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gtyellowjacket said:
I never understood why people were so against that but I didn't want to ask. I always thought people just got mad that I was disagreeing with them.

No. I'm not the type of person that would just take a position to antagonize someone, although if my opinion antagonizes someone, I'm not afraid to express it.

I do tend to express my opinions more often when I do disagree with someone just because I think agreeing with someone is mostly pretty boring. There's nothing to discuss if both people agree.
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Agreeing on occasion lets people know that you are not simply disagreeing for sport. :cool:
 
BlooVooDoo said:
I think that was a former VW model popular on the ZZL
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Yea, that one poster with all of the DUIs had one. I felt bad for him, he seemed to be happy to have purchased a new car and so many gave him a hard time for the car he purchased. Who was that poster???
 
an0maly said:
And now for something mostly useless, a digression on cussing.

Cussing and cursing is a fascinating topic, bound up with the threat we feel when our ideas are challenged, i.e., why we might punch a wall over somebody who is wrong on the internet. This is related to social convention and also to brains, evolution and brain disorders. On the lobbing cusses and curses, it's the attempt to give an emotion you have to someone else (not the xmas season sort of giving, exactly, because it's usually to make someone feel a negative emotion), and at times a shortcut or crutch if you feel you can't do it in more articulate ways. I always think it would be fun to freak people, and use nasty words from a few centuries ago:

Axwaddle (n. filthy or lazy person)
Chawbacon (n. an uncultured fool)
Dunderhead (n. thickheaded fool)
Lickwimble (n. nonspecific personal insult)
Nimgimmer (n. venereal surgeon; motherf*er)
Pecksniffian (a. sanctimoniously hypocritical)
Spado (n. eunuch)
Toerag (n. worthless person from the worst part of society)
Tosspot (n. bumbling fool; drunk)
Waghalter (n. person suitable to be hanged)

But if you used them, even if you did so feeling all the feels, the other person would not because the social convention is not agreed to. Doing so would just deflate cussing into fun, and what fun is that?

That is so because they are also not lodged deep in the brain, via culture. So they fail, even if the other person knew the meanings. In Gilles de la Tourette syndrome cussing suddenly emerges at random from people for no reason, something akin to a verbal epileptic fit, but firing the neurons in the brain that produce cussing. In dementia failing brains can also suddenly and randomly produce cuss words. The pathway in both these failings does not need the complex frontal cortex to work. This is all a reactionary emotion of anger deep in the brain, upwelling in out of control ways at times, and located in the primitive amygdala. It's something we share in evolutionary history going all the way back to reptiles. It has survival value because it arises fast and easily. Mess with a mother alligator's eggs and you will see some ancient emotion in action.

We have a feeling like somebody is messing with our eggs when our cherished beliefs are threatened, and we can have something like a Tourette syndrome attack, but provoked rather than a random brain mistake. Once you understand some of this stuff, that the origin of cussing is meaningless social agreement, and survival value misplaced, your own reaction cussing might be reduced. Possibly at a loss of some fun though.

/useless digression
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Are you a professional lexicologist or just into it for shits and giggles? Well done sir.
 
UNCatTech said:
Yea, that one poster with all of the DUIs had one. I felt bad for him, he seemed to be happy to have purchased a new car and so many gave him a hard time for the car he purchased. Who was that poster???
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he also said he had a mail-ordered russian wife
 
UNCatTech said:
Yea, that one poster with all of the DUIs had one. I felt bad for him, he seemed to be happy to have purchased a new car and so many gave him a hard time for the car he purchased. Who was that poster???
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I think he had 1 DUI and it was one of those threads where someone got confused and said something about DUIs plural. People kept adding to the joke and said things like "how do you get 7 dui's in a weekend?" Then people didn't get the joke and seriously chastised him for having 7 dui's. I think he thought it was funny at first but some people never figured it out and kept lecturing him about his multiple DUI's everytime he posted and he left.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
I think he had 1 DUI and it was one of those threads where someone got confused and said something about DUIs plural. People kept adding to the joke and said things like "how do you get 7 dui's in a weekend?" Then people didn't get the joke and seriously chastised him for having 7 dui's. I think he thought it was funny at first but some people never figured it out and kept lecturing him about his multiple DUI's every time he posted and he left.
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I'm sure that could be true, I don't have the best memory. I thought that there was some mention of multiple DUIs.

I had a college roommate that had 4 DUIs, it really cost him a lot, and I don't mean fines.
 
heelinhell said:
Hey Super,

good to see you are still with us :)
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i think my plan going forward is to not get in arguments. i will just state my views and if others want to sound off, so be it. that's the plan at least. whether i am capable of pulling that off is another story. also i think i will try to limit my posting to the morning as i wait for my modafinil to kick in.

and though i run the risk of people complaining that i think i know everything, i should eliminate the risk of people complaining that i always have to have the last word.

i will try to answer questions if posed to me (whether by name or in substance) in good faith.
 
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