Are We Entering An Endless Cycle Of Irrelevant Stupidity?

[sp1814]

The Internet is a great place for exchanging views, and challenging viewpoints...but have we entered a period where we now have two tribes - one waiting to be offended by something, and the other waiting for the first to be offended to condemn them for being offended?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-condemns-twitter-as-stalking-ground-for-the-sanctimoniously-self-righteous-after-a6875506.html

Is this the future? Do we no longer really care about the issue, but are more interested in sharing how offended we are on the 'rainbow of outrage'?

What's your take on this?

[andy-hughes]

sp - //Another semantic cluster bomb from Peter Pedant. //

Is that a polite way of saying you have no idea what he's on about??

[Peter Pedant]

// and, as Vulcan said, this thread proves it.// Nigh

andy - proves is present tense and proved is past tense
[ honestly I blush when I am invited to make comments such as these ]

and the thread proves it when all the comments were undeleted whic,h were all over the place and an endless cycle of whatsit
but once they were deleted - the thread read quite logically
and so the thread proved it ( past tense ) but doesnt now as it seems to hang together

so Vulvan's " proves" which is present tense should be changed to "proved " ay-yay-yay which as you know is past tense

you did do tenses at school didnt you andie ?

Apologies to readers who want a less intrsopective thread
but my defence was that I was driven to it by the endless cycle of ....

hooray thread back on track !

[naomi24]

Peter Pedant, the sections marked 'answer removed' indicate that several posts that were deemed inappropriate were present on this thread. 'Proves' will do just fine. To work, pedantry requires logic.

[Togo]

P.P. I am quietly weeping with laughter 'She who must be obeyed' is threatening to confiscate the lappie in case I break down completely.
Have one myself? Don't mind if I do, make it a large one.

[naomi24]

^:o)

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
sp - //Another semantic cluster bomb from Peter Pedant. //

Is that a polite way of saying you have no idea what he's on about??




I think many of Ronny Riddles posts are cluster bombs (all over the place) but not the one you called a cluster bomb, sp.

[Peter Pedant]

well yes or erm no

a reference from the seventies for the long lived !

Both civilixation and Ascent of man can hardly be included in the endless cycle. Clarke's civilisation was criticised at the time for being too high-brow - not something you often meet on AB I have to say

but nice to be reminded of them
as perhaps a beacon ( watch out everyone a metaphor coming uuuuup ! )
to illuminate the unwary in the ter daaah cycle of endless stupidity



[ and no Nigh - pedantry does NOT require logic - there are many pedantic rules of English grammar which defy logic]

[Togo]

Arrgghhh don't P.P. how come your 'typos' work so well? civilixation? Vulvan?

[sp1814]

andy-hughes

You asked:

Is that a polite way of saying you have no idea what he's on about??

In the same way that I sometimes get answers right on University Challenge by pure luck, I sometimes get the gist of PP's posts first go - but again, it's by pure luck.