I'm going to attempt to be a nicer poster.

What the hell are you talking about??

What's the point of insulting someone if they don't know they've been insulted?

I doubt your sincerity, tubs, but we'll see.

A lot of the folks worth insulting are so dumb, they won't know you've insulted them even if you tell them that you have. When I insult you, it's for the benefit of the audience.

If it doesn't work out for you CS, here's what you MUST do to save face & your honour:

There's a poetry to it. After all, it was W.C. Fields who said, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."

Which reminds me, you should probably just assume I'm insulting you in every post. That way you won't have to wonder.

Which is an insult to your audience. Both of them.

That's a variation of that quote that I haven't seen before.

You can go for the jugular( moi) or be nice.

Uh, which pictures are those? I suspect you don't know what you're talking about.

My other favorite quote is "If you can't leave them laughing, leave them wondering what the hell you meant."

Because it makes for some hilarious Tucker Max stories?

Just a thought ... being nice doesn't get you very far if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

IIRC, Jan's comment came after one of your rare good points. But when those scattered good points are outnumbered by pwning yourself in a fashion worthy of Midnight Voodoo Anomaly of Despair, they tend to be drowned out.

The hard part about being nice is the insults just keep coming from the usual places. Oh, well, I guess I'll go watch a movie instead. Have fun, Tafkat and ShootER.

You should be nice because you believe it is the right thing to do.

Not because you expect quid pro quo.

It takes a while before it sinks it. When I stopped spewing idiotic nonsense and started thinking for myself, many folks gave me shit and took to calling me an asskisser at every oppertunity. It went away.

You'd been better off to not make an attention whoring :lookatme: post about it, but since you did...good. Learn from the past. Think before posting, lest you become the liberals' version of EP. And listen, because not everyone with conservative ideals is a drooling mongoloid, and not every conservative idea is rooted in ignorance.

This thread is hilarious.

What the fuck is this, real life?

Fields was an enormously quotable guy. One of my favorites is, "I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol, and wild women; the other half I wasted." Another good one is, "A woman drove me to drink, and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."

It's just fantasy.

Is the first one accurate? I've always heard it ascribed to some little known soccer player from some pissant nation by the name George Best: "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

Caught in a landslide...

Surely the fact I'm never wrong is evidence enough

Honestly, I have no idea. It seems in keeping with all the other quotes attributed to him, so my intuition says it's probably a Fields quote that a soccer player from a pissant nation quoted and nobody was any the wiser that he wasn't the one who originated it.

No escape from [-]the Red Room[/-] banality...

I thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I was mistaken.

I'm quite certain if I opened a thread announcing that I am now Mod Material, the keys to Wordforge would not be immediately handed to me.

Ok, maybe I'm just naive, but my personal opinion is that a lot of the comments made in this thread are unnecessary. Has Oerdin been caught a relatively high number of times posting stuff just because it seems to confirm his far-left idology, even when it was obvious satire? Yes. But sometimes he does make good arguments. Sometimes they are good arguments only for a leftist perspective, and sometimes they are good arguments even from a centrist perspective.

So I say: I'll give you a chance, Oerdin. (Since even the name "ConfederateSon"--which you are not--is a troll, it does not seem appropriate to use it in a thread where you say you are going to try to change.) And if you cut back on the drinking to a reasonable level, that will help you considerably.

But don't expect me to give you a pass when you make statements that are factually incorrect. I'm a real stickler for precision, and I hate the "logic" that trys to make points by using sensationalist exaggerations. If a point is true, it can be demonstrated factually, and I am not about to stop pointing that out.

They don't even like those of us who don't have to admit we're ever wrong, because we never are.

Tug McGraw, relief pitcher for the Phillies in the 70s (father of Tim McGraw country singer) said "I spent 90 percent of my money on wine, women and song and the rest of I pissed away"...

Fairly safe bet that he was paraphrasing Fields, who was of an even earlier generation. I won't say that's for 100% certain -- not as though I was around for it, or anything -- but it's very probable.