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Vance Adder
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Join date: 29 Jan 2009
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05-22-2009 12:04
Thank you Vance. I am a little concerned that perhaps you don't realise that agreeing with me  and even worse, being right  means you will be accused of being one of my alts!  I think my girl would be rather upset if that were true.  |
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Lear Cale
wordy bugger
Join date: 22 Aug 2007
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05-22-2009 12:21
"I can imagine the confusion it must cause you, when the supposedly limited number of smart women, seem to be kicking the crap out of the boys in the educational systems of most Western Democracies." |
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Pserendipity Daniels
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Join date: 21 Dec 2006
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05-22-2009 13:09
Pep, have you met Alexander Harbrough? I think you two would really hit it off. Youre kidding me, right? Pep (He can't spell. )_____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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Pserendipity Daniels
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Join date: 21 Dec 2006
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05-22-2009 13:10
I totally agree. Education does not equal intelligence, (and I never said it did ... there are just some people that said I did ) and neither is the sole factor in determining pay scale.However, it's hard to argue with USA + GPA = HIGH PAY. I just graduated from one of the better schools in the South. I received a lot of job offers, and the company I have been working for the past few years doubled my pay to keep me ... and I'm still just as dumb as I was before I got the diploma. You *work* for a living? Pep (See what I mean! )_____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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Melita Magic
On my own terms.
Join date: 5 Jun 2008
Posts: 2,253
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05-22-2009 13:56
Evidence please? Pep (And please don't quote exam results; they merely reflect an ability to focus on passing exams, rather than using your smarts to enjoy life) PS But please feel free to reference the number of females in CEO, CFO, CSO or CTO positions. Oh so that's how you define clever. Are cleverness and ambition the same thing? Marilyn vos Savant would disagree...her standard reply to "why haven't you done more" is "I didn't care." |
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Melita Magic
On my own terms.
Join date: 5 Jun 2008
Posts: 2,253
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05-22-2009 14:02
I love words and make them work as hard as possible. If words were meant to only have one meaning then what would be the point of the word "ambiguous"? What is a "classic" profile? I remember when a friend of mine brought his fiancee over from Trinidad and she hated London, because she thought she was the epitome of Trinidadian beauty - small breasts and huge bum - yet there were hundreds of thousands of pear shaped women here, who she saw as competition initially until she realised that British men weren't particularly enthusiastic about that shape. She returned to the Caribbean very soon afterwards. Personally, I am serious about being more interested in the intellect than the shell it temporarily inhabits, but there is a connection; I have said that appearance is ephemeral, but I have been known to offer compliments regarding tastefulness equating to tastiness, since if you are smart then you can probably make yourself look smart. (Yes, ambiguity again!) Pep (I also think that vanity tends to trump taste, as evidenced by most of the pics in the Undying Thread.) Yes I've noticed you make words pull their weight and more at times, which is one reason your posts are fun to read. Interesting about Trinidadian beauty standards. Are pear shaped women rare there? I meant classic in the Greco-Roman sense, read: ancient statuary or coins. And I meant facial profile. I've seen you reference the 'hot 20 year old' being preferable to a '50 year old with bad knees' (hoping it's not tacky to bring that up and I do so only out of curiosity/nosiness) so it must factor in also (ephemeral corporal form). Do you care to elaborate? As to ratios, I guess (brains v. beauty)? And is your ideal in a female physical form the 20 year old magazine/swimsuit model? I agree tasteful is preferable to tacky although some others must have a wildly different notion of both than I do. Judging by what I see in RL and SL fashion and style. |
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Pserendipity Daniels
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Join date: 21 Dec 2006
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05-22-2009 14:05
Oh so that's how you define clever. Are cleverness and ambition the same thing? Marilyn vos Savant would disagree...her standard reply to "why haven't you done more" is "I didn't care." A high IQ doesn't stop you from being dumb. Pep (She got married at 16; need I say more?) _____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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Melita Magic
On my own terms.
Join date: 5 Jun 2008
Posts: 2,253
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stupid is as stupid does?
05-22-2009 14:09
Maybe "Forrest Gump" offered some wisdom after all?
