Are "more active" passive activities better?

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:15 am

fluffyhamster wrote:Metal, learn to read -

You too:

"Tell you what, you take and give that which you need to from here and I'll do the same, OK?"

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:05 am

Metal, I am only continuing to respond here just to make it very clear that you don't get away with barging onto a thread, making clearly provocative and quite indefensible comments, before signing off as if you were somehow justified and in the right for doing what you did. Perhaps if you can restrain yourself from posting yet again (and again and again), I will somehow manage to do so too (but I can assure you that if you do continue to post on this thread, I will continue to counter for as long as you seem to want to keep lashing out and venting whatever frustrations have built up within you).

I know you like to think of yourself as top-level linguist, but please, just stop it with the patronizing. The way you act on the forum, it's as though nobody else could ever arrive at any sort of "answer" (even, yes, <<GASP>> a provisional one) without your "gracious" help and constant prodding. We aren't all newbie teachers with absolutely no interest in linguistics whatsoever, so just shut it.

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:37 am

fluffyhamster wrote:Metal, I am only continuing to respond here just to make it very clear that you don't get away with barging onto a thread, making clearly provocative and quite indefensible comments, before signing off as if you were somehow justified and in the right for doing what you did.See, metal, overusing that type of language simply will not do!
See the first "barge in", the first provocation:

See, metal, overusing that type of language simply will not do!

Take a leaf from your own book before you begin accusing others. I will now stop posting in this thread. That is the only way to counter your childish need to have the last word.

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:40 am

I didn't know one could "barge in" on one's own thread...but never mind.

You are obviously incapable of recognizing a joke, then. Lighten up before you drive people away from Dave's or have a heart attack (or both).

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:43 am

fluffyhamster wrote:I didn't know one could "barge in" on one's own thread...but never mind.

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This is a public forum and once a thread is posted it becomes the property of all posters here. You cannot own threads.

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:02 pm

Hmm 'to barge'...seeing as you have so much free time (and there I was thinking you were a top-flight linguist jetting off to conferences every five minutes), perhaps you could find a ten-foot bargepole and think of a use for it other than for prodding teachers awake (e.g. rather than would+not+touch+them+with..., how about can+stick+it+where+the+sun+don't+shine).

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:03 pm

fluffyhamster wrote:Metal, you really do have problems with reading, and a worrying lack of imagination when it comes to thinking up words on your own. The only one who's barged round here lately has been you (I can assure you that I wasn't barging in on myself - sounds like it could be painful!).

Hmm 'to barge'...seeing as you have so much free time (and there I was thinking you were a top-flight linguist jetting off to conferences every five minutes), perhaps you could find a ten-foot bargepole and think of a use for it other than for prodding teachers awake (e.g. rather than would+not+touch+them+with..., how about can+stick+it+where+the+sun+don't+shine).

Watch this... YAWN!

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:08 pm

Not so bored and sleepy that you couldn't wait to pounce on my words whilst I edited them down to the bare essentials (considerate of me, eh, what with reading being such a strain for you).

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:56 pm

metal56 wrote:
fluffyhamster wrote:I didn't know one could "barge in" on one's own thread...but never mind.

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This is a public forum and once a thread is posted it becomes the property of all posters here. You cannot own threads.

I know I probably should've used scare quotes there (thus: "own"), but I had done that once for your benefit already. You seem so unable to read anything other than what you "need" to into other people's words that it probably just isn't worth the extra effort on my part to "indulge" you further.

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:57 pm

fluffyhamster wrote:
metal56 wrote:
fluffyhamster wrote:I didn't know one could "barge in" on one's own thread...but never mind.

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This is a public forum and once a thread is posted it becomes the property of all posters here. You cannot own threads.
I know I probably should've used scare quotes there (thus: "own"), but I had done that once for your benefit already. You seem so unable to read anything other than what you "need" to into other people's words that it probably just isn't worth the extra effort on my part to "indulge" you further.

So you're still not done? How long would you like this to go on? Until your ego is in balance?

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:24 pm

My ego is in balance, Grasshopper - it's yours that is not.

What is the sound of one hand slapping?
a) Metal slapping himself on the forehead when the satori finally hits.
b) Metal being spanked.
c) Both of these, yet neither of these.

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:48 pm

fluffyhamster wrote:My ego is in balance, Grasshopper - it's yours that is not.

What is the sound of one hand slapping?
a) Metal slapping himself on the forehead when the satori finally hits.
b) Metal being spanked.
c) Both of these, yet neither of these.

Watch...it's coming again...YAWN! You should rent yourself by the hour. Insomniacs'll queue at your door.

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:09 pm

Aw, I dunno, metal, my jokes seem a bit more varied than your stale one (YAWN x2) - they're keeping you awake at least, anyway.

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:13 pm

fluffyhamster wrote:Aw, I dunno, metal, my jokes seem a bit more varied than your stale one (YAWN x2) - they're keeping you awake at least, anyway.

Awake, but bored.

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:09 am

'I'm bored' - the usual refrain of children with absolutely no imagination, and destructive tendencies.

There are umpteen things you could be doing, young Timmy - how about:
1) checking out who 'Timmy' is in back issues of Viz
2) seeing if any dictionaries have definitions for 'to troll' or 'to flame sb, to get flamed; to start a flame war'
3) answering some of the more worthy (less unworthy?) among the 'Unanswered posts'
4) picking up an old thread or two from where you left them
5) not picking your toenails
6) not picking your belly-button
7) picking your nose less

starting more threads rather than scratching your backside
9) making a list of resolutions for the New Year ('I will be less Scrooge-like')
10) admitting every once in a while that you aren't always in the right or even right