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He sits on your nose with a sketch
pad to wave in front of your eyes. |
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//the US is run by NRA lobbyists// |
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Shouldn't you give a little more credit to all the other evil special-
interest groups? |
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So it would be like a null annotation by bigs. |
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Seriously dude, you need to start looking at the
planks in the eyes of people like Putin and company
and forget about the specs at the BBC. |
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//Scott Adams is an ass// [8th of 7] Where's the link? I might be that kind of ass so have to do the scientific investigation. |
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[pertinax] I have never heard of Travaglia and didn't like the initial format. A high strength beer and a read did tickle the end of the humorus, though. |
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After [bigsleep] pointing out the average aimed economy industry with associated puppets, I realised this just backs up the 'simple duality' which severely stunts the human mind. Funny, but not that good. |
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Wait, we can fix this; like the ass-tail on a fool's cap, a third figure
bobs down over your forehead : a bulging-eyed Nietzsche puppet
mumbles Beyond Good and Evil into your pineal third ear*. |
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Keeping in the frame of XKCD vs BOFH judgement Nietzsche. I wonder what Nietzsche's satirical take would be? |
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Thank you for the link, [Rayford]. I found it a bit simplistic,
though; I mean, the author kicks off with "It took nearly a century
for schlock to fully supplant the few extant currents of the refined
in American society". You have to wonder about the imagined
golden age of American culture (presumably the 1920s) and what
is supposed to have defined it as such in contrast to the present.
Henry Miller, perhaps? |
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Anyway, I agree in disliking Adams' world-view, but rather than try
to define him as the embodiment of all that is dumb and evil, I
would prefer to be more specific. He seems to be someone
who's decided that intelligence is an adequate substitute for
education. He's wrong, but sometimes, as in the case of Faraday,
such people can make important contributions. I've sometimes
enjoyed his provocations, and the fact that he gets far enough
under people's skins to provoke such a lengthy and pompous rant
suggests that he may have probed some sore points that are
worth probing. |
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I don’t consider him the embodiment of dumb and
evil--I just don't consider him at all. With no shortage
of talking heads competing for attention, moving
along to the next one, if I even want to, isn't
considerably difficult. |
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