Hawke wrote:


I didn't say it's the only way. But that is the primary way it's done in
this country. When people ask what your educational level is they expect
you will tell them what degrees you have. Licensing exams are not a
measure of your education.

Says one who probably hasn't taken one.

You can take a bar exam and pass it without
going to law school. Passing the test doesn't mean you have the education.
So yes, the day I
graduated I became more educated than the day before I graduated. That's
by the standard of how you measure education.

Apparently the only way YOU can measure it.

That's how the learning institutions measure it. You have completed a
degree program and you have the education or you didn't.
How incredibly lame. That is how they award a credential, not how
they measure education.

I don't make those rules.
Isn't a "rule", no matter what you would like to believe.


Was I not just as educated
a week before I graduated? Of course I was, but you measure a man's
education by his degrees.


Can't have it both ways. Either you were more educated or you weren't.

I'm not trying to. You're splitting hairs. Before you got your degree
you didn't have one.
You contradict yourself, and I point that out, and "I am splitting
hairs"? You really are what George paints you I guess.




That all depends on what you define as education. Most people call
education college.

Ahhhh your misuse of the "most people" again.

Since when is calling the majority "most people" wrong? You think that's
wrong? It isn't.
The assumption that "what you believe is what the majority believes"
is what is wrong.

No, I believe most people use the term "Formal Education" for what you
mean.

Now it's you who is misusing the term "most people" now. A formal
education is synonymous to a college education. But then "most people"
now just say education for going to college.

And even more if you keep pretending that my use of language is way out
of the mainstream because it's not. In fact, it seems the only two
people who ever had a problem understanding me are you are Pimpton.

" me are you are Pimpton."


For that matter you don't show a lot of anything here either.

I don't claim to, and you do.

But you probably think your posts show you as someone really
bright? Me too.
Why thank you. I know you don't really mean it, but heck....

Sorry but you misunderstood what I meant. What I meant was that I think
the same thing about my posts that you do about yours.

Too bad that wasn't what you said then, isn't it.



And much other puffery.

You don't know what that word means. If you think saying I'm better than
average is puffery you're out of your mind.
puff·er·y /'p?f?ri/ Show Spelled[puhf-uh-ree] Show IPA
noun, plural -er·ies.
1. undue or exaggerated praise.
2. publicity, acclaim, etc., that is full of undue or exaggerated
praise.
Which meets your use, exactly

Flaming bonkers it is then.

Saying you're no better than average is not puffery. You better look the
word up.


The truth is I'm a pretty likable guy. Most people who meet me like me.
The exception is when I run into someone who doesn't like me.

Wow.... Caption Obvious, everyone likes you, except those that don't?
What an amazing insight.

Well, you didn't get it. It was a simple statement.
WHICH YOU ****ED UP, if the below is what you meant to say!

Most people I meet
like me. There are exceptions but they are few. I just means that more
people like me than don't. You had trouble with that though.

Which is where you illustrated your ignorance. Sufficiently for others
to mock you.

Except at no time have I illustrated ignorance.
Except in bright neon letters, flashing strobe lights, ill timed
fireworks, and a couple of glow-sticks.


I don't see things the way you conservatives do.
Garbage in Garbage out
Let's see, you think people do things solely because of their race,

you think there are "lower classes" of people, sound fairly typical
of the common perception of "conservatives".

I do know America is a class society. You may have heard of some of them
upper class, middle class, working class, poor. Ever hear anyone besides
me talk about these classes?
Yes, but you are the one who considers those who make less than you do
to be "lower classes". I guess that really shouldn't be a surprise.
The statements I called puffery (which they are) pretty much show that
you think most of the people on the face of the planet are inferior to
you.

How come? Because it's a fact they exist.
It's a fairy tale that there are no classes in America.
Never said there weren't, I said your use of the pejorative term
"lower" is revealing about your mental state.

I see very
little the way you conservatives do. But if you want to discuss
something specific I assure you that I know enough to do so.


Doesn't really matter to some one who could TRUTHFULLY boast

"So whatever the subject is I know a whole lot about it."

It's not boasting and I don't say I know a lot about everything.
The statement "So whatever the subject is I know a whole lot about it"
says exactly that.

Nobody here asks anyone when they don't know something.
Lots of people ask questions here, some even about metalworking. None
of them seem to be directing questions to you though.

They're all conservatives too.
Revealing the complete depth of your ignorance! There are people of
all stripes here, and a few in polka dots, and some rungychungy as
well.
How often do they ask what they think is
a liberal about anything?
Oh sure everybody picks on the poor "liberals".
How often do you ask questions of liberals?
Not much I'll bet.
All the time, but then unlike you I hang out with a wide variety of
people


What you think I'm implying is wrong. Few people ask me for anything
here.
"True dat"

They don't come to you either.
I am not the idiot making the claim. You are.

When I used to spend a lot of time in rec.guns I gave people
information all the time.
Regardless of if they wanted it. Which would be why you are here now,
not there?
Yeah, I just volunteer information. Bull****. When people would ask gun
questions I had the answers. I got tired of it there because I wasn't
learning anything.
THAT I believe.

Most of the time that's true. Want to take a test. Tell me what you
think you know more about than I do.
I already gave you a list.

Just riffing on what you prefer to call them, that is to say "lower
classes".

What they are is what I call them.
So you really believe they are your "inferiors" don't you.

You are useless.
jk