People who ask questions...

...whose answer they know (or rhink they know).
And when you answer in good faith - they start to polemize with you.

Damned them.

Originally posted by vandervelde
...whose answer they know (or rhink they know).
And when you answer in good faith - they start to polemize with you.

Damned them.

Socrates, for example, died after drinking poison if it's any consolation.

Originally posted by vandervelde
...whose answer they know (or rhink they know).
And when you answer in good faith - they start to polemize with you.

Damned them.

why did you make me go and look up the word, 'polemize'???
you knew good n well that i didn't know what that meant and you used it anyway...
now i went and learned something...

dang it...

Originally posted by rookie54
why did you make me go and look up the word, 'polemize'???
you knew good n well that i didn't know what that meant and you used it anyway...
now i went and learned something...

dang it...

polemize- To act like you have a pole shoved up your bum.
*See also: bum.

Scrates was an old fart with bombones de chocolate in his toga and he was confusing young boys so he deserved his destiny, stubborn old prick as he was. And he preferred sympho-rock as another bearded guy, much younger and much influential... But that's another story.

Did you really think I started this thread without spell-checking tools, bunch of dictionaries both online and n the paper and on the parchment?

Polemize or polemicize, that was the question, and then is there such a verbum in English world at all?! I even asked some English liguists in the middle of the night (I lost account of Time zones) and they cursed when I told them it was only for a thread on Red Hot Porn forum...

And there are so many similar, beautiful but confusing words, aardvark, a monster who eats ants, and awkward, the word ant is also awkkward because it's similar to aunt, and sometimes I mention my aunt as an ant, and the band Adam an the ants I describe as Adam and the aunts, so I get strange feeling, my aunt multiplied and began to play guitar (which wouldn't surprise me, because she is very much alive and kicking), and that some monster from outer space ate my aunt, and it's so exciting in Red-Headed League----

Originally posted by vandervelde
Did you really think I started this thread without spell-checking tools, bunch of dictionaries both online and n the paper and on the parchment?

Polemize or polemicize, that was the question, and then is there such a verbum in English world at all?! I even asked some English liguists in the middle of the night (I lost account of Time zones) and they c ...[text shortened]... nd that some monster from outer space ate my aunt, and it's so exciting in Red-Headed League----

Monster? We only eat aunts when there are no other life infested planets nearby. Aliens need to eat too, you pretzel munching beer and fine wine swilling human you...

Sorry for the outburst, it's just that we have feelings too ya know.

We tried eating FMF once and it almost killed us... I'm still puking up bits and pieces of him.

Originally posted by vandervelde
...whose answer they know (or rhink they know).
And when you answer in good faith - they start to polemize with you.

Damned them.

If people knew what a rhetorical question was, would they still answer one?

Originally posted by vandervelde
Did you really think I started this thread without spell-checking tools, bunch of dictionaries both online and n the paper and on the parchment?

Polemize or polemicize, that was the question, and then is there such a verbum in English world at all?! I even asked some English liguists in the middle of the night (I lost account of Time zones) and they c ...[text shortened]... nd that some monster from outer space ate my aunt, and it's so exciting in Red-Headed League----

You must smoke better stuff than I do. 😀

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
You must smoke better stuff than I do. 😀

Probably, I am right now in Amsterdam, in coffee shop hotel Voyagers, just back from Peter Weller gig in Haag.

Originally posted by vandervelde
Probably, I am right now in Amsterdam, in coffee shop hotel Voyagers, just back from Peter Weller gig in Haag.

I'm jealous. 🙂 I've always wanted to go there to play chess in coffee shops. 😀

Originally posted by vandervelde
...whose answer they know (or rhink they know).
And when you answer in good faith - they start to polemize with you.

Damned them.

Unfortunately, it's a time-honored method (here, anyways ) of increasing traffic, appearing to know what they're talking about, and getting some thumbs up.

Elsewhere, it's usually called trolling, and is considered bad form. I don't know why it seems to be the first line of offense here.

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I'm jealous. 🙂 I've always wanted to go there to play chess in coffee shops. 😀

Actually, there is a chess club (and go club) in the neighboring restaurant "Batavia 1920". I made short video clip from a final day of a blitz tournament in February. They seem to be little bit closed, I think. But they have excellent cottage pie. Windows from the basement looks at the channel.

My hotel is on the pics:
http://i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag248/Crni_putnik/DSCI5568_zpsafa43352.jpg

First night I spent on the top, basic single room with only sink in it,
http://i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag248/Crni_putnik/DSCI5569_zps1735f1b7.jpg

and then moved to I floor - no elevators and Dutch stairs are like magic bean from fairy tales - in bay window ensuite:::
http://i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag248/Crni_putnik/DSCI5556_zps5b13c3d6.jpg

http://i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag248/Crni_putnik/DSCI5570_zpsff6259ce.jpg

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