We must eliminate Chavez.

[Vibecrewangel]

My detached nature from reality ensures a higher degree of objectivity.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?


Being objective won't help you when you have to take care of yourself.

[Emu]

Buffalo Tom

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:39 pm

The One and Only... Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:40 pm

Emu Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:41 pm

[The One and Only...]

Then why don't you point them out.

[Emu]

Because Max is about a million times funnier than I'll ever be.

[The One and Only...]

[quote="Vibecrewangel"]

Being objective won't help you when you have to take care of yourself.

That's why I'm going to college.

[The One and Only...]

Max is a joke. His arguments against me are amusing, and nothing more.

[Buffalo Tom]

Originally Posted by The One and Only...

Max is a joke. His arguments against me are amusing, and nothing more.

You are right. It is amusing to watch Burbank school you. Max presents cogent and well-reasoned arguments. You, on the other hand, reply by sticking your hand down your cerebral diaper and presenting us with the intellectual equivalent of poop, all the while squealing, 'I made poopy and wee-wee in my pants! Look! Look!'. Doofus.

[VinceZeb]

Originally Posted by Buffalo Tom

You are right. It is amusing to watch Burbank school you. Max presents cogent and well-reasoned arguments. You, on the other hand, reply by sticking your hand down your cerebral diaper and presenting us with the intellectual equivalent of poop, all the while squealing, 'I made poopy and wee-wee in my pants! Look! Look!'. Doofus.

I guess it is OAO's big words and well-thought out ideas that resemble crap. But I wouldn't sweat Max if I were OAO. I've seen the pictures that the users post on this board and I could fill a War and Peace-sized book with the nerd, geek, and general social outcast pictures I find on here so I can only fathom what Max must look like.

Besides, most of the people on this board remind me of the losers that work at hole-in-the-wall book stores that think they are the greatest intellectual mind in the world since Noam. I can't wait for the "spell-binding humor" that will be leveled upon my internet avatar after I get done posting this.

Whatever gets you through the day without eating a 12-guage sandwich, I guess.

[mburbank]

Jealous is as jealous does, Patrice.


OAO. You have never been through bankruptcy. You are a dependant. It's easy for you to reject experience. If you actually are fifteen, you haven't had any.

"Dole Seems to have always been from the middle class"

A.) So what?
And in Homage to Vinth
Secondly; How in Gods name would you know? This is what I mean about your reasoning. It's peppered with book jacket snobbery but all that's underneath it is your smug sureness that you KNOW things because, well, uhm, you're just gosh darn sure you do! All your intellectual barking is window dressing covering the baseless assumptions of a snotty brat.

[Buffalo Tom]

Originally Posted by VinceZeb

I guess it is OAO's big words and well-thought out ideas that resemble crap. But I wouldn't sweat Max if I were OAO. I've seen the pictures that the users post on this board and I could fill a War and Peace-sized book with the nerd, geek, and general social outcast pictures I find on here so I can only fathom what Max must look like.

Besides, most of the people on this board remind me of the losers that work at hole-in-the-wall book stores that think they are the greatest intellectual mind in the world since Noam. I can't wait for the "spell-binding humor" that will be leveled upon my internet avatar after I get done posting this.

Whatever gets you through the day without eating a 12-guage sandwich, I guess.

Don't you mean someone else's big words and well-thought out ideas? There's nothing he hasn't said that I couldn't hear on 'The McClaughlin Report'. Yes, please post a reply saying I only parrot what supposed leftist-rags say. I'll admit to doing that, but, unlike your cotillion dance partner, I live in the real-world, where life is tough, and I have a job and bills to pay, so I don't have too much time to entertain know-nothing brats like Cliff.

You're gone for several weeks, and all you can come up with is, 'Yeah? Well, you guys all look like losers!'. Geez, I thought you had sequestered yourself in some far off monastery, honing your mind and body in preparation for when you go to Iraq and save Dubya's political bacon by single-handedly stablizing the situtation there. Oh, right, you're a cowardly fat-ass. I forgot that part. I guess I shouldn't be too disappointed, then. You're just playing to type.

[mburbank]

Hey now! His ass is purportedly somehwat less fat than it once was!

[The One and Only...]

