
In your experience do black gay people taste different to white gay people?
We need to know.
p.s. I take your comment about this being a wierd-ass thread as a huge compliment.
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Originally posted by tomb:
Really now, what male, regardless of the ambiguity of his sexuality, is gonna allow himself to be seduced by another guy during a romantic interlude spiced up by pink zinfandel and Julie Andrews singing "I could have danced all night"?
Only one old enough to have seen her in the original London stage production of My Fair Lady, from which she was bounced when the film was made. "I could have danced all night" isn't in TSOM. Trust me - I know every word of both musicals.
Did they even have Zinfandel in those days?
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I'm glad your not straight too.
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SWAT (aka the former Mr PInk)
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I'm glad I'm not straight! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
I'm just glad I'm me & all that entails (good or bad)
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Originally posted by Degs:
A very good friend and fellow shipmate and I have taken this a stage further!
It is possible to sing the 'Gloria in excelsis' in Latin to the tune of 'Eidelweiss'! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
I'm glad I'm not straight!
Crikey - he's right!
"Gloriaaa! Gloooriaa! Gloria in exceeelsis!..."
( wanders off humming "How I wish I was gay" to the tune of "There is nothing like a dame" from "South Pacific".)
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by tomb:
And if they had any doubts, my God, listening to "Dancing Queen" would be enough to send you to the doctor to get testosterone injections until you had hair growing out of the back of your eyeballs.
Fortunately some of us have better taste than that. There's always the Village People. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
David
actually likes Abba but would also like hair to grow out of the back of his eyeballs
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tomb
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Originally posted by ken:
quote:
Originally posted by tomb:
Really now, what male, regardless of the ambiguity of his sexuality, is gonna allow himself to be seduced by another guy during a romantic interlude spiced up by pink zinfandel and Julie Andrews singing "I could have danced all night"?
Only one old enough to have seen her in the original London stage production of My Fair Lady, from which she was bounced when the film was made. "I could have danced all night" isn't in TSOM. Trust me - I know every word of both musicals.
...
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Emerson.
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IntelligentByProxy dribbled:
And I didn't say I didn't respect you; I said I didn't respect your post because of your flagrant mis-reading of mine and your consequent drivel.
Eat shit and die, IBP.
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IBP then salaciously inquired:
Exactly how many gay people have you eaten, Tomb? And is it a representative sample (so to speak)?
In your experience do black gay people taste different to white gay people?
In my experience, everybody, regardless of their sexual preference or race, tastes like chicken.
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Ken then inquired:
Did they even have Zinfandel in those days?
No. It was a metaphor.
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IntellectByProxy
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Originally posted by tomb:
quote:
IBP then salaciously inquired:
Exactly how many gay people have you eaten, Tomb? And is it a representative sample (so to speak)?
In your experience do black gay people taste different to white gay people?
In my experience, everybody, regardless of their sexual preference or race, tastes like chicken.
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Originally quoted by Tomb in a fit of pique
Eat shit and die, IBP.
Why? Does shit taste like chicken too?
Come on Tomb we need to know all about your unhealthful sexual practices. You are among friends.
[Unhealthful? So not only do you have a small todger, but you also can't code, or speak English properly?]
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Originally ranted by IntellectByProxy:
Why? Does shit taste like chicken too?
Please say that you were temporarily delusional because of an unfortunate combination of crack cocaine and psychotropic mushrooms, and don't actually consider that to be any sort of worthy comeback.
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Come on Tomb we need to know all about your unhealthful sexual practices. You are among friends.
One would think that the logical separation between culinary and sexual practices could be automatically assumed unless otherwise specified. That is, of course, unless one regularly copulates with one's food before consumption... Does this explain you, IntellectByProxy? I'm guessing that you might not be welcome back to MacDonalds any more. Makes me wonder, how do you check how hot your coffee is?
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IntellectByProxy
Larger than you think
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Originally posted by sarkycow in a fit of extreme illiteracy -
[Unhealthful? So not only do you have a small todger, but you also can't code, or speak English properly?]
2 entries found for unhealthful.
un·health·ful ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-hlthfl)
adj.
Causing or conducive to poor health; unwholesome.
Any questions?
Good.
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IntellectByProxy
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Originally posted by RooK:
Please say that you were temporarily delusional because of an unfortunate combination of crack cocaine and psychotropic mushrooms,
No, double cappuchino with sugar.
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Originally posted by RooK:
and don't actually consider that to be any sort of worthy comeback.
No, I was reposting to the lowest common denominator. I didn't want to overly tax Tomb's brain.
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One would think that the logical separation between culinary and sexual practices could be automatically assumed unless otherwise specified.
I never assume anything. Coprophiliacs are a weird bunch.
[corrected the spelling of "weird". Just to tax my brain.]
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Originally blurted by IntellectByProxy:
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Originally posted by RooK:
Please say that you were temporarily delusional because of an unfortunate combination of crack cocaine and psychotropic mushrooms,
No, double cappuchino with sugar.
If you don't mind accomodating my limited tolerance for dipshit posts, could you then avoid caffeinated beverages while on board? Thanks ever so much.
