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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