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#51 Pikeman

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Posted 27 January 2004 - 12:13 AM

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Originally posted by dude3:
Someone who warns you not to put metal in power outlets does so in the interest of your safety. Since the person is trying to help you, it might be a good idea to listen.

When someone warns you not to get a lip piercing, they are generally doing so in the interest of trying to stop you from making a total ass of yourself. To totally ignore them and just follow through on your capricious whim is a bad idea.

That's just not a valid comparison. When you stick metal into power outlets, the results are always bad, and safety is always compromised. However, when you get a lip piercing, the results are dependant on people's opinions, and safety is as forge said so aptly. Therefore, I can in good conscience encourage someone to get a lip piercing if that's what they really want to do, whereas I wouldn't encourage anyone to stick metal into a power outlet no matter if they wanted to or not.

Apples and oranges.

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#52 dude3

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Posted 27 January 2004 - 12:47 AM

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Originally posted by Pikeman:
That's just not a valid comparison. When you stick metal into power outlets, the results are always bad, and safety is always compromised. However, when you get a lip piercing, the results are dependant on people's opinions, and safety is as forge said so aptly. Therefore, I can in good conscience encourage someone to get a lip piercing if that's what they really want to do, whereas I wouldn't encourage anyone to stick metal into a power outlet no matter if they wanted to or not.

Apples and oranges.

Maybe so, but it certainly applies in this case.

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Posted 27 January 2004 - 09:27 AM

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wfjkegewr is what you call me. Nick-wfjkegewr

If you insist. But I'll have to abbreviate that to weykeg. Nick-weykeg it is, from now on.

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#54 lobf

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Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:12 AM

Sweet. Nick-waykeg. What does that mean, anyways?

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#55 Pikeman

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Posted 27 January 2004 - 08:23 PM

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Originally posted by dude3:
Maybe so, but it certainly applies in this case.

I fail to see how it does at all.

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#56 dude3

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Posted 27 January 2004 - 08:26 PM

Obviously you don't know the individual in question.

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#57 ShinobiGatakana

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Posted 27 January 2004 - 09:51 PM

SA-san, kudasai. Shut them up.

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#58 Avatara

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Posted 27 January 2004 - 10:47 PM

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Originally posted by dude3:
Obviously you don't know the individual in question.

I think you need a better analogy. You're trying to compare something like getting sick after eating too much cake to injesting a truckload of raw eggs and dying of a disease. There's a difference; one is definately bad, the other possibly bad, but that depends on your perspective (sure, you run the chance of getting sick, but hey - you get to eat lots of nice sweet cake).

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#59 moonunit4eva

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Posted 27 January 2004 - 10:47 PM

How about shut you up?

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#60 dude3

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Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:55 PM

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Originally posted by Avatara:
I think you need a better analogy. You're trying to compare something like getting sick after eating too much cake to injesting a truckload of raw eggs and dying of a disease. There's a difference; one is definately bad, the other possibly bad, but that depends on your perspective (sure, you run the chance of getting sick, but hey - you get to eat lots of nice sweet cake).

It's more like a diabetic eating a truckload of cake and going into a seizure.

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 01:53 AM

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Moo siad:
How about shut you up?

Agree really I do.

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#62 ShinobiGatakana

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by moonunit4eva:
How about shut you up?

I really do wish you would shut up. Seems your ok with it too.

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#63 lobf

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 03:05 PM

That had to be the lamest comeback that I have ever heard.

"Shut up"

"No...you shut up"

Wow. Congrats.

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#64 Zortrium

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 03:55 PM

Now now children, stop being so argumentative... Posted Image

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#65 Avatara

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 06:26 PM

No, you stop being so argumentative!

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 06:37 PM

How about those of us who are argumentative stop being argumentative, and those among us who aren't, start being argumentative. Then we can all yell at each other about being/not being argumentative and bake some really nice pies for all the Canadians. That would be peachy keen, I tell you what. Posted Image

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#67 Captaintripps

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 07:23 PM

However, people espousing that thought generally seem to be overly concerned with letting others know it. The people who really believe that never or rarely say anything to others speaking one opinion or another.

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 07:25 PM

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Originally posted by dude3:
Obviously you don't know the individual in question.

Whether I (or you) know the individual or not has no bearing on the erroneousness of your analogy.

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 07:31 PM

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Originally posted by Pikeman:
Whether I (or you) know the individual or not has no bearing on the erroneousness of your analogy.

The erroneousity? Posted Image

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 09:51 PM

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Originally posted by Pikeman:
Whether I (or you) know the individual or not has no bearing on the erroneousness of your analogy.

Yes it does.

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 10:22 PM

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Originally posted by dude3:
Yes it does.

Okee doke then.

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 11:12 PM

Well, I can't argue with both sides' gigantic pools of evidence... Posted Image

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Posted 28 January 2004 - 11:52 PM

I've never seen you back off from someone's obviously idiotic stance like that before. Good show.

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Okee doke then.

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Posted 29 January 2004 - 12:41 AM

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Originally posted by Captaintripps:
I've never seen you back off from someone's obviously idiotic stance like that before. Good show.

I don't know about that, I'm sure that ol' Pikey is planning something that, when it is put into action, will first crush dude3 then will grind him into a fine powder. Our only hope is that we will be standing behind a large rock when it hits, lest we be similarly pulverized by the anti-stupidity rays of the greater North American Pikeman. Posted Image

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Posted 29 January 2004 - 01:05 AM

Have we secretly amassed a huge horde of readers from the B&B who are now startin to reveal their presence?

Pikeman, Tripps, Zax, Lobster...who knows how many more are watching our every move?

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