The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[J.Quondam]

I managed to hold out posting in a thread for over a 100 pages. I was browsing it on and off, through some good arguments, some bad ones, and lots of fluff. I finally decided to throw in my $0.02... and the thread is closed two posts later. Can't tell if I missed the bus or dodged a bullet.

Sounds to me like maybe you shot the bullet.
I dub thee "Threadslayer!"

 

[darjr]

This is a test, isn’t it?

 

[BookTenTiger]

If you didn't convince this poster in the last thread... and the thread before that... and the thread before that... maybe it's not worth trying to convince them this time around?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

If you didn't convince this poster in the last thread... and the thread before that... and the thread before that... maybe it's not worth trying to convince them this time around?

But that's not the real fake Einstein quote!!!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I had to google where the name came from just now...

"The name "Moe's" originated as an acronym for "Musicians, Outlaws and Entertainers," and this theme led to the music-related artwork found in the restaurants."

They originally had homages to musicians and movie characters around the restaurant in pictures and in product names. I think the lawyers eventually had them ditch the pictures several years ago, and then more recently a lot of the product names. I think it's much better than the name would lead one to believe.

Is Moe’s still a thing? They opened up a whole bunch of locations in D/FW- I thought they were pretty good, IMHO- and then after just a couple years, they started disappearing.

Oddly, each location was replaced by another chain restaurant. As in, all the same chain.

Odder still, THOSE restaurants also closed after only a short period of time.

 

[Cadence]

Is Moe’s still a thing? They opened up a whole bunch of locations in D/FW- I thought they were pretty good, IMHO- and then after just a couple years, they started disappearing.

Oddly, each location was replaced by another chain restaurant. As in, all the same chain.

Odder still, THOSE restaurants also closed after only a short period of time.

The ones here in SC all seem to still be around. I'm guessing most South Carolinians have different standards for south westish food than those from DFW though

 

[turnip_farmer]

When I was a hot-headed and reckless youth, I found it very hard to let things slide. If someone was wrong, I had to let them and everybody else know.

Thankfully, I've mellowed, and a lot of the forums on which I spentt those days have gone the way of the dodo. I've learnt to accept that people who are not me are usually wrong, and just play games about dwarfs and hobbits instead of worrying about it.

Sometimes it still requires a bit of conscious self-control, though.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

When I was a hot-headed and reckless youth, I found it very hard to let things slide. If someone was wrong, I had to let them and everybody else know.

Thankfully, I've mellowed, and a lot of the forums on which I spentt those days have gone the way of the dodo. I've learnt to accept that people who are not me are usually wrong, and just play games about dwarfs and hobbits instead of worrying about it.

Sometimes it still requires a bit of conscious self-control, though.

Ugh. Every single time I think I've learned that lesson, I realize that ... I haven't. The gulf between understanding the right thing to do and practicing that is inevitable. Not to mention we all carry with us the stressors of what is going on in our own lives, and it is easier to be forgiving on ourselves than on others that we do not know.

It's almost always the same thing, too. I call it the Inevitable Third Person Corollary. Any argument that you're walking away from can be re-kindled and made worse by a third person coming in.

 

[embee]

Thankfully ENWorld isn't too like Twitter... unless it's threads about xxxxxx. ;-)

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Is that from the thread where Silver chastised a virologist for stealing his Twitter take when, in fact, the virologist was responding to another virologist about that virologists medical research?

 

[BookTenTiger]

Ugh. Every single time I think I've learned that lesson, I realize that ... I haven't. The gulf between understanding the right thing to do and practicing that is inevitable. Not to mention we all carry with us the stressors of what is going on in our own lives, and it is easier to be forgiving on ourselves than on others that we do not know.

It's almost always the same thing, too. I call it the Inevitable Third Person Corollary. Any argument that you're walking away from can be re-kindled and made worse by a third person coming in.

There was a study a few years ago that showed that when people of different political ideologies actually got a chance to talk with each other online and took their time to explain their reasoning... it actually strengthened each person's belief in their own side.

I feel like I fall into this trap too. "If I explain my ideas clearly, THIS time the logic will be too strong for them to disagree with!"

And it... never works!