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

[overgeeked]

There’s a difference between what the text actually says and what you want it to say. You can torture the definitions of words all you want and mangle syntax and grammar to the breaking point, but the text still doesn’t say what you desperately want it to say.

 

[overgeeked]

If someone is hell-bent on misunderstanding everything you say, there's nothing you can do about it. Stop arguing, put them on ignore, and walk away.

 

[CleverNickName]

If someone is hell-bent on misunderstanding everything you say, there's nothing you can do about it. Stop arguing, put them on ignore, and walk away.

Also, an important corollary: Disagreeing isn't the same thing as misunderstanding.

Sometimes the trouble is the point itself, not the way I'm presenting it, and even if I'm making myself crystal clear there will be others who still disagree. I need to be okay with that, and move on.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I think I've learned more about history by listening to people argue about it on the internet than I ever did in school.

 

[J.Quondam]

I think I've learned more about history by listening to people argue about it on the internet than I ever did in school.

Somewhere, there's probably a class called "The history of arguing about history on the internet."

 

[Davies]

Somewhere, there's probably a class called "The history of arguing about history on the internet."

And a class teaching the historiology of the history of arguing about history on the internet.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Somewhere, there's probably a class called "The history of arguing about history on the internet."

No, there isn't!

 

[Ryujin]

No, there isn't!

That's just contradiction. I came here for an argument.

 

[trappedslider]

 

[MarkB]

Better bring an orang-utan, in case you get lost in L-Space.