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Originally Posted by McDuffie
Ask what? Despite your protestations, nothing in your post would lead one to think that you meant it as a simile.
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Pecimism is what stopped you from asking. You assumed I was an idiot instead of assuming there was a misunderstanding.
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Originally Posted by McDuffie
Either that or most of the people here don't give a fuck and those who do are jumping to your side of it because of the "style over substance" fallacy or because they "know" you or both.
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Do you mean style over substance? Just because you use the 'f' word or because I have over 5,000 posts on TFP doesn't mean there is a conspiracy to prove you wrong. People disagree with me here constantly. It's part of what keeps me coming back.
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Originally Posted by McDuffie
...and now that you've taken that so far out of context that it isn't recognizable as anything I have ever thought, much less said or written.
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I'm not typing for you when you say things like:
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Originally Posted by McDuffie, from earlier
Has he ever presumed to educate you on a subject that you have known about longer than he has been alive?
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Age ain't nothing but a number.
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Originally Posted by McDuffie
What mistake am I supposed to admit to? Really. What mistake did I make?
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The only real mistake was going completly nuts. I don't care about the other stuff, but when people start cursing at each other on here, a little bit of TFP dies. That's not what this place is about.
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Originally Posted by McDuffie
Now that I know how old you are, I know for an absolute fact that I knew what a simile was when you were shitting in your diapers.
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Again, age is irrelevent (after a certian point, I don't expect my 3 year old daughter to know what a simile is). If I were to say, "Yes, but the word simile meant something different during the time of the dinosaurs", it would be completly meaningless.
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Originally Posted by McDuffie
As I said, I had (some) formal education in writing. I was going to be a journalist until I discovered that journalists don't make too damn much, on average. It's a fairly flooded market, or at least it was in the late eighties/early nineties.
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I write screenplays for fun, but that really doesn't mean too much I'm sure. All I really need is a high school diploma. Shit, I'm horrible at spelling, my syntax leaves much to be desired, and I end sentences with prepositions all the time (where my dogs at?).