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since you asked:

I demand a quotation now.

how's that?

it's a tone thing, and maybe quite different from how you are in meatspace.

Convince me

from our last discussion. it comes off as arrogant and in-your-face demanding, to me anyway.

more discursive, less confrontational, would be nice.

detached perhaps...

you have a great sense of humour, do you realise how abrasive you can be when sometimes you don't use it?

having said that, it's great that you're here, your contributions are outstanding, both in quality and quantity.

your ability to dig for thruth is amazing, reminds me of a jack russel terrier going down a badger hole!

thanks for your generosity, i'll come down off my horse now, thanks also for that good advice, lol!

it's not your fault you're brilliant, but too edgy you can do something about, that is if you care...

"It guarantees silky vibrant skin and an eighteen percent reduction in panic attacks!" Jonathan Franzen.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Jul 26th, 2007 at 12:15:14 PM EST
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since you asked:

I demand a quotation now.

how's that?

it's a tone thing, and maybe quite different from how you are in meatspace.

Yes, it's a deliberate annoyed and offended tone. Congrats for noticing. I don't think I need to be discursive about it, by the way.

As for the "convince me", you might want to reply in the right thread. It was actually not a one-liner, it was after "first you convince yourself, then you convince a friend, then you convince an enemy", which I believe is taken from Georg Polya. I remain unconvinced, by the way.

There are times when I actually want to be in-your-face, abrasive or edgy.

I'm actually worse in meatspace: there I don't do it on purpose.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jul 26th, 2007 at 12:33:55 PM EST
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'spress yourself!!

hope it at least makes you feel better. peace out

"It guarantees silky vibrant skin and an eighteen percent reduction in panic attacks!" Jonathan Franzen.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Jul 26th, 2007 at 12:54:18 PM EST
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... assertion:
Now when analytical minds such as Migeru, and others on this site, hear the word "Sympathy" they reach for their revolvers and tend to dismiss what follows as some sort of idealistic theorising of little value in the "Real" world.

He has every right to demand that you present evidence to back up your assertion, especially given that you have not merely made it as a claim against him, but have made him the poster child for a nebulous group of "analytical minds".


Utsukushikereba sore de ii

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Thu Jul 26th, 2007 at 11:38:23 PM EST
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