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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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| mithridates wrote: |
| Well, that's because you haven't taken up his offer to spend a few afternoons poring over the works of the historians he's conjured up in the hopes that they'll be able to make the case for him that he hasn't been able to make himself. |
Touche.  |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Mith:
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| You know a person is losing an argument when they reference a few musty tomes, tell the other posters to read up and then |
Musty tomes? Francis Hsu's work is 320 pages and published in 1982. Perhaps that's before you were born. W. F. Jenner's work was published in 1994. It's 200 pages or so. Michael Bond's articles run two decades, most recent 1999, when you were at your senior prom, apparently. His work includes shorter scholarly articles, some of which have been culturally corroborated by Chinese colleagues in Hong Kong.
I'd rather let them speak for themselves. Don't make excuses for your unwillingness to delve deeper. Just keep scratching the surface and your head. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Pligosaurus: |
That's so gay.
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| 1. People who have to say they're cool usually aren't. Only those with juvenile thinking are concerned with their coolness anyway. |
No, I'm cool. Just ask my parents.
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| 2. Enumerating your claims doesn't amount to an argument. |
Said as you are "enumerating your claims..."
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3. I referenced sources for you to pursue; I'm not the first to make
this observation in print. |
I don't believe you.
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| 4. I'm not going to summarize their observations for you. |
Why?
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| Then you'd accuse me of distorting their views. |
No I would not.
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| 5. You are a waste of my time. |
That's just mean. I'm gonna go cry now. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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gangrene:
You're obviously still sore over the prosaic thumping you took the last time you tried to savage my argument. Try to see things more clearly with your one good eye. |
When was this 'prosaic thumping' I supposedly received? And I'm a little confused about your use of 'prosaic' here. Do you mean to say that the thumping was unimaginative? Or perhaps you're referring to the way that the supposed thumping was in prose rather than in verse? Or could it be that you don't know the meaning of prosaic? Perhaps in much the same way that you appear to think 'unloyal' is a word?
Face it steve, you're a faker and a pseud and you've been caught out. Too bad. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Mith:
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| You know a person is losing an argument when they reference a few musty tomes, tell the other posters to read up and then |
Musty tomes? Francis Hsu's work is 320 pages and published in 1982. Perhaps that's before you were born. W. F. Jenner's work was published in 1994. It's 200 pages or so. Michael Bond's articles run two decades, most recent 1999, when you were at your senior prom, apparently. His work includes shorter scholarly articles, some of which have been culturally corroborated by Chinese colleagues in Hong Kong.
I'd rather let them speak for themselves. Don't make excuses for your unwillingness to delve deeper. Just keep scratching the surface and your head. |
Did I miss something? Is it just me or is stevie the laziest poster on this forum? He has just mentioned 3 sources, and not saying how they are connected to this subject. Wow, I'm SO blown away.
Pligganease summed it perfectly. You got burned badly.
Why is NO ONE defending you? Hmmm.. |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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bum:
An apt username for you. I post NEW threads regularly to this forum unlike you, so who's the lazy one?
I'm not going to waste my time connecting every dot for you, just because you provoke me to.
Now run along to your little hagwon. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Whose sock is this nitwit anyway? |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject: ... |
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| I post NEW threads regularly to this forum unlike you, so who's the lazy one? |
He's got a point there, you lazyheads.
Here's an example from general:
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| DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE YOU'RE IN CULTURAL LIMBO AS AN EXPAT? |
Perhaps he's exploring the notion on this thread.
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| Whose sock is this nitwit anyway? |
Gopher's. Either Gopher or Kangnam Dragon. |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:56 am Post subject: |
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To the Trivial Triumvirate (dogbert, bum, gang ah jee),
You're all cultural relativists or, worse yet, moral relativists. See this weblink if you fail to grasp my meaning (it's brief, like your attention spans): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism
Cultural relativists often react in knee-jerk fashion to any serious academic attempt at cross-cultural comparisons. The irony is that they misappropriate Boas' original purpose for the term (which also see above).
"Disloyal," not unloyal--didn't proofread is all.
Knead your brain like dried dough, gang, about my intended use of "prosaic," or failing that perhaps engage the other two snide posters in a bit of braindrizzle, if not brainstorm.
Like shooting fish in a barrel.  |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| serious academic attempt at cross-cultural comparisons. |
The key word there being "serious", which yours most definitely was not, hence the well-earned derision. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| stevemcgarrett wrote: |
| Like shooting fish in a barrel. |
You claiming victory reminds me of another guy who claimed victory.
This guy.
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:29 am Post subject: |
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| stevemcgarrett wrote: |
| Knead your brain like dried dough, gang, about my intended use of "prosaic," or failing that perhaps engage the other two snide posters in a bit of braindrizzle, if not brainstorm. |
stevemcgarret: prosaic humour, prosaic intellect. Pathetic. |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:10 am Post subject: |
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Plig:
Time to pull the plug, plig. I deliberately enumerated to mock your act of same. Kinda slow on the uptake, aren't you?
dogbert: and gang ah jee:
You two must be butt buddies.
Reply when you bother to read the article at that weblink I posted. Otherwise you're just flaming at best, bloviating at worst.
Or better yet, launch your own thread in a similar vein into the shark-infested waters of this forum and see where that lands you. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: |
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"Butt buddies"?? I'm wounded to the core.
BTW, thanks for actively disproving the "essential goodness" of Americans with your blatant assholery. With distance, I forget from time to time just how many self-important ignoramuses like you infest our nation. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:20 am Post subject: |
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| stevemcgarrett wrote: |
| I deliberately enumerated to mock your act of same. |
No you didn't.
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| Kinda slow on the uptake, aren't you? |
No. Slow on the uptake would be a person who is getting their ass handed to them by almost every member of the board and still thinks they are winning the argument.
That, you quick-witted genius of a man, is slow. |
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