Herd instincts?

[PhattyMo]

Any lumps?

I think that's called a "shart".

 

[John Fields]

Invective? Diatribe is in the eye of the beholder, but if you want
invective you need Phil Alison or Richard Steven Walz.

---
My Webster's states, for the noun:

"1. Vehement denunciation, censure, or reproach; vituperation.
2. An insulting or abusive word or expression."

#2 seems apropos, yes?
---

I was membership secretary for my local Labour Party ward in England
for a couple of years around 1990, mainly because I had a home
computer that would run the membership software, and I got to see
political people in action - I don't have those skills.


I do look for work - it is a condition of my unemployment benefit that
I apply for a least one job a week, and I don't have any trouble
finding jobs to apply for. It's been more than a year since I even got
an interview, which is rather frustrating - there is a real shortage
of electronic engineers in the Netherlands at moment, and jobs that I
could do keep on getting readvertised. I reapply for them every few
months, though it is obviously a waste of time.


Or women. The current administration talks up a storm about keeping
the elderly in th work force, but they don't do a thing about removing
any of the bureaucratic barriers. At the moment, the employer pays an
employee's sick leave. They can get insurance cover for this for
employees under 65 - but the insurance companies don't offer any
policies for employers over 65 - no demand ...


Correct. But in order to make a useful judgement about this, you must
be able to demonstrate that _you_ are in touch with reality.

---
Being able to spell out the qualifications is quite enough to
demonstrate that, I suspect.
---

Wrong. The very essence of presentation skills lies in the presenter
creating the illusion that they are not only in touch with reality,
but also on control of it.

---
If one can create the 'illusion' of reality, then that person must
know what reality is or what someone else wants reality to be, in
which case he is objectively warping reality, implying that he knew
what reality was before the warp.
---

This is always a lie - reality has a way of
sneaking around the best expert, and the real measure of expertise is
that experts know how little they know.

---
There's no way of knowing how little one knows since that would
require knowing enough to gauge.

But we're not talking about expertise, we're talking about reality.
---

The catch in this specious argument is the claim that Jim is _clearly_
in touch with reality. Jim knows enough about integrated circuit
design to get by. He isn't great, but he's adequate. Outside that area
he's depressively ignorant.

---
So you set yourself up as judge, jury, and executioner, then throw
him a bone while kicking him so that you can preserve your delusion
of being superman?

 

[John Fields]

Presentation skills involve filleting reality to create the desired
impression - there are two examples earlier in this thread. In effect
it is an exercise shedding inconvenient bits of reality.

 

[Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie]

Really, they could start re-running Kukla Fran and Ollie 24/7 and the
quality of TV would improve. The writers crank out garbage and want to
be called "creative." They need a union precisely because they are *not*
creative.

They're not train drivers. If they stay on strike forever, the US will
be better off.

With six billion writers on the internet, who needs them anyway? ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie]

Amen! I could do with a re-run of Kukla, Fran and Ollie... at least it
was funny, and you didn't have to worry if the kids watched it.

There must be some cozmik synchronicity or something going on - I was
thinking about K,F,&O just the other day!

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Jeff Liebermann]

[email protected] hath wroth:

I was membership secretary for my local Labour Party ward in England
for a couple of years around 1990, mainly because I had a home
computer that would run the membership software, and I got to see
political people in action - I don't have those skills.

I think I've found the problem. It's where you're living:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijmegen>
"As to this date Nijmegen is still known as Havana on the Waal
among some Right-wingers. The Socialist Party, the Green Party
and Labour have a solid two-third majority in City Council,
making Nijmegen the only major city in The Netherlands with a
solely Left-wing government."

My apologies, but I just couldn't resist. Carry on.

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:09:36 -0800 (PST), [email protected] wrote:

[snip]

Quite a few people have accused me of lying, because they don't
believe the information I've presented, but that isn't quite the same
thing. If you don't believe me, prove that I'm wrong.

If I were as inadequate a man as Bill Slowman I'd kill myself.

HINT! HINT! HINT! HINT! HINT! HINT! HINT! HINT! HINT! HINT! HINT! ;-)

...Jim Thompson

 

[John Larkin]

There must be some cozmik synchronicity or something going on - I was
thinking about K,F,&O just the other day!

Cheers!
Rich

Fran was awfully cute.

Cute is out on TV now; slut is in.

Hollywood should petition the FCC to allow the f-word on the air. That
way, they'd only need half as many writers.

John

 

[John Larkin]

With six billion writers on the internet, who needs them anyway? ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

Yeah, you could have shows with wiki-scripts, generated voluntarily on
the internet. I bet they'd be good.

John

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

Spoken by one who is too cowardly to use a real name.

Thanks!
Rich

Said the total retard that has posted under several nyms.

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

Much better to join the herd over there on the right.

I think all you political dumbfucks are so stupid that you would drink
the kool-aid without even questioning the contents.

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

But we can never win a public election. With all this history, they'd Bork
us.

Obama claims to have smoked, as well as far more than Bork ever did,
and today's retarded voters might put a dipshit like him in office.

Note, however, that I do not call him a dipshit because of the
inebriants he may or may not have used in his spotted past.

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

I usually call down lightning bolts, for a more traditional effect.

Liar!

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

My comment wasn't limited to politicians. It's been true of all the grass
root revolutionaries.

Get a clue, boys. It is true of all men. You know... that "created
equal" thing.

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

The French situation is interesting. Pretty soon, everybody in the
country will be on strike against themselves. That's a logical
consequence of a society where collectivism becomes dominant.

Hehehe... sort of like the "black folks" that, after a kid that was
running toward a bunch of gun wielding cops hollering "I have a gun!" was
shot down before he could get too close to them. It was called an
accidental shooting, but the really sad part is the news piece I saw
where some lame, gang boy retard stated that "we will retaliate like the
LA riots."

I find it amusing that they burn down their own neighborhood when they
get pissed.

Gang mentalities and the members of gangs are some of the most retarded
crap to ever come down the pike.

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

The US isn't all that far from pretty much the same situation - have
you been watching the antics in Holly-weird?

Cheers!
Rich

Idiot! The producers are making a mint off online media. The writers
want a piece of it.

I don't blame them, but I would hardly term it "antics", you clueless
dipshit.

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

At least until you leftists get control of the world, it's a free
country to believe what one wants.


It's nice that you know JC so well, yet know he doesn't exist. OTOH,
I don't know about Michael, but I'd rather not be owned.


I always wanted to know what it's like in oblivion. Trip report
please.

Break shit?

No. That's what Bruce Lee did to Chuck's chest.

Chuck ACTS like he breaks shit.

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

Really, they could start re-running Kukla Fran and Ollie 24/7 and the
quality of TV would improve. The writers crank out garbage and want to
be called "creative." They need a union precisely because they are
*not* creative.

They're not train drivers. If they stay on strike forever, the US will
be better off.

John

Do you even have any clue why they are striking, dumbfuck?

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

Amen! I could do with a re-run of Kukla, Fran and Ollie... at least
it was funny, and you didn't have to worry if the kids watched it.

...Jim Thompson

We are in the modern world, and you retarded fucks can control what your
kid sees, and it is not as if the stuff is likely Lenny Bruce's content
was.

Grow the **** up, you bunch of retarded twits.

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

With six billion writers on the internet, who needs them anyway? ;-)

You're an idiot, and you have never written anything that was worthy of
leaving a toilet bowl.