In Response To: Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS (Maitu)

My dear YOU,

Not attempting to top the exquisite responsum rendered to your latest post by my newfound buddy, ESL_IN_ASIA, I find that I must remark on at least a few of your relatively inane statements which crowded my computer screen.

OF COURSE, ESL_IN_ASIA and I made peace! It was inevitable, owing to the fact that we share so much in common. From the very beginning, he and I were the most unlikely prospects to wage WWIII (Christ! There are far too many better prospects present in this forum for that action), while it took a relatively short time for us to realize that fact. As for your obvious homosexual connotations, I'll forgive you for that, mainly because of your obvious steel-mill upbringing and mentality thereof. So, which is it ... are you "b"ritish or "e"nglish? Maybe you're really "u"gandan! #UC*, Laddie, now you've got me hopelessly confused!

In a previous post, I believe you made reference to "any halfwit's merely taking two drum sticks and 'banging things' with them!" WOW! Only a totally ignorant a#s&ho&% with not one iota of savoir faire could ever make such an asinine assertion! Of course, I must merely assume that, along with your already proven shortcomings, you have gigantic ingots of steel in the f*&%in@ cranium forcing you to overlook the years of study and practice it takes to have a career in rock-n-roll, let alone classical music (even as "a mere percussionist"). I'd love to have the money now that my dear father paid out for all those music lessons when I was a kid ... and on a poor college professor's salary at that! You say that you're "much too old" for a career in rock-n-roll? Well, man, from the sound of that diarrhea-like board babbling you shamelessly issue with regularity, I would guess you're much too old for QUITE A FEW things (use your imagination, if any, on that one, Pal)! It's plain to see that George Bush isn't the ONLY one who can s#it out stupidity on a daily basis! And...my God, such braggadocio you throw out for our ingestion ... with such a tone of coercion ... much like Ms. Xi's issuance of official orders from the Ministry! Why don't you give it a rest, Jack ... or go on the road and try to peddle it?! I hear the weather in Iraq is FABULOUS at this time of year!

Finally, it certainly sounds as if you're BEGGING to be further maligned on this board by my buddy and me! Now, REALLY, man ... have those ingots in your head also loosened a few screws? As much as I like the idea, I refuse to further participate in what appears to be an unresolvable situation ... that means YOU, Mac (whatever the hell your name is)!

Have a not-so-nice day!

The Arrogant One

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> My my how quickly circumstances change! One minute you two are
> swinging political and historical pickaxes at each other's throats,
> the next, there they are, a picture of conjugal bliss, tongues
> intertwined and dribbling sweet nothings into each others
> mouths...but somehow sex does always feel better after a fight, right
> boys?

> See the point is that both of you have been whining about how little
> you earn,and the fact is that I work professionally and get paid a
> yearly salary equivalent to the mean wage for Education, Training and
> Library occupations in the US (SOC Code Number 25-0000 whatever that
> means according to your goverment's statistical publications). I
> realise that's but a pittance to all those still-employed IT
> professionals and successful musicians out there, but I often really
> enjoy what I do, I get a free apartment in which I don't pay for
> utilities, and I'm living in a country where the cost of living -
> even for me - is probably only about one fifth of the one I'm from.
> Seeing as I really have no expenses other than my enormous restaurant
> and recreational bills - and there's plenty of recreation available
> in this "shanty town" for a single and wayward soul like
> this old moonlighter - I would say that you could at least increase
> that amount by half again in relative terms for you idiots stuck in
> whatever shanty towns you're in trying to pay rent, mortgages,
> electricity bills or for other absurdly overpriced necessities.

> I s'pose I do feel pretty lucky to be in this position - well it
> wasn't all luck; 15 years of professional and educational background
> did help with my being selected for the job - but even if it ended
> tomorrow and I was back at home on the tools again god forbid, I
> would take a perverse pride in saying that I had never worked for
> garbage, and that I hadn't been spending my declining years - because
> lets face it, the both of you have made it quite clear that
> opportunites aren't exactly waxing for you -I hadn't been wasting
> what precious time I have left to enjoy life in indulging my
> insecurities in a sad and bitter tirade against a world that really
> doesn't give a stuff about you and your $6.50 an hour "burger
> flipping" aspirations.

> Oh, and another thing, I find it incredible that a continent that was
> able to produce a writer of the calibre of say Steinbeck in his later
> years, is now more or less chock full of semiliterates for whom the
> production of a grammatical sentence is an impossiblity, with even
> those who can produce language that approximates sense seemingly
> oblivious to the relationship that exists between sound grammar and
> unequivocal meaning...but then again if you really have nothing clear
> and worthwhile to say...

> Look I enjoy the way you two express yourselves when you're having a
> good day, and I'm looking forward to the witty replies I hope you'll
> be able to compose in my honour(come on Arrogant WHOOP-DE-DO?
> seriously...), but it's no secret that the deficit in literacy in
> your fair continent is somewhat more severe than in that of other
> countries in the so-called English speaking world. I mean there's
> just no excuse for any of the incomprehesible nonsense that
> consistently comes out of the mouths of the current US political
> administration...maybe that's got something to do with the serious
> intellectual pressure that a nation would impose upon itself in
> trying to perpetuate the obvious fraud that a hack like Robert Frost
> was a great poet (but i digress)...

> ...anyway...love, peace, rainbows, and emerald-eyed golden-breasted
> birds warbling from verdant boughs to you both...

> Oh!...and I nearly forgot to mention, if you call people
> "british" in some of the establishments where I'm from,
> there's a fair chance you'd be in for a well deserved kicking, so
> stick that up your @($es , oh sorry, donkeys, and flip those burgers
> comrades.