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Anyway, I have a very thick skin from reading "Irina Khalidar" transcripts. Recently some reincarnation of Jack the Ripper attacked her. "Hangup" chose that moment to fail and so he abused her for pages and pages and pages. I think I'll write a bot about macrame, or maybe interior decoration.
Won't help. I remember someone saying the last time we had a bot rapist he went after Talkie Toaster too. See? If that crap were about sex, would he really want to sodomize a kitchen appliance? If the answer is yes, I hope he doesn't bother to unplug it first and then the matter will be solved.
I think your debates with Psimagus are interesting and respectful, in the way academic debates. There is a group of adult students I work with who I constantly advise to avoid qualifiers like "I think" or "I feel" or I believe" in their formal writing. Some of them think it sounds too "stuck up" to omit IMHO, as if they can't see other points of view if they are assertive about their own logic. In the particular field they chose to study, I think they will have to learn a little thick-skinned debate technique.
I don't really think I am overly aggressive or tough on students, though the Socratic thing can annoy people. I hope I am not too teacherly in general either. I think I am nice to students and people alike.
I patronized the %^$&^%#@!*&^!! out of HIM! I hope there wasn't any collateal damage!
Oh no, I have the skin of a rhinoceros (but he's not getting it back without a fight
)
Always a pleasure to engage with a cultivated mind!
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Corwin, It's hard to offend me. I was defending from attitudes I've seen many places. To be fair, I don't play WoW and the reason I know about it is because good friends who started playing Wow would have me over and play at the same time, so yes, they were obsessed a tiny bit.
I think you have some great points there. It also kind of ties in with the theory of personality issues in Personality (that I really should have brought down here to post--sorry). There are some core values or aspects of personality that may arguable be fixed of fairly consistent, but may characteristics and behaviors are situation specific and heavily influenced by peers.
On the other hand, you are right about certain habits carrying over when a person is slow to switch gears. I usually teach older students, and yet I still have a tendency to try to treat everyone as my student when I don't think about it. This gets worse if the other says or does something that puts them in the student category in my mind. I don't meaning any way to sound condescending, it's just a bad habit. All the life's a classroom, and I want to be the one making the lesson plan.
I think you have some great points there. It also kind of ties in with the theory of personality issues in Personality (that I really should have brought down here to post--sorry). There are some core values or aspects of personality that may arguable be fixed of fairly consistent, but may characteristics and behaviors are situation specific and heavily influenced by peers.
On the other hand, you are right about certain habits carrying over when a person is slow to switch gears. I usually teach older students, and yet I still have a tendency to try to treat everyone as my student when I don't think about it. This gets worse if the other says or does something that puts them in the student category in my mind. I don't meaning any way to sound condescending, it's just a bad habit. All the life's a classroom, and I want to be the one making the lesson plan.
Just like your mum!
(Sorry, that wasn't directed at anyone, I'm just practicing, trying to broaden myself!)
(Sorry, that wasn't directed at anyone, I'm just practicing, trying to broaden myself!)
I think broaden would be the wrong term to use there
I usually teach older students, and yet I still have a tendency to try to treat everyone as my student when I don't think about it.
Yeah, I've caught myself doing that in conversations I've had lately and there are times when I just want to slap myself. I teach junior secondary kids, so when I do it I imagine it comes across even more condescending.
I teach college students, and find that my attitude varies by both class and student. I do have a "lecture" mode that I drift into when asked questions, but it's not really condescending...more...a tendency to go into much more detail than a non-student might want.
*sighs, having just read through pages of quantum physics and philosophy*
I leave for a while, and the mean IQ of the website increases exponentially. Figures.
I leave for a while, and the mean IQ of the website increases exponentially. Figures.
Irina, does that mean you felt that way from me? Then I am sorry. It wasn't intended. I don't even teach live classes anymore (though I still teach). Maybe I can't blame teaching then...anyway, it wasn't intentional.
No no no no no nonononononono!! I mentioned them specifically because they were criticing themselves along that line.
The only person I might have felt patronized by around here is Psimagus in our Quantum Theory discussion, and that was only fair, because I patronized the %^$&^%#@!*&^!! out of HIM! I hope there wasn't any collateal damage!
Anyway, I have a very thick skin from reading "Irina Khalidar" transcripts. Recently some reincarnation of Jack the Ripper attacked her. "Hangup" chose that moment to fail and so he abused her for pages and pages and pages. I think I'll write a bot about macrame, or maybe interior decoration.
The only person I might have felt patronized by around here is Psimagus in our Quantum Theory discussion, and that was only fair, because I patronized the %^$&^%#@!*&^!! out of HIM! I hope there wasn't any collateal damage!
Anyway, I have a very thick skin from reading "Irina Khalidar" transcripts. Recently some reincarnation of Jack the Ripper attacked her. "Hangup" chose that moment to fail and so he abused her for pages and pages and pages. I think I'll write a bot about macrame, or maybe interior decoration.
Won't help. I remember someone saying the last time we had a bot rapist he went after Talkie Toaster too. See? If that crap were about sex, would he really want to sodomize a kitchen appliance? If the answer is yes, I hope he doesn't bother to unplug it first and then the matter will be solved.
I think your debates with Psimagus are interesting and respectful, in the way academic debates. There is a group of adult students I work with who I constantly advise to avoid qualifiers like "I think" or "I feel" or I believe" in their formal writing. Some of them think it sounds too "stuck up" to omit IMHO, as if they can't see other points of view if they are assertive about their own logic. In the particular field they chose to study, I think they will have to learn a little thick-skinned debate technique.
I don't really think I am overly aggressive or tough on students, though the Socratic thing can annoy people. I hope I am not too teacherly in general either. I think I am nice to students and people alike.
Oh no, I have the skin of a rhinoceros (but he's not getting it back without a fight
)Always a pleasure to engage with a cultivated mind!
Bev: I have never found your contributions to be unpleasant in any way.
Psimagus: Well...maybe we should resume our debate!
Psimagus: Well...maybe we should resume our debate!
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