Q: What do you get when you cross Steven Den Beste and an outraged French journalist?
A: 57,000 words and a surrender.
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It’s funny because it’s true.
Apparently Den Beste saw this. Does anyone else think it might be part of why he’s stopped replying to the guy?
Casualties; 2 keyboards, one T-10 cable and a NIC card. No wonder they surrendered. It was getting to expensive for the french. They are saving money to buy air conditioning. Slow roasting granny last summer gave them a bad name. That didn’t bother the Frnch, since they are used to a bad name, but the blow to their reputation as cooks was unsuportable. So it was either Air Conditioning or a better sauce. We will know this Fall what their choice was. My money is on the sauce. But then I tried to include a french Aunt in my dead pool picks. Might be why I got cut, I wasn’t specific enough. But I figured they went thru all their grannies last fall and are now down to auntie.
Hey, now don’t go getting all racist here, needling the French ‘n’ everything.
Cordially…
hahaha – SDB probably doesnt find you comment particularly amusing, but he should.
Heh. The good thing about SDB is that he’s simultaneously thoughtful and hard-hitting (and writes a lot of good posts about anime). The bad thing about SDB is that he goes on and on and on and on and on. Frex, just the other day he started out writing about “Martian Successor Nadeisco”, then said he was going to discuss what a real space battle fleet might look like and do, and then went off on a long, long, long discussion of historical naval tactics and weapons. All very relevant, to be sure, but it probably left a lot of people frantically scrolling to find if he would ever pick up the anime discussion again.
I think he stopped replying because the guy had him dead to rights. Usually he doesn’t notice that, but this time perhaps he sensed it. Ignore SDB, he’s just a jerk at a keyboard who’s never had to put his ass on the line, and yet talks about how great he and america is, and how bad everyone else is. There are plenty of jerks, why pay attention.
…because SDB backs his ideas with facts instead of insults.
Unlike you.
Umm… Steve?
The man’s a genius.
And he’s using a system that *allows* him to speak without having acted. That’s one of the points of the F’in system. This idiocy on having to fight before you speak your mind is infantile at best. Grow up.
Good link.
Ah yes, North Carolina State’s Education department. It just fills me with joy knowing that someone who wants to be a teacher knows neither proper punctuation nor that the name of his own nation (well, the one he’s physically in now- the one his loyalty may belong to may not be the same) gets capitalized.
Bravo, Steve.
“the guy had him dead to rights.”
Just out of curiosity, Steve, what color is the sky on your world?
Joe – that’s how SDB writes – he starts with a tangent and then goes off on a point (I forget who said that first, it wasn’t me). Personally, I love that.
I generally take Steve’s side on things, and the French journalist is abhorrent, but I think SDB surrendered when he opted not to reply.
You’ve got to move fast to outsurrender the French.
“You’ve got to move fast to outsurrender the French”
Great line, Johnathon.
Surrender…? Hardly. SDB made made his point and carried on.
His exchange with that journalist was very interesting: it reconfirmed my opinion that engaging in a dialogue with an amoral leftist is quite similar to arguing science and facts with a ‘flat earther’.
An amusing exercise to be sure, but it can lead to frustration and anger if you don’t know when to…move on.
A word to the wise: when it’s obvious to one and all that your opponent is a naked fool, leave it at. Further blows qualify as abuse.
In crossing jokes, you take a characteristic from each contributor and marry them together.
Here, the surrender is the French characteristic.