General Chat

Quote: This afternoon I may amuse myself with a stroll into town to seek out some Kindle-toting pseudo-intellectuals with whom I might debate the pleasures and benefits of the printed word. End quote.

Strange I thought my Kindle did use the printed word reproduced digitally rather like GR.

*wanders off to check with other pseudo-intellectuals*

I'm here Sue :-D

:-D

Quote: Top of the banned list in the USA and effectively banned from UK schools "Catcher In The Rye" , "To Kill A Mocking Bird". Not PC.

The Bill Gates Trust (yeah, Microsoft) has engineered the US curriculum such that 70% of books read in schools must be "useful" non fiction. End quote

FB friend has asked me to point out that it hasn't been banned.....it has been 'dropped' in favour of British classics.

If modern schools have libraries and I assume they do, children can read whatever books they choose to.

For those people like me who are a bit on the thick side and didn`t have a clue what a pseudo-intellectual was, I just found the definition... Seems we may have a couple on the GR Chat board. :-D :-D

pseudo-intellectual ...
1. One who attempts to flex intellect that does not exist within his or her own mind.

2. Can probably be found with a thesaurus in hand, while in a chat room, looking up new insults that are synonymous with "stupid" in order to boost his or her own undeserved ego.

3. Typical cases of pseudo-intellectualism involve pre-pubescent 15 year olds that think they have everything figured out, including, but not limited to: life, religion, politics, education, and sex. Ironically, they have never quite experienced either of the aforementioned.

4. Pretends he or she has an opinion.

5. Posseses a severe tendency to blindly and wholeheartedly believe any bullshit they hear, only to subsequently regurgitate the misinformation to anyone they see in an asinine attempt to appear more intelligent than a used, broken condom.

6. Should the victim of the verbal onslaught happen to have a differing opinion, the pseudo-intellectual will revert to his or her thesaurus and insult the opposition with words he or she never knew existed, and probably cannot even pronounce.

7. Annoyingly and constantly refers to the word antidisestablishmentarianism, as if knowledge of said word defined his or her illegitimately high intelligence quotient.

8. Typically a hypocrite; creates many, many contradictions. Most online grammar/spelling Nazis can relate.


Omg. You are Stupid. You are an idiot for not agreeing with everything I say. I know I'm right, even though I know nothing about the subject, because my friend knows someone that read someone's blog somewhere that mentioned something about it. I win, so stfu, you unintelligent moron. God, your stupid. You're such a stupid idiot. Antidisestablishmentarianism.
:-S :-S


(Wish I hadn`t bothered now). :-(

Now do I report that? on the basis that it is TOO far above my head?

Budgie :-D :-D :-D :-D

brilliant Budgie - thank you :-D

BR :-D :-D :-D :-D

~~~~~~~~~~to other pseudo-intellectuals~~~~~~~~~~

Oh and just a small note of interest, hospitals are happy to have patients take Kindles in which can be sanitised unlike a heap of books which can habour al sorts of nasties :-D

Of special note are those people who only have one functioning hand due to trauma/disease, a massive ~~~~~~~~ to those friends on here <3

so is errol a pseudo-intellectual ????

just asking as it may be contagious


TAKES A GIANT STEP BACK
in case :-D :-D :-D

Rollo - that URL really does not like me!

supercrutch - in the context of my post I was making reference to PRINTED matter ie books as opposed to electronic media.

Not once have I said that anyone who uses a Kindle is a pseudo-intellectual - please re-read my post. Neither have I insulted nor criticised Kindle users and I certainly have not said anything disparaging about the device itself which can be a tremendous help for some people.

Budgie Rustler - an excellent definition of a group of people very often found in modern coffee shops (many of which, sadly, are former bookshops).

Anyone expecting the demise of local libraries in favour of these modern gadgets?

*falls off commode laughing whilst clutching Kindle* of course you didn't :-P

Please tell me where I did.

course he didn't :-D :-D :-D

Then maybe you could answer the simple question - where?

As a kindle user I am ever grateful for it as
holding a book caused me a lot of pain.

Am an avid reader and would be lost without
It.

*sighs* can anyone be bothered to argue with a piece of wood?

No!

NOPE :-D :-D :-D

I am not arguing - merely asking you to have the courtesy to point out where I actually said that.

Not once have I said that Kindle users are pseudo-intellectuals.

I said "Kindle-toting pseudo-intellectuals" which has an entirely different meaning. Also, not once have I criticised the Kindle device. If I have done either or both of the above then please point out where and I will gladly either apologise or amend my comment.

Is this not somewhat off topic?