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02/16/2014 04:28:07 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by Cory:
I honestly find your assertion that I don't know what photography is to be comical Don. Again, thank goodness the unwashed masses like myself have you to guide us. ;) |
You're the one trying to guide the unwashed masses by telling them what photography is. I'm just telling you that you're wrong. I've already mentioned Man Ray and photograms, but you're not interested in my counter-examples. I'm questioning your fundamental assumptions, and therefore you can't hear what I'm saying. That sort of thing happens all the time. |
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02/16/2014 07:14:53 PM · #52 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
Originally posted by RayEthier:
Not fair... all the questions were in English and I did the vast majority of my studies in French. I did score 12 out of 13 and honestly should have gotten a perfect score, but I guess I pressed on the "Next" button too soon.
Oh, and on the subject of voting, I seem to recall that one politician could not spell "potatoe", another tended to say "nuclear" family and has a whole series of comments he made that would make people shake their head in disbelief, another who managed to shoot a friend while quail hunting... I guess the problem is even bigger than what you anticipated.
Regarding the issue of recognizing art... If This what chance do the members of the "great unwashed masses" have. :O)
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Actually potato with an e is listed in my 1920s dictionary as an alternative spelling.
Not that I had any respect for Quayle, but on that one, he wasn't incorrect. |
And, he was following the card that had been handed to him by the teacher.
//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/quayle3.htm
Message edited by author 2014-02-16 19:21:54. |
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02/16/2014 08:15:29 PM · #53 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by Cory:
I honestly find your assertion that I don't know what photography is to be comical Don. Again, thank goodness the unwashed masses like myself have you to guide us. ;) |
You're the one trying to guide the unwashed masses by telling them what photography is. I'm just telling you that you're wrong. I've already mentioned Man Ray and photograms, but you're not interested in my counter-examples. I'm questioning your fundamental assumptions, and therefore you can't hear what I'm saying. That sort of thing happens all the time. |
(FROM OTHER THREAD)
Originally posted by posthumous:
The "photographic in nature" clause was put there for emotional reasons, so that people with arbitrarily limited ideas about what photography is, people who've never heard of Man Ray or photograms, could comfort themselves while people who want to make heavy metal album covers could happily go about their business.
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First, I'm not trying to guide the unwashed masses. I've been busy noting that there is a 'rule' in Expert Editing which 'encourages' work which is 'photographic in nature'.. I clearly have a different idea of what that means than you do - but apparently you think that Man Ray and Photograms are not photographic - or maybe you think they are... I don't know what your position on them is, all you did was mention them in a way which assumed that I don't know who Man Ray was, and that I don't know what a photogram is. At least you admit to 'just telling me I'm wrong', but it would be nice if you actually went as far as saying why you feel that way.
To my eye Man Ray's photography work is photographic, as for photograms, well hell Don, they're called photograms for a reason - but aside from that, I find most of them photographic in nature as well. In so far as that they represent real objects and look much like the shadow I might see on a countertop.
Like I said, maybe you and pixelpig should educate us, since according to you I don't know what a photograph is, and according to her it's because DPC doesn't have anything on it which is photographic in nature.
But hey, as long as you're comfortable just telling me I'm wrong, assuring me that I don't know what a photograph is, and not actually discussing anything, I guess that's ok - just don't expect me to really respect your position, since I invariably value those who are adding substance to the conversation.
So in short, get up off my nutz and do something useful, or just simply get up off my nutz bro.
Message edited by author 2014-02-16 20:19:57. |
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02/16/2014 08:24:59 PM · #54 |
Could you two just do something useful, and stay on track in this thread about
Testing your Science Knowledge?
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02/16/2014 08:35:06 PM · #55 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Could you two just do something useful, and stay on track in this thread about
Testing your Science Knowledge?
Please. |
Alice, I didn't bring it into this thread... For whatever reason Don saw fit to start sniping at me in here as well. Please don't expect me to simply let it go unchallenged when he's being needlessly confrontational and accusatory.
You'll even notice I posted a "Let's just get back on track here" along with the link a few posts ago. Sorry, honestly sorry, but I'm not the one who brought the argument into this thread. |
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02/16/2014 08:37:52 PM · #56 |
I grew up spelling them as potatoe and tomatoe and potatoes and tomatoes.
Now it's potato and tomato and potatoes and tomatoes.
Tomato without the e used to bug me.
Now it doesn't. |
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02/16/2014 08:38:56 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by Cory:
For whatever reason Don saw fit to start sniping at me in here as well. Please don't expect me to simply let it go unchallenged when he's being needlessly confrontational and accusatory. |
Cory, if you review the Forum Rules (esp. 9-14) you will see that reporting and not responding is exactly what you are expected to do. |
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02/16/2014 08:41:30 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Cory:
For whatever reason Don saw fit to start sniping at me in here as well. Please don't expect me to simply let it go unchallenged when he's being needlessly confrontational and accusatory. |
Cory, if you review the Forum Rules (esp. 9-14) you will see that reporting and not responding is exactly what you are expected to do. |
Sure, and then Don calls me a pansy for reporting him.
Can't win for losing brother. |
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02/16/2014 08:47:05 PM · #59 |
Sorry I took your thread off-track, Alice. I got 12 out of 13, because I don't know what I'm breathing.
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02/16/2014 09:54:44 PM · #60 |
| If everyone understood basic science, we wouldn't have any idiots who believe the earth is only a couple of thousand years old to mock. |
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02/16/2014 10:08:14 PM · #61 |
Originally posted by Spork99:
If everyone understood basic science, we wouldn't have any idiots who believe the earth is only a couple of thousand years old to mock. |
That would be fun and amusing if there were only a few, but man, they're legion! |
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02/16/2014 10:15:18 PM · #62 |
| I like pansies! Which reminds me - I need to get a fresh new batch for the boxes out front, since I keep forgetting to water them. |
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02/16/2014 10:17:32 PM · #63 |
13/13. I only got the atmosphere question right because the answer was the closest thing to Nitrous Oxide, which would have been my guess.
In terms of so many people not knowing these things - it doesn't surprise me or alarm me as much as the number of people who know so little about current events that affect all of us. Also, you can pick apart anything anyone says and project some sort of ignorance or stupidity onto them. Science is always evolving and "scientific facts" often become discarded "theories" when new evidence is discovered. I can imagine all the "scientists" of the time, mocking Pythagoras for positing that the earth was round. Even now, I just shake my head when I watch the Science or Discovery channel and they say things like "Scientists used to believe.....but we now KNOW that..." and what they used to believe was presented to me in school as scientific fact, and what they now "know" (which turns out to be contrary to the old facts) is now fact.
eta: the Nitrous Oxide thing was a joke. ...a joke that everyone (who is not a pansy) should have laughed at.
Message edited by author 2014-02-16 22:18:52. |
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02/16/2014 10:21:15 PM · #64 |
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02/16/2014 10:27:41 PM · #65 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
I like pansies! Which reminds me - I need to get a fresh new batch for the boxes out front, since I keep forgetting to water them. |
I like pansies, too. They grow right through the brick patio. Tough little guys. |
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