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You, on the other hand, can't help but look at people and point out their flaws as you have defined them. But you honestly think you're talking objectively. You act like you're above it all and yet, never pass up an opportunity to let someone know that they fall on the wrong side of the fence as you see it. When we argue about tv, I'm not really arguing with you about tv. I watch maybe 5 shows a week (not including the Daily Show, which I try to watch as often as I can). I'm calling you out on your arrogance because you genuinely think that other people's lives are empty because they enjoy fluff tv and don't get out on the kayak like you. You see the difference? If you said, damn your lives are empty if all you do is watch tv, that's one thing. Most people would laugh that off because I'm sure everyone on this board has many interests besides tv. Instead, you say, "You're lives are empty because you're not more like me." Ridiculous.
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You have well and truly lost it, and it's sad, as you once struck me as passingly sane. I say "I think rap is misogynistic." You have a fit, point out examples of where I am wrong, and I am "arrogant." I say, in a late-night half-joking tirade following 329 reality TV posts, that you people watch way too much TV, and list some alternative activities. For this, I am "arrogant X 2." Finally, I try a word play to which someone takes offense, I get pissed and point out that maybe offense should possibly be measured at least partially in context of the speaker's history of trying to offend, and I am "arrogant x 3". My best guess is, I happened to gore two of your very favorite oxen, and the threat to your self-esteem is so great that you need a way to discount everything I said without reliance on substance.
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. . .You think your shit don't stink. I'm here to tell you it does. . . .
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No, I think that, in your three examples, I was correct. I've apologized to many people for things on these boards, and IRL, when I've fucked up. I can't imagine that you have ever done that, which makes your point so funny to me.
I will concede that you made me back down to "much of the rap that I have ever seen is misogynistic", but I don't recall you ever altering your point, which was, not that misogynistic rap wasn't prevelant but, that I was "arrogant". I will stand by my statement that all you reality-TV-types watch too much TV, against which you never made any sustantive point except to say that I was "arrogant" for saying so. Finally, if we can't make jokes that have any potential of offending anyone on any bad day, we're screwed, which you never addressed at all except to call me "arrogant." If sticking to an opinion in the face of unsupported disapproval from you is "arrogant", well, I'll take it, I guess.
(And now, since neither of us would ever willingly let the other have the last word, but just out of self-preservation and a wish to actually go home, I will not post any more, allowing you the final word, so you can say whatever you want to say, free of fear that I will be arrogant to you. )
