Didn't changing Foaming Draught from Flatulent Duck almost break the boards? So that name change amnesties are figments of wishful thinking?
While not actually breaking the boards, it did expose the continuity-destructiveness of changing a username with associated posts. So, yeah, wishful thinking.
Most with PhDs list themselves as <name> PhD, on cards or anywhere else. Leaving out the other degrees they have before getting that one. Some have a professional designation which represents being licensed in an area of which may also be listed. Isn't listing yourself on a business card as "Dr" or with all of your degrees pretentious?
Amusingly, my wife only ever corrects me if I slip and call her "Missus RooK", and insists on "Doctor RooK". But that is sensible in light of my truly amazing ego, and the fact that she is actually smarter than I.
If it came from someone I respected I'd maybe respond - but an arsehole like you Mr Cheesy isn't worth bothering about.
Just to add to the hilarity of your inability to not respond (already pointed out), is the fact that you also appear incapable of actually conceptualizing respect. Much less ever be capable of demonstrating it.
They seem to hand out honorary Ph.D.s like candy to protestant preachers in America.
What @Ohher said. In my experience, an honorary Ph.D. is rare for American clergy. An honorary degree is likely to be a D.D., which everyone knows is honorary. But many members of the clergy have an earned Ph.D. or an earned D.Min.
They seem to hand out honorary Ph.D.s like candy to protestant preachers in America.
What @Ohher said. In my experience, an honorary Ph.D. is rare for American clergy. An honorary degree is likely to be a D.D., which everyone knows is honorary. But many members of the clergy have an earned Ph.D. or an earned D.Min.
Yes, probably not Ph.D.s - but so long as they can call themselves "Dr." in their books or on TV, I shouldn't think they're bothered.
So we are blessed to have an anonymous PhD geologist. As we are a nuclear physicist, doctors, IT consultants (me!), all manner of academics, other health professionals, writers. Which is all good to know.
OK Mark, until 2016, for 17 years, that's the level I operated at. Saving a household name company sitting in a lay by on the A5 giving database recovery instructions from memory over the phone. One of a good handful or two of bloody impressive brown trouser moments. Then I was laid off for no longer measuring up a couple of moves on and became my mother's carer. I could only sustain that for 18 months. I didn't like what it revealed about me. For the past year I've sold kitchen sinks. But can I tell you some tales from IT when I was billed at two grand a day! My bon mots still impress the hell out of me. Correcting an Oracle master's text book and him acknowledging it. Oooh. There's so much more. Damn I'm proud of it. But today I couldn't step up and reconfigure the work's network. Ah well.
So we are blessed to have an anonymous PhD geologist. As we are a nuclear physicist, doctors, IT consultants (me!), all manner of academics, other health professionals, writers. Which is all good to know.
OK Mark, until 2016, for 17 years, that's the level I operated at. Saving a household name company sitting in a lay by on the A5 giving database recovery instructions from memory over the phone. One of a good handful or two of bloody impressive brown trouser moments. Then I was laid off for no longer measuring up a couple of moves on and became my mother's carer. I could only sustain that for 18 months. I didn't like what it revealed about me. For the past year I've sold kitchen sinks. But can I tell you some tales from IT when I was billed at two grand a day! My bon mots still impress the hell out of me. Correcting an Oracle master's text book and him acknowledging it. Oooh. There's so much more. Damn I'm proud of it. But today I couldn't step up and reconfigure the work's network. Ah well.
Thankyou Martin for sharing that. It all sounds rather familiar, as I suffered a similar fate (but in telecoms). The dot.com boom and bust, massive redundancies, offshoring, I've seen it all. I hung on to my career for a very long time, but eventually my time came to say goodbye to it all.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
So you do know what I'm talking about? I thought you might.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
So you do know what I'm talking about? I thought you might.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
So you do know what I'm talking about? I thought you might.
It makes zero sense as an insult.
Who exactly do you suppose I'm trying to impress?
Just because you deny it doesn't stop me thinking it. And it seems to be you who's trying to impress Mr. Cheesy (still just a shipmate).
Edit - I misread the second line, but no need to add anything as it's pretty obvious.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
So you do know what I'm talking about? I thought you might.
It makes zero sense as an insult.
Who exactly do you suppose I'm trying to impress?
Just because you deny it doesn't stop me thinking it. And it seems to be you who's trying to impress Mr. Cheesy (still just a shipmate).
