Absurdity - DPChallenge Forums

02/11/2013 11:22:55 PM · #26

Originally posted by escapetooz:

Originally posted by Basta:

Wow! It must be nice being young with all the answers to your own questions. LOL.

How many times has my age been called out on DPC...

that should tell you something...

02/11/2013 11:45:49 PM · #27

Originally posted by Basta:

Originally posted by escapetooz:

Originally posted by Basta:

Wow! It must be nice being young with all the answers to your own questions. LOL.

How many times has my age been called out on DPC...

that should tell you something...

That people make personal judgements on things that have nothing to do with anything instead of addressing what is actually being talked about? Like what's wrong with doing an advanced edit on an expert editing challenge?

02/11/2013 11:54:28 PM · #28

Originally posted by posthumous:

the surreal is "super real", it stands beyond us somewhere, staring at us with its giant fish eye.

the absurd is foolish. it lies slippery at our feet. it trips our pretensions and assumptions. it makes no claim to live in our dreams. it lives instead within the gutter of our daily lives.

You might confuse the two because both assault convention, but they come from opposite ends. One is Romantic, the other Existentialist.

^^^ Let's go back to THAT kind of discourse.

02/11/2013 11:54:54 PM · #29

Originally posted by escapetooz:

+1, never understood that, but that's DPC

02/11/2013 11:58:23 PM · #30

My take - absurd is a subset of surreal, the silly part of it.

02/12/2013 12:02:22 AM · #31

Originally posted by escapetooz:

Originally posted by Basta:

Originally posted by escapetooz:

Originally posted by Basta:

Wow! It must be nice being young with all the answers to your own questions. LOL.

How many times has my age been called out on DPC...

that should tell you something...

That people make personal judgements on things that have nothing to do with anything instead of addressing what is actually being talked about? Like what's wrong with doing an advanced edit on an expert editing challenge?

....

What a childish reaction....
You asked a question originally of which I answered....I stated based on my principle I was not entering....It obviously was not the answer you felt was correct in your opinion and that's fine, but your reaction was somewhat childish...Hence this outcome. Finally you came up with an even more childish response about judgements, which had nothing to do with the whole conversation....Maybe you get called based on your reactions and not your real age..."hint, hint".

02/12/2013 12:04:31 AM · #32

I just hope I have time to get an entry together! It was my suggestion and I was super stoked on it but my membership expired... 2 minutes ago and I'm moving to the Dominican Republic in a few days! LOL. So... if I get an entry in that will be a bit absurd considering!

;)

02/12/2013 12:05:35 AM · #33

I haven't seen so much repetition of "childish" before. Very clearly designed to upset the poster! I hope she ignores it as that's clearly absurd!

PS She's a much faster typist than I am :)

Message edited by author 2013-02-12 00:06:30.

02/12/2013 12:09:29 AM · #34

Originally posted by Basta:

What a childish reaction....
You asked a question originally of which I answered....I stated based on my principle I was not entering....It obviously was not the answer you felt was correct in your opinion and that's fine, but your reaction was somewhat childish...Hence this outcome. Finally you came up with an even more childish response about judgements, which had nothing to do with the whole conversation....Maybe you get called based on your reactions and not your real age..."hint, hint".

The beacons of the forum, the most respected members on here, have never, and would never talk to me this way. THAT is being mature. Not calling other people names because you don't like what they have to say.

I thought I was playfully bantering like "hey buddy, come on and play the absurd game with us it doesn't matter if you photoshop!" Playful and childish are not the synonymous. Maybe things like intent and tone get lost over the internet but in that case one should give the benefit of the doubt, not default to name calling.

I have been very immature on the forums in the past. But in this instance, I honestly don't see it.

02/12/2013 12:09:58 AM · #35

Originally posted by MNet:

I haven't seen so much repetition of "childish" before. Very clearly designed to upset the poster! I hope she ignores it as that's clearly absurd!

PS She's a much faster typist than I am :)

So I've been told. ;) Fire fingers blazing.

PS Gotta work on this thing you speak of called "ignoring". Not my strong suit. Hehe.

Message edited by author 2013-02-12 00:12:06.

