Stargate67 - road rage, popping the cork, Piscis Austrinus "S fish"

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TOOLSET

INFORMAL FALLACY

—Not so!

—Who cares?

—TOO BAD!

—Where else?

Moxie's

Disease

Challenging Authority — Direct threat differs from "Appeal to the Big Stick" because it is not an argument - Try not to forget, some people are raging bulls posing as refrigerators - Interactions with them are like an endless bait-and-switch.

NOTES TO MYSELF	PSYCHOLOGICAL AGE	CLASS
[road rage, popping the cork] - Out on the open highway, in an automobile near you, are (1.) psychotic drivers, dangerous and high on drugs, (2.) aggressive drivers, overflowing with anger and rage, and (3.) neurotic drivers, wrapped in fear and indecision - The angry ones are the safest! - It's funny, isn't it? - Not many people see aggression as a good thing.	The Age of Detachment, ages 16-19	Rules

Exactly what someone said [or did]
... usually not very original.

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The thoughts of a "bad child"
... to free your mind again.

ATTACKS	BRIDGE	SILENT BACKUP
"In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of." (–George Miller; 1980)	—Who cares?	—What difference does it make? Everyone can swim under water.
"The only meaning an utterance has in the real world is the meaning the listener understands it to have." (–Suzette Haden Elgin)	—Not so!	—Sumimasen! ... We're not that fancy ... It may be so cheesy, we don't even want it.
"So now you can get to work on your core passion."	—Who cares?	—It's like a pose.
"You used it's, the contraction of the two words, it is, instead of its, the possessive form of the pronoun it."	—TOO BAD!	—Big mistake.
"Now I'm going to have to kill the doorman." [Alluding to some long-forgotten pissing contest]	—TOO BAD!	— They're practiced in the art of deception.
"I couldn't read him."	—Who cares?	—As if it even matters.
"Can't you read?"	—Where else?	—What's wrong with this picture?
"Yeah, that sign is for people who can read."	—Where else?	—You're overlooking something ... There's nothing wrong with me – You're an asshole.
"Are you anti-Semitic?"	—Not so!	—Stoned and toasted.
"Do you read the Bible?"	—Who cares?	—Is it against the law?
"Read this."	—Where else?	—Just the best parts.
"Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice. See you later. Thanks." [An e-mail with an unknown attachment]	—TOO BAD!	—I'm so busy, I can't read this until the fall, ... and can you please send this in a format I can read?
[Car horn right in your ear, stuck in traffic]	—Who cares?	—What about the Surprise Symphony?
[Car horn / finger / drive-by combo]	—Who cares?	—IT WORKS!
[Beep!]	—Who cares?	—How about the wipers?
"Two? Is that all you can take?"	—Not so!	—By any means.
"Take your time!" [Sarcastically]	—TOO BAD!	—Double check!
"Take care! Keep your head up." [From a stranger who just asked you for money]	—Where else?	—That's a pretty good start.
"Hey, chin up!"	—Where else?	—I ask you!
"What do you mean? That's one block! You don't need a taxi — You can walk right over there! What the hell is wrong with you?"	—Who cares?	—It doesn't cost that much.
"Yell at me, Chris!"	—TOO BAD!	—Better than nothing.
"How much traffic do you get?"	—Who cares?	—Maybe Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer ... In the cold months ... Boring, huh? ... It's always more than you think.
"You're kissing the right asses, that's for sure."	—Not so!	—It's just a funny thing.
"I believe I'll understand everything at the moment I die."	—TOO BAD!	—That would really be tragic, wouldn't it?
"You shouldn't have said that – We'd have thought you were clever."	—Not so!	—You can try that when you go home.
"I've got a butler." [Disparagingly]	—Not so!	—Different people do different things.
"Where did your ancestors come from?"	—Who cares?	—It's just more parents.
[Belch!]	—TOO BAD!	—Bring that up at the next meeting!
[Belch symphony]	—Where else?	—Now, here's this!
[Belch chorus]	—TOO BAD!	—The sound of the fisherman.
[Belch finale]	—Where else?	—Years of experience.
"Oh, he's using one of his famous comebacks."	—TOO BAD!	—If Jesus could do it, you can, too.
"This movie is just one cinematographic cliché after another."	—TOO BAD!	—Now you can endure your own suffering.
["Hope to see you soon!"] "Socially or professionally?"	—Who cares?	—Watch yourself at all times!
"I don't want you parking in front of my house – Go park someplace else."	—Where else?	—Lions, lions, lions, lions, lions ... Lions on stairs ... Millionaires.
"These two spots belong to us."	—Not so!	—It's just the law.
"This is not a parking lot!"	—TOO BAD!	—Why aren't YOU king of the jungle?
[A recording from a parking lot ticket machine blasting away in your ear]	—Who cares?	—Aw, blow it out your ass!
"Does the gay marriage issue hurt your chances of advancing in politics?"	—Who cares?	—"Some of the most miserable human beings I have ever met in my life are in politics." (–San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on CNN, December 20, 2004)
"Don't be evil."	—Who cares?	—Popping out an eyeball, stepping on it.
"What's eating you?"	—Who cares?	—Nature's Babylonian behavior.
"You're not eating anything?"	—Not so!	—It's a good place to stay healthy.
"Your responses to insults make no sense at all. Stick to driving a cab."	—Not so!	—Why try to get rich when you're already rich?

REFLECTIONS

28-MAY-1999. The bridge is the important thing, not the follow-up. The bridge is purposefully brief, ambiguous, poetic, and powerful. As David Van Ness says, "This is the Roach Motel for insults — 'They check in, and they don't check out.' — It's a labyrinth — It spins them around in three dimensions and leaves them right where they were. —This is no fun! So they decide to go on down the road and check out the candy canes."

The follow-up gets very specific and serves as an anchor for someone who is defending themselves. For seventeen people the follow-up may be wrong, but for the eighteenth person it may be right. That's because there are so many permutations of "particular person," "particular tone of voice," "particular situation," and "particular aim." It's best to stay open, and to use the follow-up as a reinforcing idea rather than as an absolute thing to say. It's an attitude. The whole thing is to get rid of the friction.

29-MAY-1999.

Proscriptive Sarcasm

A sarcastic command often takes the form
of ordering a person to do what they're already doing,
adroitly changing the frame of reference.

For instance,
if you're cautiously watching out for traffic
at a busy intersection,
they might cry out from another car,
"Take your time!"

It's fun to scream back,

"—TOO BAD!"



		(1.) Descriptive Sarcasm

		(2.) Proscriptive Sarcasm
		(3.) Spin Sarcasm


		(4.) Transcendental Sarcasm

09-APR-2007.

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CODE WORDS: advancing, ancestors, anti-Semitic, asses, [beep!], [belch], block, butler, chin, cliché, comebacks, core, doorman, eating, evil, form, [horn], moment, order, parking, professionally, read, [recording], responses, spots, stick, take, traffic, utterance, we'd, yell

LXVII
Piscis Austrinus
"S fish"

—Where else?