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boggsman1
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| mrgybe wrote: | | Jonathon Gruber reads a lot also. He thinks everyone else is stupid and incapable of critical thinking. Pompous, arrogant blowhard, puffing his chest out in front of sniggering, like minded academics.........right up until the moment he went into a whimpering fetal position when confronted with the harsh light of realty, and demonstrated so starkly, that theory is no substitute for experience. Living in a narrow, comfortable bubble, surrounded by people who agree with you, doesn't provide that experience. We see that here routinely. |
What's the real estate market have to do with Gruber? |
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mrgybe
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Clearly you haven't seen "The Boy in the Bubble". |
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boggsman1
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| mrgybe wrote: | | Clearly you haven't seen "The Boy in the Bubble". |
I was remarking on your misspelling of the word "reality"...I'm trying to emulate your debating style, it's one of my 2017 goals, and mitigating the effectiveness of one's argument by pointing out a misspelled word is one of your hallmarks. |
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mrgybe
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| In that case you will probably want to take note that "What's" is not an abbreviation for "What does". |
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boggsman1
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| mrgybe wrote: | | In that case you will probably want to take note that "What's" is not an abbreviation for "What does". |
See that, I'm already better than I started the day!!! Happy holidays Senor Gybe.... |
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mac
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Blah blah blah. It is not news that Trumpists disdain intellectual endeavor and books--their hero hasn't read one since college, if he read one then. Why do the rest of us read? Not to show off or rebut a bunch of nimnuts on iwindsurf. But there are a number of reasons. For amusement. To learn something. To learn about other cultures? When I was young I tried to read as many books by the world's great authors as I could. I had not yet heard from Trumpists and mrgybe that education was a sissy activity, or that any fool without experience could be a congressman or a President. After all, how hard could it be? I fear we are about to find out. So I read. Along the way I developed enough of a vocabulary that I could tell the difference between cite, when you mean citation of a source, from site. The latter is a place for a developer to build realty. Really.
Insult away. It's like the frosting on Christmas cookies.
One of the authors I read was Borges, described here:
| Quote: | | Jorge Luis Borges. Jorge Luis Borges, (born August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland), Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works have become classics of 20th-century world literature. |
It is amusing to be attacked by Malibu and NW, who misinterpreted my comments about magical realism by 180 degrees. An impressive display of ignorance.
For you xenophobes, who wouldn't read an Argentine writer--or remember him 40 years later--I have another one for you. Anthony Atala, born in Peru and raised outside of Miami. He's invented a 3 dimensional printer that is capable of printing cartilage, bone and muscle tissue. We have to send these bad hombres back. |
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isobars
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you guys noticed which two people start ~ 95% of these contentious, ultimately evil, shitstorm political threads? |
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techno900
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iso posted: | Quote: | | Have you guys noticed which two people start ~ 95% of these contentious, ultimately evil, shitstorm political threads? |
And not so surprising, one of the two just posted on another thread information on Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Maybe a self-diagnosis? |
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MalibuGuru
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| mac wrote: | Blah blah blah. It is not news that Trumpists disdain intellectual endeavor and books--their hero hasn't read one since college, if he read one then. Why do the rest of us read? Not to show off or rebut a bunch of nimnuts on iwindsurf. But there are a number of reasons. For amusement. To learn something. To learn about other cultures? When I was young I tried to read as many books by the world's great authors as I could. I had not yet heard from Trumpists and mrgybe that education was a sissy activity, or that any fool without experience could be a congressman or a President. After all, how hard could it be? I fear we are about to find out. So I read. Along the way I developed enough of a vocabulary that I could tell the difference between cite, when you mean citation of a source, from site. The latter is a place for a developer to build realty. Really.
Insult away. It's like the frosting on Christmas cookies.
One of the authors I read was Borges, described here:
| Quote: | | Jorge Luis Borges. Jorge Luis Borges, (born August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland), Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works have become classics of 20th-century world literature. |
It is amusing to be attacked by Malibu and NW, who misinterpreted my comments about magical realism by 180 degrees. An impressive display of ignorance.
For you xenophobes, who wouldn't read an Argentine writer--or remember him 40 years later--I have another one for you. Anthony Atala, born in Peru and raised outside of Miami. He's invented a 3 dimensional printer that is capable of printing cartilage, bone and muscle tissue. We have to send these bad hombres back. |
He won't be sent back BECAUSE HE'S A CONTRIBUTING MEMBER SOCIETY.
BTW, what's wrong with reading Mad Magazine for all my information? Erudite racist..... |
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nw30
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| mac wrote: | Blah blah blah. It is not news that Trumpists disdain intellectual endeavor and books--their hero hasn't read one since college, if he read one then. Why do the rest of us read? Not to show off or rebut a bunch of nimnuts on iwindsurf. But there are a number of reasons. For amusement. To learn something. To learn about other cultures? When I was young I tried to read as many books by the world's great authors as I could. I had not yet heard from Trumpists and mrgybe that education was a sissy activity, or that any fool without experience could be a congressman or a President. After all, how hard could it be? I fear we are about to find out. So I read. Along the way I developed enough of a vocabulary that I could tell the difference between cite, when you mean citation of a source, from site. The latter is a place for a developer to build realty. Really.
Insult away. It's like the frosting on Christmas cookies.
One of the authors I read was Borges, described here:
| Quote: | | Jorge Luis Borges. Jorge Luis Borges, (born August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland), Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works have become classics of 20th-century world literature. |
It is amusing to be attacked by Malibu and NW, who misinterpreted my comments about magical realism by 180 degrees. An impressive display of ignorance.
For you xenophobes, who wouldn't read an Argentine writer--or remember him 40 years later--I have another one for you. Anthony Atala, born in Peru and raised outside of Miami. He's invented a 3 dimensional printer that is capable of printing cartilage, bone and muscle tissue. We have to send these bad hombres back. |
"Blah blah blah",,,,,,,,,,,,,,, exactly!
Says our resident intellectual, which is in reality pseudo-intellectual.
Enjoy your cookie. |
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