02/12/2013 12:13:31 AM · #36

As you stated. A lot can be lost and interpreted over the internet. I really don't know you at all to know if you are "playfully bantering" or just plain being rude....I did not call you any names. I did however describe how your reactions came across on this end.

02/12/2013 12:20:02 AM · #37

Originally posted by Basta:

Yours came across as rude to me. I also cannot see why photos taken in the Advanced Editing cannot win Expert Editing challenges. They just need to be cleverer.

02/12/2013 12:29:02 AM · #38

Originally posted by MNet:

Originally posted by Basta:
As you stated. A lot can be lost and interpreted over the internet. I really don't know you at all to know if you are "playfully bantering" or just plain being rude....I did not call you any names. I did however describe how your reactions came across on this end.

Yours came across as rude to me. I also cannot see why photos taken in the Advanced Editing cannot win Expert Editing challenges. They just need to be cleverer.

What is rude is trying to stir the pot and involving yourself in a conversation you weren't part of.
And I am assuming you meant more clever....and not "cleverer"

02/12/2013 12:34:57 AM · #39

Originally posted by Basta:

What is rude is trying to stir the pot and involving yourself in a conversation you weren't part of.
And I am assuming you meant more clever....and not "cleverer"

Perhaps if you don't want anyone jumping in you should call me names in private then. :D

Everyone is a part of the conversation. It's a public forum.

02/12/2013 12:36:05 AM · #40

I find this quote currently appropriate.

"The purpose of name-calling is to draw contrast, to draw dividing lines, with the understanding that if do the math right more people will end up on your side." ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

In this instance: One person is young and childish and so by contrast the other is older and more mature.

The irony being that mature people don't call others childish or pithily correct grammar so it nulls the whole equation.

02/12/2013 12:42:16 AM · #41

Originally posted by escapetooz:

Originally posted by Basta:

What is rude is trying to stir the pot and involving yourself in a conversation you weren't part of.
And I am assuming you meant more clever....and not "cleverer"

Perhaps if you don't want anyone jumping in you should call me names in private then. :D

Everyone is a part of the conversation. It's a public forum.

Oh for god sakes....Can you dramatize this a bit more...
Childish:
1. Of like, or appropriate to a child
2. silly and immature

Yes, I called your reaction a horrible name...I hope it doesn't keep you awake at night. LMAO....

02/12/2013 12:42:41 AM · #42

English, the language of Shakespeare!
Cleverer is a UK version of the US more clever.

You are clearly in some nasty mood at the moment to pick on this while not realizing that you are wrong, wrong, wrong! (if not childish ;)
English was spoken in Europe well before it was spoken in America!

PS I know this is not quite on topic but certainly it is heading into the absurd territory.

02/12/2013 12:48:28 AM · #43

Originally posted by MNet:

my apology, I did not realize you speak European....LMAO

02/12/2013 12:52:33 AM · #44

Call me rude, call me childish, and then say I'm the dramatic one. You ARE quite funny.

*TV Voice Over* *Audience clapping*

I hope we have inspired the viewers tonight with our live show of absurdity. No need to thank me, it was all Basta's idea. Please, have a grand time entering this challenge. Take some inspiration, I know I will.

**end show**

I now have all sorts of ideas floating around in my head thanks to this whole ironic "childish" business (and perhaps I thing or two on the concept of psychological projection).

Message edited by author 2013-02-12 00:53:44.

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02/12/2013 12:57:03 AM · #45

Originally posted by escapetooz:

I'm glad i could help a child like you..LOL...You just let me know if you need any "cleverer" ideas...LMAO... *TV Voice Over* *Audience Goes Wild*...close scene...
Scene 2 starts now!...Fire at will.

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02/12/2013 01:47:42 AM · #46

It's too early over here for tennis, deuce.

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02/12/2013 01:57:19 AM · #47

Is this an example of absurd?

02/12/2013 04:29:49 AM · #48

Originally posted by sempermarine:

Is this an example of absurd?

If you put nose on the mouth, it would be absurd. If you put your eye on the mouth it would be surreal.

Neat

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02/12/2013 04:56:07 AM · #49

Originally posted by sempermarine:

Is this an example of absurd?

I think of all people, you do this the best! But you have much better shot's than this one ;------0)