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Further blurtings from IntellectByProxy:
No, I was reposting to the lowest common denominator.
Please don't do that. Someone might misunderstand the practice, and try to use your post as a denominator, thence causing this thread to approach infinity. Sadly, my buffer is finite.
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And finally, by IBP:
I never assume anything. Coprophiliacs are a wierd bunch.
Yes. You certainly seem to be.
Um... so if you and your smelly coprophiliac buddies never assume anything, do you find that it takes you somewhat longer to accomplish regular tasks than most other people? I mean, just commuting to work every day must be hell, with having to verify where to go, how to get there, and even if you should.
I think that must be an exaggeration. You simply must assume some things. Like, for instance, that tomb's threats are not serious. You might want to follow your principle a little more closely.
(I don't want you to, of course. I'm a sadist.)
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IntellectByProxy
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Originally posted by Rook quote:
Further blurtings from IntellectByProxy:
No, I was reposting to the lowest common denominator.
Please don't do that. Someone might misunderstand the practice, and try to use your post as a denominator, thence causing this thread to approach infinity.
If your assertion holds true, Rook, then if both of us post it doesn't matter who is the denominator and who the numerator as together we will approach unity.
Socrates said that one should always assume an acquaintance is of a higher intellectual class than oneself until they prove otherwise.
Thanks for taking the pressure off, mate.
Warmest regards.
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by IntellectByProxy:
Coprophiliacs are a weird bunch.
![[Eek!]](eek.gif) NOT! ON! THE! LIST!!!
(!!!!!)
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Originally posted by RooK:
(...I'm a sadist.)
Now that, on the other hand...
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
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Originally posted by IntellectByProxy:
Coprophiliacs are a weird bunch.
NOT! ON! THE! LIST!!!
Being a lover of obscure words, I just looked it up.
I have finally found a use for that smiley!
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YUCK! The practises of fallen humanity are often bizarre, but some are just plain revolting.
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Originally posted by coffee jim:
Chastmastr,
What 'list'?
Dear God, don't ask this please Jim. For the love of God, don't ask it.
CM - answer in a PM please.
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RuthW
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CM's List? Oh, you don't know what a treat you're in for, do you, coffee jim?
[hoping CM answers here, because it would bug sarky]
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Originally posted by Genie:
"Being a lover of obscure words, I just looked it up."
A wide and varied vocabulary is the hallmark of every truly cultivated person.
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Originally posted by RuthW:
CM's List? Oh, you don't know what a treat you're in for, do you, coffee jim?
[hoping CM answers here, because it would bug sarky]
If I get bugged in Hell Ruth, I shall toast you. that oughta lighten my mood somewhat. And you did say that admins will do anything to help hosts cope
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....but one hopes not to have to use "Coprophiliac" very often.
(although that does remind me of a story about a guy in New Orleans with a glass coffee table who....never mind.)
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Is this list one full of names for bizarre Sex practices?
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I read that as "Corporphilliac" and thought it might refer to someone who could only have sex at the whim of huge multinational corporations.
Why did someone make a list of bizarre sex practices? Why? Why, oh Lord? My mind is scarred enough by some of the things I've stumbled across on the internet. I can't take much more.
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tomb
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The last time I ran into that word or condition, the Vet prescribed pills that she said would discourage the dog from taking an, er, unhealthy interest in the cat's litter box.
I guess the pills were supposed to work like the antibuse they give alcoholics to make booze taste nasty.
They didn't. The dog just threw up afterward.
So much for a tidy universe where medication fixes everything.
[replaced a pronoun w/ a substantive for clarity]
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Originally posted by IntellectByProxy:
Socrates said that one should always assume an acquaintance is of a higher intellectual class than oneself until they prove otherwise.
So, you're taking the interpersonal advice of someone who was killed for being a mouthy jerk? Clever you.
I'd like to suggest that, however clear it can sometimes seem, people's intelligence is not directly tied to their posting on an internet bulletin board. Of course, it is the posts that we must interact with here - but to assume anything beyond the posts themselves might not be wise. The possibility that you really are an engineer, clearly the highest class of intellect in the mundane world, is plain evidence for my case.
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IntellectByProxy
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Originally posted by RooK:
quote:
Originally posted by IntellectByProxy:
Socrates said that one should always assume an acquaintance is of a higher intellectual class than oneself until they prove otherwise.
So, you're taking the interpersonal advice of someone who was killed for being a mouthy jerk? Clever you.
I take the interpersonal advice of one of the greatest recognised thinkers of any age. Whether you agree with him or not, if you regard his advice as being invalid I suggest that this lodges you with the barbarian illiterati who condemned him. Clever you.
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I'd like to suggest that, however clear it can sometimes seem, people's intelligence is not directly tied to their posting on an internet bulletin board. Of course, it is the posts that we must interact with here - but to assume anything beyond the posts themselves --might-- not be wise. The possibility that you really are an engineer, clearly the highest class of intellect in the mundane world, is plain evidence for my case.
Couldn't agree with you more, but if by a man's works shall we know him...
