Glossary and terms

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Lexi-cockup-graphy: self-serving 'misunderstanding' or misuse of a word's meaning to which one sticks come what may and regardless of corrective explanations.

Unprocessed and Unacknowledged Response Syndrome: parody-of-conversation achieved by steadfastly refusing to factor in any of the replies -answers or observations - one is receiving.

Somewhat Dementedly Disproportionate Response [SDDR]: in the face of robust or unyielding dissent by a poster, liken them to a leper, or cockroach, or a snake or rat, or an unclean pig or dog, or a smelly drunk, or accuse them of being diseased or causing suicides or spreading germs or eating feces or causing "God" to torture people etc. etc. Linked to...

Somewhat Dementedly Deluded Justification [SDDJ]: the purveyor of SDDR later claims he or she "was provoked" without being able to show where or by what.

BS-ing

The refusal to answer a question that has you by the balls on the basis that you have supposedly answered it in the past.

[Possession of] Special Knowledge Inaccessible to Disagreers [SKID]: Appeals to SKID are, in terms of their vehemence, are conversely proportional to the haplessness and lack of credibility of the Appellant.

Limited Apology Screen [LAS]: apologise for a relatively minor thing that happened during the course of sticking to a manifestly weak argument but then rule out further discussion of that argument on account of it already being 'settled' by the apology.

Trite & Tawdry Holy Scripture Usage [TATHSU]: example... Decline to address an argument or answer a question by, instead, Googling a list of the occurrences of the word "fool" in the Bible and simply copy pasting it into the discussion without comment.

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Sonship recently introduced me to a new term:

Graduation - In a thread where he had been thoroughly out-argued and his views highlighted as judgemental and poorly-considered he announced his pending exit from the thread by saying his was 'graduating' on to a new topic. (In lower circles we describe this as escaping with one's tail between one's legs).

Gas Released & Lit: broad sweeping matter-in-hand-evading assertion that a non-believer actually does believe but is 'too angry with God' to admit it.

You bunch of sooks.