Ha ha ha!!
I read the thread title and initially wanted to jump in only to post: "it alleviates boredom and facilitates procrastination". But then I decided to read the damn article excerpt first anyway.
What a laugh!
And he's so f*cking right too. Jesus.
timberlandko wrote:You have no rhythm.
I beg to differ on this one point. I do TOO have rhythm.
parados wrote:I do TOO have rhythm.
Who could ask for anything more?
Dang - I just read it, too. Brooker is undeniably correct- and it makes me feel kinda dumb to admit it!
(anybody wanna argue about it?)
I do think that online debating makes us more prone to outlandish name-calling and ad hominem attacks than live debating does (I can't imagine something like Timberlandko's rhapsody happening in real life, though I would pay good money to see it)... but whether this is a difference of degree or kind, I don't know.
timberlandko wrote:Shapeless wrote:timberlandko wrote:Your powers of observation are akin to those of the bird which keeps slamming into the picture window trying to get that other bird it keeps seeing.
That should be "the bird THAT keeps slamming," because what follows is a restrictive rather than a non-restrictive clause.
Grammar Nazi
or fuddy duddy, according to JTT:
Quote:Yitwail,
The notion that only 'that' can be used for restrictive clauses is an old canard, a prescription that was never, ever true about language. Both 'which' and 'that' are used for restrictive clauses, though admittedly with differing frequencies for different registers.
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1789583&highlight=restrictive+clause#1790756
Point taken. As it happens, I'm also one of those people who objects to split infinitives and ending sentences with prepositions, though I've been known to break both rules. Sign me up for the Fuddy-Duddy Club!
Shapeless
You'd enjoy this thread:
What are your pet peeves in English?
Timber
I've saved that for future reference/use. I agree that it's one of the funniest and most accomplished insults that I've ever read/heard.
My personal favourite (of a length which I can actually say rather than write) is:
"You white-ass, red-neck, corn-fed, chicken-sh!t, motherfcuker!"
KP
Timberlandko wrote:You are, at varying times, tedious, boring, and even occaissionally earth shatteringly hilarious in your idiocy, routinely childish, moronic, pathetic, wretched, disgusting and pitiful.
{applause}
It is nice to know that some things are universal....
Well, somehow Timber's post comes rather close to what a teacher in highschool once told me he thouht about my intellectual capabilities.
He was a tad more concise though.
"You snail-skulled little rabbit."
If you do not withdraw that comment, you puny brained, narrow skulled, reptilian bred, lice ridden, chicken hearted feather duster, I'm mobilizing the masses.
I always love the way them snails can expand and retract their antenna... Just imagine how useful a set of retractable bunnyears could be, Dlowan!
najmelliw wrote:I always love the way them snails can expand and retract their antenna... Just imagine how useful a set of retractable bunnyears could be, Dlowan!
I can barely fit my whole brain inside there as it is!
Hmm... Perhaps some lobotomy? I know it's painful, but you gotta think positive... At least you'd possess a unique pair of retractable bunnyears... Think of all hte money you can earn? There may even be interesting jobs for you as a playboy mascot... You can't put a price on that!
najmelliw wrote:Hmm... Perhaps some lobotomy? I know it's painful, but you gotta think positive... At least you'd possess a unique pair of retractable bunnyears... Think of all hte money you can earn? There may even be interesting jobs for you as a playboy mascot... You can't put a price on that!
I pile turds upon Playboy.
Oooh... The big question of course is, do you buy them first before you pile the turds? If so, Playboy has still won
najmelliw wrote:Oooh... The big question of course is, do you buy them first before you pile the turds? If so, Playboy has still won
I pile mental turds upon the enterprise, WITHOUT entering into commerce with them.
I keep a few around all the time - I just read the articles....
