Joe the Plumber vs. Colin Powell

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jillio said:
Actually, it does.:giggle:
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Considering that I live inside my mind 24 hours a day and you are just a psychology student who knows me only through my posts on an internet forum, I can say with certainty that all of your professional training is of little worth in this case. You might as well tell me I'm not wearing blue jeans and a brown t-shirt as I type this and cite your professional training to back it up. I hope you don't normally approach situations in your field with this level of hubris. If this is just an isolated gaffe, then that's understandable. Even the smartest and most qualified people in any given field are wrong occasionally. But if this is typical, I think that's a problem.
 
Why can't you just admit that she called your bluff and move on?
 
BradB08 said:
Why can't you just admit that she called your bluff and move on?
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It's only a bluff if I don't have the cards in my hand. I don't say this lightly, but she was dead wrong. I have no reason to give in and move on.

If you, or anyone, have a genuine reason to suspect I'm not being upfront, please give me that reason and ask about it. I'll happily respond.
 
darkdog said:
Considering that I live inside my mind 24 hours a day and you are just a psychology student who knows me only through my posts on an internet forum, I can say with certainty that all of your professional training is of little worth in this case. You might as well tell me I'm not wearing blue jeans and a brown t-shirt as I type this and cite your professional training to back it up. I hope you don't normally approach situations in your field with this level of hubris. If this is just an isolated gaffe, then that's understandable. Even the smartest and most qualified people in any given field are wrong occasionally. But if this is typical, I think that's a problem.
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Sweetie, I was a psychology student years ago. I am now a Ph.D. candidate with licensure and 2 certifications. My training does not allow me to look through a computer screen to see what clothing you have chosen to wear, but it does allow me see the nuances in your wording and the phrasing that reveals attitudes, as well as the basic nature of your personality that comes through in the manner in which you choose to communicate.

Perhaps the fact that you live inside your own mind for 24 hours a day is one of your problems. Get outside yourself. It will do you a world of good to realize that there is a whole big universe out there and you are not the center of it.
 
darkdog said:
It's only a bluff if I don't have the cards in my hand. I don't say this lightly, but she was dead wrong. I have no reason to give in and move on.

If you, or anyone, have a genuine reason to suspect I'm not being upfront, please give me that reason and ask about it. I'll happily respond.
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Dude, you have a good avatar but then again, a huge ego is never something that you want to show a woman.
 
jillio said:
Sweetie, I was a psychology student years ago. I am now a Ph.D. candidate with licensure and 2 certifications. My training does not allow me to look through a computer screen to see what clothing you have chosen to wear, but it does allow me see the nuances in your wording and the phrasing that reveals attitudes, as well as the basic nature of your personality that comes through in the manner in which you choose to communicate.

Perhaps the fact that you live inside your own mind for 24 hours a day is one of your problems. Get outside yourself. It will do you a world of good to realize that there is a whole big universe out there and you are not the center of it.
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Ouch! Good comeback, Jillio! :)
 
jillio said:
Sweetie, ...
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Are you my mother now? :)
jillio said:
I was a psychology student years ago. I am now a Ph.D. candidate with licensure and 2 certifications.
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Oops. My mistake.

jillio said:
My training does not allow me to look through a computer screen to see what clothing you have chosen to wear, but it does allow me see the nuances in your wording and the phrasing that reveals attitudes, as well as the basic nature of your personality that comes through
in the manner in which you choose to communicate.

Perhaps the fact that you live inside your own mind for 24 hours a day is one of your problems. Get outside yourself. It will do you a world of good to realize that there is a whole big universe out there and you are not the center of it.
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So you know how I think better than I do by merely looking at how I write? Then why are you unable to understand my words the way I intended them? When I say I live inside my mind 24 hours a day, I mean that I experience only the thoughts and feelings that occur in my brain. Getting outside of myself, in that sense, is impossible without dying. It's a statement that's true for every human being on this Earth. It also has nothing to do with thinking I'm the center of the universe (that assertion being further proof that you really know very little about me).

There's nothing wrong with misunderstanding the intended meaning behind my words. Sometimes, I may words things in such a way that makes sense to me but not others, and I don't expect anyone to know what's going on in my head. But you're claiming that you know what's going on in there better than I do, at least on this. Wouldn't the simpler explanation be that you've somehow misunderstood my intentions, just as you misunderstood that phrase? It may even be my fault for saying something in a way that can be easily misconstrued. If it does turn out to be that, I'll say "oh yeah, I can see how that wasn't clear." I've said that before.

