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[The Brain]

Canadians have a really hard time grasping that not everyone lives in opulence. In that gilded world of course academics are thought of as poor.

[Valmy]

The great wealth and luxury of Canada is envied throughout the world. Pity it is all based on the pelts of beavers.

[crazy canuck]

??

The quoted passage is pretty much the opposite of what you said.

You: The reasonable interpretation is I didn't mean full professors.

Me: A reasonable interpretation is you meant full professors.

My mistake: I thought you meant you just said what I said.

How is it reasonable to assume I meant something absurd where there exists an explaination that isn't absurd?

Because you have already taken the position that growing up in a household where your father was a tenured professor meant you were poor. 

[Malthus]

Poor is poor, it's not a comparative concept.  No matter how rich you are, there is always someone a whole order of magnitude richer, unless you're listed by Forbes.

Of course poor can be used in conversation as a comparative concept. 

[Malthus]

??

The quoted passage is pretty much the opposite of what you said.

You: The reasonable interpretation is I didn't mean full professors.

Me: A reasonable interpretation is you meant full professors.

My mistake: I thought you meant you just said what I said.

How is it reasonable to assume I meant something absurd where there exists an explaination that isn't absurd?

Because you have already taken the position that growing up in a household where your father was a tenured professor meant you were poor. 

Uh, that would be a "no". 

[crazy canuck]

Malthus, you are acting a bit irrational here.  Going back and reading what you posted do you honestly believe that everyone else is out to get you with an unreasonable interpretation?

[Malthus]

Malthus, you are acting a bit irrational here.  Going back and reading what you posted do you honestly believe that everyone else is out to get you with an unreasonable interpretation?

No, I think that *some* of you - including you - are surfing a funny Languish meme. 

I know, I know, such a thing can never happen here.

[Admiral Yi]

No, I think that *some* of you - including you - are surfing a funny Languish meme. 

I know, I know, such a thing can never happen here.

Whereas I think you are overreacting to what you perceive to be a manifestation of a Languish meme you don't find that funny.

[crazy canuck]

Malthus, you are acting a bit irrational here.  Going back and reading what you posted do you honestly believe that everyone else is out to get you with an unreasonable interpretation?

No, I think that *some* of you - including you - are surfing a funny Languish meme. 

And you are as overly sensitive about this as ever.  Protesting overly much? 

[Malthus]

Malthus, you are acting a bit irrational here.  Going back and reading what you posted do you honestly believe that everyone else is out to get you with an unreasonable interpretation?

No, I think that *some* of you - including you - are surfing a funny Languish meme. 

And you are as overly sensitive about this as ever.  Protesting overly much? 

That's how these memes work. If you point out that the interpretation is wrong, you are "oversensitive" or "protesting too much", with whatever that implies. If you don't, then you are simply accepting it as true. 

On the flipside - you guys have insisted that your interpretaion was true, but also, that pointing out that it isn't is "overreacting" to the joke.

[crazy canuck]

But Malthus the point is it is perfectly reasonable to interpret what you said as meaning that academics are poor.   Even without your well earned Meme.

[Admiral Yi]

That's how these memes work. If you point out that the interpretation is wrong, you are "oversensitive" or "protesting too much", with whatever that implies. If you don't, then you are simply accepting it as true. 

On the flipside - you guys have insisted that your interpretaion was true, but also, that pointing out that it isn't is "overreacting" to the joke.

If you had just clarified what you meant, no one would have had any trouble with it.  In fact you accused people of throwing bullshit, or whatever terminology it was you used.

The fact that you're spinning *that* aspect of it doesn't help your case IMO.

[Malthus]

But Malthus the point is it is perfectly reasonable to interpret what you said as meaning that academics are poor.   Even without your well earned Meme.

See, if I debate this point - which I don't agree with, BTW - I'm further "overreacting". Or perhaps "protesting too much". Right? 

Interesting.

[crazy canuck]

But Malthus the point is it is perfectly reasonable to interpret what you said as meaning that academics are poor.   Even without your well earned Meme.

See, if I debate this point - which I don't agree with, BTW - I'm further "overreacting". Or perhaps "protesting too much". Right? 

Interesting.

You can tell us all you want what you really meant.  But to suggest that your words could not have been reasonably interpreted in another way is just silly.

[Malthus]

But Malthus the point is it is perfectly reasonable to interpret what you said as meaning that academics are poor.   Even without your well earned Meme.

See, if I debate this point - which I don't agree with, BTW - I'm further "overreacting". Or perhaps "protesting too much". Right? 

Interesting.

You can tell us all you want what you really meant.  But to suggest that your words could not have been reasonably interpreted in another way is just silly.

You really do want to debate this, don't you.