What to do with an errant James Boswell II

mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
edited August 2019 in Hell
Could you PLEASE stop playing the schoolmaster setting assignments for his errant students? This is some of what I mean:
I think enough has been said about the death of the Baptist. Any responses to FIRST ARGUMENT? I will allow time before I post again.

Another:
Well, first let's look at why there would be a strong tendency to think the words are authentic. Then a counter argument to that. Then a counter argument to the counter argument. Then.... then... well, anyway, I will ultimately tell you what I firmly think and why. Have patience. But meanwhile, feel free to throw in any opinions you wish to express.

The clear implication is: "You all go ahead and make fools of yourselves, and then when you're done, I will give the correct answer."

Could you just discuss this with us as an equal, rather than as our smug superior?

[edited thread title because I can - Eutychus]
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  • It has been brought to my attention that "James Boswell II" is an anagram for "A jello ibis mews".

    Coincidence?
  • I wish I could hope the Hell call would do any good, but ...

    Ah, well, hope springs eternal and all that.

    Dude: Please stop stopping me participating in Bible-based threads by the sheer heart-stoppingly-annoyingness of your schoolmastering. If it's actually your intent to drive people away, you are succeeding. Brilliantly.
  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    Pedantic tool, is usually what I think after reading his ridiculously amateur, myopic “scholarship.”
  • Is it still Ship's practice to PM someone upon their being summoned to Hell?

    If so, prepare (eventually) for a long list of scholarly works (no links, of course), detailing why Hell calls are errant. Prepare, too, for promise after promise of further lists, ARGUMENTs, propositions, long explanations etc..., but only in The Professor's time.

    Be prepared, too, of course, for anything you may say to refute the above to be greeted with snide personal remarks, scorn, disdain, and dismissal.

    Frankly, although I've tried at times to engage with The Professor, I can't get the ink-stains off my Third-Form fingers...
  • ECraigR wrote: »
    Pedantic tool, is usually what I think after reading his ridiculously amateur, myopic “scholarship.”

    Yeah, I know nothing about his scholarship, that not being my bailiwick. It's just the condescending, schoolmastery tone that sets me off. "Now if you can't engage with what I posted above, why should I share my thoughts with you?"

    How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
  • Quite.

    If you don't eat your dinner NOW, you'll have it cold for BREAKFAST!
    And LIKE it!



  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    mousethief wrote: »
    ECraigR wrote: »
    Pedantic tool, is usually what I think after reading his ridiculously amateur, myopic “scholarship.”

    Yeah, I know nothing about his scholarship, that not being my bailiwick. It's just the condescending, schoolmastery tone that sets me off. "Now if you can't engage with what I posted above, why should I share my thoughts with you?"

    How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

    True. Scholarship alone wouldn’t warrant a Hell call. But that combined with his arrogant snideness certainly does.

  • I think part of the trouble is that James Boswell II so often mentions various scholars (well, I presume they are such, given that an ignoramus like me has never heard of any of them) to bolster up his interminable posts, without any of us being able to check on them.

    The Ship is a vehicle for discussion, not for lectures, but he seems unwilling, or unable, to grasp this.

    Couple that with the arrogant snideness that @ECraigR mentions, and it's easy to understand why some of us are fed up with The Professor...

    Yes, of course the Scroll Down facility is always available, but then it's easy to miss the better, and often more succinct, contributions of others.
  • "Just scroll down" is a variant of saying how unworthy a hell thread is, and that has been condemned by the H&A before this. So I don't accept "just scroll down" as an answer (not that you are suggesting it is of course).
  • I agree completely with the OP of this thread, but am somewhat disappointed it wasn't titled "What to do with an errant James Boswell".
  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    I agree completely with the OP of this thread, but am somewhat disappointed it wasn't titled "What to do with an errant James Boswell".

    Wow. What a missed opportunity!

  • No, no - I meant the possibility of scrolling past The Professor's tiresome posts on the multitudinous threads he's started.

    Sorry, I should have made it clear that I was referring to the threads in Purgatory.
  • @Marvin the Martian -- dayum, that's good.
  • No, no - I meant the possibility of scrolling past The Professor's tiresome posts on the multitudinous threads he's started.

    Sorry, I should have made it clear that I was referring to the threads in Purgatory.

    Replying to mousethief's point, above.

  • LeafLeaf Shipmate
    I agree completely with the OP of this thread, but am somewhat disappointed it wasn't titled "What to do with an errant James Boswell".

    I favour the traditional methods advocated in the sea shanty, particularly the one involving scuppers and a hosepipe.

    If there is bidding available for the various methods, this could be a great fundraiser for the Ship. :blush:
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    IIRC, a rusty razor is also mentioned, in some versions of the song, at least.

    BTW, I see @James Boswell II has replied to @mousethief, but (confusingly) on the 'Condemn' thread in Purgatory... :confused:
  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    Yes, methinks he doth not understand.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    You may be right, I'm afraid. He really has no idea how The Ship works...

    Risking accusations of Junior Hosting, I have gently suggested to him that his reply to mousethief would be better posted here, to avoid further confusion, if nothing else.
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    I went and had a look - this made me chuckle. -

    @James Boswell II
    I can't keep spending all my time on this.

    You could stop making him do all this posting!

    :lol: :lol:
  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    Well, Herr Doktor is morally obligated to educate us poor simpletons. He doesn’t want to do this, he has to.
  • I agree completely with the OP of this thread, but am somewhat disappointed it wasn't titled "What to do with an errant James Boswell".

