@ghost-of-a-duke saidNo. I wouldn't say so. Over the last 15+ years here I have used it very sparingly. So no, not "like a custard tart" but I understand the rhetorical gimmick you are using here.
Ah, so you do get to throw delusional around like a custard tart?
@ghost-of-a-duke saidIt will mean I was wrong not to have believed Bob.
What if the Yeti puts in an appearance?
@ghost-of-a-duke saidThis is the third or fourth time you have used the same fatuous metaphor in a few pages. Perhaps you are bored and just want to end with a gesture of condescension.
Thread warning:
'Delusions' are being thrown around like custard tarts in this thread. FMF has hit Dive squarely in the face, and inexplicably, Dive has hit himself in the face.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidCalled the Trump syndrome if you say it is true enough times, hopefully most people will believe it. 🙂
You have said it 148 times in the last 2 weeks.
I've been keeping a log.
-VR
@ghost-of-a-duke saidWell, I don't know about "too quick". The longest I could wait would be my entire life. But, we just have to call it how we see it when we see it.
And been too quick to call him delusional?
@ghost-of-a-duke saidThis might be the moment to bail out having previously stated your view coearly if you now think a fifth mention of the same rhetorical gimmick is all you have left.
Or perhaps I really like custard tart.
@fmf saidIf somebody believes something you don't, but you are unable to aptly evidence they are wrong, you are not in a position to call them delusional.
Well, I don't know about "too quick". The longest I could wait would be my entire life. But, we just have to call it how we see it when we see it.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidI haven't been trivializing it at all.
custard tart is actually the perfect metaphor for you trivializing delusional thinking
@ghost-of-a-duke saidOf course I am. I am using the word delusion in its everyday sense. I am not pretending to be a psychiatrist.
If somebody believes something you don't, but you are unable to aptly evidence they are wrong, you are not in a position to call them delusional.