ALL three of the remaining bidders for Rangers have refused to rule out liquidation

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RebelBhoy said:
I have a lot of work to do.

Building the Spruce Moose.

They are being remarkably tolerant over there. I don't understand it. It is quite clearly bollocks and even the people who disagree are commending the effort he has put in.

I can work hard on being wrong. Or I can be right for very little effort.
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The spruce moose stuff yesterday had me laughing out loud. One of my favourite Simpson's episodes....when it used to be hilarious.
 
I am going top be paranoid now if ever I am genuinely winding folk up or going away on holiday.
 
This is a monster thread which I haven't been following.

In my experience monster threads tend to occur when two individuals spend 25 pages arguing with each other over something stupid - am I right?
 
Sort of. And I know I am often one half of the dueling banjos.

Some clown is spamming a number of forums arguing something stupid and literally everyone is blowing holes in it but it makes no difference at all.
 
DevAdvocate said:
.....one deluded idiot who will never see the truth of the matter, no matter how obvious it is, who is willing to string out an argument that has long since been lost. I'm a glutton for dealing with baloons like that, I sometimes feel it's my public duty to try and make them see sense.....
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I don't want to make a particular comment about the guy you're all talking about, because I don't know him and because I don't much like personalised insults. However.....

There is a gaspingly beautiful psychology paper describing a phenomenon that may be familiar to all exasperated smart people. It was written by Justin Kruger and David Dunning and it’s called Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognising One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.

Kruger and Dunning came to the conclusion that “people who are incompetent suffer a dual burden. Not only are they incompetent, but they may also be too incompetent to assay their own incompetence, because the skills which underlie an ability to make a correct judgement are the same as the skills required to recognise a correct judgement.”

I was reminded of this joyful fact whilst reading this thread.

Some of you may by now be nodding a weary (and yet strangely excited) assent at the timeless veracity of these findings.

If you’ve ever had the misfortune of personally engaging one of these vast, hauntingly empty heads, however – and I would strongly advise against it – then you may also be crying gently with an aching relief as you learn that boffins are on the case and that they’re busy categorising the lesser members of the herd. We may only hope that this leads to a rampant spate of highly illiberal arrests some time super soon.

And the sheer circular beauty of it all, of course, is that the mouth-breathing cat-stranglers will be nodding along, as well, perfectly incapable of recognising themselves in this picture, happily convinced that it relates to the other guy. They can’t possibly recognise themselves in the picture. Why? Because they’re dumb. Exquisite. This keeps everyone happy. It’s how the world goes round, with each of us fondly believing we’re just that tiny wee bit smarter than the next guy.

My motto: don't engage. Ever. It's simply not worth the bother.
 
Psychosomatic said:
I don't want to make a particular comment about the guy you're all talking about, because I don't know him and because I don't much like personalised insults. However.....

There is a gaspingly beautiful psychology paper describing a phenomenon that may be familiar to all exasperated smart people. It was written by Justin Kruger and David Dunning and it’s called Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognising One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.

Kruger and Dunning came to the conclusion that “people who are incompetent suffer a dual burden. Not only are they incompetent, but they may also be too incompetent to assay their own incompetence, because the skills which underlie an ability to make a correct judgement are the same as the skills required to recognise a correct judgement.”

I was reminded of this joyful fact whilst reading this thread.

Some of you may by now be nodding a weary (and yet strangely excited) assent at the timeless veracity of these findings.

If you’ve ever had the misfortune of personally engaging one of these vast, hauntingly empty heads, however – and I would strongly advise against it – then you may also be crying gently with an aching relief as you learn that boffins are on the case and that they’re busy categorising the lesser members of the herd. We may only hope that this leads to a rampant spate of highly illiberal arrests some time super soon.

And the sheer circular beauty of it all, of course, is that the mouth-breathing cat-stranglers will be nodding along, as well, perfectly incapable of recognising themselves in this picture, happily convinced that it relates to the other guy. They can’t possibly recognise themselves in the picture. Why? Because they’re dumb. Exquisite. This keeps everyone happy. It’s how the world goes round, with each of us fondly believing we’re just that tiny wee bit smarter than the next guy.

My motto: don't engage. Ever. It's simply not worth the bother.
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I like to believe I have a similar outlook. There are one or two individuals on this forum who put a lot of energy into deriding me as a stand out target, but I don't put anywhere near the same energy back. Not because I'm patient or immune to criticism or even that I don't have ample ammunition to put them straight down, but because I'm pretty sure I don't need to put these people down in front of others as they do a fine job all by themselves - to help them along would feel a bit cruel (you see how I've classed myself as the other guy?).

Of course other times I'm just in the mood for a fight and I will indulge a little bit.
 
Psychosomatic said:
Regrettably, Rebel, I went through every last page.

(I'm a glutton for this sort of stuff and secretly love it. Just so long as I'm not involved in any way.)
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wow.... I couldn't do that and I wrote a lot of it...I can't help myself. Right or wrong.
 
MalteseMick said:
I like to believe I have a similar outlook. There are one or two individuals on this forum who put a lot of energy into deriding me as a stand out target, but I don't put anywhere near the same energy back. Not because I'm patient or immune to criticism or even that I don't have ample ammunition to put them straight down, but because I'm pretty sure I don't need to put these people down in front of others as they do a fine job all by themselves - to help them along would feel a bit cruel (you see how I've classed myself as the other guy?).

Of course other times I'm just in the mood for a fight and I will indulge a little bit.
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Ha. I'm forever classing myself as the other guy, too. In my defence, however, I'm clever enough to realise that I'm utterly stupid. The more I learn the less I know, type of thing.

But yes, I'd pretty much go along with everything you said. I've never responded to the personal stuff and never will - and I had someone stalking me for over two years on a blog I keep elsewhere, becoming progressively more deranged in their insults. None of it interests me and I find ignoring it very easy. Why would I ever bother to respond? To impress strangers? To make myself feel better? To put a stranger down? To "win"? It doesn't make sense to me and I hope it never does.


Rebelbhoy: said:
wow.... I couldn't do that and I wrote a lot of it...I can't help myself.
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That made me laugh. (Damn you, Irisher.)
 
Psychosomatic said:
Ha. I'm forever classing myself as the other guy, too. In my defence, however, I'm clever enough to realise that I'm utterly stupid. The more I learn the less I know, type of thing.

But yes, I'd pretty much go along with everything you said. I've never responded to the personal stuff and never will - and I had someone stalking me for over two years on a blog I keep elsewhere, becoming progressively more deranged in their insults. None of it interests me and I find ignoring it very easy. Why would I ever bother to respond? To impress strangers? To make myself feel better? To put a stranger down? To "win"? It doesn't make sense to me and I hope it never does.




That made me laugh. (Damn you, Irisher.)
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I am sometimes both guys depending on who I am talking to and occasionally both guys in the same conversation.
 
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