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[Lord Jim]

For my part, I most certainly do not "hate" rube...

As I've said before, I believe rube's participation here serves a number of useful and laudatory purposes:

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When rube attempts to dismiss the reactions he gets as "hate", he is doing one of two things:

1. Demonstrating that there is yet one more common word in the English language he does not know the meaning of....

2. Engaging in an intellectually dishonest rhetorical tactic by which he seeks to inoculate himself from any personal responsibility for the way other people deal with him; by claiming it is the result of some sort of mindless "hate" on the part of others....

Nothing at all to do with his own behavior....

While a strong case can be made for Explanation 1, personally if I had to bet, in this case I'd go with Explanation 2....

My own views towards rube gravitate between pity, (there are many reasons to pity him; but I find it hard personally to maintain a sustained attitude of pity towards someone as relentlessly misanthropic as he is) amusement, and a certain curiosity with how someone can be the way rube is...

As I've mentioned before, the study of aberrant human psychology has long been an avocation of mine...

And the "rubato" character represents a veritable treasure trove for someone with that area of interest...I've never known anyone IRL remotely like him....

But "hate"?

No; not at all....

I simply don't have enough respect for him, nor does his presence loom large enough in my life, for me to devote that amount of time, or level of emotional intensity to him.

[dales]

And the "rubato" character represents a veritable treasure trove for someone with that area of interest...I've never known anyone IRL remotely like him....

IRL they are heavily medicated or locked up sitting over the dunk tank at the county fair.

ETA: for clarity.

[Gob]

He's on a bender tonight old rubytoons, I'm expecting a "cwy cwy cwy" anytime soon.

[Lord Jim]

My personal armchair psychological analysis of rube based on my observations of him over the years, is that the thing he most wants to avoid getting from others in these forums is pity....(he's probably gotten a fair bit of it IRL)

He'd prefer to be respected, but since he doesn't have the skills or knowledge base to earn that, given the choice between being pitied or loathed, he prefers loathed....

That's why he goes out of his way to behave like such a gratuitous prick that it makes it difficult to feel sorry for him...

[Lord Jim]

I think I'm going to find a large version of that, print it out, and tape it to Tati's bedroom door....

[dales]

Jim.....

Your daughter is 13?

BTDT, wait until she's 15.

(Sorry for the thread hijack)

[Lord Jim]

Dale, don't get me wrong, she's a great kid....(She has 3.8 GPA, we went to the "Freshman Family Orientation" for the High School she's going to next year this morning; and she's really stoked for it...It's the best Catholic Girl's School in Northern California...it has a fantastic reputation)

And while she's still really good with her brother, (having them 10 years apart was probably a good move) she's getting a little moody and lippy with us....

but I guess that's to be expected....

She doesn't cut class, or drink or smoke or do drugs, or tart herself up, or run around with trouble makers....

But we're still not as close as we used to be...

[dales]

I don't believe Nietzsche had any daughters, Jim.

:

[Lord Jim]

I don't believe Nietzsche had any daughters, Jim.

I believe he spent his last years in a mental asylum....

I'm rather hoping to avoid that....

[Gob]

Nothing he couldn't teach you about the raising of the wrist.

[Lord Jim]

Nothing he couldn't teach you about the raising of the wrist.

No, and I've nothing to learn from that beery swine Wittgenstein either....

[oldr_n_wsr]

And while she's still really good with her brother, (having them 10 years apart was probably a good move) she's getting a little moody and lippy with us....

Just a little?


Now your milage may vary, but you may find that your daughter and your wife will be more at odds with each other than you and your daughter. I don't know why it is that way, must be a female thing. You may have to play referee sometimes.

[Gob]

O with us its the opposite, Hen and Hatch are two sides of the same coin, strongly united. Poor old me.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I think it has to do with "unite and conquer". It's like that in my borthers house also, he has two girls and they and the wife gang up on my brother.
We have an even split, so it's daddy's little girl and mommy's boy.

[Gob]

An Elvis impersonator from Mississippi has been charged with sending a letter containing suspected ricin to US President Barack Obama.

Not him? ? ? ?

US authorities have dropped the charges against a Mississippi man accused of sending letters poisoned with ricin to President Barack Obama and a senator.

Paul Curtis was freed on Tuesday after prosecutors revealed the investigation had uncovered "new information".

The letters addressed to the president and a Mississippi senator tested positive for the presence of the lethal toxin this month.

Meanwhile, investigators in the case are searching the home of another man.

Mr Curtis was arrested last week at his home in the town of Corinth, Mississippi and charged with sending letters to Mr Obama, Republican Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker and a judge from Lee County.

But on Monday authorities searched Mr Curtis' home and found neither ricin nor ingredients for the poison, an FBI agent testified in court. A search of his computer yielded no evidence he had researched how to make the toxin, the agent said

[Econoline]

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