Originally Posted by mburbank

You have never been through bankruptcy

So, you're saying that despite the fact that my family went through bankruptcy and lost a house because of it, I have no experience with it? Really, Burbank, I know it hurts, but think before you speak.

[mburbank]

I'm not saying you didn't have a hard time. It would be great if it had taught you something besides how to look down on people.

I'm saying you did not go through Bankruptcy. It wasn't your credit. It wasn't your money. The choices weren't yours. You owned none of the property. You had none of the responsabilities. And you have no idea at all how you'd handle similar circumstances and you don't even know yet that having a theory about how you'll do things and how you end up doing them aren't always the same.

I have no idea what your parents did and if they're selfish fools, poor suckers or perfectly good people who tried really hard to have things work out some other way. I'll tell you what I do know. All the choices and all the responsability all the way along the line were theirs, just like every bite of food that goes into your mouth and your internet connection. You go to public school? The state gave you that. Get your amazing smarts from library books? The state gave you that. You don't have a single thing that wasn't given to you by the state or your parents. Is there anything wrong with that? No. You're just a kid. But I wouldn't be so down on exprience if I were you. The day is coming when you might actually have to have some.

[The One and Only...]

I believe in protecting the country's children and providing them with equal opportunities. In my view, that does not prevent me from being libertarian. But a certain point, you need to let people make their own decisions, and learn from them.

[sspadowsky]

Originally Posted by doofus

In my view, that does not prevent me from being libertarian. But a certain point, you need to let people make their own decisions, and learn from them.

Physician, heal thyself.

[mburbank]

"But a certain point, you need to let people make their own decisions, and learn from them."

Lovely. So what point is "A certain point"? I'm thinking you mean right after you provide them with 'Equal Opportunities', by which you mean pretty much whatever situation they get born into. I'm guessing your transcript beats the fuck out of W's but he was a shoe in to Yale and you are on your own, plus, you'll go into debt to go to college and W has no idea what a debt is since everyone he ever racked up got pid by friends and family.

But the free market provides for all and makes everything right in the end. It just provides a lot more and makes things much righter much sooner for you if you have the right daddy. Oh, and some other people it eats up and spits out but that's their look out and they aren't me so I don't care and at a certain point you need to watch them get eaten and not try to do anything about it and learn from them.

[The One and Only...]

Physician, heal thyself.

Clever on multiple levels. Let's turn to our judges. I give it a 9.

Burb, I think that education should be free. I thought I pointed this out to you. I feel that we can make education, including higher education for those who work for it, free without increasing spending on education. How? Negative income taxes, as well as vouchers, and funding of high-scoring college students. Given the efficiency of the private sector, we might be able to fund all who plan on going to college, or provide a tax cut.

[mburbank]

I'll give you a 9 for being glib.

[The One and Only...]

Glib? Does that mean I would make a good politician?

[mburbank]

It just means you're glib.

[Emu]

Vinth crawls out of his hole for ten minutes to call us all funny looking. It has indeed been a life-changing experience.

[kellychaos]

Originally Posted by The One and Only...

You do realize, of course, that I fundamentally reject experience as any measure by which knowledge can be gained, particularly in the economic fields?

When you don't read the fine print and get knocked on your ass and are down a few economic pegs from the nest from which your parents have pushed you, then talk to me about what experience CAN'T teach you.

Originally Posted by The One and Only...

Dole seems like he's always been a member of the middle class. I already pointed out that I've been through bankruptcy before.

You haven't been a member of ANY socio-economic class because you've yet to make a living for yourself yet.

[Anonymous]

Originally Posted by The One and Only...

You do realize, of course, that I fundamentally reject experience as any measure by which knowledge can be gained, particularly in the economic fields?

Hmm...

Originally Posted by The One and Only...

So, you're saying that despite the fact that my family went through bankruptcy and lost a house because of it, I have no experience with it?

You get a 10 for painting yourself into a corner, One.

[The One and Only...]

I didn't say that my experience made my points any more valid. I just said that I had experience, which Burbank seemed to deny. Taking words out of context is one of your annoying traits.

[Perndog]

Not quite right on that one, Max. You don't have to go into debt for college if you've got book smarts, can express yourself well, and are either a) very moral or b) a good faker. For those who can muster the grades and the personality, it's not a matter of social privilege.