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**Billy_Dean** · 09-21-2003, 02:31 PM

Hi Clocko, long time no see, wanna argue about something??

**clocker** · 09-21-2003, 02:56 PM

Originally posted by Billy_Dean@21 September 2003 - 07:31
Hi Clocko, long time no see, wanna argue about something??

Not quite yet, Billy.

I'm still on my first tankard of coffee...

**jbrockz** · 09-21-2003, 04:37 PM

BTW, I would recommend you keep your daughters away from Pretty Woman with Julia Roberts...

, but still single

to clocker,

english is not my first language and i still have a lot to learn about the language....i am comfortable using it but not 'technically sound' in it. i try to use movies and quotes to help explain the point since my vocabulary is limited at this point, and i like watching movies. [i actually had to look up cretin, and there a lot of words Jpaul used that i didn't look up, fortunately

]...i don't base my life's philosophy on movies, i just use them to aid in my explanation.

generally speaking, as regards the views themselves, i am not saying only i m right. i just saying this is what i think or this is how i see it and i'd like your opinion. i guess the discussion in gay rights post went better than this one [at least i didnt have anyone calling me stupid]. i discussed my interpretation of a stephen hawking's quote and got great inputs from many about how they saw it. some understood, others criticised, yet others gave their own viewpoint. i guess it works better if you have someone replying, even attacking, your views rather than YOU.

as for jpaul, billy-dean summed it up best

[i guess you can call this using a real-life example...hehe]

You have nothing to say in contradiction, you then attack the person.

Then you come up with this ..

QUOTE 
The people you are discussing these thing with are indulging your ill-informed opinions, in order to encourage you to think and form opinions for yourself
/QUOTE

The PEOPLE here? You mean to say this personal shit is designed to help him? Bullshit! You argue for the sake of it, nothing wrong with that, except you have a very shallow pool of thought.

**clocker** · 09-21-2003, 04:47 PM

jbrockz,

Your English seems pretty good to me. You are already one step ahead of me as I am not comfortable in any other language, so kudos to you.

I was simply commenting on your use of movies to explain "real life". When you make generalizations such as "prostitutes are less racist than socialites" (paraphrase) and then back it up with examples from films, I have to question the validity of your basic premise.
Were you to say " My socialite friend is a bitch and my prostitute girlfriend is not", then we wouldn't be having this discussion.

**jbrockz** · 09-21-2003, 05:18 PM

Your English seems pretty good to me. You are already one step ahead of me as I am not comfortable in any other language, so kudos to you.

Thanks

Were you to say " My socialite friend is a bitch and my prostitute girlfriend is not", then we wouldn't be having this discussion

True. As i said, i m still in learning mode. with hindsight you are right, but i guess to come up with that statement i would require to have a certain level of ease with the language that only constant communication with it can give, something that i still require more of and am hoping my discussions here will provide, along with a broader range of view-points. I guess you can compare it with having a knowledge of the ins and outs of an engine but not having much hands-on experience. I do have people here with whom i communicate in english, but not for the major part of the day.

so, learning from your quote, i would rephrase it as - A socialite can be a racist bitch, whereas A prostitute [not my girlfriend, man

] may be a bitch, but not racist.

**clocker** · 09-21-2003, 05:25 PM

jbrockz,

I would simply caution you against making sweeping generalizations.

...i repect the whore more than the socialite cause the whoe would be less racist than the socialite any day, just an example,

As an example...