Aestu wrote:
"Jokes" have a punchline, or irony, or satire, or other "hook" that makes them funny. Your lack of balls in admitting that you were not "joking", except in the HERPA DURR, IMSOFUNY sense, by mocking my point by writing it off, doesn't change the reality that your "joke" wasn't a joke at all. Mocking =/= joking.
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=jokeQuote:
(n) antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on (a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement)
I don't see where in this definition of a joke it says there needs to be a punchline. Alas, we are getting caught up in simple semantics.
You claim to know what I meant when I posted that better than I -- the sad thing is that I actually saw a certain validity in some of your assertions in that thread, but it had (
once again) become a ridiculous back-and-forth, LOUD NOISES!, type of "debate." So, I posted my troll in jest. But since you know exactly what I'm thinking better than I, this fact will be lost on you, I'm sure. Have you really never considered the possibility that your ego could cloud your judgement and actually hurt the spirit of debate rather than help it?
Aestu wrote:
I see this dynamic recurring from a mile away. I see it all the time. I see it as soon as someone praises my intelligence only to second guess me the next day. I've gotten this shit since I was a child. I appear arrogant because I am accustomed to being right and others being wrong and every time I give into the whimpering of idiots who second-guess me, I'm invariably proven correct after the fact. When I don't, I get made to be the arrogant bad guy, then I don't get mailed roses after I'm proven correct the next day.
Quote from the "@Japan" thread because I called Joklem a "smart bro"
Aestu wrote:
As Azelma's initial question and closing remark showed, indeed, some of us buy into the facade, rather than doing their own thinking and understanding whether or not this guy is really smart or has any idea about the things he talks about.
What you ask of me seems to be this. If I call you "smart" or praise your intelligence, I can no longer disagree with anything you say or second guess the validity of your comments. If I do so, then I am a "moron" who truly doesn't understand anything you are saying. Yet if I praise Joklem's intelligence, then I am still a moron because I am buying into the facade because I didn't ask enough questions.
Basically:
If I praise his intelligence, I should second guess Joklem to confirm that he is truly as intelligent as I initially thought.
If I praise your intelligence, I should not second guess anything you say, because that makes me a moron.
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I despise these useless back-and-forths about my person. Discussion is over.