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DeezerShoove » Yesterday, 6:45 am » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 6:45 am

Is it possible to expect people to show the weakness of being wrong? Or changing their view?

We have posters here that, from what I can tell, act like any number of other cyber-forums.
Sarcasm is called lies. Mean stuff is inaccurately referred to as sarcasm. Analogies taken out of context.

Things that are just pounded home day after day. Useless for the most part except to try to needle someone.
Sure, there are times when a "reminder" makes sense. Priceless stuff.
Most of it ain't priceless though.

Once in a great while when someone admits they were wrong a modicum of respect is shown.
Maybe even a greenie or two. So why is it so rare?
Is being an infallible Chatroom Champ really that enticing?

There many examples of all this crap but I'm starting out neutral. 

@Blackvegetable  Oh, there’s no doubt this hits home for our very own Grifticles, First of His Name, King of the Copy/Paste, Defender of the Dodge, Breaker of Threads, and Lord of the Ask-Me-Why.

The OP asks why it’s so rare to admit being wrong? Because for Grifticles aka Veghead, being wrong isn’t possible. He doesn’t make mistakes—he just reinterprets them as victories, buries them under 18 paragraphs of faux-intellectual rage, then shifts the topic to "****" metaphors and “literacy” pop quizzes. And that infallible “Chatroom Champ” persona? He wears that like a badge of honor pinned to a suit made of recycled Bloomberg links and other people’s quotes. Ask him to admit an error and you’ll get:

• A question about your question.
• A demand for a time-stamped citation
• A five-year-old quote of yours reposted 37 times
• And finally: “You're a moron. Ask me why.”

So yes, while some of us use this place to learn and grow, Grifticles uses it to run drills on how fast he can sprint from accountability. But hey—maybe one day he’ll surprise us all, step out of his digital trench coat, and whisper the forbidden words:
“I was wrong.”
We’ll all faint.
And he’ll immediately deny saying it and blame autocorrect. Until then... carry on, Your Highness of Never-Wrongistan.