Yikes! I missed that!
It's Post #125
on 23 Aug 2011 (3 days ago)
on page 5 of this thread.
With pictures!

This thread is a travesty of threads. I've been reading online about "argument" and "conflict" but I found nothing that specifically mentions "polite contempt".

Also, is there a word for when somebody shows how he's right, as opposed to discussing the facts?

rescueman: Since you're a fan of Harvard...

Off-topic aside for Jay:

Actually, I'm not. I took classes at Harvard, as well a Stanford, Amherst, U. Mich, and elsewhere, but the best education I received was at a community college and a trade school, where the teachers were dedicated and enthusiastic and encouraged their students to take responsibility for their learning.

But, as we all know too well, that's one of the major liabilities of the disinhibition function of the anonymous internet.

Good point.... rescueman, if that is your real name.

If you click on my moniker, you get my profile, which includes my real name.

I see that your profile does not reveal your name.

On the other hand, if you'd stuck with Harvard...

I don't usually click on them since odds are there isn't any value to those with anonymous user names, but your right, my bad.

Ah...

So it's you who are the fan of the Harvard mystique.

But I quit after three semesters when I realized that they were really selling tickets into grad school (and elite careers) rather than a liberal arts education, and that they allowed students to graduate without any evidence of having achieved a maturity of character.

I get googled constantly by prospective clients and speaking engagement audiences all the time, so I reveal first name only, otherwise I can't exercise free speech on these interwebs.

Yeah, Mr. Droppings, if that's even your real name.

I get googled constantly by prospective clients and speaking engagement audiences all the time, so I reveal first name only, otherwise I can't exercise free speech on these interwebs.

You mean you can't exercise free speech unless you're willing to be held accountable for what you say.

Or you mean you can't be an asshole here and maintain your professional credibility elsewhere. And you talk to me about integrity?

Integrity is living by your values and standing by your word.

You mean you can't exercise free speech unless you're willing to be held accountable for what you say.

Or you mean you can't be an asshole here and maintain your professional credibility elsewhere. And you talk to me about integrity?

Integrity is living by your values and standing by your word.

It's a pretty valid point that he has. For instance, you'll never get hired by my rescue organization.

Polite contempt. Bullshit

(Edit for accuracy)

You mean you can't exercise free speech unless you're willing to be held accountable for what you say.

Or you mean you can't be an asshole here and maintain your professional credibility elsewhere. And you talk to me about integrity?

Integrity is living by your values and standing by your word.

He would have been fascinated (and appalled) at the level of group dynamic dysfunction here at RC.com, where people seem more interested in thrashing and trashing than in honest and constructive discussion.

Apparently rescuechestthumper has reread all his posts in this thread.

Maybe, but his reading comprehension is so poor he wouldn't recognize it. (I keed, rescuedude, I keeeed).

I think both of you are too polite.

What's that you say? I can't quite make it out.

Something about the length of your scrotum?

No, it’s about appropriateness of setting for the discussion.

Many of my clients are government agencies, even foreign governments. I wouldn’t stand up in front of an audience at the Pentagon and say I think their budget should be cut in half.