    Rarely have I seen such a deserving opportunity to abuse my admin powers.
  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    Eutychus wrote: »
    I agree completely with the OP of this thread, but am somewhat disappointed it wasn't titled "What to do with an errant James Boswell".

    Rarely have I seen such a deserving opportunity to abuse my admin powers.

    Hardly an abuse if it’s simply correcting an oversight. It’s more like a shiply act of kindness.

  • Bravo!
  • Well, let's hope @James Boswell II hies himself down here soon, rather than carrying on posting confusing wossnames on 'his' other threads.
    :confounded:
  • ECraigR wrote: »
    Well, Herr Doktor is morally obligated to educate us poor simpletons. He doesn’t want to do this, he has to.

    Then perhaps he would benefit from this quote from Mencius:

    Instruction makes use of many techniques. When I do not deign to instruct someone, that too is a form of instruction.
  • I think part of the trouble is that James Boswell II so often mentions various scholars (well, I presume they are such, given that an ignoramus like me has never heard of any of them) to bolster up his interminable posts, without any of us being able to check on them.

    And I have doubts about this, given that he has already very smoothly passed off a FREAKING FICTIONAL CHARACTER from his blasted novel, complete with academic pedigree, as himself--quoted a bloody long quote from the character--and misled me into thinking it was himself.

    It couldn't have been anything but intentional.

    And I no longer care enough to try to Google all the alleged scholars he mentions to see if they even actually exist outside of Cloud Cuckoo Land--or if they are, perhaps, more characters in his novel.

    (or, for that matter, whether they hold the positions he attributes to them, if they actually exist at all)

    Life is too short.

  • Indeed, and he's still wittering on, in multiple posts, on the 'Errant John the Baptist' thread, clearly taking no notice of what's going on down here.

    What a waste of time, and effort. Very sad.
  • LOL, says the Errant James.
  • Lots of love, or lots of laughs?

    Which?

    Please discuss your reasons for whatever answer you give.
  • Please don't laugh at other people's reaction to your churlish behavior. Rather explain yourself, or mend your ways.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    Alas, I doubt if the Churl is able to do as you suggest, being too wrapped up in his own scholarliness, which is far above that of us lowly worms.
  • I wonder what Lowly Worm is up to? Haven't seen her in yonks.
  • RL, I expect.
  • Well that's no excuse.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    To stoop to less scholarly matters - mention of Lowly Worm(not the Shipmate) now has me needing to find out which children's book s/he was a character in. Like having an ear worm for music, but a literary one.

    Richard Scarry character - thanks Wiki.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    LOL, says the Errant James.

    The real question is whether we will ever behold your Johnson.
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    Smfwrfrfstui! 😂

    (Sorry, keyboard)
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Brilliant! An elegant and eloquent response Lamb Chopped. :wink:
  • ECraigR wrote: »
    Well, Herr Doktor is morally obligated to educate us poor simpletons. He doesn’t want to do this, he has to.

    Then perhaps he would benefit from this quote from Mencius:

    Instruction makes use of many techniques. When I do not deign to instruct someone, that too is a form of instruction.

    Ha! Brilliant.
  • Huia wrote: »
    Brilliant! An elegant and eloquent response Lamb Chopped. :wink:

    Not to me, no,
    Not to me,
    But to Doublethink be the glory...
    :killingme:
  • I confess that whenever I see a thread title beginning What to do with an errant ... my mind's ear fills in with give him a talking-to and send him to bed without any supper.

    I'm just a simple, old-fashioned soul.
  • What do you do with a drunken sailor?
    Put him in jail until he's sober.

    What do you do with an errant Jesus?
    Put him in the tomb and see if he rises.
  • "Weigh, hey, and up He rises,
    early in the morning!"
  • "Weigh, hey, and up He rises,
    early in the morning!"

    :notworthy:

  • Huia wrote: »
    To stoop to less scholarly matters - mention of Lowly Worm(not the Shipmate) now has me needing to find out which children's book s/he was a character in. Like having an ear worm for music, but a literary one.

    Richard Scarry character - thanks Wiki.

    Richard Scarry’s Little Richard books. Lowly worm was on every page, hidden in an illustration. My sons, as little boys, delighted in finding him as we turned the pages. He was much more entertaining than the subject of this hell call and taught by stealth, not by drumming his opinions down the throats of his readers.

  • TBTG for a little light relief, in the form of Lowly Worm!

    Meanwhile, over on other threads, The Professor is busily chasing (or stalking) Shipmates, to try to get opinions about the bullshit he is intent on peddling (ad nauseam, it seems).

    His pathetic little attempts at humour on this thread at least have the merit of brevity, unlike the rest of his 'work'...
    :scream:
  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    edited August 2019
    He’s still at it I see. What a pity. Isn’t there a way to quarantine him?

    ETA
    And can he stop posting his shitty “fiction?” That must be in violation of copyright, or at least good taste.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    Well, he's been threatened with being thrown overboard if he continues to post huge chunks of his 'fiction', or 'semi-fiction' (whatever that might be), so we'll have to wait, and see what happens...
  • As with me, ostracize.
  • Yes, but if you simply scroll down past his yards of turgid prose, you might miss golden nuggets of inspiration from other Shipmates.

    Still, simply ignoring his everlasting questions, threats of yet more chunks of 'argument' (aka lists of 'scholars'), and instructions, and discussing another aspect of the subject with someone else, might eventually get a message through...or not, as the case may be.
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