The persona I ascribe to you is based entirely on your postings (which, by the way, are full of wit and insight)
'Engineer' comfortably encompasses people from washing-machine maintenance guys to stealth aircraft designers, and you don't know which end of the scale I am, so be careful about making assumptions. I know everyone's got to have a hobby, but keep it in check.
Oh yeah, one more thing...
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it is the posts that we must interact with here
The recognised correct English construction is
'it is the posts with which we must interact here'
Just thought I'd mention it.
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oh fa' crying out loud, anyone who doesn't know about chastmastr just go read the "about the leather thing" thread in dead horses.
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Yes, I do 'know about Chastmastr', thankyou very much (sorry for discussing you in the third person, David). Is the list that thing 'The Deviant's Dictionary', perchance? Or something of Chast's own devising (if it's written in verse that would be a bonus)?
I'm pretty familiar with the spectrum of human sexual peculiarities, but it's always amusing to hear about more. In the 'A-Z of Unusual Sexual Practices' I read about something involving a paper plate with a hole in it, spaghetti and meatballs and....anyway, I think it had a Latin name.
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Originally posted by coffee jim:
Is the list that thing 'The Deviant's Dictionary', perchance? Or something of Chast's own devising (if it's written in verse that would be a bonus)?
If you wish to know about CM's list, PM him.
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Originally posted by IntellectByProxy:
I take the interpersonal advice of one of the greatest recognised thinkers of any age. Whether you agree with him or not, if you regard his advice as being invalid I suggest that this lodges you with the barbarian illiterati who condemned him. Clever you.
Perhaps my point was a bit too pointy. There's no doubt that Socrates was a great thinker, and an amazing debater. It seems to me that the charges against Socrates used to convict and kill him were largely contrived. Other more well-read people than I have come across various speculations that Socrates was killed because he was a loud annoying dickhead. If they really disagreed with his actual ideas, they would have killed his students as well, for they were merely slightly-more-polite echoes. Thus, I recognize his field of expertise, and his possible weaknesses. In the same manner, I would take seriously Michael Jackson's opinions about pop music, but have distinct doubts about his concepts of beauty. I hope that's blunt enough.
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The persona I ascribe to you is based entirely on your postings (which, by the way, are full of wit and insight)
I suggest you stop being so nice. You'll ruin my chances with Erin, and ChastMastr might become unpleasantly interested in the both of us.
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'Engineer' comfortably encompasses people from washing-machine maintenance guys to stealth aircraft designers, and you don't know which end of the scale I am, so be careful about making assumptions. I know everyone's got to have a hobby, but keep it in check.
This might be your only good shot at me so far, but I think it's accidental. I'm guessing that it's possible you haven't clued in that I'm an engineer, and so was waving my own ego about back there.
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The recognised correct English construction is
'it is the posts with which we must interact here'
Just thought I'd mention it.
Thanks.
Just a couple questions:
1. Since this is a "rule" with which I am unfamiliar, is it possible that it is a more traditional form not conventionally obeyed in North America?
(Maybe I should ask tomb...)
2. You really are bored, aren't you?
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Originally posted by coffee jim:
What 'list'?
Dear God, don't ask this please Jim. For the love of God, don't ask it.
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Originally posted by RooK:
The possibility that you really are an engineer, clearly the highest class of intellect in the mundane world, is plain evidence for my case.
Which common trait speaks most highly of this esteemed profession, I wonder? The exquisite fashion sense, the finely honed social skills, or the ability to look past the minor details of any situation and see the big picture?
Perhaps the most impressive thing about engineers is the fact that they are able to write compelling prose without needing to ever consult Strunk and White or the Chicago Manual of Style.
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IBP nitpicked:
The recognised correct English construction is
'it is the posts with which we must interact here'
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And then Rook weaseled:
Since this is a "rule" with which I am unfamiliar, is it possible that it is a more traditional form not conventionally obeyed in North America?
Since the usage is nonrestrictive, "which" is the correct word. You are correct, however; most rules of grammar are not conventionally obeyed in North America, or anywhere else.
In my opinion, both constructions are weak. I recommend, "In this forum, we must interact with the posts."
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Originally posted by RooK:
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Originally posted by IntellectByProxy:
Socrates said that one should always assume an acquaintance is of a higher intellectual class than oneself until they prove otherwise.
So, you're taking the interpersonal advice of someone who was killed for being a mouthy jerk?
Incidentally, the majority of Christians take the interpersonal advice of someone who was killed for being a mouthy jerk
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This might be your only good shot at me so far, but I think it's accidental. I'm guessing that it's possible you haven't clued in that I'm an engineer, and so was waving my own ego about back there.
Why thankyou, coming from a proven master such as yourself this is high praise indeed. And I did notice you waving your ego about, it's not often the sun darkens in mid-afternoon. By the way, if you're ever in the area, I have a sock trapped in my filter, I'd appreciate it if you could spare the time to remove it.
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I suggest you stop being so nice. You'll ruin my chances with Erin, and ChastMastr might become unpleasantly interested in the both of us.
If ChastMastr does become (un)pleasantly interested in us it will, as your previous assertion upholds, be purely with our posts and not with the us that exists outside. Therefore we have nothing to fear. I shall be nice with impunity.
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