It's like you're a 13 year old rather than a grown man. First the feigned distinterest to preserve the ego, then seeing another faint chance you jump straight in, only to find....
Lets look at the dictionary, shall we?
disinterested
dɪsˈɪnt(ə)rɪstɪd
adjective
2. having or feeling no interest in something; uninterested.
"her father was so disinterested in her progress that he only visited the school once"
I don't know if you're just stupid or you have a thing for being humiliated online. Either way, the fun's starting to go for me. I mean, I thought it was justified because you seem to do naught but struggle to insult me or anything that I post. I just post things I think other B3tans will dig and like it when they do the same. But I'm genuinely starting to feel guilty for continuously showing you up in response, as I'm beginning to strongly suspect you have mental issues. If so I apologise for my behaviour. i should have been more sensitive
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 25 Apr 2020, 11:21,
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I note you've provided the secondary definition of the word.
What's the primary definition?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 25 Apr 2020, 14:17,
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do you really want to have this conversation?
I could explain it to you, but in light of what I've said above Im happy to leave things as they are. we all have our struggles. We could simply move on
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 25 Apr 2020, 14:50,
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Do you habitually answer questions with questions?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 25 Apr 2020, 20:43,
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No, I was giving you an opportunity to perhaps reassess and formulate a more mature approach to being wrong
I've been on the internet long enough to have seen every sort of online argument, and also to know when somebody is genuinely upset, when somebody is pretending not to care to save face, trolls and poes and infantile quarrelling and all parts in between. You seem to put a lot of stock in language and this droll, acerbic persona you've created. you could take the chance to show there's substance behind it instead of pretension and bluff. When I pointed out that you were wrong with your application of "strawman", you had an immature response. I have 5 year old boy who can't deal with losing at monopoly, so I recognise the signs. Denial, followed by an embittered desire to salvage the ego by insults and creating and winning in some future conflict in pedantry. This is all you've done since that day to all I've posted. I'd guess from your expressed supreme love of the Rolling Stone you're at least a middle aged man. I want you to think about the maturity of your behaviour in this context. Do you really want to continue this unedifying and increasingly tedious conflict? Is your ego that fragile and petty that finding me at fault for something, anything is the only way you can deal with being wrong? Do you think your attempts at pedantry have made you look smarter or increasingly desperate and upset?
I think I'm pretty close to the mark.
Under normal circumstances I'd like nothing more to once again explain to you why you're wrong with the above, we all have our peccadilloes, and that's mine along with returning fire, but it's kind of dragging on and I fear that each time I show you up you only get more embittered.
A more mature person would simply concede they were wrong, obviously, and move on, it's only the internet and we're all anonymous I hope. You could still do it with a modicum of self-awareness. I'm happy to put it behind us. It be nice to surprise me by doing it, instead of another tediously predictable attempt at one-upmanship
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 26 Apr 2020, 1:32,
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