i just re-read it and yeah, so good dude. you're like crazy smart.
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I knew you'd appreciate that one big guy.
ilikeflags wrote:
spartanemisass you post is better than a fried egg.
That must be pretty good then because I like fried eggs. Can someone sum it up for me? I don't have the time to read it. In addition, I want the thread summed up as well since I don't have the time to go through 10 pages.
ilikeflags wrote:
spartanemisass you post is better than a fried egg.
sunnysideup of course!
i want to nominate this for "march post of the month".
For all the people who have provided supporting evidence about my comment regarding "egos like black holes," I want to thank you. Each of your individual stocks has gone up in my book to:
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
If I add all of them up that gives me a grand total of, let me do the math:
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
+
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
+
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
.... a whole lot of zeros.
Pliny the Elder claimed that peacoks were ashamed of their ugly feet !
(Silly Old Pliny did not know the first thing about birds.)
But he knew his hops.
SPARTANEMESIS wrote:
I've known some egomaniacs in my time, however there are at least a few here who could probably give them some serious competion. One guy who worked for me (I'll just call him Idiot for the sake of anonymity) was a bitter, racist, instigator; yet he was head-and-shoulders above any of my other employees' abilities. Idiot was the oldest with a lot of experience, and he carefully concealed his racism unaware at first that I could see right through him. He was also an exploitive, oppresive, sycophantic, sociopathic sob and I wanted to fire him. The CEOs wouldn't allow it saying he was too valuable. Of course they were all far away most of the time and when they were near Idiot's nose would get very brown indeed. They did not have to deal with women's tears and guys who wanted to harm the fool. I suspect Idiot would even provoke employees whose competition he feared in an effort to have them outed because, like Narcissus, he loved his position so. Eventually Idiot became very cautious in my presence.
In hindsight I think one of the problems was that I was part of a business that placed too much importance on its top producers who were often problematic, manipulative, whiners. In my opinion the backbone of any business is not the whining elitists who often need special considerations and are more trouble than they're worth, but the people who usually respectfully work in harmony with their peers. These are the ones who will help a business evolve, rather than causing a regression in the people as well as the business' finances.
If a member here encounters a lot of shameless fools maybe they do need a higher number for their block manifesto. Although I feel the need to block no one (it's not my style), I don't expect everyone to behave like me. Even though I do not recall the source of the following question, or the precise wording, I still like it:
"Can a man without shame really be called a human being?"
This post is the forum equivalent of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4xcL2q64fo
theoreticalboy wrote:
SPARTANEMESIS wrote:
I've known some egomaniacs in my time, however there are at least a few here who could probably give them some serious competion. One guy who worked for me (I'll just call him Idiot for the sake of anonymity) was a bitter, racist, instigator;...
Let's talk about Idiot's beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments). Let's talk about them in a very specific and personal way. To address this in a pedantic manner, in the rest of this post, factual information will be prefaced as such and my own opinions will be clearly stated as opinions. For instance, it is a fact that prudence is no vice. Cowardice—especially Idiot's loathsome form of it—is. We must spread awareness of the self-centered nature of Idiot's hijinks. If we do, then perhaps a brighter day will dawn on planet Earth. Perhaps people will open their eyes and see that Idiot is trying to get us to acquiesce to a Faustian bargain. In the short term this bargain may help us offer manumission to those who are held captive by Idiot's unrealistic actions. Unfortunately, in the long term it will enable Idiot to reduce our modern, civilized, industrialized society to a state of mindless, primitive barbarism.
Idiot is putting a huge amount of effort into squashing his self-doubt and hiding his flaws. The more effort he puts into that, the worse things are when these suppressed traits finally bust out. When that happens—and it will honestly happen—you should be sure to remember that Idiot says that his allocutions enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness. What he means by this, of course, is that he wants free reign to overthrow western civilization through the destruction of its four pillars—family, nation, religion, and democracy. Sometimes it has seemed to me that I could discern something holy, something sacred, in the deep and troubled sadness of those about me. Alas, I discovered that this sadness stems solely from the doleful observation that Idiot finds reality too difficult to swallow. Or maybe it just gets lost between the sports and entertainment pages. In either case, in order to solve the big problems with Idiot we must first understand these problems, and to understand them, we must cast a ray of light on his raving announcements.
Idiot may be reasonably cunning with words. However, he is entirely empty-headed with everything else. If he gets his way, I might very well put myself in harm's way. Nature is a wonderful teacher. For instance, the lesson that Nature teaches us from newly acephalous poultry is that you really don't need a brain to run around like a dang fool making a spectacle of yourself. Nature also teaches us that I want to restore the temple of our civilization to the ancient truths. But first, let me pose an abstract question. How can Idiot be so gutless? If you were to ask that of Idiot, he'd obviously fling a large barrage of insults in your direction instead of actually addressing the question. A final note: In my opinion it is a not unjustifiable assumption that Idiot behaves like an eternal student at a vast, nerdy campus where everyone is taught that he is a paragon of morality and wisdom.
Edited for clarity.
My eyes are hurting!
913Glorax12 wrote:
My eyes are hurting!
Would you please use paragraphs?
Ok,
(1)With the blue writing my eyes began to hurt, yet I wanted to continue the post, so I still read.(2)Then I stopped, paused and scrolled down and counted not 1, not 2 but 3 paragraphs of a idiots, democracy,ect. so I started become confused.(3)So to fix this I started, all over again, and begun anew with my eyes starting to worsen, but pulled through!(4) I then realized at that point I just read 3 paragraphs that any normal human being would just skip pass the whole ordeal and continue through their day.(5) I then decided to post my torture that I went through because of my idiocy, for reading a 3 blue paragraph post in a site that uses mostly black ink sentences in a forum.
I have now used a paragraph (normally 5-6 sentences long) + one sentence alone.
913Glorax12 wrote:
Ok,
(1)With the blue writing my eyes began to hurt, yet I wanted to continue the post, so I still read.(2)Then I stopped, paused and scrolled down and counted not 1, not 2 but 3 paragraphs of a idiots, democracy,ect. so I started become confused.(3)So to fix this I started, all over again, and begun anew with my eyes starting to worsen, but pulled through!(4) I then realized at that point I just read 3 paragraphs that any normal human being would just skip pass the whole ordeal and continue through their day.(5) I then decided to post my torture that I went through because of my idiocy, for reading a 3 blue paragraph post in a site that uses mostly black ink sentences in a forum.
I have now used a paragraph (normally 5-6 sentences long) + one sentence alone.
Ok. Paint it blue, next time?
yeah, thats not going to happen!
I'd rather read your post about your stupid co-worker than step in dog shit.