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how about a poll on whether explaining BBS is a joke?BigBallinStalin wrote:How about having a poll on whether or not your joke was funny?
John Adams wrote:I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God I have had this Congress!
Feel free to start one. Personally, I think the Thick of it is pretty great. Perhaps too much of a British style of humour for your taste? Naughty words are employed.BigBallinStalin wrote:How about having a poll on whether or not your joke was funny?
What sort of democracy are you pushing BBS? Inclusive democracy?BigBallinStalin wrote:How about having a poll on whether or not your joke was funny?
I want Absolute Monarchy within the guise of Democracy.AndyDufresne wrote:What sort of democracy are you pushing BBS? Inclusive democracy?BigBallinStalin wrote:How about having a poll on whether or not your joke was funny?
--Andy
The Thick of It is likely to be good, but being British itself doesn't guarantee the creation of good jokes. I suspect the joke was perceived as mediocre for most CC users, which is why a poll would be wonderful ITT.Symmetry wrote:Feel free to start one. Personally, I think the Thick of it is pretty great. Perhaps too much of a British style of humour for your taste? Naughty words are employed.BigBallinStalin wrote:How about having a poll on whether or not your joke was funny?
fadedpsychosis wrote:how about a poll on whether explaining BBS is a joke?BigBallinStalin wrote:How about having a poll on whether or not your joke was funny?
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As i pointed out, you're free to start a poll. Or watch the Thick of It and explain why it's not funny.BigBallinStalin wrote:The Thick of It is likely to be good, but being British itself doesn't guarantee the creation of good jokes. I suspect the joke was perceived as mediocre for most CC users, which is why a poll would be wonderful ITT.Symmetry wrote:Feel free to start one. Personally, I think the Thick of it is pretty great. Perhaps too much of a British style of humour for your taste? Naughty words are employed.BigBallinStalin wrote:How about having a poll on whether or not your joke was funny?
I understand if you're unwilling to expose yourself to anonymous criticism from a poll.
A philosophical problem: is it trolling to consider the possibility that someone's joke is not funny?Symmetry wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:
As i pointed out, you're free to start a poll. Or watch the Thick of It and explain why it's not funny.
How much longer are you intending to keep up this trollish regime?
I doubt you've ever been a lover of wisdom, BBS, so the appeal to philosophy seems redundant. If you want a poll, make one. If you want to say that you don't find a pun funny, then I think you've already done that.BigBallinStalin wrote:A philosophical problem: is it trolling to consider the possibility that someone's joke is not funny?Symmetry wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:
As i pointed out, you're free to start a poll. Or watch the Thick of It and explain why it's not funny.
How much longer are you intending to keep up this trollish regime?
If a Brit modifies a joke from a British TV show, is the joke in all cases funny? And does being British automatically make all of one's jokes funny?
We may never know because Symmetry fears the very worse: that people will not find him funny.
Opening oneself to criticism reveals to one the areas which they should improve. Remaining stubbornly ignorant of such crucial possibilities will lead one to the road of low self-esteem, frustration, and constant quibbling with others over unimportant issues. It's a vicious cycle of decline. I do not recommend getting hints and tips from this thread, Sym.
I will do my best.BigBallinStalin wrote:I am sorry that my responses have caused you sound and fury. I hope that one day you'll become more open-minded, so that you can revision yourself into a more intellectually capable and caring human being.
I admit it... I loledSymmetry wrote: I doubt you've ever been a lover of wisdom, BBS, so the appeal to philosophy seems redundant. If you want a poll, make one. If you want to say that you don't find a pun funny, then I think you've already done that.
The rest is just sound and fury.
John Adams wrote:I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God I have had this Congress!
I would have unquestionably...never figured that out.Symmetry wrote:It's a pun (or play on words) based on the term "omnishambles". From the best character in Armando Iannucci's "The thick of it", Malcolm Tucker.
Put Malcolm Tucker into a youtube search. The results will not be readily postable here.Woodruff wrote:I would have unquestionably...never figured that out.Symmetry wrote:It's a pun (or play on words) based on the term "omnishambles". From the best character in Armando Iannucci's "The thick of it", Malcolm Tucker.
It was okay, but I'll admit that it was better than his Romneyshambles joke. I liked the 'sound and fury' part so much that I had to use it!fadedpsychosis wrote:I admit it... I loledSymmetry wrote: I doubt you've ever been a lover of wisdom, BBS, so the appeal to philosophy seems redundant. If you want a poll, make one. If you want to say that you don't find a pun funny, then I think you've already done that.
The rest is just sound and fury.
