HagenTheDwarf -- 3 posts, 100% obnoxious
Columba_in_a_Currach
Shipmate
in Hell
Congratulations, I doubt this is a record, but it's still an impressive showing. I logged on to the Ship for the first time in ages. A little notification alerted me to your comments on my post. I have read, marked, and inwardly digested your unsolicited and ill-informed advice about my personal and professional life (clearly given from the point of view of one who is no doubt as to his superiority). And then, since I had no idea who the hell you were, I looked at your other posts, and discovered that you chose to introduce yourself by explaining why you're a ConEvo who arrogantly dismisses all other forms of Christianity (quelle surprise). Assuming you have chosen to put your best foot forward, I am quite certain I don't want to see your bad side.
Since you claim to have been a lurker since 1999, I'm sure you know how hell works.
Other than that, I can only refer you to Joschka Fischer's famous comment to the Vice-President of the Bundestag in 1984, followed swiftly by Private Eye's response in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.
Since you claim to have been a lurker since 1999, I'm sure you know how hell works.
Other than that, I can only refer you to Joschka Fischer's famous comment to the Vice-President of the Bundestag in 1984, followed swiftly by Private Eye's response in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.
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"CV of professional failures" in All Saints.
I'm not saying there's a connection here, but I find it odd that "Hagen the Dwarf" would have chosen this Ship name -- a character quite close to a troll. (I'm also assuming "Hagen the Dwarf" may be based on the Norse legend, rather than Wagner's "Ring," but it's still the same character.)
I've glanced at the posts (two were tl;dr), but it does look as though this is yet another of those ungracious I'm Right, And You're All Hell-Bound Hereticks types.
They hop aboard from time to time, but soon fall overboard, or get planked. Well, mostly...
And I can see why @Columba_in_a_Currach is upset...
That was my impression. I had a moment where I thought I might be over-reacting, but I'm glad others had the same impression.
Besides, I have so few opportunities to use my Joschka Fischer material.
I don’t think you’re over-reacting. At the very least, that thread isn’t for unsolicited life advice from an anonymous internet person. Especially not advice delivered in such a tone and manner.
Bishops Finger, I’ll take a sossidge please
I wonder what Roast Dwarf onna Stick would taste like?
@HagenTheDwarf , please to step forward...
Not to toot my own horn but in the probably-never-to-be-published spoof on the Hobbit that I have on my hard drive, the dwarves wonder out loud if the "mutton" they pinch from the trolls mightn't be roast dwarf. Gandalf assures them that Dwarf has a more gamey taste. Many awkward moments ensue.
In 1984, in the West German Bundestag (parliament), Joschka Fischer (then a young Green politician) addressed the President of the chamber (Richard Stücklen, a much older member of a conservative party, and a former Nazi) with the following:
Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch.
It's hard to convey precisely the combination of courtly formality and aggressive vulgarity conveyed in those words, but it basically means "With all due respect, Mr. President, you are asshole, sir."
For those Shipmates who are not familiar with Private Eye, the Arkell v. Pressdram reference (which has now entered British popular culture) is to the fact that, in one of the many times Private Eye was threatened with a libel suit, they received a letter from the prospective plaintiff's lawyer notifying them that "[the client's] attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply." Their famous response was "We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off."
Since then "the reply in the Arkell v. Pressdram case" is a somewhat arch way of saying "fuck off."
Indeed, a very odd choice for a Ship name.
I used to think humility was for other people... When I finally got the message, it was getting late to unload the reputation of being an opinionated pr*ck, and I had done some damage along the way. The trouble with Paul's big event on the road to Damascus was that it probably only worked for the people who saw it happen. Not defending anyone, mind you.
As someone whose Ship-namesake is primarily characterised by the desire to utterly destroy the planet Earth, I think it’s possible to read too much into such things.
From cartoons back in the '60s or so, IIRC?
Me too. Have we here a wind-up merchant?
(*Sossidge inna Bun - Rat onna Stick...).
But by all means invoke Angua, as long as she's in a good mood...
Sometimes a quick decision can haunt you for decades....
Wunderbar!
(wonderful)
Oder zehr schlecht?
AFF
Thank you for your kind response, friend. My apologies. I am sure your perspicuous observations are most merited.
I greatly admire the honesty and candour of the original post. It is such an important topic. The noted art critic, Brian Sewell, said that he considered his epitaph should be “A Failure”. I know how he felt for certainly that is my opinion of my life’s work. I would ask how to proceed with a discussion of this topic but now is perhaps not the time.
There's a very good reason why Ross and Pigwidgeon provided translations underneath. That reason is because it's been the rules since Methuselah was young. Do keep up.
DT
HH
What you did is called a humble brag.
On top of the humble brag, you negatively phrase some of your advice.
That is how your words come across. If that is not what you intended, then I hope you were not a chief executive in anything involving communications. Because then you would truly be a failure.
It is possible that you have poor communication and inter-personal skills and meant to be helpful, which is why I didn't join in the hell call earlier.
*sehr nicht zehr.
("or very bad")
Is that an apology? Or a patronising dismissal?
It sounds a bit passive-aggressive to me (and the highlighted word is correctly spelled 'perspicacious')...
Be honest, if we met him at a drinks party we'd pour red wine over him.
Ahem. ITTWACW.
Only if it was very bad wine - you don't waste the good stuff.
Or maybe you could use one of the soft drinks supplied for the dedicated drivers. Sticky and nasty.