So, in essence, you are Pete by proxy

Post #382,703 by danreck 10/25/13 5:29:03 PM Reply	So, in essence, you are Pete by proxy I see how you Europeans stick together now. Very interesting. I see what's happening here now. I call Pete out and he sends you in to out pedant me. Well, mister, I can right shift this thread with the very best of them. The VAT is indeed just like a sales tax but it is not CALLED a sales tax and a sales tax (although predominately a state and not federally imposed item) is like a VAT but not CALLED one then we both are right and we both are wrong. Game, set, and match for us both. That should boost each of our respective self esteems - a true win-win. Who said that exceptionalism can't be humble? Your turn to tell me that I am still wrong because I said it was a sales tax PLUS a VAT which is technically true but I will deflect the subject over and over until you are too tired to continue. Just letting you know in advance. Your turn. Sidebar - I haven't been in a Flame quarantine in quite a few years. Should we save that for when we are really pissed or just start now? I mean, I'm sure I cannot live up to your standards, but I have been learning a few things now that I have a teenager in the house. Just a few thoughts, Dan
Post #382,705 by boxley 10/25/13 5:32:07 PM Reply	naw, save that for the good stuff Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #382,711 by CRConrad 10/25/13 6:12:34 PM Reply	Mine's only ten, but he's precocious. So I might have learned nearly as much as you. But, the spin-off-a-thread functionality from the old Z isn't here, so I can't be bothered. -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #382,713 by Ashton 10/25/13 6:14:42 PM Reply	Now then, Dan--may I call you 'Dan', Dan? If this dry-run on florid amateur forensic fisticuffs is aborted, for a bit: I await your Review of the mentioned tomes: these shall require of you authentic attention to discursive, oft [actually!-] subtle means of getting across --the essence of various zeitgeists.. too-many-words?--OK: telling How it Was, so you can feel it. (Will that do?) I have supposed.. that you will deem the time invested as Worth-it; I may be wrong. Advance-apology could be an ez-out--but I won't give that. Fact is, within this doomed anti-culture of rampant diseasedvulture-capitalism: damn few with families and oodles of techno-toys as diversions: Will read lengthy tomes (other than escape-type stories)==they. no. time. Maybe you, too. Oh well. Oh, and: iffen ya means to inject Annie-Randish stuff about Econ and all who sail in that miserable pseudo-nonscience all over the place, may I direct your attention to my post today in the Money/Mammon forum? (It seems that holy-Science has finally turned a spotlight onto those who Believe-in Certain-knowledge of what a Debt/GDP Ratio (is that a koan?) MUST BE and your subtext-messages recently have strongly implied that you are a Card-carrying Acolyte of all Econ-mumbo-jumbo du jour/du yester-jour. (I Hope Not, 'cause I'd like to continue to believe that you aren't a self-styled Gnostic on these evanescent/unfathomable intentionalyl-obscurant 'matters'.. of tryin to link Econ-megalo-theories to anything! in Real Life.) Say It Ain't So, Dan! Hey Man!--it's bogus-think: stuff for anal retentive number freaks, as far from wisdom as a one can <-----> get. (Of course I have the Proofs: Google Gödel, then Korzybski, Stuart Chase and maybe Geo. Carlin. 'that enough?) Ta, you smug polysyllabic antidisestablismentarian-outlier/avec coprophagic-grin er, ;^> (iI do regret that we had that just-one fone-con wherein the demons could be compared.. eons ago. But now yer Baaack, sorta?)
Post #382,714 by CRConrad 10/25/13 6:16:17 PM Reply	Go right ahead and call him "Milkman Dan".
Post #382,825 by danreck 10/28/13 9:26:56 AM Reply	Always going for the Meta aren't you Nah Ash, just having a little fun with my old pal Christian (still can't get over "that" irony) and Pete. You know me, I just love to point out how freaking convoluted all dichotomies have become like republican <= democrat, rancid milk is better than rotten cheese, etc http://en.wikipedia....the_United_States versus http://en.wikipedia....he_United_Kingdom It is almost as much fun as pointing out how ignorant it is to debate how to spend money you don't have... :-O I think the word for what I do is agitate or tweak (not to be confused with Twerk, you know). You do the same thing, just a bit more obtuse and hard to pin down. In my own subtle way, I was merely pointing out that George Harrison and Alvin Lee really loved the British Tax codes much better than America's... So much for subtlety. Just a few thoughts, Dan
Post #382,851 by CRConrad 10/28/13 5:05:25 PM Reply	No, you just make an arse of yourself. And it gets boring quicker all the time, the older I get. That's why I can't really be bothered all that much any more. So have fun gibbering away to yourself. Or try the BOx? -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #382,856 by boxley 10/28/13 5:41:31 PM Reply	sure, here crc, have some grapes Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #382,859 by CRConrad 10/28/13 7:12:28 PM Reply	Naah, grapes are far too sweet... ...for a sour old fart like me. -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #382,743 by a6l6e6x 10/26/13 11:50:39 AM Reply	Re: European Are you sure you don't mean "You're a peon?" Or perhaps even "You're a pee on?" :) And I'm saying that having been born in Europe. Alex American by choice.

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