What K440 Poster Would You Like to See On Here?
- Garry.Crabtree
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Blimey, The Dragon ruined my day yesterday and now you today.General Mackevili wrote:We tried to pre-ban you, but you came up with the genius idea to put a "." in the middle of your name and thwarted our plans.Garry.Crabtree wrote:
Mods – can we actually ban someone before they have even joined?
According to the proverb: The pun is mightier than the sword
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Garry.Crabtree wrote:Blimey, The Dragon ruined my day yesterday and now you today.General Mackevili wrote:We tried to pre-ban you, but you came up with the genius idea to put a "." in the middle of your name and thwarted our plans.Garry.Crabtree wrote:
Mods – can we actually ban someone before they have even joined?
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Re: What K440 Poster Would You Like to See On Here?
Nah it was coz you started really lame threads like "something funny happened to me while I walked across a street, my panties fell down"!sammycooke wrote:I agree 100% that AIA is a complete dick rash. Calling him out for being a little bitch was what started me on a downward spiral to get banned from k440. It was too much of a cliquey club. Mind you I got pretty insulting too but I wasn't in the club and got the boot
Re: What K440 Poster Would You Like to See On Here?
Maybe if you aren't sure of the subject he is droning on about, he may sound like he knows what he's talking about, but he usually doesn't! And don't be fooled by his " as a said before "/ " I said that ages ago" , self promoting , credit claiming bluffs. His regurgitating broadsheet pieces he googled, or trying to convince everyone how highly skilled tefl / esl work is! The proof imho, is the amount of times he exits a debate , with the " I'm not lowering myself" , and name calling speech.Garry.Crabtree wrote:I disagree with you there UKJ. Whilst AiA can be a little tiresome with his anti Rainman tirades, he is probably one of the better and most thoughtful posters on the site. I usually read his posts even if I am not following the thread and 9 times out of 10 his posts are interesting and usually spot on.UKJ wrote:That's funny, coming from AiA, the most pompous and boring man in Asia. He is probably scared that he isn't so protected on here, and we could call him out.
He would be a good addition to CEO if he "officially" came over.
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We need Spigzy over here to make our Oh you internet thread better!
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Yep!kiwiincambodia wrote:We need Spigzy over here to make our Oh you internet thread better!
- Hugh Briss
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He comes across as extremely insecure and overly defensive.UKJ wrote:Maybe if you aren't sure of the subject he is droning on about, he may sound like he knows what he's talking about, but he usually doesn't! And don't be fooled by his " as a said before "/ " I said that ages ago" , self promoting , credit claiming bluffs. His regurgitating broadsheet pieces he googled, or trying to convince everyone how highly skilled tefl / esl work is! The proof imho, is the amount of times he exits a debate , with the " I'm not lowering myself" , and name calling speech.Garry.Crabtree wrote:UKJ wrote:That's funny, coming from AiA, the most pompous and boring man in Asia. He is probably scared that he isn't so protected on here, and we could call him out.
The times the General called him out on his incessant bragging and self aggrandizing along with his penchant to bloviate Ad nauseam was purely justified. But the General was made out to be the bad guy, the mods kowtowed to AiA's whining and crying. He could not stand up to Gen's well reasoned arguments and took the easy way out.
Is AiA all bad, of course not he contributes a lot of fantastic info, but he has faults as well. As we all do.
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Re: What K440 Poster Would You Like to See On Here?
Bloviate? Even if that's not a word, I'm using it!
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Booya, here ya go..... one of many tidbits of useless knowledge that 4 years of university study bestowed upon me.
Throw a brutha some karma for increasing your vocab
bloviate
[bloh-vee-eyt]
verb (used without object), bloviated, bloviating.
1.
to speak pompously.
Origin
1850–55, Americanism; pseudo-Latin alteration of blow to boast; popularized by W. G. Harding
Related forms
bloviation, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2014.
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Word Origin and History for bloviate
bloviate
1857, Amer.Eng., a Midwestern word for "to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to indulge in 'high falutin'," according to Farmer (1890), who seems to have been the only British lexicographer to notice it. He says it was based on blow (v.) on the model of deviate, etc. It seems to have been felt as outdated slang already by late 19c. ("It was a leasure for him to hear the Doctor talk, or, as it was inelegantly expressed in the phrase of the period, 'bloviate....' " ["Overland Monthly," San Francisco, 1872, describing a scene from 1860]), but it enjoyed a revival early 1920s during the presidency of Warren G. Harding, who wrote a notoriously ornate and incomprehensible prose (e.e. cummings eulogized him as "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors") at which time the word took on its connection with political speech; it faded again thereafter, but, with its derivative, bloviation, it enjoyed a revival in the 2000 U.S. election season that continued through the era of blogging.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Throw a brutha some karma for increasing your vocab
bloviate
[bloh-vee-eyt]
verb (used without object), bloviated, bloviating.
1.
to speak pompously.
Origin
1850–55, Americanism; pseudo-Latin alteration of blow to boast; popularized by W. G. Harding
Related forms
bloviation, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2014.
Cite This Source
Word Origin and History for bloviate
bloviate
1857, Amer.Eng., a Midwestern word for "to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to indulge in 'high falutin'," according to Farmer (1890), who seems to have been the only British lexicographer to notice it. He says it was based on blow (v.) on the model of deviate, etc. It seems to have been felt as outdated slang already by late 19c. ("It was a leasure for him to hear the Doctor talk, or, as it was inelegantly expressed in the phrase of the period, 'bloviate....' " ["Overland Monthly," San Francisco, 1872, describing a scene from 1860]), but it enjoyed a revival early 1920s during the presidency of Warren G. Harding, who wrote a notoriously ornate and incomprehensible prose (e.e. cummings eulogized him as "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors") at which time the word took on its connection with political speech; it faded again thereafter, but, with its derivative, bloviation, it enjoyed a revival in the 2000 U.S. election season that continued through the era of blogging.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Re: What K440 Poster Would You Like to See On Here?
Word porn (yeah, I said it, don't whine) - love it!
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