The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

With Shakespeare I just found his stuff boring. Hideously so. It was also incredibly predictable and never had any interesting plot twists or anything like that, and the dialogue was stilted and unwitty. I also hated the long drawn out monologues some characters would do, now granted this is also a tactic good writers use, like Tarantino does all the time (such as Leo's large rant with his bleeding hand in Django Unchained, or Brad Pitt's opening speech in Inglourious Basterds or the Christopher Walken scene in Pulp Fiction, etc.) but he keeps the monologues interesting and easy to follow. Plus the actors get to go crazy with them, not really present in Shakespeare's plays. Truthfully we have posters on this forum with a more interesting, witty and funny writing styles, opebo and Tweed are both far superior. So yeah just wasn't fond of his stuff.

Yeah!  Who needs that fusty old William Shakespeare when we have opebo for all our literary needs!

I came here to post this.

[they don't love you like i love you]

I'll just say I've laughed far more times at an opebo post than a Shakespeare work. The Professor was another example of a poster that was a better writer.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I'll just say I've laughed far more times at an opebo post than a Shakespeare work. The Professor was another example of a poster that was a better writer.

Keep posting directly here.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I'll just say I've laughed far more times at an opebo post than a Shakespeare work. The Professor was another example of a poster that was a better writer.

Settle down.

[Paul Kemp]

I don't even love Billy Shakes but...

Dumping on Shakespeare should not be protected by the First Amendment. I consider that akin to treason - worse because it disrespects the English language (which he more than anyone else in its modern form gave birth to), rather than a mere political entity.

He was also gratuitous and whiny (setting myself up for something, i get it) and is placed on a pedestal for being the inventor of the cliche as well as the master of unoriginality before it was original. Essentially, he was the world's first bullsh*tter and is treated like a God for it.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

I'll just say I've laughed far more times at an opebo post than a Shakespeare work. The Professor was another example of a poster that was a better writer.

Settle down.

No, The Professor was awesome.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I am not going to postpone my life just because I don't have a job and I will actively enjoy life while I'm trying to rebound.

what's wrong with that?

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I'll just say I've laughed far more times at an opebo post than a Shakespeare work. The Professor was another example of a poster that was a better writer.

Settle down.

No, The Professor was awesome.

Indeed he was, but it's going too far to say he was a better writer than Shakespeare.

"Romeo, drinking poison will not help you get girls."

[they don't love you like i love you]

My example was with about the bare minimum hours that you could possibly get.  Why are you set on going to Kenya instead of making money?  Some money is better than no money.

If you were working 5 8-hour days at $11, that's taking home $350 per week minus $70 in gas if the job is FORTY miles away.  So that's still $280 in income.  And did you even apply to a job that was 40 miles away?

Probably not.  You said none were closer than 15 miles, so if you only drove 118 miles yesterday, I can't see how any of the jobs would be 40 miles away, as that alone would be 80 miles of your 118 miles yesterday, meaning that all of the other driving you did was only 38 miles.

Inks, I've got a plan.  The plan is working.  That's all that needs to be said.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Do Update posts really need to be copied here?  It's sort of given that they belong here and it will hasten the day this landfill needs to be closed and another thread opened to take its place.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

A big reason Shakespeare comes across as boring is that it has often been performed so boringly.

I think very few people can understand the language today.  Its rather like listening to people from the North of England talking - you get some very rough idea what is going on, but it isn't fun after about five minutes.

^^^^^^^
Biggest waste of high school. And that says a lot. He gets crazy respect because he's old.  The iambic pentameter is an impressive feat, but it's also a pretty stupid literary device that I find very distracting. It's like somebody is dribbling a basketball during every play. His storytelling isn't all that imaginative. He took a lot of ideas from others, as the idea of plagiarism wasn't yet a thing. 

Awful even by this poster's standards.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Modern obsession with plagiarism is truly a cancer.

[Insula Dei]

I am not going to postpone my life just because I don't have a job and I will actively enjoy life while I'm trying to rebound.

what's wrong with that?

With unemployment comes the moral obligation to be miserable every moment of every day.

