Epileptic tree"Epileptic tree of conversation"
Do my arguments somehow promote seizures in you?
If you are going to mock language, at least try to understand its meaning first.
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If you are going to mock language, at least try to understand its meaning first.
As someone who suffers from epilepsy, that's a fairly offensive phrase.
But go ahead, do carry on...
maomao
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Odd you don't have a problem using it in a pejorative sense yourself then:
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...nother-arsenal-thread.4407/page-2#post-229591
Is that like black people being allowed to use the n-word or are you just a fucking liar?
Nice swerve away from your failed attempt to mock me.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
i know which my money's on
That's from over a decade ago. Long before I developed the condition. Do you want some bloody proof of life photograph of my anti-epilepsy medication that I have to take every day?
maomao
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Yes.
Of course, there is nothing offensive about the term "epileptic tree" anyway, as it is using the word "epileptic" purely as a descriptor. The trees referred to quite literally have epilepsy. It's no more pejorative than "blackboard".
But, again, nice attempt to deflect away from your own backfiring ignorance.
But, again, nice attempt to deflect away from your own backfiring ignorance.
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hiraethified
Wham bam total pwnage!
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hiraethified
Ah so it was OK to use the word in that manner but only before you developed the condition yourself. Nice.
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hiraethified
I'm hoping to make it and then hotfoot it over to Dulwich Hamlet for the foodbank day.
maomao
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[Bloody hell, that was a struggle]
It's Keppra/levetiracetam btw Kabbes. I'm sure that you can read about all its wonderful effects at your leisure.
I apologise for calling you a liar but a) still retrospectively hypocritical (it was ok before you got it) b) not particularly offensive if you actually understood what the phrase meant (unlike your use) and c) you're still an ignorant prick.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Yes. It really doesn't matter to be in the tiniest bit where someone's from when they buy a home. What matters is that they're buying a home, not just an investment opportunity. And regardless of the possibly misattributed quote, Buyer #3 did say he was looking forward to increasing rents and house prices. He was not buying a home; he was buying an investment.
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hiraethified
Exactly.
At the most elemental level, I have to wonder at the failure of empathy here - that dislocation of a home as shelter, a basic human need as opposed to a financial instrument...and although I know nothing about the complicated economics of market distortions, I do know, most immediately, the horrible fear and insecurity of being homeless, for myself, my family....and on that most basic level, there feels something really quite abhorrent that property is empty while people are living on the streets (regardless of anyone's fucking race, nationality or origin). We need a 'market distortion, most essentially, at the level of my life (and everyone else I know).
You're too kind and I thoroughly forgive you and, latterly, kabbes, for (i) using my condition as a point of argument and (ii) using my condition as a point of humour.
Admittedly, you weren't properly to know at the time, given your prior ignorance/lack of proof, but you do know now and make characteristically measured responses.
Real stand-up guys.
Neurological health deserves this kind of scrutiny, I'm sure.
maomao
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He accused you of using it to obscure the argument which is quite different. The reference was not offensive, unless you consider the word 'epileptic' offensive in itself. Massive irony here of course is your refusal to recognise your own smears of racism which were offensive.
Where's it been used as a point of humour? Quote the humour.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Here's just one of many stories of those displaced by this kind of crap, if you need to humanise the situation:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...ase-says-homeless-single-mother-10014053.html
I mean, if even the fucking Standard which has a strong tradition of cock-gobbling developers and talking up the 'vibrancy' of depressed areas for their benefit is telling these stories then you know something is very majorly wrong. It'll break, it has to break.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...ase-says-homeless-single-mother-10014053.html
I mean, if even the fucking Standard which has a strong tradition of cock-gobbling developers and talking up the 'vibrancy' of depressed areas for their benefit is telling these stories then you know something is very majorly wrong. It'll break, it has to break.
Can I just flag up this bullshit for a moment having proven that I suffer from epilepsy (which I am mightily surprised was demanded of me but was happy to discharge).
Your term "an epileptic tree of conversation", as far as I understand it, is a metaphor that associates epileptic seizures with thinking that is incoherent and irrational, perhaps even inherently instable.
For some reason, you think that is acceptable because you've manipulated a phrase that was first coined by a well recognised tv show and has apparently fallen into common parlance among a limited (and I use that adjective in every possible sense of the term) subset of society.
That is not a sound argument for associating limited cognitive ability with epilepsy.
I wasn't massively offended or really even that offended because I could immediately recognise the pompous idiocy at play.
Other people, with more severe degrees of epilepsy than me might well get mightily offended though so I advise you to generally avoid such language.
e2a - as I do now, I should add, having changed my opinion on the matter in the intervening period between 2004 (when maomao quoted me on using the term) and now, having developed the condition.
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bi0boy
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Nothing wrong with sleeping in a suitcase. Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
just to get this straight, you think that people with a more severe condition might get offended but people with the same as you or less might not. there straightaway is an example of the incoherent sort of thinking kabbes was talking about. i don't myself give much of a fuck one way or another but you might as well acknowledge when your thinking's all over the fucking shop.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
and now and again you'll find a spy locking themselves into a bag to be sure of a good night's sleep
maomao
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Well it doesn't mean that at all as you would know if you had read and understood the link Kabbes provided to explain the phrase which was almost a day ago. So you've just spent ten minutes writing a post to make yourself look like an ignorant wanker when you could have saved yourself the trouble and looked it up in 30 seconds.
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