Walkout at Iran leader's speech

Originally posted by FMF
It seems you don't like being called "tiresome" - and yet look at the way you hit back.

I don't like a lot of things, nor a lot of people

not your problem, I would think

If you want true love around here, you buy a dog.

If I hit back harder and meaner than folks outside the Beltway, gee, thanks

That made my evening, right there.

Originally posted by shavixmir
See?
I bet the wonk palaces in your town (as you put it, I have no idea what a wonk palace is) are filled with child molesting, wife beating, trailer trash that just lap up your monotonous ramblings like you're some sort of intellectual.
Which goes a long way to prove that intellectual is nothing but a comparison to one's wonk peers.

I don't pretend t ...[text shortened]... pretend to use them.

Realitic check.
Nah... forget it, go back to driving your pick-up.

Realitic check???

Is that some sort of left wing Bohemian?

You can't use a dictionary -- and you don't look up concepts, and you can't spell.

Some people say you are a perfect idiot, Shav old bean -- I say you are not perfect, but you're doing alright.

Originally posted by Scriabin
I don't like a lot of things, nor a lot of people

not your problem, I would think

An odd retort from someone who seems compelled to foist his problems on others.

Originally posted by FMF
An odd retort from someone who seems compelled to foist his problems on others.

well, glad to have you back

I missed having commentary

I know better than to expect anything else

but thanks for sharing

Originally posted by Scriabin
If I hit back harder and meaner than folks outside the Beltway, gee, thanks

You overestimate yourself, wildly. Hit back harder? Your corny cut-and-paste insults? Your John Cleese diatribes? This is your "harder and meaner" from-inside-the-Beltway thing?

Now that's funny!

Originally posted by Scriabin
Some people say you are a perfect idiot, Shav old bean -- I say you are not perfect, but you're doing alright.

You're like a fart in a space suit.

Originally posted by FMF
You overestimate yourself, wildly. Hit back harder? Your corny cut-and-paste insults? Your John Cleese diatribes? This is your "harder and meaner" from-inside-the-Beltway thing?

Now that's funny!

aw gee, now I feel all deflated, detumescent and all ..

and here I thought you were being an honest dude, too

darn

you mean I can't take any of this stuff seriously?

now, that's news ...

The whole reason you watch a TV show is because it ends.
If I wanted a long, boring story with no point to it, I've got you.

Originally posted by shavixmir
You're like a fart in a space suit.

is that what you did?

Originally posted by Scriabin
aw gee, now I feel all deflated, detumescent and all ..

and here I thought you were being an honest dude, too

darn

you mean I can't take any of this stuff seriously?

now, that's news ...

I suppose the point is, you don't have the charm to get away with being the Everpresent Witty Misanthrope. You are instead the Eternal Wet Blouse.

Hitting back harder and meaner than people outside the Beltway? LOL. A bit of bizarre preening that essentially defines you.

Originally posted by FMF
I suppose the point is, you don't have the charm to get away with being the Everpresent Witty Misanthrope. You are instead the Eternal Wet Blouse.

Hitting back harder and meaner than people outside the Beltway? LOL. A bit of bizzare preening that essentially defines you.

is there a smiley for sarcasm?

I think you're not picking it up too well.

Not that you've won a lot of prizes for that sort of thing -- kinda slow on the uptake.

Would anyone be serious and take such credit? Oh, I forgot, you've got very little idea what things are like where I am.

One senses a cultural divide, perhaps raised to a power of at least 2.

At the very least, we seem divided by our common language.

I'll give you credit, though. At least you can spell. Bet you can use a dictionary, too.

BTW, we have wet tee shirt contests in Georgetown bars in the summer -- on ladies' night. Somehow, not too many long faces -- wanna try another simile?

Originally posted by Scriabin
is there a smiley for sarcasm?

I think you're not picking it up too well.

Not that you've won a lot of prizes for that sort of thing -- kinda slow on the uptake.

Would anyone be serious and take such credit? Oh, I forgot, you've got very little idea what things are like where I am.

One senses a cultural divide, perhaps raised to a power of at l ...[text shortened]... summer -- on ladies' night. Somehow, not too many long faces -- wanna try another simile?

Tiresome. See?

Originally posted by Scriabin
[to shav] ...and you can't spell..

It takes a certain kind of self-possessed ignorance to resort to criticizing grammar and spelling of a fellow poster on an international web site, where people from all around the world - fortunately for you - use your mother tongue. It takes a real lack of class to do it. And hardly anybody does, you'll notice.

Originally posted by Scriabin
is that what you did?

I farted and you came out I'd be arrested for pollution.

Originally posted by Palynka
I just don't see why walk-outs imply a don't-care attitude... Can you expand on that? In my view, sending officials to say a bunch of platitudes and then do nothing would be much more indicative of a don't-care attitude.

Besides, many countries expressed concerns that the conference would be an excuse to attack Israel and the so-called 'West', instead of ...[text shortened]... any chance of dialogue and wanted to stress they do not see such discourse as legitimate.

It just seems that countries on an international level seemingly don't feel the need to address these issues.
I can't point out too many specifics, it's just a feeling I have.

Don't just take my post to refer to just this walk-out.
The previous conference was a farce, as most countries sent junior and deputy level delegates.
Here 'The West' has a chance to confront someone they vehemently disagree with, yet 'they' decide to just storm off in a cloud of indignation.

Sometimes we need to stand across from each and yell so the spit flies. It's a form of dialogue, at least.

Originally posted by Crowley
The previous conference was a farce, as most countries sent junior and deputy level delegates.

Mmm. The one in Durban in 2001? Try reading its final declaration. Israel could scarcely have written a more supportive-to-Israel text itself. Yes there was a reference to the plight of Palestinians that someone like Dude of 84 might have balked at, but a true friend of Israel wouldn't have. An Israeli diplomat was completely dismantled on the BBC news the other day when he made various claims about the final statement issued after Durban 2001 only to have the BBC guy read from the text itself, forthright pro-Israeli words, unequivocally so... which caused the Israeli spokesperson to splutter on about not having the text in front of him, it not being the text they had seen, how everybody simply knew that the final statement had been viciously anti-semitic, about not having the text in front of him... etc. etc.

Farce or no farce, there's a lot of inaccurate talk about it.