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Dr. mel's credibility & faggots

Written by Ivan at 26 Dec 2002 19:06:18:

As an answer to: Re: Getting answer from people vs. knowing the truth written by Ralesk at 26 Dec 2002 18:18:31:

>>Don't get mad at me. I'm not a troll. I just wanted to know if Paul is a real doctor what kind he is. How is it being trollish to ask this?
>   The first person I would ask whether they are a doctor is Dr. mel with no capitals.  They're even advertising they would be one, yet, I doubt they seem to be.  Interesting, no-one ever questions their credibility.
>   I had it do the eyes with random people asking Paul whether or not he is a doctor.  First of all he doesn't prance around claiming he was, and second, it /really/ doesn't matter, just as much it doesn't matter than mel is or Jim would have 17 years of experience or that AJ works with computers, it just doesn't matter.  Why?  Paul has said it many, way too many times.  Whatever one claims to be here on this forum, cannot be checked whether it is true or not.  I could be really a 70 years old straight woman and claim to be a 20 years old faggot, you just couldn't prove it, right?  Thus, Paul, or anyone else, could just come up with an answer to your or anyone else's question and it could still be just as true or just as false as anything else.  It is simply not /worth/ to ask.  He gives you an answer -- can it be proven to be true?  No.  The most I expect is the rest of these idiots around here to go around asking him to prove he is really a pharmacist or whatever he would claim to be.  Just like it has happened to Jim.  Some retards just have too much time on their hand and will repeatedly ask people they don't like to prove they are what they claim to be.
>   If you understand this, I'll be glad.
>   By the way, I really am a 20 years old faggot from Hungary and study at the Technical University Budapest.  Now someone try and please prove it to be true.
>   PS:  I was merely picking on your style of asking Paul B.  Exaggerating too.  It looked too damn well much like the rest of these morons' questions.

No one questions Dr. mel's credibility because s/he has none and has not said anything substantive that I can recall.

Your use of the term faggot: it originally meant a piece of kindling, hence it's use to describe a cigarette and homosexuals (i.e., they used to be burned, just like witches). I am fairly sure you are aware of these, whether English is your first language or not. In the States, faggot is an offensive term generally only used by those who openly dislike homosexuals or for rhetorical impact. Just as some blacks will use the term 'nigger', some homosexuals here will use the term 'faggot' here so as to rob it of its pejorative impact. Is that what you are doing, or in your view is it simply not a pejorative term (I will assume you are not a 70-year-old woman). As for terminology, I rather like the German word "poofter" (sp?) for its humorous implications and imagery. In English the term 'queer' never seemed so bad, in that it just implied that this was a group not like the rest of society. To me, not being like the rest of society is usually a positive statement. I don't like the term 'gay' because it was a fine word that does not have an adequate alternative.


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