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Bronski
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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I had to google that. I found: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nou
Are you referring to definition number 2?
(Apologies for offensive material on that website. I didn't write it, just found it on google.) |
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xingyiman
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
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The poster who continuously asks for sources.
Statement: "Most people in the world accept the fact that the world is round instead of flat as previously believed."
Reply: Could you priovide some sources for that? Otherwise your arguments have no merit....... |
Asking for sources is totally legitimate. If the debate is so casual that you don't feel providing sources to back up questionable claims is worth your time, you should have no problem simply conceding whatever's being discussed and dropping out of the discussion. If someone asked me to prove most people believed the world was round, to use your example, I'd just say no. Not particularly annoying.
If anything, the real epidemic is people who seem to think they can just assert anything and it should be treated as fact upon which they can then build an argument. That behavior is quite annoying. |
Asking for sources for common sense stuff is assinine. I don't have time to provide sources for every statement I make on this forum. Find them yourself or shag off. |
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asylum seeker
Joined: 22 Jul 2007
Location: On your computer screen.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:31 am Post subject: |
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Trawling through someone's post history to find something to attack them about is truly pathetic and demonstrates you're taking the whole thing far too seriously.
Also using  these after every sentence to try and make your own jokes sound funny or to try and show how 'not serious' you are is annoying.
In the end having any sort of flame war at all on the internet is stupid and I've just been guilty of getting myself involved in one.  |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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nou. IQTOMP because I have a NRB. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| The Avoid All Generalization line. One person says X is Y and someone says that's wrong because you can't say *all* Xes are Ys. Ok, we should be careful to qualify our statements and not exaggerate, but can't we at least make some generalizations with the understanding that they are merely generalizations to which exceptions exist, and can't we get on with more interesting parts of the discussion? It's got to the point where calling someone up for failure to use a qualification like 'some', 'many', or 'most' is the same as calling them on a spelling mistake. Sorry, I mean *sometimes* the same or *in many cases*. It's tedious. |
Funny.
I find Overgeneralizing to be more annoying. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| xingyiman wrote: |
| Fox wrote: |
| xingyiman wrote: |
The poster who continuously asks for sources.
Statement: "Most people in the world accept the fact that the world is round instead of flat as previously believed."
Reply: Could you priovide some sources for that? Otherwise your arguments have no merit....... |
Asking for sources is totally legitimate. If the debate is so casual that you don't feel providing sources to back up questionable claims is worth your time, you should have no problem simply conceding whatever's being discussed and dropping out of the discussion. If someone asked me to prove most people believed the world was round, to use your example, I'd just say no. Not particularly annoying.
If anything, the real epidemic is people who seem to think they can just assert anything and it should be treated as fact upon which they can then build an argument. That behavior is quite annoying. |
Asking for sources for common sense stuff is assinine. I don't have time to provide sources for every statement I make on this forum. Find them yourself or shag off. |
Telling someone to
shag off
f off
piss off
or anything similar...
is also pretty annoying. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Or people who bash country x and, when called on it, retreat to some mumbling like "It's only because I disagree with country x's current foreign policy." Lame. |
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Kurtz
Joined: 05 Jan 2007
Location: ples bilong me
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I think from all these responses it's safe to say in general debating on the internet is just flat out annoying.
At least on the net you can have your say, whilst in real life people can just cut you off and talk over the top of you, especially after a few beers, |
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typo
Joined: 16 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Lamest tactic? when someone feigns intelligence in discussion with you. been roped in a few times with this one.
that's the worst.  |
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