Harry Tuttle Wrote:
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> You're worth every penny that Miz is paying you...
> You sunnuva bitch...
>
> The Miz Advocacy Group, LLC Wrote:
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> -----
> > You stated here, in Miz's second (November 3)
> "so
> > much food in the grocery store" thread:
> >
> > > "By the way, this is a re-runs thread...
> > Therefore..."
> >
> > Which remark was followed by a prominent and
> > rather noisome image stating "garbage."
>
> This is true... I'm not even going to argue the
> point that the garbage picture could've been meant
> as a compliment... because it was one of my
> favorite bands... (which I could've gotten away
> with)... the truth is, I was calling his thread
> trash...
>
> >
> > How else can your remark and the accompanying
> > illustration be interpreted other than that you
> > were offended by a surplus of grocery store
> > threads?
> >
> > To wit: (1) You pointed out it was a "re-runs
> > thread" (i.e., surplus),
>
> I disagree that calling the thread a re-run
> suggests that it is a surplus... That's quite a
> stretch... It's not "too much of a thing"... it's
> simply the rebroadcasting of the same thing... If
> I didn't like the thing after trying it the first
> time, and I still don't like the thing after the
> second time... It doesn't mean I dislike
> surplus... or choices... I just dislike that one
> thing... still..
that's a decent point....
>
> and that (2) *therefore*
> > the thread was equivalent to GARBAGE.
>
> That pesky "therefore" really did me in...
>
> >
> > (3) Surely equating the thread to garbage
> suggests
> > you were offended by it.
>
> I don't see how you can deduce that... Can't
> someone express their opinion about the quality
> (or lack thereof) of a certain thing without being
> offended?
>
> >
> > It follows then that Miz's position (or at
> least
> > the position you ascribe to Miz) is indeed
> > established and vindicated by your patently
> > insulting "garbage" post.
>
> I just don't agree...
>
> As I mentioned before... My assessment of that
> thread was independent from the other grocery
> store threads... If it had anything to do with the
> SURPLUS of grocery store threads, why is it that
> I've only called one of them garbage...? Why
> didn't I make a comment about "Grocery Store
> threads"? Even more coincidentally, as I'm sure
> you chalk it up to coincidence, the thread I call
> garbage was a thread that was a repeat of a
> discussion Miz and I had already had... a
> Re-Run...
>
> It was not about surplus. I was concerned with a
> lack of progress... a regression... a futile
> process (which I had already experienced) that I
> wished to avoid. I called this attempted
> regression "garbage".
>
> >
> > Thus Miz has met your challenge.
>
> No... YOU have met my challenge... and only by
> twisting my words and introducing a new definition
> of "re-run"..
>
> >
> > Thus he wins.
> >
> > And thus you fail.
>
> Why does one have to fail if the other wins?
> Because you say so?
>
> >
> > "Snap" (that's the sound of your bullshit
> argument
> > exploding)
> >
> > Time to rub the jelly donut in your face.
> >
> > "Buh-buh-but," protests Mr. Semantics, "by
> > 're-runs thread' I was NOT referring to the
> OTHER
> > grocery store thread, but rather to our earlier
> > 'freedom' argument."
> >
> > Sorry, that argument (if you were so bold, or
> > foolish, as to make it)
>
> I had already made that argument... and it seemed
> to clear things up for you, based on your earlier
> post about this topic...
>
> > fails given that "re-runs"
> > could only logically refer to the previous
> > (October 18) grocery store thread with the
> exact
> > same title.
>
> Really? I'm about to challenge your definition of
> re-run...
>
>
> >
> > A re-run signifies the rebroadcast of
> identically
> > titled material (e.g., a November 3 thread
> titled
> > "so much food in the grocery store" following
> upon
> > a prior, October 18 thread titled "so much food
> in
> > the grocery store").
>
>
> > Thus, for example, no one
> > would describe a rebroadcast of "McCloud" as a
> > "re-run" of "Columbo" (although they are both
> > detective shows, and thus deal with similar
> issues
> > and themes).
>
> NO ONE!? How can you prove that claim?
>
> Allow me challenge your first claim that re-runs
> have to be identically titled...
>
> "Good Morning, Miss Bliss"... "Saved by the Bell:
> The Junior High Years"
>
> Was it not a re-run when Good Morning Miss Bliss
> was repackaged and then RE-BROADCAST as "Saved by
> the Bell: The Junior High Years"?
>
> It would follow, based on your criteria, that an
> identical show being re-broadcast under a
> different name would not be considered a re-run?
> How is that?
>
> It is my position that the term "re-run",
> especially in the sense that Miz and I use in the
> forum, has nothing to do with the title of the
> content (because, really, what's in a title?) and
> only with the content itself...
>
> See the following examples:
>
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/71
> 0462/710477.html#msg-710477
>
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/61
> 1843/611867.html
>
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/20
> 1559/550670.html#msg-550669
>
> And, finally, the birth of the "re-run" gag...
> Yes, that is Mr. Misery playing along... Your eyes
> do not deceive you...
>
> EDIT TO ADD: NSFW
>
> Notice how all of the "re-runs" share identical
> (or even very similar) content with another thread
> of a DIFFERENT name...
>
>
> It would make no sense to refer to his garbage
> thread as a re-run by comparing it with his other
> grocery store threads since, even by Miz's
> accounts, they are completely different threads...
> How could one "show" be a "re-run" of a completely
> different show?
>
>
> >
> > It would strain logic and even your
> questionable
> > semantics/ethics to the breaking point to posit
> > that by "re-runs" you referred not to the
> earlier,
> > identically titled grocery store thread, but
> > rather to an entirely different thread about a
> > different subject.
>
> It wasn't a different thread about a different
> subject... That would be dumb, dummy... It was a
> different thread about the same subject...
>
> In summation:
>
> My opinion of the garbage thread was based on the
> premise that it was an unoriginal regression...
> covering no new ground... something that I had
> tried before and disliked the results of trying...
> I even asked if it was an attempt to "troll" me...
> because we had "already been over this"...
>
> It had nothing to do with the many grocery store
> threads (each with it's own unique content)....
>
> I would like to reiterate that disliking any
> singular "product" does not necessitate any
> correlation to a dislike of "surplus".
>
> And FINALLY (getting back to my ORIGINAL
> position)...
>
> I do not agree that there is such a thing as "too
> many choices" or "too much freedom"... In other
> words, I would never say "I wish I couldn't do as
> many things as I can"...
>
>
>
> >
> > Such a bizarre perversion of language could
> only
> > be justified by SHEER STUPIDITY, in which case
> you
> > owe Miz an apology for BEING A BIG, STUBBORN
> > STUPID.
>
> I really do love you... I'd get naked with you,
> regardless of your gender...
the rest of it........
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