30 Sep 23
@ghost-of-a-duke saidNo. I wouldn't say so. Over the last 15+ years here I have used it very sparingly. So no, not "like a custard tart" but I understand the rhetorical gimmick you are using here.
Ah, so you do get to throw delusional around like a custard tart?
30 Sep 23
@ghost-of-a-duke saidIt will mean I was wrong not to have believed Bob.
What if the Yeti puts in an appearance?
30 Sep 23
@ghost-of-a-duke saidThis is the third or fourth time you have used the same fatuous metaphor in a few pages. Perhaps you are bored and just want to end with a gesture of condescension.
Thread warning:
'Delusions' are being thrown around like custard tarts in this thread. FMF has hit Dive squarely in the face, and inexplicably, Dive has hit himself in the face.
30 Sep 23
@ghost-of-a-duke saidCalled the Trump syndrome if you say it is true enough times, hopefully most people will believe it. 🙂
You have said it 148 times in the last 2 weeks.
I've been keeping a log.
-VR
@fmf saidOr perhaps I really like custard tart.
This is the third or fourth time you have used the same fatuous metaphor in a few pages. Perhaps you are bored and just want to end with a gesture of condescension.
(It is actually the perfect metaphor for you trivializing delusional thinking).
30 Sep 23
@ghost-of-a-duke saidWell, I don't know about "too quick". The longest I could wait would be my entire life. But, we just have to call it how we see it when we see it.
And been too quick to call him delusional?
30 Sep 23
@ghost-of-a-duke saidThis might be the moment to bail out having previously stated your view coearly if you now think a fifth mention of the same rhetorical gimmick is all you have left.
Or perhaps I really like custard tart.
30 Sep 23
@fmf saidIf somebody believes something you don't, but you are unable to aptly evidence they are wrong, you are not in a position to call them delusional.
Well, I don't know about "too quick". The longest I could wait would be my entire life. But, we just have to call it how we see it when we see it.
30 Sep 23
@ghost-of-a-duke saidI haven't been trivializing it at all.
custard tart is actually the perfect metaphor for you trivializing delusional thinking
30 Sep 23
@ghost-of-a-duke saidOf course I am. I am using the word delusion in its everyday sense. I am not pretending to be a psychiatrist.
If somebody believes something you don't, but you are unable to aptly evidence they are wrong, you are not in a position to call them delusional.