Ship of Fools: CL, you're a smug, self-satisfied piece of shit

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Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :

A very nice thread in Purg was discussing how people who had changed their opinions on things came to do so. It is both an interesting view into particular people, and a mini study in human motivation and change.

Into this pleasant discussion, CL drops this:

quote:
Originally posted by CL:
The smug self-satisfaction of this thread is almost physically tangible.

You're a certified prick. Go run in front of a truck.

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

Had not read much of that thread. After seeing this post, I read everything up to the point of CL's comment. Having done so, I find it difficult to disagree with MT. None of those posts seems smug or self satisfied to me. Indeed, quite the opposite.

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

I call OCS.

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

I've got to say CL chose his sour-puss avatar very well. (I assume -perhaps wrongly- that CL is a "he".)

CL has mostly seemed a grump from the word go. I used to think CL just enjoyed diving into threads where strong opinions were expressed and so, came by the grumpy vibe naturally. But, no, this was just a pleasantly contemplative thread, and it sent a bug right up his ass.

Poor sod. [Disappointed]

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

FWIW this looks like CL is one of those who couldn't consider change because it would involve the use of intelligence.

I feel sad for CL. Probably a cradle Catholic, apparently as intelligent as the cradle.

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

While I didn't feel sufficiently motivated to take it to Hell, it sure was a shitty post.

Posted by Cryptic (# 16917) on :

I've just belatedly posed on the "what made you change" thread, then found this.

To think that I politely disagreed with CL and missed a great opportunity to ne rude here instead... [Big Grin]

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

It's never too late...

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
I call OCS.

Oh yes! A member of our staff is like this! This article brings it home.

(Off to read more to see how to deal with her ...)

Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
FWIW this looks like CL is one of those who couldn't consider change because it would involve the use of intelligence.

I feel sad for CL. Probably a cradle Catholic, apparently as intelligent as the cradle.

Oft found hiding behind the four donkeys of the Roman Apocalypse unable to summon up anything worse than a teaspoon of bile.

AtB Pyx_e

Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :

He'll never respond.

He doesn't believe in faith ( in Jesus Christ - just for you Chesterbellloc ) in action.

Posted by Balaam (# 4543) on :

Saying, "He'll never respond," is just the sort of thing that could coax him here.

Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Balaam:
Saying, "He'll never respond," is just the sort of thing that could coax him here.

It certainly works for Evensong.

Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :

Leave Britney alone.

Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :

It's okay Patdys.

My loneliness ain't killing me no more.
I'm stronger, than yesterday.

Posted by Niteowl2 (# 15841) on :

He must be rather miserable soul to read a perfectly nice thread and see only bad motivations of everyone but himself who posted. I'd write it off to a bad mood, but as Lyda*Rose notes, it's pretty much a chronic condition.

Posted by Zach82 (# 3208) on :

Most of his smug is directed towards Episcopalians and sundry liberal Anglicans. But we're used to it, I suppose.

Posted by Lietuvos Sv. Kazimieras (# 11274) on :

Isn't CL Irish? I imagine him as a Catholic Ian Paisley.

Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on :

It's amazing how sectarianism makes people a mirror image of what they hate

Posted by mdijon (# 8520) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
My loneliness ain't killing me no more.
I'm stronger, than yesterday.

My googling confirms my fear that someone did actually sing this doggerel. With a straight face.

Oops, did that come across as smug and self-satisfied?

[ 03. July 2012, 16:36: Message edited by: mdijon ]

Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
Oft found hiding behind the four donkeys of the Roman Apocalypse unable to summon up anything worse than a teaspoon of bile.

AtB Pyx_e

You crack me up [Overused]

Posted by Yangtze (# 4965) on :

[Tangent] Yikes, my real life initials are CL so I when I saw this thread title I panicked and wondered what I'd done. Then I remembered that I'm Yangtze here. Phew. [/Tangent]

Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :

quote:
Originally posted by mdijon:

quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
My loneliness ain't killing me no more.
I'm stronger, than yesterday.
My googling confirms my fear that someone did actually sing this doggerel. With a straight face.

Oops, did that come across as smug and self-satisfied?

No. Just highly blasphemous. Why - Britney is a goddess.

I shall be well pleased with eternal life in the New Jerusalem if I can move like her when the lord comes again in his glory.

[Axe murder]

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

That's it, the world has clearly gone to Hell when a "singer" is adored for how well she moves. And you're not referring to her lips.

Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :

details.....details....

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
That's it, the world has clearly gone to Hell when a "singer" is adored for how well she moves. And you're not referring to her lips.

It's hardly a recent thing. Michael Jackson was more renowned for his dancing than his singing, and that was thirty years ago.

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

Yes, but he could actually do both.

Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :

quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
Yes, but he could actually do both.

Which is a matter of opinion.

Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
I shall be well pleased with eternal life in the New Jerusalem if I can move like her when the lord comes again in his glory.

According to "The Simpsons", we'll all be doing Riverdance--at least in the fun part of Heaven!

[Yipee]

Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on :

That's meant to be the fun part? Sheesh. [Disappointed]

Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :

Well, as I remember, the plot went like this:

Homer and the kids converted to the RCC. Marge stayed with whatever Simpsonsverse church they'd been attending. Stuff Happened, and they went to Heaven. Marge was in an uppercrust, Episcopalian-style Heaven, where people wandered around with drink and delicacies, and made polite conversation. She was lonely, and missed her family.

She tracked them down in the RC Heaven, and joined them in Riverdance. Everyone was happy.
[Smile]

Personally, I'd want to be able to move among those and other versions of Heaven--nature, libraries, flying throughout the cosmos sans ship, a dark chocolate world...

Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
Marge was in an uppercrust, Episcopalian-style Heaven, where people wandered around with drink and delicacies, and made polite conversation.

For a bit. But when the music really starts it's Michael Jackson and we're all gettin down.

quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:

She tracked them down in the RC Heaven, and joined them in Riverdance.

So there really is a hell?

Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:

quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
She tracked them down in the RC Heaven, and joined them in Riverdance.
So there really is a hell?

But only for Catholics. [Devil]

Posted by Keromaru (# 15757) on :

More accurately, Bart has been transferred to a Catholic school, where a kindly priest (played by Liam Neeson) attracts him to the faith by teaching him about badass martyrs. Even Homer starts to feel the pull, which troubles Marge. The trip to Heaven is a dream sequence: Protestant Heaven is just as described. But then she sees Bart and Homer in Catholic Heaven, having a raucous party with the Irish and Italian Catholics.

She then recruits Ned and Rev. Lovejoy to try and get the two back to the one true faith: The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism.

Yes, I remember way too much about 00's-era Simpsons.

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Keromaru:
Yes, I remember way too much about 00's-era Simpsons.

You might need to confess this on the Stuff You're Embarrassed to Admit You Did thread in Heaven.
[Biased]

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by The Great Gumby:

quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:

quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
She tracked them down in the RC Heaven, and joined them in Riverdance.
So there really is a hell?
But only for Catholics.

You've been listening to Old Harry's Game (a British radio comedy set in Hell) which has a special room for dead popes, all 8½ months gone.

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

Not sure Hell is the place to say this, but a new programme of Old Harry's Game is to be recorded this Sunday - can't find when it's going to be broadcast yet.

Posted by Rosa Winkel (# 11424) on :

quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
That's it, the world has clearly gone to Hell when a "singer" is adored for how well she moves. And you're not referring to her lips.

Saying that, a certain picture of her getting out of a taxi did give a good view of her lips, though I don't recall if they were moving.

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