"The Sixties"...

[Big RR]

OK, so I was half wrong (or half right depending on your perspective); but I've never heard of a man named Tracy before. Thanks Sue.

[Econoline]

I have to say...this thread leaves me nonplussed.





And bemused.

[Big RR]

But are you nonminused?

[Lord Jim]

I've never heard of a man named Tracy

You never heard of this guy?:

[MajGenl.Meade]

That must be the famous Tracy Hepburn

Don't forget Dick!

[Big RR]

Or Tracy Spencer

And was Tracy the Dick's (detective's) first or last name?

[Guinevere]

Or Tracy Spencer

And was Tracy the Dick's (detective's) first or last name?

That depends on whether you want the formal or the informal answer.

[Big RR]

Perhaps; and perhaps in England he's Cock Tracy.

[Lord Jim]

Or Willy Tracy...

[Big RR]

Knob Tracy?

John Thomas Tracy?

[Gob]

John Thomas Tracy?

You're on a warning!!

[Big RR]

Hit a sore spot did I?

[Gob]

Check your PMs

[rubato]

rubato--

You made an error by saying it you should not call people ignorant when they obviously are and used a bullshit snippy reaction when you should have said "yes they are ignorant".

Why thanks, I will give your sage advice all the consideration it is due. In fact, I already have, while I wrote the first letter of this post--and even that was far too long.

If you feel you have to personally denigrate others to make yourself feel superior (and that's what I surmise from your insistence on name calling), there is nothing I can do about it, but I will never join in the name calling. So enjoy your arrogance and rant away trying to belittle others.

Meade--interesting in your examples you chose 3 British usages (Billy Budd, Archer, and one of the Harry potter books) and one American use which is meant to show what an ass the person who points out she is using the "correct usage" is (it stems at the beginning from Liz initially calling her an idiot. I'll admit I don't watch the show and never saw the entire scene, but that's what I take from the lines you quoted.

And as for "No surrender! (Surrender means "to give up" although informal USians might want to think it means "fondue")", I have to love your feeble attempts to minimize the discussion by resorting to reductio ad absurdum. But keep on trying.

Correctly using the term "ignorance" is not "name calling", as much as you would like to say it is.

Sorry you have so much trouble with facts that you invent personal insults to cover them. But that is your method. Not mine.

If you feel you have to personally denigrate others to make yourself feel superior (and that's what I surmise from your insistence on name calling), there is nothing I can do about it, but I will never join in the name calling. So enjoy your arrogance and rant away trying to belittle others.

You will never join in the name calling, except when you do it to a far greater degree. Weak.



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rubato

[Joe Guy]

Correctly using the term "ignorance" is not "name calling", as much as you would like to say it is.

Sorry you have so much trouble with facts that you invent personal insults to cover them. But that is your method. Not mine.

Let's all do the rubato dance!!!!

[Lord Jim]

Correctly using the term "ignorance" is not "name calling",

The problem arises of course, when the person with far and away the most extensive track record around here for proven ignorance on the widest range of topics, presumes to attempt to apply that description to anyone else...

Deep credibility problems there...

So rube, I assume that you would say that correctly using the term ignorance to apply to these assertions, which have all been proven false, (in some cases repeatedly):

"The Poles weren't victims of the Nazis"

"The Nazis were Catholics"

"The Japanese wanted to declare war before attacking Pearl Harbor"

"Carter inherited high inflation from Nixon and Ford"

"There was no genocide before Christianity"

"The British have had a 4th rate navy since the American Revolution"

"The defining characteristic of affluence is free time"

"The Buddhists have no history of violence"

(To mention just a few off the top of my head from a much, much longer list..... )

is not something that the originator of all of these legitimately and demonstrably ignorant assertions should consider insulting...

[oldr_n_wsr]

MGM, even though you are bad at English, the dope really,you won't stop me from verbing nouns.

When I was younger, "dope" reffered to marijuana. Now-a-days, "dope" refers to heroin.
Imagine my confusion when young-uns came in to the 12 step meetings saying they were "dope" addicts along with alcoholics.
then again, "dope" also reffered to the paint I used to use to paint my R/C planes. That stuff would get you stoned too

[rubato]

What is interesting here is not only the astonishing degree of unconscious hypocrisy but the fact that the other correspondents are too corrupt to admit it either. The only persons engaging in name-calling did not include myself :

Correctly using the term "ignorance" is not "name calling", as much as you would like to say it is.

Sorry you have so much trouble with facts that you invent personal insults to cover them. But that is your method. Not mine.

If you feel you have to personally denigrate others to make yourself feel superior (and that's what I surmise from your insistence on name calling), there is nothing I can do about it, but I will never join in the name calling. So enjoy your arrogance and rant away trying to belittle others.

You will never join in the name calling, except when you do it to a far greater degree. Weak.



yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

the astonishing degree of unconscious hypocrisy

See now, there's an excellent example of why it's always wise to turn off your Irony Meter before opening a rube post...

Unless you enjoy cleaning up a big mess...