You are right, I don't suppose anything could stop you thinking up all kinds of random shit.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
So you do know what I'm talking about? I thought you might.
It makes zero sense as an insult.
Who exactly do you suppose I'm trying to impress?
Just because you deny it doesn't stop me thinking it. And it seems to be you who's trying to impress Mr. Cheesy (still just a shipmate).
You are right, I don't suppose anything could stop you thinking up all kinds of random shit.
I'm trying to impress myself. Of course I am.
Yes, deny it all you like - but we've been here before, so you know exactly what I'm on about Mr. Cheesy.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
So you do know what I'm talking about? I thought you might.
It makes zero sense as an insult.
Who exactly do you suppose I'm trying to impress?
Just because you deny it doesn't stop me thinking it. And it seems to be you who's trying to impress Mr. Cheesy (still just a shipmate).
You are right, I don't suppose anything could stop you thinking up all kinds of random shit.
I'm trying to impress myself. Of course I am.
Yes, deny it all you like - but we've been here before, so you know exactly what I'm on about Mr. Cheesy.
Nope, I really don't.
You implied that somehow I'm trying to get into an in-crowd even though I'm not in any in-crowd not wish to be in one. I've never been a host or admin (if that's an in-crowd), would say no even if I was asked.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
So you do know what I'm talking about? I thought you might.
It makes zero sense as an insult.
Who exactly do you suppose I'm trying to impress?
Just because you deny it doesn't stop me thinking it. And it seems to be you who's trying to impress Mr. Cheesy (still just a shipmate).
You are right, I don't suppose anything could stop you thinking up all kinds of random shit.
I'm trying to impress myself. Of course I am.
Yes, deny it all you like - but we've been here before, so you know exactly what I'm on about Mr. Cheesy.
Nope, I really don't.
You implied that somehow I'm trying to get into an in-crowd even though I'm not in any in-crowd not wish to be in one. I've never been a host or admin (if that's an in-crowd), would say no even if I was asked.
Which I wouldn't be.
Just fuck off Mr Cheesy. I don't have time for liars, no matter how clever they think they are.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
So you do know what I'm talking about? I thought you might.
It makes zero sense as an insult.
Who exactly do you suppose I'm trying to impress?
Just because you deny it doesn't stop me thinking it. And it seems to be you who's trying to impress Mr. Cheesy (still just a shipmate).
You are right, I don't suppose anything could stop you thinking up all kinds of random shit.
I'm trying to impress myself. Of course I am.
Yes, deny it all you like - but we've been here before, so you know exactly what I'm on about Mr. Cheesy.
Nope, I really don't.
You implied that somehow I'm trying to get into an in-crowd even though I'm not in any in-crowd not wish to be in one. I've never been a host or admin (if that's an in-crowd), would say no even if I was asked.
Which I wouldn't be.
Just fuck off Mr Cheesy. I don't have time for liars, no matter how clever they think they are.
Oh right, I'm supposed to know what your bullshit insult is supposed to mean by osmosis.
If it weren't for our requirements to not to make diagnosis via these boards, I'd be relatively confident in diagnosing Mark Betts as having a serious head trauma.
This is absolutely the case. Kneel before me, peasant.
If you ever sing in an Evensong choir, you may wear your academic hood with your vestments. I think it would be worth earning a doctorate just to attain that level of coolness.
I want to apologize for having suggested a matchup between Buttsky & Snoozin' (probably on some other thread -- who knows? They're all bleeding into each other now). It's now clear that a far more dynamic duo has hove into view: Martin the Incomprehensible Force, meet Mark the Uncomprehending Object.
I want to apologize for having suggested a matchup between Buttsky & Snoozin' (probably on some other thread -- who knows? They're all bleeding into each other now). It's now clear that a far more dynamic duo has hove into view: Martin the Incomprehensible Force, meet Mark the Uncomprehending Object.
Neither of them give a shit. Martin swims in metaphysical pools that nobody else can understand. Betts wants.. no, I don't know what he wants.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
So you do know what I'm talking about? I thought you might.
It makes zero sense as an insult.
Who exactly do you suppose I'm trying to impress?
Just because you deny it doesn't stop me thinking it. And it seems to be you who's trying to impress Mr. Cheesy (still just a shipmate).
You are right, I don't suppose anything could stop you thinking up all kinds of random shit.
I do beg your pardon Arethosemyfeet. What is the duration of new? As in New Wine. To me my thinking and feeling of the past couple of years in the face of eternity has been new with a particular new piquancy only this week and even today.