I don't see why you persist in this. Even if you know everything there is to know about psychology, there's no way you're going to convince me that I was thinking something I was never thinking. To be frank, the only reason I'm still here is because I find this amusing.
 
BradB08 said:
Dude, you have a good avatar but then again, a huge ego is never something that you want to show a woman.
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Thanks. It's Kane Roberts, who played for Alice Cooper back in the 80s. It's not an ego thing since the only woman I need to impress is my wife. I have it up there because a machine gun electric guitar is the ultimate culmination of awesomeness. :cool2: Oh boy, Christmas is just next month. :fingersx:
 
Didn't Alice Cooper bite the head off of a chicken? That's something to be proud of?
 
Wokamuka said:
Didn't Alice Cooper bite the head off of a chicken? That's something to be proud of?
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You know, I'd never heard that story before. It sounds more like an Ozzy thing. So I looked it up, and sure enough, there's a bit of truth to it, although it got distorted. Here's a Youtube video where Alice talks about it.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzXzc5qWiks]YouTube - ALICE COOPER BITES HEAD OFF CHICKEN...NOT! MICHAEL HANSEN[/ame]

My transcription:
Somebody threw a chicken onstage. This was in Toronto and I'm from Detroit. I've never, you know, I've never been on a farm in my life. And I said "A chicken, oh. It's got wings. It'll fly. So I flew it back in the audience. I thought it was going to fly away, you know, into the sunset. It went right at the audience and the audience tore it to pieces. And threw the parts back onstage. And the next thing I knew, it was Alice Cooper bites head off chicken and drinks the blood and tears the- you know, all this stuff, you know. And that's what the paper said the next day, and I got a call the next day from Frank Zappa and he says, "Did you do that?" and I said, "No," and he said "Well, don't tell anybody that. They'll love it!"
 
Hear Again said:
Yep. Ozzy bit the head off a bat at a concert back in the 80s.
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Ozzy? I was talking about Alice Cooper. If you're musically inclined, I'll go with you. Ozzy Osbourne is, really, Alice Cooper?
 
Wokamuka said:
Ozzy? I was talking about Alice Cooper. If you're musically inclined, I'll go with you. Ozzy Osbourne is, really, Alice Cooper?
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No, Ozzy and Alice are different people, but the story there is kind of similar. At an Ozzy concert, someone threw a live bat onstage. Ozzy thought it was fake, so he bit the head off, and learned it was real. He was quickly rushed to the hospital. That one was an accident.

Later on, he was having trouble with some record company executives. He walked into their office with a dove in each hand. He opened one hand and let it fly away. Then, he bit the head off the second one. That one was insanity. :barf:

The end.

(Note: I'm telling this story from memory. Details may be inaccurate.)
 
Wokamuka said:
Ozzy? I was talking about Alice Cooper. If you're musically inclined, I'll go with you. Ozzy Osbourne is, really, Alice Cooper?
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Ozzy Osbourne and Alice Cooper are two different people.

I'm not much of a heavy metal fan, but I do remember hearing about this back in the 80s. At a concert Ozzy threw pig intestine at the audience before they started playing. Fans did not like this, so the next day of the concert, people threw rubber and dead animals back at Ozzy. One fan threw a live bat on stage. The bat was stunned by the stage lights and did not move. Ozzy, thinking it was rubber, bit the head off. After this he was rushed to the hospital and checked for rabies. He also bit the head of a dove during a CBS broadcast.
 
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Hear Again said:
Ozzy Osbourne and Alice Cooper are two different people.

I'm not much of a heavy metal fan, but I do remember hearing about this back in the 80s. At a concert Ozzy threw pig intestine at the audience before they started playing. Fans did not like this, so the next day of the concert, people threw rubber and dead animals back at Ozzy. One fan threw a live bat on stage. The bat was stunned by the stage lights and did not move. Ozzy, thinking it was rubber, bit the head off. After this he was rushed to the hospital and checked for rabies. He also bit the head of a dove during a CBS broadcast.
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Aha! The good ole 80's! Sex, Drugs and Rock-n-Roll! :rockon:
 
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