The Moon Landing

Hopefully. I mean, what's the goal of having internet if people can't get insulted.

I have heard of this legendary pokemon trainer. I wanna be like him. You heard about him? They call him Kony.

 

Not to you because it's an insult: Special ed is short for Special education.

Unbelievable bullshit on par with the idea of that all the world governments would permit the United States to pull off a moon landing hoax. Deceiving the American people would be easy because most of them wanted to believe. Deceiving the competition would have been nigh on impossible.

 

We do have film of The Blair Witch Project, and you have no idea how many people in my area actually believed it was real lost footage of some unfortunate college students. We also have film of Charlton Heston playing Moses as he performs those miracles. Close enough for me.

That's what I thought, but I didn't want to be rude and assume such a complicated motive.

 

Yeah, I got that and still didn't see how it was funny. Maybe you had to be there.

 

Must have been Philes.

Grossenschwamm: Now you've got me concerned about Apollo 18.

 

...In special ed?

Wasn't that mission cancelled in 1970? I know the movie was boring, though.

 

Too subtle?

 

I waited until the end of the credits and read the disclaimer that declared it to fiction.

Subtle enough that I chuckled.

 

Shouldn't believe everything you read.

 

Since when does hollywood release a movie that is based on real events and not advertise such? Between Liability and Advertising, there isn't a reason that they would lie and every reason not to lie. The "almighty dollar" prevents certain kinds of deceptions in the business world, and encourages other kinds of deception. It is more believable that the idea that the movie real was an advertising lie than the movie was real and they didn't directly advertise it as such.

And if it was real, the film would be in a police locker as evidence; not on every silver screen for people's enjoyment.

 

You thought you needed to write that and that is just sad.

 

Well, part of me wanted to write that, and another part didn't see the point as it figured that you won't accept the concepts anyways. But since I play the fool on this forum anyways and say everything (well, not everything), I figured Why not? Both opposing positions are pure bullshit anyways. But since I would rather believe that people are more good than evil, I'll take the position that the movie was just entertainment. To believe otherwise would be to open myself unknown fears, and who needs more fear in their life?

 

I just looked at my signature and laughed. Good times.

 

I like the way everyone has a north star now.

My north star: the seven stars of the southern cross, which help to extrapolate south.

 

Xyle's my north star.

 

"North Star" as a figurative expression was derived from the fact that the North Star was the primary star for navigation as it indicated which direction was North. The metaphor is used to indicate a guiding principal's role or a role model's impact upon a person's direction in life.

(I could have sworn that my first encounter with the North Star metaphor was a chocolate commerical, but I can't seem to find the company online.)

I'm your role model?

 

No fucking shit.

That's an expression of sarcasm referring to what the other person has just said; it usually functions as a sardonic pointing-out of how glaringly obvious the statement just made was.

The above is an explanation of what I said.

 

The only point of sarcasm that I understand is that the words do not convey a literal meaning (and commonly convey an opposing meaning to what the words literally mean). The rest of the meaning being conveyed I tend to miss (probably because I grew up in house where no one was sarcastic). Most of the time I fail to notice the use of sarcasm in the first place. Therefore my defense against sarcasm is to take it literal in order to provoke a response that indicates its use -- either by a direct response such as what you gave or more commonly by the indirect responses of body language and/or behaviors. (Not hearing a tone of voice is a majority disablity for me in identifying sarcasm; although, many don't use a sarcastic tone of voice when being sarcastic anyway.)

I don't recommend sarcasm as a form of communicating if you wish to communicate to me in a manner that actually communicates what you wish to communicate. When I do discover sarcasm's use, I tend to ignore (or forget) what was said in a sarcastic manner. (Ever notice that it is rather difficult to remember things when you didn't understanding them to begin with?)

 

Sarcasm's very useful when you like to say nice things but you are presented with stupid/boring situations.

For example, thankyou so much, Xyle, for telling me that the north star is a metaphor for guidance. I've never ever heard that before, and I was actually really confused about the subtext. Gosh, what an interesting person you are, to be so replete with such subtlety and insight. It's a real pleasure to be patronised by you.

You see? I didn't have to be nasty at all, at least not overtly. And the best thing is, when you're really up against an idiot, they don't even know you're doing it.

 

Well, I understand obvious sarcasm such as that, especially since you were so kind as to emphasize it.