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Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 18:12:37

TenuredVulture wrote:
mozartpc27 wrote:
jeff2sf wrote:I got the impression that Rutgers would be less liberal than some of the places Jerz could have pursued his studies. If not though, I'm sure this is something Jerseyhoya may have considered at some point during the whole process.

Further, it was a fair bit of drivel from you, moz. You know when this speech would be better? Any day BUT september 11th.

And the other reason you were criticized is for that weak sentence was the rightly or wrongly. OBVIOUSLY they believed it, but the whole "rightly or wrongly". I mean really.

Everyone is asserting its drivel.

Which part exactly? It ain't drivel, friends, it's truth.

And what I was referring to was not jh's politics but his dismissive reference toward academicky-type writing as "googoo drivel" without offering any evidence for such a claim, or even a counter-argument. Just dismissive.

Academics should stop writing that way. It's either pretentious or a way to hide the fact that what they're saying signifies nothing.

I don't think anything I wrote was really all that laden with academic jargon, just a bit more elevated than U.S. News and World Report-level discourse. I mean, I'm sure you have read stuff, as I know I have, that was far more dense for the sake of dense. That's not what I was going for, nor do I think it was what I produced.

by **SK790** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 19:30:45

I got onion rings from the dive-looking burger stand across the street from me because those wings weren't enough. Oh man, are they fantastic. The place is literally called "Burger Time".

by **laf837** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 19:54:32

SK790 wrote:I got onion rings from the dive-looking burger stand across the street from me because those wings weren't enough. Oh man, are they fantastic. The place is literally called "Burger Time".

Burger Time was a fantastically whimsical video game imo

by **Bucky** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 20:14:39

laf837 wrote:
SK790 wrote:I got onion rings from the dive-looking burger stand across the street from me because those wings weren't enough. Oh man, are they fantastic. The place is literally called "Burger Time".

Burger Time was a fantastically whimsical video game imo

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 20:19:58

re: burger time

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QJGHzjXfss[/youtube]

by **Bucky** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 20:22:41

so all these years I've been wondering. Do you think at the end of the pina colada song they reconciled, or realized they were doomed and went their separate ways pronto???

by **SK790** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 20:35:51

I really think about that game every time I drive past it, which is every day. One day, I'll get a picture for you Burger Time lovers...

by **SK790** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 20:58:53

Spurs tie with West Brom, Phillies lose, Braves win, PSU getting rolled. This song made me feel a bit better:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5ffgWySrM[/youtube]

by **kruker** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 21:13:35

gpicaro wrote:By now, I imagine that most here realize that I hate most people and most things in today's world. I am quite aware of how negative I am. However, it still doesn't change the fact that it is possible for someone (don't worry, I'm not saying me) to not be cold, a douche, stupid, etc. and to not be emotional about 9/11. Not being emotional about 9/11 does not equal a terrible person

That's not what was objectionable about your ludicrous statement. Reread it.

by **dajafi** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 21:24:45

Just so I'm clear: is anyone actually disagreeing with mozart's contention of some causal relationship between US foreign policy decisions and the attack of 9/11? As in, "al Qaeda was every bit as likely to have attacked us whether or not we intervened in Lebanon, had a troop presence in Saudi Arabia, etc"?

by **jerseyhoya** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 21:29:18

I'm not, no. But I also think they attacked us for our freedoms, in a direct 'we're materialist, evil infidels' way and an indirect 'our freedoms make us super baller' way.

by **SK790** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 21:30:20

SK790 wrote:Spurs tie with West Brom, Phillies lose, Braves win, PSU getting rolled. This song made me feel a bit better:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5ffgWySrM[/youtube]

Ha! PSU women's Volleyball lost in straight sets against Stanford tonight. Fitting.

by **SK790** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 21:32:00

jerseyhoya wrote:I'm not, no. But I also think they attacked us for our freedoms, in a direct 'we're materialist, evil infidels' way and an indirect 'our freedoms make us super baller' way.

What moz was saying, at least in my interpretation, was that they attacked us because of "our freedoms"(whatever that means), but more importantly, for our massive involvement in the part of the world they live in, which was purely self-involved.

by **jerseyhoya** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 21:33:40

I was really only trying to make fun of how many commas he used in one sentence and we got to him telling me I was going to fail at life in like two responses

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 21:37:13

tall men can't be stopped

by **SK790** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 21:38:19

Fair enough. I really have no interest in making an ass out of myself while trying to argue politics with people who obviously know more about the subject than I do anyways...

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 22:07:45

jerseyhoya wrote:I was really only trying to make fun of how many commas he used in one sentence and we got to him telling me I was going to fail at life in like two responses

My initial response was meant in the spirit in which your jibe was given: you say I use too many commas and hyphens, I say "learn to read." Just back-and-forth.

But then you said what I said was "drivel." That, combined with the tag line to your previous comment that you hate "hippy liberals" - sort of a joke, I realize - which referred to the "content" of my initial comment - not a joke, at least as far as I could tell - drew my stronger rebuke. If you're going to call my "content" "drivel," you need to offer some kind of evidence for that assertion.

by **meatball** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 22:16:31

tbf, you do use lots of punctuation.

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 22:20:33

meatball wrote:tbf, you do use lots of punctuation.

I know, it's one of those things I do. And if people say, "Dude, you use too much punctuation," I don't get mad or irritated. But that's not exactly what got under my skin there.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 22:24:51

Send that man a a Strunk and White!

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