Question: Is being pompous and condescending ever appropriate?

it for damn sure better be appropriate!

knave!

Oh heck--you edited--and now my subject line is inaproproate. I suppose I will suffer this indignity--although not gladly.

;)

Sometimes people get riled up fast! :hi:

to the other person. :hi:

As you seem to be an all around superior person! :loveya:

Are you aiming to pick a fight?

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I want to be here for you but you seem horribly pissed.

I still like you. :)

I always wonder what the "Ignored" messages say when someone posts in my threads, so I am still confident the message will get to its destination.

I think this thread, it's title, and who started it, is real ironic.

:hi:

It's human nature.

But then again, I often wonder if being angry and abusive are ever appropriate, either...

my children can be pompous and condescending, too...I'll allow that, but I won't let them get away with it

Everybody else has to watch Bram Stoker's Dracula 'til they're blue in the face.

I'd have to tell you childlike ignoramouses... No!

:hi::evilgrin::hi:

:yourock:

a number of years ago there was a debate on school vouchers where I attended grad school. Miltron Freidman on the pro side and a well regarded Stanford Prof Ed Economist on the anti side. At the time I had a great deal of contact with both MBA students and grad ed students. I didn't attend the debate *My father, an economist, considered Friedman his antithesis and I have always found Friedman hard to stomach*. After the debate I spoke with a number of folks from both "sides." - Each described the person he agreed with as well versed, articulate and respectful of the other debator; and viewed the "opponent" as arrogant, pompous, condescending and full of empty rhetoric. The completely mirrored responses, depending upon the agreement of viewpont, was almost enough to wish I had attended. But left me forever with the view that even a term I had viewed as fairly constant, "condescending", could be quite subjective when on is fully invested in one particular view.

:argh:

Don't go there unless you have my permission.

And, BTW, YOU'RE FIRED.

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Though it doesn't really change the substance of the actual statement or argument, does it?

So would disregarding someone's opinion just because they are being pompous or condescending ever appropriate? Or is that just as foolish as acting condescending and pompous?

"I'm a Democrat and you're not, hahaha!"

"I've got an iPod and you don't, hahaha!"

"I'm an American and you're not, hahaha!"

"My underwear cost more than your whole outfit, hahaha!"

"My _____ is bigger than yours, hahaha!"

:evilgrin:

Honesty, however, is always appropriate.

On edit: Self restraint is pretty cool, too.

Dammit!

If the person you're dealing with is batshit nuts.

What a preposterous thread this is...