Is It Fair To Say That...

[Dubversion]

i'm not sure anyone's listening anymore

 

[gorski]

Oh, but you are. It's just that you have no balls to get into a real debate!!!

 

[Dubversion]

 

[gorski]

Posts: 59,361 -> priceless! You could have read some good books instead of such "contributions" and actually learned something, rather than this waste...

I dare you to go back to the T.P. and the issues!!!

 

[ViolentPanda]

But that's exactly who you are! Most of the time anyway... A small mistake on my part not to have mentioned it, so I do wholeheartedly apologise...

As always, gorski knows best.

As for the world/UK/your big head - it's all the same thing to you, is it?

What is or isn't "the same thing" to me isn't the point.

NHS is - in the world, is it? [I guess it is, actually... ]

Do you ever "proof read" what you write, oh philosopher king, or are you so used to larding your arguments with nuggets of lore gleaned from your heroes (who incidentally invariably manage to explain complex arguments without either tying themselves in knots or sounding like patronising pricks, unlike you) that you're writing purely for effect rather than transparency?

Never seen the recent debate re. the social immobility report, have you?
Oh, well, then, never mind, eh...?

Oh, I saw it alright. Well enough to know the report was about the decline in social mobility, not about "social immobility" (which implies stasis).
Now, to use your own phrase back at you, why don't you "f off" like a good little boy?

 

[Fruitloop]

Anyway, 'a critical stance' means with your arms folded and your feet slightly too wide apart. Your really need the right haricut to pull it off with any conviction.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Oh, but you are. It's just that you have no balls to get into a real debate!!!

If one were able to set a poll on this forum without it being deleted as a "call-out thread", a poll, for example, which had as it's subject the question "What is your personal assessment of gorski's ability to debate a subject without lapsing into circular argument, irrelevance or condescension" and had as it's options

• poor
• average
• good
• exemplary

which option do you think would garner the most votes, and why?

I don't actually expect an honest answer from you, btw.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Anyway, 'a critical stance' means with your arms folded and your feet slightly too wide apart. Your really need the right haricut to pull it off with any conviction.

One of those sub-"Hoxton fin" tousled/spiked masterpieces of mousse abuse, I presume?

 

[kyser_soze]

The Hoxton vestigial fin?

 

[Fruitloop]

Exactly that.

 

[gorski]

Good for a proper argument, not abuse, then, not getting personal, are we? Strictly issues, yeaaaaahhhh...

Niceeeeeeeeeee...........

 

[Diamond Dog]

Anyway, 'a critical stance' means with your arms folded and your feet slightly too wide apart. Your really need the right haricut to pull it off with any conviction.

LMAO

 

[Fruitloop]

Surely the point is simply that the question is crap. I mean the real answer is that if modernism hadn't had some critical relation to what went before it would be more or less impossible to tell them apart (why make a historical division where there is no discernible difference?), but what they want is some wank about how po-mo retreated from any engagement with the actual world in favour of an impenetrably critical literary career sponsored by the Collège de France. Or something.