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<blockquote data-quote="Virago" data-source="post: 34558" data-attributes="member: 2045">Ristamar said:Feh. I knew this cliched line of thought was bound to pop up.&nbsp; Alright then, what authority do you go to, if you don't ask the Sage? . . .I meant &quot;we could&quot; in the sense of &quot;we could stick our hands in a vat of acid, but let's not.&quot;But note that&nbsp; the Sage has already answered both ways on this one already, so on the topic in question we know he's already made at least one mistake.(stubbornness)I don't quite see it that way. Truth be told, both sides are being stubborn.Well, there's persistent and then there's stubborn.&nbsp; Then there is just plain argumentative, which is yours truly.Anyway, there's nothing wrong with pretending to believe something for the sake of reasonable argument.&nbsp; But making statements such as &quot;the rules are clear&quot; when it's been shown that they aren't . . .Artoomis:If I said something personal, I apologize.&nbsp; If it's about bold italics though, you asked for it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Virago, post: 34558, member: 2045"] Ristamar said: [b]Feh. I knew this cliched line of thought was bound to pop up. Alright then, what authority do you go to, if you don't ask the Sage? . . .[/b] I meant "we could" in the sense of "we could stick our hands in a vat of acid, but let's not." But note that the Sage has already answered both ways on this one already, so on the topic in question we know he's already made at least one mistake. (stubbornness) [b]I don't quite see it that way. Truth be told, both sides are being stubborn.[/b] Well, there's persistent and then there's stubborn. Then there is just plain argumentative, which is yours truly. Anyway, there's nothing wrong with pretending to believe something for the sake of reasonable argument. But making statements such as "the rules [b][i]are[/i][/b] clear" when it's been shown that they aren't . . . Artoomis: If I said something personal, I apologize. If it's about bold italics though, you asked for it :p [/QUOTE]

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