I consider that we always had constructive, intelligent discussion, each learning from the other, in a respectful manner.
I think that it is cultural. Although you seem to be quite broad-minded (and perhaps much moreso than I am), you have an appreciation for the finer things of this world...
- from history to ancient poets to ancient languages.
...and moreover, you enjoy intelligent discussion. Your oeuvre primarily revolves around extended posts on contemporary history and current events: Cypherpunks, Assange, etc.
Some people want to be the highest and the best. Others race to the bottom. However else people may be divided up, I think that those two categories are irreconcilable; whereas those in the first category may find a natural basis for mutual respect—well, sooner or later. From my own experience, I observe that some people with whom I had little forum fights a few years ago are now on mutually amicable terms with me.
Curiously, we never argued. And I say curiously because even similar minds think differently at some points. Oh well, curiously, it didn't happen. We learned from each other in the debated subjects (maybe I learned more from him than he learned from me), but the point is that we always talked politely to each other and it was constructive as we both learned new things in life.
Curiously, that conceptually approximates what I myself recently said about Lauda!
She and I had our disagreements. We had some rousing debates in private. For one thing, she was what I considered to be softhearted (LOL). [...]
And she once told me that if I agreed with her about everything, it would be boring.
Whoever she is, she is a rare mind.
And she once told me that if I agreed with her about everything, it would be boring.
Whoever she is, she is a rare mind.
* nullius slaps himself with a large trout.
Isn't that a mIRC expression? It made me laugh remembering the old, good, mIRC times
Although to my knowledge, the trout slap was made net.famous by the most popular MS Windows IRC client, the meme about slapping people in the face with a fish seems to antedate the Internet.
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When this thread first started, YouTube didn’t exist!
(I have not verified the statements on that thread; DYOR.)