Why resign a game?

What did you do at uni?  It didn't involve a mop or anything like that?  You did actually attend?  I'm just checking! lol

 No problem. The discussion wouldn't be any fun then. So when did your battle begin with Suggo and what was it about?

I'd quite happily tell you Dweeb but I'll be buggered if I really know why he is so miffed at me.  I am guessing I said something that wounded him deeply...he is very hostile toward me that's for sure! lol

 You apparently don't know what the sky is. Congratulations.

The sky is not the light :)

So Polar bears are white?

 "The Sky" is what we see when we look up. It's blue on clear days.

Why don't you find some citations for "Why the sky is not blue." Your arguments aren't cutting it, to be charitable.

 In my C8, which with the usual accessories runs >$2k so it qualifies as a real telescope, the sky is blue in the eyepiece unless the power is run up. So you are wrong. It is blue in the telescope.

I'm impressed that you can come into a thread that isn't being pushed upon anyone who didn't voluntarily click and read it, attempt to throw your "weight" around, and then accuse the participants of the thread of bullying.

It seems as though you're implying that to do this is hypocritical. I'm not sure I agree with you.

I'm saying that the "bullying" accusation is absurd, especially considering nothing is being forced on anyone.  It's simply an escalated version of "forcing our ideals" and is just as hypocritical as that line of nonsense if you take the twisted definition of either to be true.

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Please don't be a bully.

In this thread:

People breaking their necks in a mad scramble to disagree with suggo about anything and everything.

Look I don't want to be on suggos side or anything... we don't like each other. However it seems like a lot of the arguments against him come down to ad hominem and really poor logic.

 I have to agree. It looks like even when Suggo tries to make an attempt at a valid post, someone eventually shows up to take a dig at him.

I'm not agreeing with Suggo about the sky (since I don't actually know what colour it is) or anything, but if I grabbed a pair of high powered binoculars and took a gander at the ocean it would look pretty blue to me as well; however, last I checked, water was definitely clear.

 If you said that air has no color I might agree, but the sky is not just a bunch of air--it is as I noted before that expanse above us that we behold from below. It's a semantical argument but one with meaning. The dictionary definition includes just that meaning too.

Anyway, I only pitched in because I was bored and I prefered the subject to the original Why Resign one.

I suppose the key difference is that one side sees it as "explaining what my ideals are, along with explaining why the majority agrees, presumably so that someone reading it will learn something", whereas the other side sees the same thing as "trying to explain to people how they should be thinking"

Both sides of the same coin, neither is "wrong", in my opinion. I think that often it comes down to exactly how you do the explaining (your tone).

That is why de besubol is the best of the team sports!  It ain't over 'till it's over.

I see suggo has been talking rubbish again.............. surprise surprise!

The sky is blue for a number of reasons:

1. Ozone has a slight blue tinge (minor reason)

2. Rayleigh Scattering of light from the Sun - shorter wavelength (blue) is more scattered. At certain narrower tilts of the Earth, relative to the Sun, the sky appears a red colour to some observers on Earth.

Look this up in a physics textbook for full explanation. I am a science teacher (Chemistry and Physics) but I cannot be bothered to go in to the full explanation on a chess site!