Question of etiquette

[Ben Lahnger]

Elystan, the further along this etiquette question thread we get, the more it stinks of trollery. Or foolishness. Take your pick.

Are you fool or troll?

[Grausamkeit]

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. ~ Shakespeare

I think he's Bexxle's soulmate.

[Elystan]

Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

Elystan, the further along this etiquette question thread we get, the more it stinks of trollery. Or foolishness. Take your pick.

Are you fool or troll?

Everything I've posted is trufax.

[Ben Lahnger]

No, it's not. You've contradicted yourself on several occasions. You've admitted to misstatements. You've lied by omission. And it's apparent at this point that you keep changing the story to keep the thread going when it should have been resolved by now.

Fool or troll?

[Elystan]

Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

No, it's not. You've contradicted yourself on several occasions. You've admitted to misstatements. You've lied by omission. And it's apparent at this point that you keep changing the story to keep the thread going when it should have been resolved by now.

Fool or troll?

I put it to you that the inconsistency you perceive is grounded in preconscious assumptions.

Unless you mean the bait and switch of 'girlfriend' and 'close friend with with benefits', which I argue is defensible on the grounds of brevity, and that any confusion arising therefrom owes to a one-dimensional view of interpersonal relationships on the part of the readers.

[Ben Lahnger]

Troll. Not engaging you any more.

Good day, sir.

[Elystan]

I guess I'll take that as a compliment.

[Ben Lahnger]

Originally Posted by Grausamkeit

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. ~ Shakespeare

Clever quotations on the subject of fools are usually not that kind or noble.

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” -- attributed to Abraham Lincoln

"A fool and his money are soon parted." -- Thomas Tusser

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” -- George Bernard Shaw

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.” -- Herbert Spencer

“Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.” -- Karl Marx

BTW, what does that Shakespeare quote REALLY mean?

Oh, and for relevance to this thread and Elystan's posts ... “Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.”

[Elystan]

Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

BTW, what does that Shakespeare quote REALLY mean?

Well "fool" was a profession back then, if that helps.

[Ben Lahnger]

Nope. I knew that, still sounds like 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.

Plus, she has a better quote on fools in her signature anyway.

[Elystan]

A witty fool: A man employed as a court jester who sometimes comes out with something really clever

A foolish wit: A man of literary repute who makes really bad decisions

Context is everything.

[Elystan]

Back on topic though it's either beginning to sink in what a retard I am or I'm just lacking resolve

[Solumina]

Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

Continuing to engage Elystan

Hey Ben, you're doing that thing that you said you would stop doing.

[Elystan]

Originally Posted by Solumina

Hey Ben, you're doing that thing that you said you would stop doing.

I think it's the same kind of thing as telling people you're going to put them on ignore as opposed to simply ignoring them.

[Spooky Spencer]

Something my dad told me his dad told him:

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."

[Solumina]

You can, however, teach a pig to do all sorts of fun stuff like playing fetch.

[Spooky Spencer]

You mean like a pot bellied pig you keep in the house, or...

... oh, I see what you did there.

[Grausamkeit]

Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

BTW, what does that Shakespeare quote REALLY mean?

Humility is better than hubris. Call yourself a fool and speak wisely unlike some who call themselves wise and speak like fools.

[Kasdeja]

Originally Posted by Elystan

Back on topic though it's either beginning to sink in what a retard I am or I'm just lacking resolve

You're not a retard, sweetie... just seems like you're having trouble choosing between Evil Girlfriend and Facebook Female Friend. I'd kick Evil Girlfriend to the curb and... hmm... ask out Facebook FF if you want. I just see a possible catfight coming if Evil GF is as bad as you make her sound.

Just my two copper.

[Ben Lahnger]

Originally Posted by Solumina

Hey Ben, you're doing that thing that you said you would stop doing.

For one more post. It was in regard to Wolfie's/Graus' comment, not his running commentary in this thread ... but yeah, you caught me. Whoohoo!

[Elystan]

Originally Posted by Kasdeja

You're not a retard, sweetie... just seems like you're having trouble choosing between Evil Girlfriend and Facebook Female Friend. I'd kick Evil Girlfriend to the curb and... hmm... ask out Facebook FF if you want. I just see a possible catfight coming if Evil GF is as bad as you make her sound.

Just my two copper.

No, I am a retard.

It's not really as straightforward as "do I want the red one or the blue one?"

One of them is a girl I 'have', the other is a pipe dream.

It's really fucking annoying, because I'm so embarrassed about how much I spent on these tickets that I can't even bring myself to tell her that I bought them. So I may as well just accept that girls pretty much 'like' me, 'but only as a friend' and go with the hand I've been dealt, except..

I can't stomach the idea of living with her either, knowing what it's gonna do to me.

I'd explain further but if people find what I've delineated already to be that far outside their realm of experience that the only way they can deal with it is by assuming I'm making it up (which is pretty staggering IMO)...

Besides, it would be in bad taste.

[Solumina]

Just fucking ask the girl to go with you. "Hey, I happen to have an extra ticket to this gig and I thought you may be interested" is not that hard to say, just man up and do it already.

[Ben Lahnger]

He's not asking cause he wants an answer (he already got that one and every other viable answer at this point several times over.) He's just playing a game.

[Spooky Spencer]

Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

He's just playing a game.

Go fish, Elystan.

[Elystan]

Originally Posted by Elystan

Yes but I like to talk and the forum is called whining so I thought I could get away with it.

It's right here on the first page!