Name your favorite Poly poster!

[Tupac Shakur]

You're the best, Oerdin. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

Which Poly posters keep the rest of you coming back to this god awful time-sink?

[Provost Harrison]

Not you.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

I vote for the zookeeper, MikeH!

[Tupac Shakur]

Not you.

Smart man.

[giblets]

You're the best, Oerdin. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

Which Poly posters keep the rest of you coming back to this god awful time-sink?

It really wasn't that funny.

[Tupac Shakur]

You don't have the historical context to understand.

[Dinner]

It's funny how Drake can get just about his entire position demonstrably wrong and yet still claim to be right. What a sad little man.

[Dinner]

You don't have the historical context to understand.

Yes, the historical context of you being wrong and then starting threads like this to avoid the real conversation and pretend you weren't as wrong as you really are. Your posts in the HSR thread have been seriously retarded so rather then deal with that fact or admit you were wrong you jump on some minor detail (he posted three articles, I said all three were opinion pieces, when in fact only two were opinion pieces while the third was a video from an opinion writer with an actual news article under neither. The news article didn't even support Drake's retarded claims) and completely ignore the obvious big picture where you were completely wrong, yet again.

You would be funny if you weren't so pathetically transparent.

[Tupac Shakur]

What makes you great is your insane belligerence in the face of the facts, logic, and public embarrassment.

[Dinner]

If you had shown any facts or logic in the other thread then I might be embarrassed but since didn't do that... Well, I guess I'll just write it off as Drake being Drake again and not being able to admit he was wrong. I encourage everyone to read the Fox News thread and decide for themselves just so they can see how Drake lost on the actual subject matter.

[Dauphin]

[Tupac Shakur]

I come here to praise Oerdin, not to bury him.

[Dinner]

To summarize the actual content of the debate (if you can call it that when Drake was just being a clown):

Me: HSR is widely used where it has been built. In China the HSR trains are packed.

Drake: HSR isn't profitable though!

Me: So what? Cars, trucks, and airlines are all subsidized by the government so why should rail be the only mode of transport which magically must exist without subsidies?

Drake: (Goes off on tangent about how I called three links he posted opinion pieces when in fact only two were opinion pieces and the third had a cideo from the WaPo's opinion page and an article which didn't anwser my question. Drake then made this thread and disappeared from the other thread in embarrassment.)

Even the one news article said it was unclear if HSR in China would make a profit or a slight lose so we're back to my original question of my HSR shouldn't get subsidies when airplanes and motor vehicles get subsidies? Also what form of transport is the most cost effective for the taxpayers making a rail line or building a brand new freeway? That's a pretty accurate summary of Drake's behavior and why it is a waste of time to actually try to discuss anything with him.

[Krill]

Not you.

The name is notyoueither. Get it right.

[Tupac Shakur]

Fully 3/4ths of Oerdin's "summary" never happened, and the remaining 1/4th is incorrect, as per usual. Insane belligerence!