I realize the reason aspect may be in place, but remember - anyone who takes pleasure in attempting to piss someone off on the internet....
I only take pleasure in pissing off FAGS I don't like over the internet. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Joeman: "Your tanks are big" ? What, are you trying to pick up women on battlenet again? Okay. Whatever you mean by this. ubermich: *Pulls out standard lecture on the difference between 'nigger' and 'nigga', along with Power Point presentation and pronounciation key, then realizes that ubermich has fallen asleep and the rest of the audience is forming a howling mob* Suffice to say, there is a difference between the casual "nigga" or "niggah" and "nigger". Anyways, I suspect that Tyler is trying to refer to me. I piss people off on purpose to watch their reactions. These reactions amuse me. Rather like when a cat catches a moth, and keeps letting it go in order to torment it before the little thing flies away or dies. Of course this is low, nasty and sadistic. But I enjoy it. And off topic, I think it takes more balls to be politically correct.
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Joeman: I think there are people with XX chromosomes on battlenet. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
yes, i dont see how anyone could NOT see this. whats interesting is the differences in meaning between niggah and nigger have very much to do with body language and context as well, not just semantics. if i sauntered in with a big goofy smile on my face and baggy pants around my legs, popped my head back, and spit out a 'whats up nigga?' to a black friend of mine, he would laugh and think me weird. but if i pounded in with grave deliberation, stood tense, stared him in the eyes and called him a 'niggER' he would most likely hit me. the power of body politics manifests itself again Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! sometimes, i really, really wonder if black people as a race (as if there is one stream of consciousness for an entire race of peoplePlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!) deliberately orchestrated such an ingenious feat as using a word against the society that created it. turning it completely around in meaning...it's now cool to be a nigger, when it obviously was a derogatory term in the 60s. yes, i think so too. i wasnt sure if i should suggest this. *smiles* beautiful. call it whatever. i think its better than using rhetoric that creates arbitrary social hierarchies and furthers the "oppression of a people" (ugh, i hate that phrase, very cliched and fucking annoying, but true in this case). bc you are basing your faith in people based on outside qualities like sexual orientation.... again, i see more use in what you are doing than in what joeman is doing. of course, i know you better...just from the sound of it, joeman is pissing people off for no fucking reason at all. he gives no thought to power politics or the discovery of an ethics system. ridiculous. he didnt reply to my post...
ubermich: I have had to explain it many times. Pathetic, really. Thank Cthulhu, the baggy pants around the legs is going out of style, except in white kids. It was so silly. But yes, the body is, I think, the most basic unit of power. Think about it. The most primitive - hmph! "primitive" sounds derogatory, "primal" then - expression of power is to force another person to submit to your will. Money is commodified power, right? And what is the most common way to get money? To exchange physical labour for money. This has happened before, as you mentioned, with the word "Yankee". Also the art term "Baroque" and "Fauvist" were derogatory words that were seized and became words of description. Hmmm....a linguistic expression of a group's ability to withstand scorn? They adopt the label that the dominent group gives them, and thus gain power by proving that they are stronger than this scorn? *Shrugs* I would be unfaithful to my nature to start calling people "fags" or "niggers" to piss them off. I am not such a person who judges due to such shallow things. People are all fuckers, no matter what race or sexual orientation or gender they are. Joeman, reply to ubermich's post. Well, duh!
He said Where? When? How? Why should I respond to baseless charges? He needs to quote me and show me when do I ever piss people off for no reasons at all. How often do I piss people off? There are always obvious reasons. Unless if he is retarded or something. He said he doesn't know me well, but that is still not an excuse to make things up about me. I thought the best action was to ignore him. I was not in a mood for a flame war at that moment, but now I am.
Oh christ. No flamewars in general phi, keep them to politics. Joeman, don't reply to ubermich's post. I say that "fag" is unnecessary. I think it is stupid to insult a person on basis of who they fuck. (As long as they are human - New Zealanders are still fair game). If you mean it as an insult, you are rather bigoted, which shows intellectual deficiancy. If you do not mean it as an insult, just to piss people off, well, you are pissing people off for no reason at all. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Only you. My ego is high enough. It doesn't need any boosting. I already addressed that. Does it say I am serious? You are one of those people who love your own voice. You just want to see yourself talk and don't bother reading other people posts. Have you ever been in an corporate meeting? Where? What company? With VP's and senior managers? If I would get fired, why do I still have a job? Oh, I know what goes on behind my back too. I have spies everywhere.
Joeman, I get the feeling you are not listening to what I just said. Let me repeat: No flamewars in general phi.
Oops, I just did. True. I just did. How often do you see I use it anyway? Like Once? It doesn't matter I use it or not, you already have a pretty good idea on my intellectual capability, which doesn't changes no matter I say it or not. I don't piss people off for no reason at all. It is illogial. I want to be liked by most people, which is normal. I never piss people off for no reason at all. There is always a reason. If I ever did, peoplen need to ge thicker skin.
I always listen to you Xev, but I saw your comment after I pressed the submit button. Should I delete it? I really don't care what he thinks really.
Joeman: Oh okay....ummm, I dunno. ubermich, do you want to read what he wrote or should I make Joeman delete it? This is getting strange. That would be a flaw, I think, if you honestly feel that a person's sexual orientation really means something about their character.
Do you think maybe when you use the word under special circumstance, like when you are in a flame war or being goofy, the orginal meaning like a person's sexual orientation can be decoupled from your intention? When say to my friend "shut up you fag". I certainly don't mean he is homosexual or anything. You guys are making a big deal out of this.
Joeman: Yes, perhaps we are. But you're talking to a woman who takes the trouble to deconstruct porn. Nothing is too trivial!
I don't care as long as you are not one of those people who follow this line of thinking: Oh his used the forbidden word => he must be a bigot => he must have low IQ => he is a terrible excuse of a human beings => He must also blow goats and eat children. On the flipside People you never heard using those words => There is absolutely no way they can be bigoted => they are intelligent => they are nice people => they probably get laid a lot.
this argument is getting anal. But cool!! i love drama!! Some of the greatest theorists couldnt argue for a donut.. mm donut..