Have you ever considered me right on my logic? Not recently, I'm sure. But then again, you're judgement seems to be radically skewed when it comes to my posts.BigBallinStalin wrote:It was okay, but I'll admit that it was better than his Romneyshambles joke. I liked the 'sound and fury' part so much that I had to use it!fadedpsychosis wrote:I admit it... I loledSymmetry wrote: I doubt you've ever been a lover of wisdom, BBS, so the appeal to philosophy seems redundant. If you want a poll, make one. If you want to say that you don't find a pun funny, then I think you've already done that.
The rest is just sound and fury.
I didn't get the redundant part, so maybe you could explain it for me:
. If I'm not a lover of wisdom, then how is appealing to philosophy redundant? Rather, the appeal would be baseless (i.e. based on nothing cuz I'm not a lover of wisdom/philosopher). If I was a lover of wisdom, then appealing to philosophy may seem redundant. I think Sym may have gone wrong in his logic on this one.
You've already tried the straw man argument.Symmetry wrote:Have you ever considered me right on my logic? Not recently, I'm sure. But then again, you're judgement seems to be radically skewed when it comes to my posts.BigBallinStalin wrote:It was okay, but I'll admit that it was better than his Romneyshambles joke. I liked the 'sound and fury' part so much that I had to use it!fadedpsychosis wrote:I admit it... I loledSymmetry wrote: I doubt you've ever been a lover of wisdom, BBS, so the appeal to philosophy seems redundant. If you want a poll, make one. If you want to say that you don't find a pun funny, then I think you've already done that.
The rest is just sound and fury.
I didn't get the redundant part, so maybe you could explain it for me:
. If I'm not a lover of wisdom, then how is appealing to philosophy redundant? Rather, the appeal would be baseless (i.e. based on nothing cuz I'm not a lover of wisdom/philosopher). If I was a lover of wisdom, then appealing to philosophy may seem redundant. I think Sym may have gone wrong in his logic on this one.
And yet you seem to find me so fascinating. Do you love me?BigBallinStalin wrote:You've already tried the straw man argument.Symmetry wrote:Have you ever considered me right on my logic? Not recently, I'm sure. But then again, you're judgement seems to be radically skewed when it comes to my posts.BigBallinStalin wrote:It was okay, but I'll admit that it was better than his Romneyshambles joke. I liked the 'sound and fury' part so much that I had to use it!fadedpsychosis wrote:I admit it... I loledSymmetry wrote: I doubt you've ever been a lover of wisdom, BBS, so the appeal to philosophy seems redundant. If you want a poll, make one. If you want to say that you don't find a pun funny, then I think you've already done that.
The rest is just sound and fury.
I didn't get the redundant part, so maybe you could explain it for me:
. If I'm not a lover of wisdom, then how is appealing to philosophy redundant? Rather, the appeal would be baseless (i.e. based on nothing cuz I'm not a lover of wisdom/philosopher). If I was a lover of wisdom, then appealing to philosophy may seem redundant. I think Sym may have gone wrong in his logic on this one.
You're getting tedious, Symmetry, and a little mad.
BigBallinStalin wrote:Suppose that you're terminally ill (cancer), and let's say I was faced with the choice of pushing two buttons.
Button A saves you from your cancer.
Button B provides a lifetime of cake for all the denizens of ConquerClub.
In a heart beat, I'd put the smackdown on Button B. A few of us may feel a little guilty, but after you're dead and gone, we can eat our cake guilt-free.
I'm an altruist. Marx once said, 'feed them cake'.Symmetry wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:Suppose that you're terminally ill (cancer), and let's say I was faced with the choice of pushing two buttons.
Button A saves you from your cancer.
Button B provides a lifetime of cake for all the denizens of ConquerClub.
In a heart beat, I'd put the smackdown on Button B. A few of us may feel a little guilty, but after you're dead and gone, we can eat our cake guilt-free.
Bit harsh- you'd opt for cake over saving my life?
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,”BigBallinStalin wrote:You've already tried the straw man argument.Symmetry wrote:Have you ever considered me right on my logic? Not recently, I'm sure. But then again, you're judgement seems to be radically skewed when it comes to my posts.BigBallinStalin wrote:It was okay, but I'll admit that it was better than his Romneyshambles joke. I liked the 'sound and fury' part so much that I had to use it!fadedpsychosis wrote:I admit it... I loledSymmetry wrote: I doubt you've ever been a lover of wisdom, BBS, so the appeal to philosophy seems redundant. If you want a poll, make one. If you want to say that you don't find a pun funny, then I think you've already done that.
The rest is just sound and fury.
I didn't get the redundant part, so maybe you could explain it for me:
. If I'm not a lover of wisdom, then how is appealing to philosophy redundant? Rather, the appeal would be baseless (i.e. based on nothing cuz I'm not a lover of wisdom/philosopher). If I was a lover of wisdom, then appealing to philosophy may seem redundant. I think Sym may have gone wrong in his logic on this one.
You're getting tedious, Symmetry, and a little mad.
John Adams wrote:I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God I have had this Congress!
