What’s with the pissing contest guys? Sheesh. Is it too difficult to voice opinions without attacking the person we’re arguing with?
Or am I completely missing that jabbing/joking thing that guys do sometimes? “You’re a jerk.” “No, you’re a jerk.” “Ha! Wanna beer.” “Sure.” I ask this because at one point, somebody thought I was a guy and starting joking with me in an aggressive/fake insulting way and my feelings were hurt (which was not the intention of the person).
So, I don't want to be misinterpreting the situation around here since I've seldom had a chance to pop in and maybe I am completely misreading the thing.
I realize it's hard to tell for certain online, but some of those pissing were gals.
It kinda warms my cockles to know that they are some who can get passionate about grammar.
I've always assumed that the female sex urinates on occasion. Indeed, I am informed that there are websites that provide photographic evidence of this.
Bingley
Indeed, I am informed that there are websites that provide photographic evidence of this.
Yes, perhaps they discuss words therein, too.
I know what you mean zmjezhd. With a name like belMarduk, I am generally assumed to be a guy.
It was really meant to be a general question though.
It seems that the responses are peppered with agressive comments BUT since I seldom have time to come here these days, I thought it could be possible that I missed the beginning of a "joking-jabbing" trend.
It's easy to misinterpret a conversation when you pop in in the middle of it.
Well since you ask, I find it amusing, but I don't think it's jockily joking, but deadly serious. Sides have been drawn up and wits deployed. The fate of the Free World (tm) hangs in the balance. When the UFO / grammar maven / mother country ship comes, there'll be those who are elect and those who are preterite, and, mind you, no solecism be left behind. That is: those who haven't mastered subject predicate concord, or mesmerized (Inshallah) the Divine LXIX Theses of Brother Hamster Shturnk or Fryar Tux Wide, or worked out the Miracle of the Phrasal Genitive, etc., etc.
Mon dieu. Now I don't know if I shall take up my Websters and stick to the rules, or sit down with a book by e e cummings and grammar be damned.
What to choose, what to choose. This mother-country ship / UFO / maven thingy...where, precisely, is it to whisk us up/away/over to?
Wherever it whisks us, I can assure you, it will not whisk them, too. I, for one, would not ride. I simply would not ride.
>>warm cockles<<
And I thought we were arguing about interpretation. (Of a Johnny Hart cartoon, of all things. Sheesh.)
a Johnny Hart cartoon
I remember time back way back when they were still playing baseball with a cubical ball. Someone (Peter?) hit a long fly ball to the outfield and the umpire (I'm pretty sure it was the fat broad) ran out to the ball, spread her arms out in a safe sign and said, "Six!"
There was some discussion of the strip on the editorial page in which a number of columnists for the paper (The Chicago Sun-Times, IIRC) nearly unanimously declared the strip funny but none could explain why it was funny.
>>six<<
That *is funny. Elegant, even. Don't ask me why.
1. his sense of humor is offbeat
http://featurepage.creators.com/washpost.html?name=bc [dated]
b. he wears his Christianity on his sleeve, which has gotten him in hot water occasionally:
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/044895.htmiii. some folks have *no sense of humor:
http://joshreads.com/index.php?cat=13-ron (that was never two things) obvious
p.s. - [not at all germane] Johhny Hart is 73 years old.