***
XMM: ok tell me whats vous tu je
Me: vous - polite/plural you
XMM: How can there be a plural you?
Me: well there is a plural you
in english there is a plural you. it's "you"
XMM: hmm i dont really understnad. got example?
Me: Me to [XMM]: You suck
Me to [XMM] and [Someone else]: You suck
XMM: HAHAHA
hmm i've never thought about it this way before
PPBI: well i did ask you why did you friend [crazy person] in the first place what
Me: I love everyone haha
and [crazy person] wasn't always so crazy
PPBI: you love everyone = sounds like jesus
:P
Me: hahahaha
and like jesus I will be crucified one day
PPBI: :P
poor thing
do you even have 12 disciples
was it 12
Me: hahahahahah
knowing my luck 12 will betray me
oops I meant 11
Someone: i claim to be a feminist too but i dont see
what's so offensive about what you write
or maybe i'm just not hardcore enough
Me: some feminists say that you can't call women cunts
but calling men dicks is alright
wait. men can't call women cunts
women can call women cunts because it is "reclaiming" the word
MFTTW: haha just now *** forgot the term cervical cancer and
said "cunt cancer"
wut
er
Me: ><
MFTTW: i would never call a woman a cunt
but i will call a woman a bitch
i don't think ic all guys dicks either
is me calling woman bitch internalizing dominant paradigm too?
Me: *** attributes most failings of men to "he has a small dick"
MFTTW: oh yes
i think that is true
:D
but having a small dick is not the same as calling someone a dick
actually i say "smal penis"
because i am scientist
and we have to be precise
but you can't say women have "small cunt"
haha
Me: no, I say women are loose
MFTTW: loose women and small penis men
that's a killer combination
Me: hee
but looseness is not as apparent as lack of size
sadly
anyway women are insecure about everything
MFTTW: whereas men are only insecure about the saize of their dick?
Me: more so
PPBI: i met my *** teacher
lol she asked me what job i wanted to do
i told her
then i told her i dun really want to work
she told me to get married
Someone: without qualifiers, people will not assume that you intended to use them
Me: which do you think is better?
"I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
or
"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."
the latter would face fewer objections. and is probably more precise but it grates
Someone: the latter will give a much better impression and people won't accuse you of being wrong
Me: well I am writing for people beyond the academy. snappiness and polish rather than obscurantism is my aim
there's a reason it's called the ivory tower
most (hah) of them write in a way divorced from social reality
you really think the latter is preferable?
a professorship in the arts and social sciences calls
Someone: ya, the latter is preferable in important contexts
Me: ask obama to speak like that :)
Someone: his bills don't contain that
it's ok for a speech
but not for many other contexts
Me: err. I think
you'll find that bill-writing and academic treatises are a small minority of contexts
Me: a priori rejection of research
because they dont like the conclusion
MFTTW: haha
yes a favorite tactic of feminists and creationists
in science you take everything with a pinch of salt
u can cite lots of works in your paper and then refute them with evidence
the whole point of scientific research is to posit an idea and wait
for people to affirm or refute it
it's evidence-based not emotionally-based
Me: it just makes me want to hang out with conservatives :)
hahahahahah
at least the food is better
(BBQ baby back ribs vs tofu steak)
MFTTW: omg racist!
wth is tofu steak
Me:
MFTTW: ew that's digusting