[Dakarʒ]

Isn't it a reference book?

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

Leave your xenophobic comments at the door plz.

facetious |fəˈsē sh əs| adjective treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.

DERIVATIVES facetiously adverb facetiousness noun

ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the general sense [witty, amusing] ): from French facétieux, from facétie, from Latin facetia ‘jest,’ from facetus ‘witty.’

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[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Mastrap 

It's a great book and a classic. It should be mandatory reading for everybody who writes in English. Seriously.

Again, I am not important enough to need such a thing. Nor would anything I would miss by not reading it bother me.

To me it's pretty irrelevant to my life. It would be me wasting my time IMHO.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

What's up with this?

Seems you got your relevancy mixed up.

[Graviton]

I generally only watch things that I plan to watch, but I still have plenty of time for books and *gasp* actually going out and living my life

How people choose to idle away their existence is really their own business.

[Mastrap]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

Isn't it a reference book?

One of the best there is.

[Mastrap]

nm.

[Dakarʒ]

Originally Posted by Mastrap 

One of the best there is.

Isn't reading a reference book about as exciting as reading a dictionary?

[Mastrap]

Depends on what's important to you.

[Dakarʒ]

So you've read that book front to back like a fiction novel?

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Graviton 

How people choose to idle away their existence is really their own business.

QFT FTW!

As long as they aren't doing anything illegal.

But some people like to think they are all above the "average American". Big woop-dee-doo. Sounds like insecurity to me.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

But some people like to think they are all above the "average American".

Ask him about the average Brit.

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

But some people like to think they are all above the "average American".

And a lot of them are.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

And a lot of them are.

And "a lot" of them aren't.

I think you have made my point quite well.

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

And a lot of them are.

I'd say about 50% (of Americans).

[Mastrap]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

So you've read that book front to back like a fiction novel?

How did you come to that, rather bizarre, conclusion?
It's a reference book, and a good one. What makes you think that anybody would read it like a novel?

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

Isn't reading a reference book about as exciting as reading a dictionary?

Hey, don't sell the dictionary short.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

Hey, don't sell the dictionary short.

Or a thesaurus.

Quick, anyone know another word for thesaurus?

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - 

I'd say about 50% (of Americans).

My point exactly.

Just remember, you're unique and special, just like everyone else.

[macintologist]

I don't think watching TV is so bad, as long as it's a good movie or a good TV series. What's really bad is all the commercials. That's why I don't have cable and just torrent everything or watch DVDs only.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

And a lot of them are.

This thread is you trying to convince yourself that you are somehow more superior because you don't do a certain action. Because you certainly aren't convincing anyone else.

I say someone that is decent in math, look at Tiresias posting rate, then do some math and give an outcome on how many years he is wasting by just posting condescending banter and verbal masturbation.

That will REALLY show us how much superior he is.

[Dakarʒ]

Originally Posted by Mastrap 

How did you come to that, rather bizarre, conclusion?
It's a reference book, and a good one. What makes you think that anybody would read it like a novel?

Originally Posted by Mastrap 

It's a great book and a classic. It should be mandatory reading for everybody who writes in English. Seriously.

I'm not sure of what other ways you read a book, especially in the mandatory sense.

[- - e r i k - -]

Apropos:

You Are What You Watch - New York Times

Television used to be dismissed by elitists as the idiot box, a sea of mediocrity that drowns thought and intelligent debate. Now people who ignore its pools and eddies of excellence do so at their own peril. They are missing out on the main topic of conversation at their own table.