To those that mock you with "Why couldn't you Googles that"?

I will stop feeding the troll after quoting this nonsense.

Be sure to gather a lot of advice from your neighbors to build your house instead of hiring an architect. And do form political opinions on the basis of hearsay in forums.

This thread has been brought to you today by the letter Q, the number 5 and the Freudian slip.

Ubik, I never said or implied anything about bias.

Yeah, the wisdom of the crowd is usually pragmatic and thoughtful.

From In Dubious Battle:

"I want to watch these group-men, for they seem to me to be a new individual, not at all like single men.  A man in a group isn't himself at all; he's a cell in an organism that isn't like him any more than the cells in your body are like you.  I want to watch the group, and see what it's like.  People have said, "mobs are crazy, you can't tell what they'll do."  Why don't people look at mobs not as men, but as mobs? A mob nearly always seems to act reasonably, for a mob."

I found that using google in about three minutes.  I guess I could have driven home (or the library), found my copy (or hoped the library had a copy) of the book, taken time to leaf through it to find the passage, then come back to my computer to transcribe it.

Your cryptic one liner adds nothing to the conversation.  I would like you to explain your statement in detail.  Thank you.

Any self respecting patriarch with a library wouldn't keep that commie crap in it.

Yeah, CBA, from now on, all your jokes must be at least two lines!

Something for you to think about as you nap.

Oh my bad, sorry.  I didn't even see post #260.  My apologies.

Ok.

Well, in that case, since the internet is such a clear repository of information, and you dont worry about bias, I have to wonder in what manner and to what extent we are being trolled.

The internet is the biggest crowd you know.

With a PhD in military history, I often run into people who say things like, "What's the point when I can just google the facts?" Well, the point is that I don't have to google them, because I already know them. Furthermore, there are a lot of facts I know that you can't Google. I ran into someone once who tried the old Good Will Hunting, "Everything you know I can learn in the library for free." Actually, no. There are facts I know which aren't written in any book or on any website. I know stuff about WWII, and the American Revolution, and the Vietnam War, and the Marcomannic Wars, that nobody else on the planet knows. That's the point of a history degree.

You might ask yourself, where do the facts in books come from, and how do the authors ever learn about them?

Up my nose, don't buy it!

It got the lead out?

I don't know how they do it across the pond, but here there is a lot of ground breaking and cutting edge research going on at universities, things so new that these facts haven't been grokked into The Force.

Von Rinkleff said "not written in books" not "not written."  Think about some things that are written, but not books.  How are books written?  Are they just summaries of other books?  Or is there anything more?

I know you're just trying to be "witty" or "edgy" or "snarky" or what-have-you, but you are just showing yourself to be an poorly educated fool. 

Lol, the more you know!

Would you care to address the content of the statement itself?  Thanks in advance.

Used socks?  That's gross.

If you go to google you can learn how to wash them, wk. Of course, the resident phd might leave you with other methods.

What's that smell?