18 Sep 03
Originally posted by bbarrI thought it was you West Coast types who are pathologically laid back, and us New Englanders with the rods up our arses....
In Seattle, we would say that you were being a bit "sensisitve", and then we might laugh at you because you sound "funny" when you say "flauw".
18 Sep 03
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Originally posted by bbarrAmericans like you don't have a reputation of being "sensitive".
In Seattle, we would say that you were being a bit "sensisitve", and then we might laugh at you because you sound "funny" when you say "flauw".
Maybe you should ask yourself why so many in the world think that Americans are arrogant and want to dominate others and why they are not interested in the wellbeing of other nations but just persuing their own goals and their own interests. Why so many hate America in the Islam world. Of course that's the fault of those other Americans who are not your political friends. Look in the mirror, brother.
18 Sep 03
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Originally posted by ivanhoeI've always thought that the U.S. should forcibly annex the Netherlands. 🙄
Americans like you don't have a reputation of being "sensitive".
Maybe you should ask yourself why so many in the world think that Americans are arrogant and want to dominate others and why they are not interested in the wellbeing ...[text shortened]... o are not your political friends. Look in the mirror, brother.
Look Ivan, just because we in Seattle think you sound like a "zwakhoofd" when you say "flauw", that doesn't mean we want to take over the world. Many liberals like myself strongly oppose any efforts on the part of the current administration to strongarm other nations, even those other nations whose languages sound funny. 😀
Seriously, I think that kid who posted is just mindlessly regurgitating things he hasn't seriously thought about, and that is why I poked some fun at his post.
18 Sep 03
Originally posted by bbarr"Zwakhoofd"
I've always thought that the U.S. should forcibly annex the Netherlands. 🙄
Look Ivan, just because we in Seattle think you sound like a "zwakhoofd" when you say "flauw", that doesn't mean we want to take over the world. Many liberals like myself strongly oppose any efforts on the part of the current administration to strongarm other nations, even th ...[text shortened]... ing things he hasn't seriously thought about, and that is why a I poked some fun at his post.
I bet you had to look this up in a dictionary of some kind. English-Dutch. Because this is a word we hardly ever use in the Netherlands.
Name calling is probably one of your favourite hobby's.
Why don't you try some criticism that is a wee bit more substantial than your intelligent remarks about the Dutch language. What languages do you speak, educated American ?
18 Sep 03
Originally posted by ivanhoeWhat is there to criticize? I've justified my original post, it was an instance of satire. If you had posted some actual criticism of my original post justifying the claim that satirizing what I took to be a mindlessly regurgitated platitude was wrong, then I would respond in kind. But you didn't do that Ivan, you just started calling names. So I decided to make fun of you in a manner similar to that with which you made fun of me. And here you are escalating a confrontation you started, just like you have done in all these other threads, starting with your "idioot" rant against royalchicken. I think StarValleyWy was right about you and your motivations.
"Zwakhoofd"
I bet you had to look this up in a dictionary of some kind. English-Dutch. Because this is a word we hardly ever use in the Netherlands.
Name calling is probably one of your favourite hobby's.
Why don't you try some criticism that is a wee bit more substantial than your intelligent remarks about the Dutch language. What languages do you speak, educated American ?
18 Sep 03
Originally posted by bbarrCrikey Bennett. It took this clown to get you to agree on something with SVW 😉?
What is there to criticize? I've justified my original post, it was an instance of satire. If you had posted some actual criticism of my original post justifying the claim that satirizing what I took to be a mindlessly regurgitated platitude was wrong, then I would respond in kind. But you didn't do that Ivan, you just started calling names. So I decided ...[text shortened]... oot" rant against royalchicken. I think StarValleyWy was right about you and your motivations.
Does this mean that not despite, but because of his oddly motivated belligerence, Ivanhoe should get a Nobel Pecae Prize?
18 Sep 03
"Seriously, I think that kid who posted is just mindlessly regurgitating things he hasn't seriously thought about, and that is why I poked some fun at his post." bbarr
Seriously, now we are getting somewhere.
Well. So bbarr decided to give that child a reprimand in a very funny bbarr way.
Well. That's why IvanH. decided to give you, bbarr, a reprimande . You need one because you were just mindlessly speaking to a young kid in a way you can hardly call "sensitive". If that's the way Americans of your kind treat children no wonder they get frustrated and angry and after a while they take a shotgun and kill everybody within shouting distance. Americans like you surely can use some "Kulturkritik". As a philosophy student you must know what "Kulturkritik" means. Now don't you ?
18 Sep 03
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Originally posted by bbarrYou, bbarr. Because of your damned arrogance. And because you think you are such a big boy. You need spanking! You call that satire ?
What is there to criticize? I've justified my original post, it was an instance of satire. If you had posted some actual criticism of my original post justifying the claim that satirizing what I took to be a mindlessly regurgitated platitu ...[text shortened]... n. I think StarValleyWy was right about you and your motivations.
Now,bbarr, Am I losing my sensitivity allready ?
You think I'm ready to fit in or should I loose more of my sensitivity ?
And now I've started? You're being shameless.
I just don't like you going round and treat children this way, big boy.
18 Sep 03
Originally posted by ivanhoeIt looks to me like you're the paternalistic one, Mr. Hoe. The Phlippant Philosophe is merely making a stab at humor.
You, bbarr. Because of your damned arrogance. And because you think you are such a big boy. You need spanking! You call that satire ?
Now,bbarr, Am I losing my sensitivity allready ?
You think I'm ready to fit in or should I loose more of my sensitivity ?
And now I've started. You're being shameless.
I just don't like you going round and treat children this way, big boy.
But SVW's comments indicate that you like to reflect your own personality on others......
18 Sep 03
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Originally posted by royalchickenYou, Royalchicken, choose to be clever rather than wise.
It looks to me like you're the paternalistic one, Mr. Hoe. The Phlippant Philosophe is merely making a stab at humor.
But SVW's comments indicate that you like to reflect your own personality on others......
"He was merely making a stab at humor"
Smoesjes !!
18 Sep 03
Originally posted by royalchickenLet me put it this way:
What would the wise response have been?
As far as I can see from the word "smoesjes", you feel that any humor on bbarr's part was some kind of concealement of the truth?
Firstly: Can you imagine what such a kid would feel after such a "humurous" reprimand ?
Secondly: What kind of effect do you think such a "humurous" reprimand will have on a kid, I mean in a serious educational way?
What was the message ? You think the kid has got the message or what kind of message do you think the kid has received from him ?
Thirdly: What do you think the impression was, the kid got from the person bbarr ?
Fourthly: Where there any other motivations on the part of bbarrs except from the ones he mentioned himself to do what he did ? This requires self knowledge on bbarrs side.
You don't have to answer these questions to me, but in my vision these are the most relevant questions ? If you feel like it you can ask bbarr to discuss this with you via PM's.