Maybe his professor owes an apology.

I've got another story.

The last place I worked at, I used to go to lunch with this guy (he had a Masters in EE and was a real wiz, so he was the exception to the rule) on a fairly regular basis. One day, as he's driving to the resturant, he starts:

"You know, when you said" - I'll name the guy Sam - "that Sam was dumber than a box of rocks, I though, "There's Potts going off again. Exaggerating.' That was until last night. You know what? That guys IS as dumb as a box of rocks!" He then proceeded to tell me about a 1 am call my buddy had with Sam concerning a pretty high-profile project (at least for my company) where Sam - a guy with a Master's degree as well - couldn't understand some basic stuff as it came to technology.

To make matters worse, Sam was a subject matter expert for a HUGE company in one of their key operational areas. Nothing got implemented in that key operational area unless Sam signed off on it.

My only response was, "Your first mistake was admitting to me that I was right..."

(Which is what Victor is so aggressively trying not to do.)

I have been rethinking this. We should be kinder to Victor.

He obviously has special needs, lacking a soul and all. I admit to having been taken back by misanthropic statements, but I think he is crying out for help. His boasting of intelligence is just a shell to protect his fragile image of self.

We need a kinder, gentler Cbid. I know I can count on you all to help.

You're really ruining a good ol Victor/Potts scuffle...

Potts... all you ever have is anecdotes about how dumb educated people are, and how in all your interactions with them, you're right.

Yet you show yourself to be 100% incorrect in a number of situations where: 1 -right/wrong is a mathematical property, not an opinion; and 2 - you're still unable to understand where you are incorrect.

Since you've shown in a number of situations where you are unable to understand an unambiguously correct answer (ie 2+2=4) , I can only assume that you make these same errors throughout the rest of your life. In other words, I suspect you are simply unable to understand that these people are in fact correct and not the idiots you think they are,

This reminds me of a coworker (I'm going to use a pottsian irrelevant anecdote!)... in his youth he had attempted a PhD in physics, but had left the department. He claimed that he left because he had discovered a completely novel way of understanding gravity, or something like that. And that his discovery was so groundbreaking and so novel that the entire physics department didn't understand it, and so they drove him out.

Well, that's all fine and dandy... sure, we all would like to believe in the genius underdog who's fighting the unbending university which didn't understand his brilliance. But the reality is that he'd tried for a PhD in Religion as well, and another in anthropology... failing out of all 3. In fact, after he started self-destructing at work, ultimately leading to his firing, it became clear that he simply was delusional, and his "novel understanding" of just about anything was simply a delusional inability to understand facts.

Kinda reminds me of you...

[quote=Brewha]I have been rethinking this. We should be kinder to Victor.

He obviously has special needs, lacking a soul and all. I admit to having been taken back by misanthropic statements, but I think he is crying out for help. His boasting of intelligence is just a shell to protect his fragile image of self.

We need a kinder, gentler Cbid. I know I can count on you all to help.[/quote]

Brew.... none of us have souls. They do not exist.

Get a coat...

[quote=Brewha]I have been rethinking this. We should be kinder to Victor.

He obviously has special needs, lacking a soul and all. I admit to having been taken back by misanthropic statements, but I think he is crying out for help. His boasting of intelligence is just a shell to protect his fragile image of self.

We need a kinder, gentler Cbid. I know I can count on you all to help.[/quote]

Sooo ,,,,

You're saying

Victor = Fredo Corleone ?

:-k

[quote=victor809]Brew.... none of us have souls. They do not exist.

Get a coat...[/quote]

A coat? A coat of what?

Asserting that we have no souls is heresy. You should know better than that. Better that you claim to have lost your own soul, or that I have lost mine than to say there are none. You would not want to be thought of as a godless man.

[quote=wheelrite]Sooo ,,,,

You're saying

Victor = Fredo Corleone ?

:-k[/quote]

Nah - I don't think he's Italian. Russian maybe. Potts thinks Cromagnon . . .

[quote=ZRX1200]You're really ruining a good ol Victor/Potts scuffle...[/quote]

Your right Z. Who am I to come between these to two love birds . . . .

[quote=wheelrite]Sooo ,,,,

You're saying

Victor = Fredo Corleone ?

:-k[/quote]

Leave the greenhouse gases, take the cannoli.

[quote=Brewha]Nah - I don't think he's Italian. Russian maybe. Potts thinks Cromagnon . . . [/quote]

Interestingly, I'm more italian than any other nationality...

