The Effete - Down to Earth (Real) Axis/Scale ?

[mongers]

Which languishites are the most 'down to earth' and which are the most effete ?

And where would you put yourself on this axis/continuum* ?

My view is the 'Down to Earth' title goes to either 11B4V or CCR. 

I'm not sure who wins the effete crown, and probably wouldn't be nice to say so, though I think Shelf in his proto-castle is well off in the running for that race.


Me, I'm wherever the somewhat shot away position is on the scale.




* this presupposes you accept my working definitions of the terms, but hell I'll use these words and thus allow our 'word-smiths' to debate meanings and semantics.     

[Eddie Teach]

11B4V is the guy who says he's pursued every woman he's ever been interested in and never been shot down. So apparently he's still up in the clouds.

[Ideologue]

I'm the most down to Earth.  Like, under the Earth.

[garbon]

?

[Ideologue]

Whereas garbo is, of course, rather effete.

Contrast to Martinus, he's just into feet.

[garbon]

Whereas garbo is, of course, rather effete.

Contrast to Martinus, he's just into feet.

Am I that ineffectual?

[DontSayBanana]

Minsky for effete.  If there's a high-handed polysyllabic way to say something that could be said in three words, he'll find it.  CCR for down to earth posting.

[Lettow77]

 Cal strikes me as a quite down-to-earth poster.

[DontSayBanana]

Cal strikes me as a quite down-to-earth poster.

In general, yeah- CCR's ability to still give off the "dim, smoky poker table" vibe even while debating tactics of the Roman Legions gives him the edge, though.

[Barrister]

I think of myself as being pretty down to earth, despite my LLB...

[Razgovory]

I've never heard "effete" used this way.  I'm not sure exactly what we are measuring.



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I prefer to think of myself as "Lawful Bacon" with a side of good.

[Ideologue]

Whereas garbo is, of course, rather effete.

Contrast to Martinus, he's just into feet.

Am I that ineffectual?

I just wanted to make a pun.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question.  I do manual labor, no one else here does (unless "shooting people" is manual labor, then I guess Infantry can have it; fine with me, it's a crown of fucking thorns).

[Razgovory]

You're a waitress.  That sounds pretty effete.

[Syt]

I'm the salt of the Earth.

[Ideologue]

You're a waitress.  That sounds pretty effete.

I haven't been a waiter in three years.  I work kitchen.  I'd rather be a waiter again.  In any event, if effeteness means not burning or cutting myself on a daily basis, then I'm all for it.  I am annoyed that
I got through three years of restaurant work with pretty intact hands (the only callus I have is from drawing), and am undoing that four or eight hours at a time.