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To Mask or Not To Mask?

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  • LarryL Offline
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    Larry
    wrote on last edited by
    #128

    Here's how I see the mask thing. I don't mind wearing a mask. If it makes everyone around me more comfortable, I'll wear a diving bell. But ASK me to wear the diving bell, don't tell me I have to do it, and especially don't tell me if I don't wear a diving bell you're goi g to harass me over it. Because if you do, I'm going to shove the diving bell up your ass.

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    • jon-nycJ Online
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      jon-nyc
      wrote on last edited by
      #129

      Larry, will you please wear a diving bell?

      kthxbai

      "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
      -Cormac McCarthy

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      • LarryL Offline
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        Larry
        wrote on last edited by
        #130

        Hahahaha

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        • HoraceH Horace

          @jon-nyc said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

          I realize you’re a newlywed and all, I just think the kind of guy she was criticizing fall well within your empathic domain.

          Yeah I'm among the subset of people who can relate to a certain antipathy for the cooler than thou cliques in school. How about you, jon?

          HoraceH Online
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          #131

          @Horace said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

          @jon-nyc said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

          I realize you’re a newlywed and all, I just think the kind of guy she was criticizing fall well within your empathic domain.

          Yeah I'm among the subset of people who can relate to a certain antipathy for the cooler than thou cliques in school. How about you, jon?

          Bump for jon. Since we've established a location encompassed by my empathic domain, I wonder if your idea of your own domain intersects at that point.

          Education is extremely important.

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          • jon-nycJ Online
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            jon-nyc
            wrote on last edited by
            #132

            I can be very empathic, but sometimes it takes effort.

            "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
            -Cormac McCarthy

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            • HoraceH Online
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              Horace
              wrote on last edited by
              #133

              That doesn't answer my question.

              Education is extremely important.

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              • RainmanR Offline
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                Rainman
                wrote on last edited by
                #134

                I can't tell. Is this an argument?

                If you two are going to insult each other, at least bring it down to my level, so I (we) can follow along and keep track of who's winning.
                Even your arguments are stuffy. Geesh, dumb it down a bit, OK? And use some fight'n words or something. Small words, two syllables max.

                Ax, step in here would 'ya bud??

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                • jon-nycJ Online
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                  jon-nyc
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #135

                  I can empathize with the holders of antipathy too.

                  "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                  -Cormac McCarthy

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                  • RainmanR Rainman

                    I can't tell. Is this an argument?

                    If you two are going to insult each other, at least bring it down to my level, so I (we) can follow along and keep track of who's winning.
                    Even your arguments are stuffy. Geesh, dumb it down a bit, OK? And use some fight'n words or something. Small words, two syllables max.

                    Ax, step in here would 'ya bud??

                    HoraceH Online
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                    Horace
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #136

                    @Rainman said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

                    I can't tell. Is this an argument?

                    If you two are going to insult each other, at least bring it down to my level, so I (we) can follow along and keep track of who's winning.
                    Even your arguments are stuffy. Geesh, dumb it down a bit, OK? And use some fight'n words or something. Small words, two syllables max.

                    I made what is for me a standard deconstruction of an insult from a woke white person, but since the woke white person was in this case a pretty young girl, jon jumped to the conclusion that I hated her because she reminded me of girls who wouldn't have sex with me.

                    Education is extremely important.

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                    • jon-nycJ Online
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                      jon-nyc
                      wrote on last edited by jon-nyc
                      #137

                      You didn’t deconstruct her insult, you just insulted her with a woke racial epithet. I was deconstructing your insult, which I actually found surprising.

                      "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                      -Cormac McCarthy

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                      • HoraceH Online
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                        Horace
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #138

                        You didn't, and apparently don't, understand the irony of using an insult of a person's own invention against them. It doesn't have to be made in earnest, it only has to fit with the definitions they invented for it.

                        Education is extremely important.

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                        • jon-nycJ Online
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                          jon-nyc
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #139

                          Wait, wait, are you now pretending it wasn’t made in earnest?

                          "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                          -Cormac McCarthy

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                          • RainmanR Rainman

                            I can't tell. Is this an argument?

                            If you two are going to insult each other, at least bring it down to my level, so I (we) can follow along and keep track of who's winning.
                            Even your arguments are stuffy. Geesh, dumb it down a bit, OK? And use some fight'n words or something. Small words, two syllables max.

                            Ax, step in here would 'ya bud??

                            Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                            Doctor Phibes
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #140

                            @Rainman said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

                            I can't tell. Is this an argument?

                            No.

                            What it most resembles is two one-legged men who, in a moment of madness, have decided to enter an ass-kicking contest.

                            I was only joking

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                            • HoraceH Online
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                              Horace
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                              @jon-nyc said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

                              Wait, wait, are you now pretending it wasn’t made in earnest?

                              I earnestly think she is a different flavor of a Karen by the definitions in use currently, yes. That doesn't mean that I love the insult. I may love turning it around on the people who love using it.

                              Education is extremely important.

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                              • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                                @Rainman said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

                                I can't tell. Is this an argument?

                                No.

                                What it most resembles is two one-legged men who, in a moment of madness, have decided to enter an ass-kicking contest.

                                HoraceH Online
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                                Horace
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #142

                                @Doctor-Phibes said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

                                @Rainman said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

                                I can't tell. Is this an argument?

                                No.

                                What it most resembles is two one-legged men who, in a moment of madness, have decided to enter an ass-kicking contest.

                                This is my favorite post in this thread:

                                Nothing correlates with wokeness more than privilege. So when woke people talk of Karens, they are talking of another slightly different version of themselves. What is wokeness if not a cultural cop named Karen?

                                I can't even imagine the depth of cultural insights I'd have if I had two legs.

                                Education is extremely important.

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                                • jon-nycJ Online
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                                  jon-nyc
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #143

                                  It was a good post, though diluted somewhat by the fact that the ‘woke person talking of Karens’ was you.

                                  "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                                  -Cormac McCarthy

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                                  • HoraceH Online
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                                    Horace
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #144

                                    My classification of her as a Karen was elegant and on point, while your classification of me as 'woke' is pure kludge.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                    • jon-nycJ Online
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                                      jon-nyc
                                      wrote on last edited by jon-nyc
                                      #145

                                      Obviously I wasn’t literally calling you woke. But you were criticizing woke usage of Karen in a thread where the only such user of the term was yourself.

                                      "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                                      -Cormac McCarthy

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                                      • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                                        Doctor Phibes
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #146

                                        Posters congratulating themselves on their favourite posts is a new highpoint 😂

                                        I was only joking

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                                        • HoraceH Online
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                                          Horace
                                          wrote on last edited by Horace
                                          #147

                                          Obviously I wasn’t literally calling you woke. But you were criticizing woke usage of Karen in a thread where the only such user of the term was yourself.

                                          I'm allowed to reference stuff other than what is written in a thread. You are too, making fun of incels and my empathic proximity to them and all that.

                                          Education is extremely important.

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