Sick of pointless questions just designed to waste your time? There's a word for it, sealioning.

There is nothing passive about this behaviour, It's aggressive and challenging and it tends to ping pong between real and imagined mistakes. There probably is a perfectly good academic term, but seal lion does conjour up a vivid picture.

Perhaps you should have worked more diligently on reading comprehension. I said I couldn't recall the appropriate term (or at least something you wouldn't flame out over) and the comment that it's descriptive is not the same as agreeing with the dumbing down of you. Oh, in case you missed it, your response to me was passive-aggressive, or snide, or bitchy, take your pick.

Could you ask one of your university friends, that took some psychology, if this sealioning doesn't fall under the main heading of, "passive aggressive behavior"? I just love when colloquial terms take the place of academic terms.

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Could you ask one of your university friends, that took some psychology, if this sealioning doesn't fall under the main heading of, "passive aggressive behavior"? I just love when colloquial terms take the place of academic terms.

Do you know for a fact that Izzy has any friends presently teaching at a university in psychology?

Do you think sealioning is a colloquial word for passive-aggressive behavior, and are you opposed to the use of a colloquial word if it is? If so, why?

All I know is you are a poster named Foofie. You asked the OP to ask his university friends in the psychology department, (presumably you meant professors or researchers, since he has described himself as middle-aged), if this sealioning is just a colloquial expression for passive aggressive behavior.

I think if you have an opinion about sealioning being a colloquial equivalent of passive aggressive, you should just state it instead of making oblique suggestions. Do you have such an opinion?

It would be darn hard to deport a former president, though. Wherever we send him, he would still be entitled to Secret Service protection. Think of the cost.