Seasons
This is a forum or general chit-chat, small talk, a "hey, how ya doing?" and such. Or hell, get crazy deep on something. Whatever you like.
Posts 3,873 - 3,884 of 6,170
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!
Heimdall has made it into the top ten most developed bots.
Congratulations! And in your honour we have unleashed the hound Hati on Mani the god of the moon - he's devoured almost half of it already!
Anyone in Europe reading this in the next few hours, check out the lunar eclipse - it's beautiful!
Psimagus: Well...maybe we should resume our debate!
I'd be delighted to - but it will have to wait until the eclipse (and the absinthe) has worn off, I'm afraid!
Posts 3,873 - 3,884 of 6,170
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!
Congratulations! And in your honour we have unleashed the hound Hati on Mani the god of the moon - he's devoured almost half of it already!
Anyone in Europe reading this in the next few hours, check out the lunar eclipse - it's beautiful!
I'd be delighted to - but it will have to wait until the eclipse (and the absinthe) has worn off, I'm afraid!
» More new posts: Doghead's Cosmic Bar