Hawke wrote:

We didn't make the jackass claim to be "smart, knowledgeable, and well
liked", you did.

You boys claim to be not only as good as me but better.
George might have, I haven't made that as a general claim.
Don't try to say
you don't. Pimpton tries to say he's my superior in every single
category and you do the same thing but in a sneakier way.
Either I claim it or I don't. Make up your mind, and then prove it.

You like to
intimate that you're really pretty damn good too, smart, successful,
hardworking, etc.

You act like you're my equal if not better all the
time.
I know I am in several specific areas, or I would already know you, or
know of you.

So if you ask me it's you two that are acting like you're hot
****, not me.
So by poking fun at your rather grandiose claims of being "smarter,
more knowledgeable, and well liked than darn near everyone", your
(also alleged) superior ability to "evaluate evidence" sees a claim
of the same ability?

To break it down for you in simple terms.
If I am talking to a moron who thinks he is "Superman", and I say
"you are not superman", I am NOT saying "I can leap tall buildings".

What's your excuse? How
come you're not a TV personality? Pretty stupid question isn't it?
That's what you're asking me. How come I'm not on TV? Duh! How come you
don't play pro basketball?

A truly irrelevant question, but one I will answer.

That question is certainly no less relevant than what you ask me. You
ask why I'm not terrifically successful. So I ask you the same and when
I do it there is no relevance? It's the same thing.
I see you slept through all classes where they were discussing how to
set up an analogy.
A better analogy would be to use a profession where I claimed to be
better than most people in the world.

That is, after noting that You don't "know" that I don't.

I got a pretty good idea.

You have no idea what I do. You suspect I don't play pro basketball
[With good reason given my feelings on the game.], but you know
nothing.

Yeah, I'm assuming you're not one of the 1500 best basketball players in
the world. Since the season is on you wouldn't be able to be here now if
you were. The point is why aren't you as successful as a professional
athlete? That's basically what you asked me?
No as discussed above it isn't


But yes I do not play "pro" basketball, but then neither do you, but
as well neither of us has claimed to have that skill set.
Among other reasons I don't play, is that I never had any interest in
obtaining that skill set.

Can't you see how stupid your questions
are?
Can't you see how stupid your "boasts" are. Call them fact all you
like...you can not come close to proving any one of them to any
observer.

You, however, in your usual braggart fashion, claimed to have the
skill set of a "talking head".


Your problem is that you have misinterpreted a simple recitation of
facts as bragging. Just like me saying I have a degree in political
science. Telling you that isn't bragging no matter how many times you
say it is.
It isn't mutually exclusive. Apparently you need another english
lesson.


If I tell you I'm six one and a half I'm not bragging. If I
tell you that at 61 years old I can bench press 300 lbs. is that
bragging? It's not. You have to misconstrue it to make it into bragging.
brag
1.
to use boastful language; boast: He bragged endlessly about his high
score.
verb (used with object)
2.
to boast of: He bragged that he had won.
noun
3.
a boast or vaunt.
4.
a thing to boast of.
5.
a boaster.
6.
an old English card game similar to poker.
adjective
7.
Archaic . unusually fine; first-rate.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English brag (noun) ostentation, arrogance, braggen
(v.); of obscure origin

Bragging is more in the way you use it, rather than the actual
description.

Got it? It's you and your buddy that
have made problems because you both misconstrue and misunderstand just
about every thing I've written.
Then learn to write more clearly, and think before you boast.
I have to chalk that up to you both
being extremely biased. Which happens to be a fact.


Another English word that you seem to be vague on.
At least you constantly misuse it.
jk