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dur posted:Yeah, I've got a former coworker who is a lot like this. In what's become a running joke, I corrected a current co-worker when she posted "could of", and got this in response from the former co-worker: loving liberals and their spelling.
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dur posted:"[dur] is just an angry little man who is anal as hell about anything and everything. The fact that he is a flaming lib makes it all that much better. Enough is enough little man, take your square lib glasses and naive opinions and go away. No one will miss you." You should have claimed that you are a Liberian and he was using racial slurs* *Will only work if you're black
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Dec 20, 2010 03:17
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dur posted:Yeah, I've got a former coworker who is a lot like this. In what's become a running joke, I corrected a current co-worker when she posted "could of", and got this in response from the former co-worker: I've had a similar response to times I tried to throw a couple of cents into something that was contrary to how I would have viewed something. I don't mind a reasonable response, but things that like are just ad hominem bullshit. edit: I just realized you weren't even making any kind of major statement, just correcting grammar. Jesus, that is pretty off the deep end, you loving lib! tek79 fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Dec 20, 2010 |
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Dec 20, 2010 03:31
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NaturallyAspergated posted:You should have claimed that you are a Liberian and he was using racial slurs* If you're going to be that ridiculous you might as well just go the full nine yards and get offended if he questions the possibility of a white African.
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Dec 20, 2010 03:58
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tek79 posted:I've had a similar response to times I tried to throw a couple of cents into something that was contrary to how I would have viewed something. I don't mind a reasonable response, but things that like are just ad hominem bullshit. To be fair, the sperglords who correct "could of" because they are passive aggressive douchebags are pretty infuriating no matter where you stand on the political or educational spectrum.
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Dec 20, 2010 04:01
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PUNCHITCHEWIE posted:To be fair, the sperglords who correct "could of" because they are passive aggressive douchebags are pretty infuriating no matter where you stand on the political or educational spectrum. Didn't you read the full context of what dur was saying? dur's comment about his correction being "a running joke" implies that his correction was more in jest based on an inside joke from his workplace, rather than him being anal about grammar. Either way, dur's point still stands since the reaction to his correction was completely over the top. Correcting someones grammar doesn't warrant something to the effect of "HE'S A LIBERAL SO gently caress HIM ARRGHHHHH!!!!!".
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Dec 20, 2010 04:23
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PUNCHITCHEWIE posted:To be fair, the sperglords who correct "could of" because they are passive aggressive douchebags are pretty infuriating no matter where you stand on the political or educational spectrum.
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Dec 20, 2010 04:50
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PUNCHITCHEWIE posted:To be fair, the sperglords who correct "could of" because they are passive aggressive douchebags are pretty infuriating no matter where you stand on the political or educational spectrum. Why? Because they want to help people say things correctly? I'd say you're a bigger sperglord if you freak out any time someone tries to help you with something simple.
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Dec 20, 2010 06:01
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dur posted:Ugh, I didn't want this to be a Thing but christ, dude, it's some loving around between co-workers, not some spergy grammar nazi bullshit. Exactly! THIS is spergy grammer Nazi bullshit: Let's examine this post. PUNCHITCHEWIE posted:To be fair, the sperglords who correct "could of" because they are passive aggressive douchebags are pretty infuriating no matter where you stand on the political or educational spectrum. This is a pretty poorly organized sentence. First off, just take out "To be fair". Everybody knows that "To be fair" is a codeword for "I'm going to insult someone now and hope you're too thick to notice it's directed at you", and by using it others will deem your post less worthy of being taken seriously. Next, it's a little confusing to read. Are you implying that ALL grammar correcting sperglords are passive aggressive douchebags? If so, you probably want to remove "because they are" after "'Could of'" and move "passive aggressive douchebags" to in front of sperglord, so it reads "the passive aggressive douchbag speglords who correct 'could of' are pretty infuriating..." The sentence also feels like a bit of a run-on. It's not as bad as it could be, but I feel that the sentence would benefit greatly from either additional commas, splitting it into two sentences, or removing some of the bloat. Cutting out the whole "because they are passive aggressive douchebags", for example, makes the sentence both much cleaner and removes the blatant insult towards the person you're commenting on. The last part of your sentence, "...no matter where you stand on the political or educational spectrum" seems a bit redundant, as it's already been stated that the the sperglord in question is a "Passive Aggressive Douchebag," and the sentence seems to go on for too long without pause. Perhaps a better solution would be to cut it down and move it somewhere that you can add a comma. So, instead of your original statement, I suggest the following alteration: "Regardless of your political views, the sperglords who correct "could of" are pretty infuriating." See? With some simple editorial effort, your post is now far less insulting, and is both slimmer and easier to read, communicating your point much more effectively and in a manner that will allow people to take you seriously. 
