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[ThxOne Premium Member]

Can you stick to the topic? You very clearly tried to tell me I am wrong about how I have conversations.

Why do you feel the need to create rules like that? Why do you feel the need to try and state the rules as based in fact, and even support that argument with inaccurate or incomplete info?

Do you not find it odd that you do EXACTLY what you complain others are doing

If you’re not trying to be right (I.e. “win”), what is your purpose for posting info that you think supports your claims?

Some of this is rhetorical, and some is legitimate curiosity, hoping for continued conversation in the form of answers and ongoing discussion.

I am not making rules of any kind. Those are the definitions by the Oxford scholars you uses as definition references. I don't see why you are upset.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

I am not making rules of any kind. Those are the definitions by the Oxford scholars you uses as definition references. I don't see why you are upset.

I'm not upset, I am trying to converse with you.
By "rules" I mean arbitrary sets of standards or guidelines. You expressed displeasure with what I do, trying to state that it is not "conversation". One could surmise that you created said rule because you don't like what I do and wanted to control it in some way (by arguing that I am wrong in saying what I do is conversation, following your specific request for conversation).

The definitions you gave support what I am doing. I'm not sure where the disconnect is.

If you simply want me to stop calling you out when you post something that is error-laden, misleading, or an outright lie, then just ask me to do so. Although it would be extremely disingenuous, it is certainly your right. It would be my right to deny the request, but I wouldn't. Though, I can't guarantee I won't post incredulous laughs.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

I'm not upset, I am trying to converse with you.
By "rules" I mean arbitrary sets of standards or guidelines. You expressed displeasure with what I do, trying to state that it is not "conversation". One could surmise that you created said rule because you don't like what I do and wanted to control it in some way (by arguing that I am wrong in saying what I do is conversation, following your specific request for conversation).

The definitions you gave support what I am doing. I'm not sure where the disconnect is.

If you simply want me to stop calling you out when you post something that is error-laden, misleading, or an outright lie, then just ask me to do so. Although it would be extremely disingenuous, it is certainly your right. It would be my right to deny the request, but I wouldn't. Though, I can't guarantee I won't post incredulous laughs.

You are clearly still debating. Really, I am not interested.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

You are clearly still debating. Really, I am not interested.

So even though you demand conversation and complain about not getting conversation, you are effectively stating you do not want conversation.
OK...

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

So even though you demand conversation and complain about not getting conversation, you are effectively stating you do not want conversation.
OK...

Rob, nobody is "demanding" anything. I am telling you what I want and don't want. Seriously, have a drink, calm down... hey, try ***. I hear even the elderly can still benefit.

 

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[RobGMN Premium Member]

Rob, nobody is "demanding" anything. I am telling you what I want and don't want. Seriously, have a drink, calm down... hey, try ***. I hear even the elderly can still benefit.

demand - n. an insistent and peremptory request, made as if by right.
v. ask authoritatively or brusquely.

"Put your playbook down and have a conversation already. "
"This IS the definition of a "conversation" - a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged."
"A good conversation would be one in which you tell us why you feel the need to debate/argue so much."
"First, do you know the difference between a "conversation" and a "debate"? I ask because what you are constantly doing is trying to combine BOTH" (ignoring that debate IS a conversation by definition)
"So when you "Post Facts" how does that open things up for a conversation? "
"You can't have a normal conversation."

*** is no problem for me at all. With the size of your beer gut, can you even see your junk?

 

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[ThxOne Premium Member]

demand - n. an insistent and peremptory request, made as if by right.
v. ask authoritatively or brusquely.

"Put your playbook down and have a conversation already. "
"This IS the definition of a "conversation" - a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged."
"A good conversation would be one in which you tell us why you feel the need to debate/argue so much."
"First, do you know the difference between a "conversation" and a "debate"? I ask because what you are constantly doing is trying to combine BOTH" (ignoring that debate IS a conversation by definition)
"So when you "Post Facts" how does that open things up for a conversation? "
"You can't have a normal conversation."

*** is no problem for me at all. With the size of your beer gut, can you even see your junk?

Jokes on you, I have no beer gut. Is it boring for you if I don't engage you Rob? Clearly I have thrown your argumentative world into chaos by not wanting to debate. You just keep on going.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

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YOU sure must. You take time out of your day to come here and post.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

YOU sure must. You take time out of your day to come here and post.

Not only that, first he hunts down a dozen memes to post.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Jokes on you, I have no beer gut. Is it boring for you if I don't engage you Rob? Clearly I have thrown your argumentative world into chaos by not wanting to debate. You just keep on going.

You said you don't engage me, in a post where you are clearly trying to engage me.
You are full of contradiction.

 

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[ThxOne Premium Member]

You said you don't engage me, in a post where you are clearly trying to engage me.
You are full of contradiction.

Wow, you wake up with me on your mind huh? "Engage" you as in "involve" myself in a debate with you. Perhaps you think that when I am telling you NO we are debating somehow.