So, what should be the difference between educating smart and stupid people?

[KrazyHorse]

PH, you take this too seriously. Get some back and forth going. It's like talking to a corpse.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


I'm just demonstrating my understanding of subtlety to KH.

There's a rule against what you tried...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


And there you probably have me. I do like to be straightforward in my relationships with other people. Can be a fault, can be a great strength too.

That's my point. Learn to enjoy the hidden meanings.

People can be astonishingly good at it. I'm no scrub, but I'm also not a master. Some people in these parts can regularly school me...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
People can be astonishingly good at it. I'm no scrub, but I'm also not a master. Some people in these parts can regularly school me...

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[KrazyHorse]

Pffft. This coming from the kid who answered me honestly on half a dozen occasions when I asked him why there was a quarter on his waffles.

Admit it. I pwn you so bad...

[Kuciwalker]

IIRC last time we had this conversation it disturbed Asher with its gayness. Do you really want to go there?

[KrazyHorse]

He finally noticed after a year of me yanking his chain and now he's a master of subtlety...

[KrazyHorse]

I'm not drunk enough to play the homoerotic flirtatiousness game today. ****ing bars close too early.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
He finally noticed after a year of me yanking his chain and now he's a master of subtlety...

[KrazyHorse]

I remember you posting something about your readings here being part of the reason you don't drink (yet...)

Were you trting to insinuate that I embarass myself here?

[Colonâ„¢]

There's a quarter on Kuci's waffle?

[VetLegion]

I was thinking about posting these very same articles.

They mention some very important and very difficult topics, but are too short to cover them properly.

If you ask me, the idea that people are perhaps not equally endowed with regards to mental abilities is pretty depressing. It also has all sorts of serious policy implications. That more money thrown at schools won't do any good is the least interesting.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by VetLegion
I was thinking about posting these very same articles.

They mention some very important and very difficult topics, but are too short to cover them properly.

If you ask me, the idea that people are perhaps not equally endowed with regards to mental abilities is pretty depressing. It also has all sorts of serious policy implications. That more money thrown at schools won't do any good is the least interesting.

Alas people are not even in the mental talents stake...and in modern society, mental talents are the most needed as more and more of the 'donkey work' becomes automated. Perhaps this is one trait that genetic engineering of the future will even up a little...

[TCO]

"Yale or jail". What a waste.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Lack of intellectual honesty and its cousin, obdurate stupidity, are the most common way people draw my fire. When it's a mild case, as in Lori's post, he gets a mild dose (while I also go to the trouple of typing out a cogent, simple, truthful explanation of the issue, I might add).

I don't want it to look like I skipped out after being pwned, so I feel a slight need to respond. I overstepped my understanding and looked arrogant in the process. I appreciate being corrected when I'm wrong, and I'm glad you're willing to offer your services in that department, KH.

I don't even mind the fact that you're a dick so much when you do it, because it's the internet and I don't care. But... it does mean that some people don't want to understand the things that you say, because you present your knowledge in such an arrogant fashion.

Sometimes I really hate Apolyton, because it's the exact opposite of my real life. Unless I'm with my friends, I am usually the smartest person in the room and can display my knowledge freely. When I come to Apolyton, however, there are people that make me look like an idiot. It's humbling, but edifying.