I am pork boy, the breakfast monkey.
left leg: mild bruising. right leg: charley horse
handsomerest member of KFM forum hands down
You know, the issue isn't the we have some people who are LARP'rs or live in their own special world.
The issue is that there is no need to be rude or insulting to make your point, fact is people resort to insults when they don't have the brains to make their point.
We need some posting rules that make that clear.
Calling someone an idiot or stupid or things like that just bring everything down to a grade two level ( worse since grade twos don't even say those things anymore).
Disagree with a point?
Fine.
Make YOUR point and that is all you can do.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
and, very clearly, a variation on this theme is the "you didn't learn the real stuff so you don't know" thing that gets rolled out here 10 times a day
oh, and resorting to 20 year old Chinatown gossip
Personally, I've seen guys I completely do NOT agree with, whose arguments I even find illogical and lacking in support, at least go on and share their views. At least that makes for discussion
But when someone goes "there is real chicken blowing up chi and you haven't seen it" it kills the forum.
Regardless of context, justified or not, a pejorative based on biographical information is the very definition of personal insult. No one is above it.
Now I for one think it is possible and perhaps even admirable to be personally insulting while at the same time maintaining a degree of civility and decorum. Adds flavor to an otherwise bland discussion. The problem is when people resort to ad hominems right out of the gate because they lack the ability to argue something on it's merits.
I'm not defending him - he's more than capable of doing that himself. I'm working from general principles - if someone says 'show me the evidence' and you say 'no because you smell' then that's a general fallacy that I think, for the moment, is worth challenging, so I do. You might dress up 'you smell' with 'he talks out of his azz' but it's the same thing.
It's not worth a penny!
Indeed.
There are so many better and cooler ways to call someone a ****, right?
We don't really need to call people stupid, retards, delusional ****twats or anything like that.
We all know Dave Ross is an ASS, he KNOWS it, LOL !
That isn't the point.
You disagree with Dave ( as an example), then show where he is wrong.
Disagree with Faixa, show where he is wrong.
Calling faixa a leperchaun blowing gimp, is pointless and doesn't counter his argument one bit.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
LMFAO.... you can't make this stuff up
Because i recently called him a fukkin idiot. then i went and read some other posts and realized it may not have been directly at me alone. my bad.Not sure why you thought this was about you Frank.
It was aimed AT ALL posters.
Its hella funny how my being a ranked official of the Hung Mun bothers David Ross so much that he paints a picture of me pretending to be a Triad Gangster.....his delusions of being a fighter are even funnier than him accusing me of being a gangster. LMAO
Last edited by hskwarrior; 06-21-2011 at 10:10 AM.
Hung Sing Boyz, we gottit on lock down
when he's around quick to ground and pound a clown
Bruh we thought you knew better
when it comes to head huntin, ain't no one can do it better
I'll wait for you guys to figure out your response
In the meantime, I got stuff to do
Its cool Bro.
I just want people to understand that, so many times you guys have valid points and even if it doesn't get through the heads of those you are debating with ( lets be honest, some people are just dense), it does make its point with others.
Getting frustrated because someone keeps going back to the same drivel and calling them Ethiopian Penial Sock puppets, doesn't do much but show THEM they got under your skin.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
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