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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
Point is, this is the issue being re-re-re-re-re-argued.
And you hop in when someone gets a little loose with the precise definition of retread.
I ask if we're even talking about the initial premise anymore.
You reply you don't give a **** about the initial premise, just the careless expansion of the word 'retread' to be a shorthand for something other than drafting and developing your own franchise qb from a high first round draft pick, instead of typing out a longform precise delineation of terms each and every time one posts.
People ride my ass here daily for being pedantic, or holding people to the actual meaning of their 'figures of speech' or 'it's just an expression' or 'you know what I meant.' But at least I do in in the course of making an argument.
You've shown a penchant for poking your head in and correcting semantic carelessness, then laughing at or belittling the misuser, without making an actual argument yourself. That's all.
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People call you pedantic because you're a supercilious ****. It is utterly idiotic to compare a player like Favre, for which there was no book, to a kitchen appliance or a player with 7-10 years of NFL experience.
Your "arguments" are rarely as noble as you claim above, as they are either chock with snark and derision, which undermines any real attempt for a real discussion, or they are filled with chest-puffing, obscurantist bullshit from which you drop inane Latin phrases in order to make yourself sound superior.
You sit down at a greasy spoon with a white glove, flick your finger across the table top, and sneer, and then wonder why people look shake their heads.