I didn't know she married at 16. Personally I would not equate running a corporation with being intelligent, but rather a willingness to fit in with and play the system. I don't equate it with being UNintelligent either of course and there are many very sharp people running companies. Given. There are a lot of very intelligent creative people out there as well, and also farmers, (it isn't easy to make a living from the ground up) & many other walks of life. |
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Pserendipity Daniels
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Join date: 21 Dec 2006
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05-22-2009 14:30
Interesting about Trinidadian beauty standards. Are pear shaped women rare there? I meant classic in the Greco-Roman sense, read: ancient statuary or coins.  And I meant facial profile. I've seen you reference the 'hot 20 year old' being preferable to a '50 year old with bad knees' (hoping it's not tacky to bring that up and I do so only out of curiosity/nosiness) so it must factor in also (ephemeral corporal form). Do you care to elaborate? As to ratios, I guess (brains v. beauty)? And is your ideal in a female physical form the 20 year old magazine/swimsuit model? _____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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Pserendipity Daniels
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05-22-2009 14:34
a willingness to fit in with and play the system. Pep (And you can be as creative, intelligent and caring as you like but if you can't communicate effectively I am not interested.) _____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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Milla Janick
Empress Of The Universe
Join date: 2 Jan 2008
Posts: 3,075
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05-22-2009 14:41
Youre kidding me, right? Pep (He can't spell. )I think you two would make a cute couple. _____________________
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Viciously Llewellyn
Not Really Vicious ;-)
Join date: 27 Sep 2007
Posts: 332
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05-22-2009 14:47
(And you can be as creative, intelligent and caring as you like but if you can't communicate effectively I am not interested.) You just started a sentence with a conjunction. How modern of you! You suddenly look less like a total blowhard. |
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Pserendipity Daniels
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05-22-2009 14:54
You just started a sentence with a conjunction. How modern of you! You suddenly look less like a total blowhard. Parenthetical additions don't count as full sentences. Pep (But it is allowed anyway as long as you *know* you are doing it for effect, rather than from ignorance) _____________________
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Viciously Llewellyn
Not Really Vicious ;-)
Join date: 27 Sep 2007
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05-22-2009 15:01
Parenthetical additions don't count as full sentences. Only if the punctuation is after the close parenthasis. |
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Pserendipity Daniels
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05-22-2009 15:03
Only if the punctuation is after the close parenthasis. Pardon? Pep (Once more, in English this time?) _____________________
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Viciously Llewellyn
Not Really Vicious ;-)
Join date: 27 Sep 2007
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05-22-2009 15:24
Pardon? Pep (Once more, in English this time?) It was in English the first time.  The only time a parenthetical thought or citation can be considered as not a sentence, is when it is fully contained within a sentence. Quotes work the same way. Outside that exception all other rules of sentence construction apply. You of course know this already ... you just won't admit to a mistake, after spending so much time correcting other people. Not that it is really a mistake at all ... modern use of the language allows sentences to start with conjunctions. At University level, it is considered sloppy, but acceptable. P.S. Save the rest for another day Pep-Dip ... I'm off to PT, a shot in the isoberic oxygen chamber, and then home, home, home! Did I mention that they are letting me go home? |
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Pserendipity Daniels
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Join date: 21 Dec 2006
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05-22-2009 15:53
It was in English the first time. The only time a parenthetical thought or citation can be considered as not a sentence, is when it is fully contained within a sentence. Quotes work the same way. Outside that exception all other rules of sentence construction apply. You of course know this already ... you just won't admit to a mistake, after spending so much time correcting other people. Not that it is really a mistake at all ... modern use of the language allows sentences to start with conjunctions. At University level, it is considered sloppy, but acceptable. P.S. Save the rest for another day Pep-Dip ... I'm off to PT, a shot in the isoberic oxygen chamber, and then home, home, home! Did I mention that they are letting me go home? Ah, you fooled me with your misspelling of parentheses. Read my comment again. This is not common or garden parenthetical insertion but a "parenthetical addition", something that is not covered in any grammatical code of which I am aware, since I invented it about about twenty years ago when I first started posting to bulletin boards. The nearest formal thing to it is a postscript, although the slashies used in fark.com are similar, and are similarly grammatically undefined. Pep (I hope you make it to the beach) _____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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Melita Magic
On my own terms.
Join date: 5 Jun 2008
Posts: 2,253
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05-22-2009 18:08
Thanks for answering my questions Pep.
I thought perhaps the lady from Trinidad had talked a bit about her home culture and how different it was there. Also you seem to know things about a variety of topics. It's the first I'd heard about Trinidad beauty standards so I was intrigued. Oh well. Yep I know which profile you meant.  Faces don't have pear shapes. Well not usually. Sorry to have mistaken/misread about the 20/50 thing. Lol on the 100/100%. And it's reasonable. Why not. Now *that* is what I call smart! Yep. I know. Pep (And you can be as creative, intelligent and caring as you like but if you can't communicate effectively I am not interested.) Are there many of those around? |