[opebo]

Modern obsession with plagiarism is truly a cancer.

Especially in academia

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Modern obsession with plagiarism is truly a cancer.

Especially in academia

I'd argue that that's the only place where it isn't a cancer, to be honest.

[Paul Kemp]

I am not going to postpone my life just because I don't have a job and I will actively enjoy life while I'm trying to rebound.

what's wrong with that?

The source and context. No one is asking he "postpone life."

[memphis]

Double deluge

Dumping on Shakespeare should not be protected by the First Amendment. I consider that akin to treason - worse because it disrespects the English language (which he more than anyone else in its modern form gave birth to), rather than a mere political entity.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Double deluge

Dumping on Shakespeare should not be protected by the First Amendment. I consider that akin to treason - worse because it disrespects the English language (which he more than anyone else in its modern form gave birth to), rather than a mere political entity.

You're one to talk. Your opinions on English verse lack all merit. In fact, I'd argue that it's very unlikely that they'll ever gain merit, since they appear to be based on an ear for poetic form so bad that I wasn't actually aware that it was possible before this afternoon.

[memphis]

Double deluge

Dumping on Shakespeare should not be protected by the First Amendment. I consider that akin to treason - worse because it disrespects the English language (which he more than anyone else in its modern form gave birth to), rather than a mere political entity.

You're one to talk. Your opinions on English verse lack all merit. In fact, I'd argue that it's very unlikely that they'll ever gain merit, since they appear to be based on an ear for poetic form so bad that I wasn't actually aware that it was possible before this afternoon.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Double deluge

Dumping on Shakespeare should not be protected by the First Amendment. I consider that akin to treason - worse because it disrespects the English language (which he more than anyone else in its modern form gave birth to), rather than a mere political entity.

You're one to talk. Your opinions on English verse lack all merit. In fact, I'd argue that it's very unlikely that they'll ever gain merit, since they appear to be based on an ear for poetic form so bad that I wasn't actually aware that it was possible before this afternoon.

You're acting like a particularly petty middle-schooler. This is hilarious. Goldmined.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Ernest had a good point, but for this I could not resist:

Jeff, you didn't address my main point.... how is applying for a job and refusing an offer not spitting in your potential employer's face?

Maybe things change between application and offer?

If any of the places I applied to were to call me, I would consider it.  It doesn't mean I have to accept it as long as I seriously consider it.  For all they know, I may have gotten offers from different places at the same time and had to choose just one.

Maybe things change between the offer to send you to Kenya and now.

For all your donor knows, you may have gotten an offer for a job and had to choose that to support yourself instead of deceiving people into giving you money.

Please stop acting like I'm the villain in all this.  I'm not the victim, but I'm not the villain, either.

You've changed the subject.  How are the two situations any different?  You're applying opposite standards in each case so that you can get to go to Kenya... your standards are patently illogical.

What do you think your donor would say if you asked his advice: "I've received a job offer that would supply me with much-needed money, but I think I'm going to turn it down because I would not want to offend you."  If your donor has half a brain, he'd tell you, "Take the job!  You can go to Kenya when you're able."

The fact is I am able to go now.  I won't be able to in March 2014.  The next time I can go is late 2014.  I hope you're not suggesting I should wait another 18-24 months to see my children?  Nearly 3 years is too long for this father not to see his kids.  Nobody can argue with the fact that I am their daddy or that my love for them is like a father.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Modern obsession with plagiarism is truly a cancer.

Especially in academia

I'd argue that that's the only place where it isn't a cancer, to be honest.

^^^^^^

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Citing your damn sources is really not that hard.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Citing your damn sources is really not that hard.

I quoted it to express approval, not as "this belongs in the deluge" quoting. Sorry for the confusion.


Anyway, I do hate citing sources requirements, but that's only because my technique for writing papers mainly consists in writing whatever comes out of my head at the time.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Citing your damn sources is really not that hard.

I quoted it to express approval, not as "this belongs in the deluge" quoting. Sorry for the confusion.

No, I wasn't confused; I was agreeing with you (and by extension myself). Very vehemently. I'm sorry for the confusion on that point!