Originally Posted by tetvet

Brick you becoming a boor , no you're past that , if you have a problem with me you have a number of choices and I'm open to most of them .

I have a problem with your narrow mindedness, not you personally. AGAIN, if you say stupid sh*t then people are going to call you on it.

I'm just curious what "choices" you're speaking about? People disagreeing with you is normal. You shouldn't take everything so personal. Quit being a little boy and start being a man. It might actually gain you some respect!

Your criticisms are more than just criticizing they are personal attacks against me , respect from you would mean nothing .

That's horse manure and you know it. If you don't like what he says, report it and let red figure it out. Otherwise quit your whining. To be a seventy year old man who want through hell and survived you sure do whine alot. Have you always been like this?

@Op: If you've got doubts, this ain't for you.

Originally Posted by tetvet

Your criticisms are more than just criticizing they are personal attacks against me , respect from you would mean nothing .

I think you need to learn the difference between the two. Every time I have been critical it has been in direct response you what you have said or how you have said it. Refuting the substance of an argument, idea, or point isn't a personal attack.

The way you write only reinforces a perception of ignorance which you have done nothing to change. If you expect your arguments to be taken seriously, then the manner in which you present your argument matters. An opinion is simply that, and if it isn't supported by, at a minimum logic and reason, and preferably with evidence and documentation to back up the logic and reason, then it is perfectly acceptable for any reasonable person to dismiss the idea or opinion altogether. That is all I have done along with numerous others on this site. You are operating on a PUBLIC forum where anyone can see and respond to whatever you say. NONE of us are obliged to agree with you on anything. Dressing up fecal matter doesn't change the fact that it is fecal matter. Yet, if you're convinced I'm being just a big meanie head then maybe you should get out of the kitchen before it gets too hot for you.

"If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and flies like a duck....."

I can see why you call yourself crazy the name is appropriate .

a lot of words to say nothing , politics much be your game .

Originally Posted by tetvet

a lot of words to say nothing , politics much be your game .

Ahhh, but another deflection so you don't have to reply to the substance of the argument. Either you are being willfully ignorant, which reinforces every point that I have made, or you are aren't equipped to have adult conversations which means you should assert better judgement in what you decide to respond to. In any case, I'll just take your all too common "a lot of words to say nothing" comment as you ceding that I'm right because you have nothing substantive to refute the points already made. Thanks!

Perhaps if you just jam your fingers in your ears, close your eyes, and shout " LA LA LA LA" you can make it through another day in ignorance even better. It might grow tiresome and your curiosity on what's going on around you might might motivate you to stop for a second and look around to see if the fantasy world you would like to live in materializes. I can assure you that it won't. But keep leaving your literary gems for the rest of us, at least it gives the rest of us hope that WE are at least blessed with a fully developed frontal cortex which is certainly something to be thankful for<<<<okay okay...you got me, that might have been a personal attack on a fitting shoe that you often are seen wearing.

Originally Posted by tetvet

I can see why you call yourself crazy the name is appropriate .

At least I admit my faults and draw backs. And you're right, that was a personal attack. But to add to what brinktk has said presentation makes a lot of difference. When your grammar is that of a child's and you consistently use this poor grammar, either you do not mentally have the ability to use correct grammar or you choose to use such grammar. So it's either a mental defect or laziness. It helps to be taken seriously (and not as a child) when you present yourself on a way that others can understand.

I dropped out of high school at 16 3 months later on my 17th birthday I enlisted in the Army for 3 years and do to the early drop I was 19 for 2 weeks when I was separated everyone got a kick out of that 3 years in the Army and still a teenager , English Grammar not my strong suit I was more into math and girls a lot of one not so much the other .

Originally Posted by tetvet

I dropped out of high school at 16 3 months later on my 17th birthday I enlisted in the Army for 3 years and do to the early drop I was 19 for 2 weeks when I was separated everyone got a kick out of that 3 years in the Army and still a teenager , English Grammar not my strong suit I was more into math and girls a lot of one not so much the other .

See, now that is much better and opens the door for actual conversation. I can empathize with the predicament you found yourself in although I didn't drop out of school. I got tired of getting my ass kicked at home and ran away, supporting myself by working and getting through my final year of high school with nothing but the clothes on my back and a promise to myself not to be a fvck up. I joined the Army three days after I graduated. Although I found myself celebrating my one teenage birthday in the Army in Kuwait and then the next three birthdays in Iraq. (one short planned deployment to Kuwait and two very long combat deployments back to back). The joke from my family was that I was old enough to be a SGT and a combat vet but not old enough to drink...