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I don't know if this is from an email or not, but my dad has apparently been getting some crazy ideas from somewhere. The other night he started arguing against universal health care because if they DO have universal healthcare, the government is going to take away the right to smoke and drink. The lynch pin of his argument was that the government already makes you wear your seatbelt, so it's only the natural conclusion to things. Then he brought up prohibition as proof that the government can and will do this. I don't even know how to respond to something like that.
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Thenipwax posted:I don't know if this is from an email or not, but my dad has apparently been getting some crazy ideas from somewhere. The other night he started arguing against universal health care because if they DO have universal healthcare, the government is going to take away the right to smoke and drink. The lynch pin of his argument was that the government already makes you wear your seatbelt, so it's only the natural conclusion to things. Then he brought up prohibition as proof that the government can and will do this. Point to other UHC counties that don't ban those things? Wherein people start drinking at a younger age?
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Dec 20, 2010 17:05
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JamesJBuffalkill posted:Point to other UHC counties that don't ban those things? Wherein people start drinking at a younger age?
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Dec 20, 2010 17:09
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Britain has one of the biggest problems with drinking in Europe, and we've got UHC. 
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Thenipwax posted:I don't know if this is from an email or not, but my dad has apparently been getting some crazy ideas from somewhere. The other night he started arguing against universal health care because if they DO have universal healthcare, the government is going to take away the right to smoke and drink. The lynch pin of his argument was that the government already makes you wear your seatbelt, so it's only the natural conclusion to things. Then he brought up prohibition as proof that the government can and will do this. Sounds like a good old fashioned slippery slope fallacy. Ask him if he'd rather have his vices, or the comfort of knowing that him or his loved ones won't die because an insurance company denied their cancer treatments.
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tek79 posted:Sounds like a good old fashioned slippery slope fallacy. Ask him if he'd rather have his vices, or the comfort of knowing that him or his loved ones won't die because an insurance company denied their cancer treatments. I told him it was a slippery slope fallacy, but he just ignored it and kept raising his voice and his finger like he was making a good point. I already know he'd rather have his vices! If somebody's insurance denied them anything, it must've been because they didn't work hard enough or have a good enough job. Thenipwax fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Dec 20, 2010 |
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Dec 20, 2010 17:39
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I would rather say happy christmas; merry christmas is so..... British.
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Thenipwax posted:The other night he started arguing against universal health care because if they DO have universal healthcare, the government is going to take away the right to smoke and drink. In Britain I've heard the NHS used often as a justification for higher taxes on cigarettes and alcohol.
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Dec 20, 2010 20:01
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ljw1004 posted:In Britain I've heard the NHS used often as a justification for higher taxes on cigarettes and alcohol. We do the same drat thing here in the US and we don't even have national healthcare.
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/DEAR-...85523370?v=wall Crazy_facebook_postings.txt
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the posted:http://www.facebook.com/pages/DEAR-...85523370?v=wall It's even more sad when I see that "2 of my friends like this page"  Edit: Scoot Carlson is the most dangerously insane human being I've ever seen UltraPenguinX fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Dec 20, 2010 |
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UltraPenguinX posted:It's even more sad when I see that "2 of my friends like this page" I saw the same thing. The good news is now I have 2 fewer friends.
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Miss Fats posted:I saw the same thing. The good news is now I have 2 fewer friends. Same here. And one was an aunt.
