To what extent are TBM/Apologist tastes Brethren-directed?

[_gramps]

Mak wrote:

And I gave it to you.

You gave me your opinion. I asked you for a reference, to confirm whether your opinion is right. Give it to me again, if I missed it, though I don't think I did.

[_karl61]

I really think that there is a calender at MADB and people are assigned or sign up to come over here for three and four days and be disruptive as possible. Sort of like the Radical Faeries.

[_gramps]

Mak wrote:

Yes. When the sentence becomes confusion as a result of being too bulky it is inappropriate. My sentence is not confusing.

According to you, or some rule that I can check? I would like to read the rule, if you don't mind. Serve it up, please, along with the spelling rule. Danke schön, in advance.

[_gramps]

Mak wrote:

Because I know far more about grammar than you.

How would you know this? Like you know the Book of Mormon is true? Or in some other fashion?

[_maklelan]

You gave me your opinion. I asked you for a reference, to confirm whether your opinion is right. Give it to me again, if I missed it, though I don't think I did.

"Grievous misspelling" is an opinion. Are you really trying to insist that no opinions can be expressed unless supported with documented rules of spelling? That would have to be one of the dumber assertions I've ever seen on this board.

[_maklelan]

Mak wrote:

Because I know far more about grammar than you.

How would you know this? Like you know the Book of Mormon is true? Or in some other fashion?

I'm not dignifying such a stupid comment with a response, nor will I waste any more of my time on this discussion.

[_gramps]

You gave me your opinion. I asked you for a reference, to confirm whether your opinion is right. Give it to me again, if I missed it, though I don't think I did.

"Grievous misspelling" is an opinion. Are you really trying to insist that no opinions can be expressed unless supported with documented rules of spelling? That would have to be one of the dumber assertions I've ever seen on this board.

I see. It's as I supposed. Making things up as you go. That ought to work well at Oxford.

[_Daniel Peterson]

I think that this thread itself is becoming a profound commentary on Dr. Robbers's thesis. In addition to the cuisine- and beverage-related "deficiencies" that have already been sketched out, we can also clearly see how allegiance to the Brethren has grieviously injured the apologists' grasp of humor. They fail to see how funny and absurd it is to have a "24 oz. plastic cup of Dr. Pepper fizzing away at the edge of the plate" in a fine dining restaurant. They are so grimly humorless about all of this that Maklelan is fleeing the thread in an outraged panic, and Dr. Peterson is making absurd comparisons between Mormons, Muslims, and Jews. So: you can add self-reflexive humor to the list of cultural areas in which the apologists are seriously deficient.

So you acknowledge that you and Scratch Junior are simply joking when you suggest that failing to consume alcohol puts anybody at a substantial cultural deficit?

[_Calculus Crusader]

I'm not dignifying such a stupid comment with a response, nor will I waste any more of my time on this discussion.

When a legitimate question reared its ugly head maklelan bravely turned his tail and fled...

[_Calculus Crusader]

I really think that there is a calender at MADB and people are assigned or sign up to come over here for three and four days and be disruptive as possible. Sort of like the Radical Faeries.

If the occupants of the FARMS/FAIR clown car did not pile out and put on a show for us, then with whom would we argue?