All that and the Oxford Comma. Love it
Cancel Culture has quite a history it seems.
How to turn down lunch with a fascist by Flying Squid:
Is that the same way you turn down bananas?
No, I’m polite about bananas. I say, “no thank you.”
It is not the fault of the banana that it tastes horrible. It’s just minding its own business being a fruit.
Holy crap, FlyingSquid, is this real?! You had human hands this whole time!
#Bamboozled
I am wearing this shirt right now. Really.
“Nah” - B
Honestly, same.
“No thank you”
Would be better here. All relevant information in the letter would be implied.
If you’re going to show off writing skills, actually say something useful
I’m guessing the point wasn’t to express mere disinterest, but active resentment of the opposing viewpoint: “Not only have I no desire to converse with you, which may be taken as a hesitation to engage with your views, but I believe such a conversation to be utterly worthless because I despise your entire world view” with a dash of “You’re a bigot and I want nothing to do with your kind.”
“No thank you” just doesn’t drive that home.
Where does the motivation to drive that home come from, isn’t this just a difference in opinion?
“I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.” - Blaise Pascal (Probably.).
He had time to write a whole Paige, but not to… not do that?
It’s a good question if you’re unfamiliar with this quote.
Once you get to a certain depth of vocabulary, and basic level of skill in writing, it’s easy to write a lot of text.
You can sort of “talk around” your central point, adding reams and reams of text, sketching out your point in a crude outline, eventually arriving at a complete picture or just stupefying your audience into submission.
This kind of communication is evidence of “thinking out loud,” where you know the vibe of what you’re trying to say, but figure out your logic at the same time as you’re saying/writing it.
Especially in writing, this would be considered a first draft. If you take the time to think about what you’re trying to say then you can often refine/reduce your message to a more respectful length (a shorter one).
tl;dr easy say lot meh, hard say little good
Ahh, yes I’ve been to uni too. It’s not gotten me much faster at writing large amounts of text. But I do have to agree it’s become very easy.
Isn’t this more of a lack of energy rather than time? Or perhaps just lazyness?
I suppose that depends on one’s writing process.
For my part, I usually end up deleting needless words or clichés on a second pass.
My fine motor control just isn’t there for super fast writing
I guess you get some thoughtfulness and economy of words kind of for free them. Reminds me of how (I think it was him) Edgar Allan Poe would write with slow-to-dry ink, so he would have to take his time when writing.
It is a paradox, but the implication is that bottling up your feelings consumes more of your time then taking the time to properly vent them.
That’s quite a bit of emotion for a simple difference in ideology
This must be John Oliver’s uncle or grandfather or something
Can’t be. His grandpa was a bird.
His other grandpa
"After careful consideration, fuck the fuck off.
Yours sincerely,
Fuck you."
Russell is one of the greats. But if you’re looking for a terse knockdown there’s always this classic from author Max Reger:
I am in the smallest room of the house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
Pure poetry
Wouah… Juste… Wouah oO
That was impressively descriptive, but I’m afraid most fascists are too stupid to understand the burn.
A half-brick to the face is an equally elegant way of turning down a nazi.
Always with the walls of text these people… Just decline and be done with it! Nobody trying to grade your thesis over here ffs.
Dude’s a fookin legend !
In the early 1900’s, he discovered a logical paradox that shattered mathematics for years, and drove brilliant people literally insane (one of them died in an asylum later on).
He then tried to redefine mathematics based solely on logic; but he failed after a 1000-page manuscript… and that was only the first half of what he intended to publish.
There are countless valuable quotes by him and anecdotes, he’s a very inspirational man.
Unrelated, genuine question: Why do some people write “fookin”?
Is it just for fun?
Do you pronounce it that way?I personally write “fucking” and rarely “fuckin”.
Just curious.
I fucking think it’s because they’re fucking worried that fucking people on fucking Lemmy might be fucking offended by the fucking word fuck and its fucking derivatives. Let’s fucking hope they fucking bookmark this fucking post and fucking come back to it in a few fucking weeks to see if anything’s fucking happened to it. Fuck fuckity fuck fuck - fuck fuck.
People often write how they talk, and I find the best authors will incorporate dialect and intonation into their writing. One of my favorite examples is of Blood Meridian. It’s so amazing that one can literally tell who is talking purely from word choice and grammar with no quotation marks and often no indicators of who is speaking.
I thought it was to emphasize that they are Australian, but that’s just because of a character in a book that I read.
I think it’s use is popularized by the tv show ‘Peaky Blinders’ with the Birmingham pronunciation of the word.
Some have accustomed themselves of writing a bit more cautious, as multiple platforms have active swear detection (not the reason to use it on Lemmy, but there were are).
Popular slang word they like, i guess? Not american here.
Wait a second, sir? Fascist? One moment while I check wikipedia…
Nevermind, it turns out he just inherited the title, not as bad as being knighted
I mean, not everybody gets knighted for stealing from brown people or killing the French. Paul McCartney got knighted just for writing some nice tunes.
And Lewis Hamilton for driving cars
With all due respect, you are the antithesis of all that I consider human. With all due respect.
By the way, if anyone else was curious, dude was a “Sir” due to an inherited title, not knighted for individual actions.
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your letter and for your enclosed pizza menu suggestions. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence about topping choices. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose culinary ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you about pizza toppings, but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel fruit placement, compulsive sweetness, and the sadistic persecution of traditional savory flavors which has characterised the philosophy and practice of pineapple-on-pizza advocacy.
I feel obliged to say that the gastronomic universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from a shared pizza between us.
I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in Italian culinary experience and pizza-making achievement.
Yours sincerely,
What are the chances I had just sent something similar to someone advocating for pineapple on pizza?
Jokes aside - dude was pretty badass:
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy.
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Alternatively, you can accept the lunch date and then punch them when they get there.
