Azalin

Like I said - denial.

Hey - If I can pay attention, so can everyone else.

It's a shame to be honest - I like what he's posted around here so far and was looking forward to the debate. Still, I'll take the easy win.

I'm not. See below: The best synonym I can find without all the sensitivity trend-speak included would be "denial". But you know how it goes - the best way for life's noobs to look more intellectual than their antecedents is to come up with new terms for old ideas.

Mr Rhino: In view of the fact that our new friend The_Dude hasn't even posted over here in several days, I propose that he forfeits.

That's right up there with "obfuscation with details".

"Normalcy bias"? Meathead, is that you?

That you can say any of that without even a hint of embarrassment should be astounding, but we've grown used to this sort of thing from you. How did you develop a sense of self-importance so massive that you can so blithely walk into a conversation, not pay any attention to what's being said, and then make proclamations on the subject? When you get the inevitable ridicule for doing so, you routinely state that the rest of us are the problem. Your defense for saying something stupid is that the rest of us are a-holes or we're racists or some other such dismissive. Once you drop the pretense that you're intellectualizing and realize that you're simply emoting, then a few more things might become clear to you and you won't find yourself typing so many lmao's.

People who chime in on an existing dialogue with an opening statement declaring their not having read anything else in the thread, are worthy of every criticism they receive. If they exacerbate their error by claiming that they "won" (see below), then they become worthy of ridicule. You're right - you don't have any idea what's going on. Nothing new there. snafu has done as well as he can - admirably so if you ask me, but he's pitted against both constitutionality and Teletubbie butt porn. That's a lock for Nanker as far as I'm concerned.

Good grief - your swami instincts should have told you that this thread is a debate between two contestants, and anyone's else's input is supposed to be who won each quarter.

Justice may come from a different cultural or ethnic background than you or I, but he's every bit as American as either of us are. You might want to take advantage of the opportunity for a direct window into the perspective of an American of Palestinian descent. You may learn something from him. I have.

I think you lost any chance of it working with "respond to counter-factual statements with sound professional scientific observation...." but I wish you the best of luck.

I see what you mean - I found them both. They're more impressive than funny though - you should see Trey Parker's impression of John Travolta from South Park if you want to see a funny impression. In fact, they do a good one of Stallone, too.

It would certainly be an amusing way to earn money if you could pull it off.

It sure looks that way.

So is there an official forfeiture time once the topic thread has been posted?

True, but sometimes the worst impression are the funniest.

I could literally feel my IQ lowering as I watched....

Good lord - do I need to come up with a cognitive dissonance bot of my own? Just trying to fathom all that has left me in dire need of a cool washcloth and a lie down....

Q2 - I consider it to be patriotically blasphemous to suggest anything be stricken from the constitution. You'll never get my vote by suggesting anything of the kind. Q2 goes to Nanker.

That's hysterical

I thought you were....

So what? You threw that into an argument about bakeries. Your random throw-away lines do not carry enough weight to warrant changing the argument.

If I had been talking about intelligent design, then you might have a point. I wasn't, so you don't.