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perianwyr posted:I would rather say happy christmas; merry christmas is so..... British. Ironically, I've only heard "Happy Christmas" said on the British TV shows I watch.
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Dec 21, 2010 03:30
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1 friend likes this.
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None of my friends liked it- probably because I purged all my Republican classmates from my friends list and kept it limited to family and actual friends.
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Dec 21, 2010 15:38
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Does everyone have 2 rear end in a top hat friends? It was the same for me, though they are really more like acquaintances anyway. I remember earlier this summer when one of the girls was complaining that the US was helping Haiti too much.
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Deuce posted:1 friend likes this. It is altogether possible that some of your friends have joined it for trolling purposes.
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JamesJBuffalkill posted:Point to other UHC counties that don't ban those things? Wherein people start drinking at a younger age? "Point to other countries" is a fantastic argument for about 80% of the issues America gets so worked up about. Universal healthcare? Gays in the military? Gay marriage? Abolishing capital punishment? Hey, Canada's still trucking!
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freebooter posted:"Point to other countries" is a fantastic argument for about 80% of the issues America gets so worked up about. Universal healthcare? Gays in the military? Gay marriage? Abolishing capital punishment? Hey, Canada's still trucking! I think you fail to understand just how different we are from them. I mean, sure it works on Europe and sure Germany has 1/3rd of our population but it clearly wouldn't work here in the US. We're just too different, bro. Too different. Too different. Too different.
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Dec 21, 2010 18:36
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the posted:http://www.facebook.com/pages/DEAR-...85523370?v=wall 23 friends. . . I also have friends who like poo poo like Tea Party Patriots and Nobama. We're still in high school so I'm hoping that they can grow out of this poo poo at least.
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TGLT posted:I think you fail to understand just how different we are from them. I mean, sure it works on Europe and sure Germany has 1/3rd of our population but it clearly wouldn't work here in the US. We're just too different, bro. Too different. Too different. Too different. I know how far silly "facts" and "reality" often gets people, but how about pointing out that everyone loves Medicare, which already helps more people than Canada's universal health care, or that Israel, the only foreign military conservatives won't smirk at, allows homosexuals to serve?
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Dec 21, 2010 20:35
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1 friend likes it here, but she's pretty monumentally stupid and always ends up agreeing with me when I call her out on anything political she posts, yet continues to do it again and again. Poor thing.
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Dec 21, 2010 20:37
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Dr Christmas posted:I know how far silly "facts" and "reality" often gets people, but how about pointing out that everyone loves Medicare, which already helps more people than Canada's universal health care, or that Israel, the only foreign military conservatives won't smirk at, allows homosexuals to serve?
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Dec 21, 2010 20:59
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the posted:http://www.facebook.com/pages/DEAR-...85523370?v=wall Thankfully none of them are politically active on Facebook.
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perianwyr posted:It is altogether possible that some of your friends have joined it for trolling purposes. This one is a newly-converted libertarian.
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I thought this one was especially fun because what you see is exactly how it arrived in my inbox (minus giant, green, Comic Sans font). I'm assuming there were, at some point along the forward chain, images of Christmas trees involved. However, someone somewhere decided that even with broken images, the core message about Allah plants (gotta work that Muslim-hate in there somehow, damnit!) and Hanukkah bushes ruining the true meaning of Christmas just had to continue being passed along anyway. quote:MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL!!
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Dec 22, 2010 09:37
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"Allah Plant" should be the expression used to describe a meaningless word or expression that's created to appeal to bigots.
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Dec 22, 2010 10:41
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What makes a Christmas tree specifically a Christian symbol, anyway? I can't really find any solid history linking the two.
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In Turkey they have New Year trees, which are exactly the same as Christmas trees, minus any Santa and Jesus related decorations. Around December 25th Istanbul has loads of decorations up, and Santa occasionally makes an appearence in shop windows as well, so it feels very Christmassy.
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doctor iono posted:What makes a Christmas tree specifically a Christian symbol, anyway? I can't really find any solid history linking the two.
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