To Mask or Not To Mask?

[Larry]

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.

[jon-nyc]

Larry, will you please wear a diving bell?

kthxbai

[Larry]

Hahahaha

[Horace]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

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

[Horace]

That doesn't answer my question.

[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??

[jon-nyc]

I can empathize with the holders of antipathy too.

[Horace]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

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.

[Horace]

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.

[jon-nyc]

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

[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.

[Horace]

@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.

[Horace]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

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

[Horace]

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

[jon-nyc]

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.

[Doctor Phibes]

Posters congratulating themselves on their favourite posts is a new highpoint

[Horace]

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.