[quote=Brewha]A coat? A coat of what?

Asserting that we have no souls is heresy. You should know better than that. Better that you claim to have lost your own soul, or that I have lost mine than to say there are none. You would not want to be thought of as a godless man.[/quote]

Now you're just playing stupid....

[quote=victor809]Now you're just playing stupid....[/quote]

And after all I have done for you. You would leave me without so much as a coat . . . .

Where is your charity?

[quote=victor809]Potts... all you ever have is anecdotes about how dumb educated people are, and how in all your interactions with them, you're right.

Yet you show yourself to be 100% incorrect in a number of situations where: 1 -right/wrong is a mathematical property, not an opinion; and 2 - you're still unable to understand where you are incorrect.

Since you've shown in a number of situations where you are unable to understand an unambiguously correct answer (ie 2+2=4) , I can only assume that you make these same errors throughout the rest of your life. In other words, I suspect you are simply unable to understand that these people are in fact correct and not the idiots you think they are,

This reminds me of a coworker (I'm going to use a pottsian irrelevant anecdote!)... in his youth he had attempted a PhD in physics, but had left the department. He claimed that he left because he had discovered a completely novel way of understanding gravity, or something like that. And that his discovery was so groundbreaking and so novel that the entire physics department didn't understand it, and so they drove him out.

Well, that's all fine and dandy... sure, we all would like to believe in the genius underdog who's fighting the unbending university which didn't understand his brilliance. But the reality is that he'd tried for a PhD in Religion as well, and another in anthropology... failing out of all 3. In fact, after he started self-destructing at work, ultimately leading to his firing, it became clear that he simply was delusional, and his "novel understanding" of just about anything was simply a delusional inability to understand facts.

Kinda reminds me of you...

[/quote]

Lol.

Victor, ever stopped to think that maybe you have too elevated an opinion of people with acedemic pedigree?

And yeah, the majority of them I look upon with disdain.

History is filled to the brim with people who had a "novel understanding" of things, and were r-e-v-i-l-e-d by the accredited elite. It is unfortunate that the depth of your historical understanding is so shallow. But if it make you feel any better, I'll take my wratn and ire out on the tech support guys I've been on hold with for the last 30 minutes, whom all have PhDs, and can't figure out how to use their own system.

(And you still owe the guy an apology.)

[quote=wheelrite]Sooo ,,,,

You're saying

Victor = Fredo Corleone ?

:-k[/quote]

I can just hear him now.

I'M SMAAAT! I CAN RUN STUFF!!! YOU'RE MY KID BROTHER, AND I WAS PASSED OVAH!!!

[quote=Brewha]Using science to lie is truly nothing new – point taken.

However, the fault is not with the science. It is with those who twist it to lie and manipulate.

[/quote]

That is ridiculous. That would be like blaming the shooter and not the gun.

[quote=jpotts]Lol.

Victor, ever stopped to think that maybe you have too elevated an opinion of people with acedemic pedigree?

And yeah, the majority of them I look upon with disdain.

History is filled to the brim with people who had a "novel understanding" of things, and were r-e-v-i-l-e-d by the accredited elite. It is unfortunate that the depth of your historical understanding is so shallow. But if it make you feel any better, I'll take my wratn and ire out on the tech support guys I've been on hold with for the last 30 minutes, whom all have PhDs, and can't figure out how to use their own system.

(And you still owe the guy an apology.)[/quote]

Yes potts, I'm sure categorically deciding that anyone who has put the effort, research and years into a topic required for a PhD is "dumb" is definitely the direction to go. No way that can go wrong.

Give me a study showing IQ vs years education rather than your worthless anecdotes, and then you can start to sound less like a crazy bearded homeless man. Of course, the study will probably be developed by someone with a PhD, so I'm sure it must be wrong.... 😣

[quote=victor809]Jpotts, I'm a flaming tard. It's true I love rubby and advocating for homosexuals in Georgetown but if I told you that would you hold it against me? You know...that? Please.

Don't tell the cops. [/quote]

[quote=victor809]Brew.... none of us have souls. They do not exist.

Get a coat...[/quote]

victor, your apparent disdain for someone beliefs does not make any of your arguments any stronger. Its one thing to argue point vs. counter point its a whole other mater to make a mockery of their beliefs, that's just low. I myself respect others beliefs even though I do not necessarily agree with them. And from what I read in no way did he try to force his beliefs on you, simply made a statement.