Comments on: Stratics bans anti-Kerry .sig

By: ajdown@jp

ajdown@jp — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:35:20 +0000

TBT, what are you talking about?

I was merely correcting another of Uri’s mistakes, that’s all, so if you could perhaps be a little more specific in your accusations next time, it would be much appreciated.

Perhaps if you had understood the context to which I referred to the ‘housewife’ joke, then you would have understood it, but I guess it was a little too advanced for you. People know who I am, you’re probably best staying as an anonymous troll.

By: Grady

Grady — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:19:43 +0000

*Agrees with TBT’s last post*

By: TBT

TBT — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:48:00 +0000

Clearly sees aj’s way out of a subject when he knows he’s been bewat or told….

“Wah you said something nesty or negative so therefore our conversation ends and i don’t answer you”.. typical playground child behavior, you talked mean to me so i’m notv talking to you blah blah..

keep shutting him up uri someone needs to.. He may as well call himself god he sure acts like he has the answer for everything thats wrong..

By: urizenus

urizenus — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:04:55 +0000

teacher too, Coco, good point. And its a lot harder, more challenging, and more rewarding than teaching…let’s say…at the university level.

I think the title should be Chief Household and Family Operations Officer.

By: Cocoanut

Cocoanut — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:15:40 +0000

“Well, I don’t call them ‘housewives’, AJ, I call them ‘homemakers’, and they are in point of fact managers of small businesses . . I have yet to meet a lonely one. Am I a homemaker? Well, if I was I certainly wouldn’t be ashamed of it.”

What? WHAT??? Uri said all this? I may love you after all, Uri!

You forgot to put in the part about raising children, teaching them, guiding them, mothering them, and all that (where applicable).

Not to mention holding down an outside job concurrently to all this (where applicable).

I prefer the term “housewife” over “homemaker”, myself, given its lengthy and respectable history of usage. But I like “Domestic Goddess” even better.

coco

By: ajdown@jp

ajdown@jp — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:01:32 +0000

If you read Stratics a bit more carefully, you’d understand it was a tongue in cheek reference to one of your pet troll’s signatures

By: urizenus

urizenus — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:10:52 +0000

Well, I don’t call them ‘housewives’, AJ, I call them “homemakers”, and they are in point of fact managers of small businesses, typically being responsible for managing a small army of plumbers, cable tv guys, electricians, yard workers, in addition to arranging the planning, transportation, and feeding of numerous members of the family. Oh and let’s not forget shopping for supplies and arranging the social calendar for the family. Chances are they also handle all the home finances (not trivial in this day and age). And while I have met many such persons at baseball/soccer/gym/karate/ballet/etc practices in my day, I have yet to meet a lonely one. Am I a homemaker? Well, if I was I certainly wouldn’t be ashamed of it.

By: ajdown@jp

ajdown@jp — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:34:09 +0000

Well you were doing ok until your closing paragraph…. never mind eh.

I don’t claim to be an authority on anything in particular, however I do know what I’m talking about when it comes to TSO, and the fact that in over a year I have never been warned/suspended/flagged in game or on Stratics – which, unlike yourself and most of the trolls on this board, shows a basic grasp not only of understanding rules but common decency and civility.

I’m sure you’re just like the rest of the trolls round here, perfectly decent enough in real life, but when hidden safely behind a computer screen, the worst comes out. Tell me, are you a lonely housewife too Uri?

By: urizenus

urizenus — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:25:49 +0000

aj, linguistics isn’t the stipulation of how people *should* talk, it is the study of how people *do* talk. There is a descriptive part of the enterprise and an explanatory part of it. The descriptive part is interested in what language users do, and the explanatory part is interested in *why* they do (e.g. speak) the way they do. That explanatory part of the enterprise is in turn part of cognitive psychology, and by extension neurobiology, and perhaps it is even tied to low level mathematical and biophysical structures. Elements of language that are more context sensitive and “social” are also grounded in these facts, but with other factors that can be studied in terms of game theory (in the sense of John Nash’s work). Other elements of linguistics (like the study of meaning) employ contemporary work in logic ranging from recursion theory, model theory, possible worlds semantics (in the sense of Kripke) which are used for modelling the entailment relations that hold between sentences of the language and also to better understand their structure.

I doubt that you learned any of this when you went to The School of Woolen Britches and Stiff Canes. So please do tell us how Doctor Marblehead would like us all to speak. I mean clearly, it is not enough for you to pronounce yourself the Guardian of Laws on TSO and Stratics, now you have appointed yourself the GM for proper speech not only in your own country but for the 250 million inhabitants of the US as well!

Do you ever get tired of telling people how to behave/think/teach/talk? What’s next? You’ll be telling us the proper way to fold our toilet paper before we wipe?

and all this is by way of explaining why you are such a zingy zangy trippy d00d!

By: ajdown@jp

ajdown@jp — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:47:30 +0000

Well a ‘trip’ is either a stumble/fall, a journey, or the result of taking drugs.

I still have no clue what pre-pubescent meaning there is to ‘zing’, therefore I can only assume it has no meaning.

You know what, if I was American, I’d be worried that people like you are given the responsibility of teaching future generations. Is it any wonder things are such a mess already?