I finally got to the point of telling God that I can barely do Him as the ground of being let alone transcendent being.
... Martin the Incomprehensible Force, meet Mark the Uncomprehending Object.
:notworthy:
I have my days, some good, others not so much.
Meanwhile, for Martin: the thread's on idle for now: apparently, Force and Object have achieved stasis, however temporary. Could you not just accept this? Soon enough, someone else will be irritated enough to shower you with further negative attention. Patience; to everything there is a season . . .
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While not actually breaking the boards, it did expose the continuity-destructiveness of changing a username with associated posts. So, yeah, wishful thinking.
If it came from someone I respected I'd maybe respond - but an arsehole like you Mr Cheesy isn't worth bothering about.
You may need to work a little more on getting the hang of what is and what isn’t involved in not responding.
Nope not here it isn't.
Mind you, business cards are basically going out of fashion in a lot of jobs.
That should be "cashew's". And "Cooler's".
Just to add to the hilarity of your inability to not respond (already pointed out), is the fact that you also appear incapable of actually conceptualizing respect. Much less ever be capable of demonstrating it.
I'm not sure that there is a concept of "honorary degrees" in the USA.
Many large religious groups so, though, have their own degree awarding universities in the USA.
Yes, probably not Ph.D.s - but so long as they can call themselves "Dr." in their books or on TV, I shouldn't think they're bothered.
OK Mark, until 2016, for 17 years, that's the level I operated at. Saving a household name company sitting in a lay by on the A5 giving database recovery instructions from memory over the phone. One of a good handful or two of bloody impressive brown trouser moments. Then I was laid off for no longer measuring up a couple of moves on and became my mother's carer. I could only sustain that for 18 months. I didn't like what it revealed about me. For the past year I've sold kitchen sinks. But can I tell you some tales from IT when I was billed at two grand a day! My bon mots still impress the hell out of me. Correcting an Oracle master's text book and him acknowledging it. Oooh. There's so much more. Damn I'm proud of it. But today I couldn't step up and reconfigure the work's network. Ah well.
Thankyou Martin for sharing that. It all sounds rather familiar, as I suffered a similar fate (but in telecoms). The dot.com boom and bust, massive redundancies, offshoring, I've seen it all. I hung on to my career for a very long time, but eventually my time came to say goodbye to it all.
Unless you're me and I'm you of course.
They just continue posting the same old crap for reasons that are impossible for anyone else to understand.
And you claim you're not a creep Mr. Cheesy? I don't know why you bother, because their heads are so far up their own arses they will never notice you.
Is that supposed to mean something, oh brainless one?
Oh yes! Creep.
Yeah, you tried that slur once before. It didn't work then either.
So you do know what I'm talking about? I thought you might.
It makes zero sense as an insult.
Who exactly do you suppose I'm trying to impress?
Just because you deny it doesn't stop me thinking it. And it seems to be you who's trying to impress Mr. Cheesy (still just a shipmate).
Edit - I misread the second line, but no need to add anything as it's pretty obvious.
You are right, I don't suppose anything could stop you thinking up all kinds of random shit.
I'm trying to impress myself. Of course I am.
Yes, deny it all you like - but we've been here before, so you know exactly what I'm on about Mr. Cheesy.
Nope, I really don't.
You implied that somehow I'm trying to get into an in-crowd even though I'm not in any in-crowd not wish to be in one. I've never been a host or admin (if that's an in-crowd), would say no even if I was asked.
Which I wouldn't be.
Oh wait.
Just fuck off Mr Cheesy. I don't have time for liars, no matter how clever they think they are.
Oh right, I'm supposed to know what your bullshit insult is supposed to mean by osmosis.
Of course I am.
You sir, are amazingly stupid.
Oh, brilliant. Please do!
rofl
Second.
Your adoring subject, Ma'am.
Then I'm in good company.
So you frequently say. In your chosen lack of differentiation. I've been posting new crap for some time.
If you've been posting it for some time it's not fucking new anymore.
I finally got to the point of telling God that I can barely do Him as the ground of being let alone transcendent being.
Good job He's my friend.
I have my days, some good, others not so much.
Meanwhile, for Martin: the thread's on idle for now: apparently, Force and Object have achieved stasis, however temporary. Could you not just accept this? Soon enough, someone else will be irritated enough to shower you with further negative attention. Patience; to everything there is a season . . .
Er. That's a response. You bothered. An arsehole. Shouldn't be allowed.