totoro;157202 Wrote: > Maybe they feel that you were behaving obnoxiously in any event, and > that this "I wasn't talking about anyone in particular" meme is a piece > of fairly transparent weaselry a la "plausible deniability". > > It couldn't be that you were behaving badly, of course, that's out of > the question. > > I had been on the point of retracting my nastier statements, thinking > that maybe I'd give you the benefit of the doubt. Then I saw this post. > Now of course I won't. [EDIT: I did anyway, at least the ones where I > actually called you an idiot-- the upshot is still the same, though] > > Just to sort of outline things: > You got pretty aggressive right from the beginning, with a particular > early peak of rudeness at the "you make me laugh... haven't you ever > seen..." (which combined the stupidity of conflating the marketing of > huckster cosmetics to regulated or semi regulated pharmaceuticals) bit: > notice that this was not responded to rudely. > > The next peak was when you posited that I should go on to a cosmetics > board calling them all idiots (this compounded your general rudeness > with your rather amazing presumption that _you_ got to decide what an > audiophile is and what an audiophile might want to discuss). Again, the > response was polite. > > Things got a little odder when I pointed out that there are audiophiles > who regard themselves as such but don't have the same interests as you, > but still have a right to post. You agreed, but said that you didn't > like slagging people off. I asked whom I had slagged off. You said you > didn't mean anyone in particular. Since I was still trying to be > polite, I didn't say anything, but the obvious question is: wtf do you > mention it then? Just as an announcement to low flying planes and all > the ships at sea? If you didn't mean anyone in particular, then it > certainly didn't help in justifying your earlier behavior, and really > wasn't relevant at all. Even at this point, my responses stayed > polite. > > Finally we got to the bit where you went on about inability to reason > logically. Coming from someone who can barely string together a couple > of coherent grammatical sentences, this was just too much for me, and I > finally lost patience with you. > > As far as the "substance" of the argument goes, I said early on that I > understood that we don't understand everything, and hence I understood > that measurements are not everything, and that (controlled) listening > tests are clearly important. You seem to have ignored all of this and > lumped me in with some person(s) from the past who had a much stronger > position that measurements are everything. Accordingly, you spent much > of the time arguing with them, rather than me. I tried pointing this > out politely, but you got shirty, at which point I told you you were > fighting a straw man (which you were: this was a pretty classic case). > At this point things really devolved. Suffice to say, you really never > did address this issue. > > Neither of us covered ourselves in glory here (I should have simply > walked away). But the aggression was pretty one-sided, and not coming > from me. I did call you an idiot at the end, but by then you had proven > it. Your last post just shows that you are completely oblivious that you > might not have behaved all that well. > > What I find truly amazing is that you put on a hurt holier-than-thou > act at the end of all of this, as if you were some innocent who was set > upon by an aggressive lunatic, when it was you who started the whole > fracas by trying to bully me. I guess I should have dealt with you the > way tyler and tom did, with simple mockery. Oh, well. > > Must be nice living in the 7th brane, or whichever other alternative > universe you live in.
Yeah, well, try to keep it short and concise, and I might read it next time. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29972 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
