>>73
Pretty typical of the hypocrisy of you people.
Or do you just have no memories capable of retaining things for more than 24 hours?
I introduced the topic of Wagner's "Ring" into this thread with no intention of "proving" or "winning" anything. It just seemed to me to be an apposite analogy that might be used to throw light on people's feelings about how threads, like this one, discussing "random cam-whores" ("the mortal world") relate to threads discussing Cracky ("the world of the gods").
You're either fucking blind or so prejudiced against me that you can't think straight if you can't see and acknowledge that it's entirely the poster of no. 70 who has made this into a "contest".
I'd have been perfectly happy to discuss "The Ring" with you all. No "discussion" begins, though, with one party to it confidently asserting, before anything else is even said, that his interlocutor is only "pretending online" to be familiar with the thing they're about to discuss (while HE, of course - such is the other part of the assertion - is genuinely and profoundly familiar with it).
I'll discuss if people want to discuss - that is to say, if people want to exchange views and opinions with each other on the basis of the respectful reciprocal assumption that people are contributing, honestly and to the best of their ability, what they know, or at least sincerely believe they know, to the board.
But if someone opens an exchange with the sneering, contemptuous - not to mention ludicrously false - charge that I've just "pretended" to know something about a topic I actually know nothing about, I'll treat the exchange as what it obviously is: an attempt to "own" me and humiliate me.
Unfortunately for the would-be "owner" and humiliator, this is an attempt that is bound to fail, since - while he has managed to cram two signs of the crassest ignorance into just the thirty or forty words of his one post - I do actually happen to know "The Ring" extremely well.
But then again, it's true that there is pretty much NO topic that he could have chosen to bait me on and try to humiliate me with that I couldn't turn around on him and prove that HE is the hollow, pretentious idiot he would like to present ME as.