eddie wrote:
Tall Midget wrote:
I am not being facetious when I say that I am stunned anyone can listen to this show for more than ten minutes per day. Its combination of disingenuous enthusiasm, Spiegelian tangentialism, wanton and gleeful ignorance, witless nostalgia, lustful consumerism, inexplicable self-importance and random shouting renders me physically ill.
Nice job with the pseudo-intellectualisms but really if I was made ill by something I'd try to avoid it. Since you keep coming back you're either Einstein's definition of insane or Forrest Gump's "stupid is as stupid does". Are you Gloopan the III?

It's interesting to me that you respond to my post not by disagreeing with my point, but by attacking me. I can only assume, then, that you agree with my points about the show's catastrophic ineptitude. Good.
Now let's move on to the points where we disagree. You describe my post as "pseudo-intellectual," a puzzling term to use in this context since I was completely unaware my post had any intellectual pretensions whatsoever. Indeed, my comment neither makes any scholarly references nor uses an esoteric vocabulary. All of the words contained in it, in fact, are commonly taught at the junior high school or high school level. Do you consider the use of such an admittedly rudimentary vocabulary "pseudo-intellectual?" If so, I can only imagine you would do so because your own vocabulary does not have the range of a typical elementary school student. But then that would make you the "pseudo-intellectual" since you are using a word without understanding its meaning, wouldn't it? Or perhaps it would just make you borderline illiterate or irretrievably stupid. I'll let you make the call, but I vote for a combination of the latter two possibilities.
In any event, it occurs to me that your use of the word "pseudo-intellectual" implies that you are an authority on the appropriate form of "intellectualism" to be expressed on this board. Since I am nothing more than a "pseudo-intellectual" in your view, I would appreciate the opportunity to be enlightened about the nature of "true intellectualism" when it comes to posting here. Please provide an example of true intellectualism as you define it so I can pattern my future posts after it accordingly. If you fail to do so, however, I'm afraid that I'll again have to regard your post as a worthless pile of shit since you are again using words without knowing what the Hell you're talking about.
I look forward to your response.
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