Stop me before I pay Lucas $8!
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Originally posted by bonnee:
Your use of the term ‘just wrong’ shows you in all of your morning glory. It is both normative and prescriptive, and you offer the standard by which we should follow.
No, I said it was wrong to state that critics should be pilloried for daring to discuss the relative merits or deficiencies in a film, because that is, in effect, their job description. That’s what they *do*. To say that they *should not* do this, is incorrect. Wrong. Mistaken. Squish was saying that critics shouldn’t pick apart [i]Attack of the Clones[/i] because of something insignificant like acting, dialogue or story, and I was arguing that this is, indeed, their job. I was being overly broad in my statements about “the average Joe,” but taken *in the context of Squish’s commments about the average Joe*, they fit.
quote[quote]Witness your remarks about music : “If it meant anything, you oughta be praising to the high heavens the blazing musical talent that is Robbie Williams or N*SYNC or Britney Spears or Kylie Minogue because, well, they’re just so damned popular”. Well, it actually does mean something whether you like it or not – namely, that many people like these ‘artists’ because of perceived merit.[/quote]
Wrong again, chief. Squish was taking the stance that criticizing [i]AOTC[/i] was pointless because it’s going to do tons of business, and knowing his loathing of teen-pop, I used these artists as examples of popular artists that he would have no problem bad-mouthing and would end up having to defend if his argument were to be taken to its logical conclusion. I make no implications about the quality of my own tastes, or statements about the superiority of what I like in music.
quote[quote]Selective reasoning/memory. (and again and again). Lazy actually (hint, mint).[/quote]
Whitewashing your own past posting history is a particular pleasure of yours, is it not?
quote[quote]If you say so Aleck, because as you know, it is your saying which makes it so.[/quote]
No, I think it’s fairly evident. You claim I’m trying to invalidate someone else’s opinion, and I make it clear that I am *not*. That basis upon which you build your argument is invalid, therefore the argument does not stand.
quote[quote]Wishful thinking – perhaps if you put a tooth under your pillow your wish might come true.[/quote]
Why would I wish that you would tease everyone by promising to leave and then not do so? Doesn’t make any sense, kiddo.
quote[quote]Soon I expect – but note that I’ve never called for your or anyone else’s banning from this or any other board, despite regarding your own behaviour equally (if not more) disturbing.[/quote]
You’ve called for your own banning previously. Self-contradictory? Perhaps.
quote[quote]The way you diminish and interpret away your own role/responsibility in any perceived dis/agreement is questionable, to say the least.[/quote]
In what way? You claim I’m doing something that I am clearly *not* doing, and I state categorically that I am not doing what you claim. What’s questionable about that? Your use of out-of-context quotations to back up an invalid point is questionable as well, by the way.
quote[quote]To your credit, at least you haven’t jump up and down like a monkey who has had his pants taken away from him. The anger management course I suggested must have *freaking* worked.[/quote]
To believe that I would have placed that much importance on anything you’ve said is indicative of narcissism on your part, wouldn’t you say?
–Aleck