I Feel Like Skipping to the Exact Middle Point of an Argument and Nothing Else

[CyranoJ]

and so I say to this motherfucker, I say to him:

"Twenty fucking minutes, it took you! You were two minutes away from me for twenty fucking minutes! And now my food is fucking cold, you unbelievable asshole!"

But only in my head. What came out of my mouth was:

"Thanks for making the effort. We all have bad days."

Now, that anecdote is admittedly incidental to the point I was just making about Dialectical Materialism. But the relevance is this: remember that when you're interacting with people in the gig economy, you're interacting with an extremely distributed and powerless variant of Marx's proletariat. Ultimately, whatever frustration you're currently feeling, you owe them as much support as you can give them.

Getting back to the question of whether revolution is a feasible solution to the difficulties we're currently facing, I'd like to reference Herbert Marcuse, who very perceptively says

 

[SimonDoom]

Says? Says what?

 

[CyranoJ]

I am not authorized to disclose that information. That would contradict the point of the thread. It's the exact mid point of the argument and nothing else.

It's like edging, but with discourse.

 

[CyranoJ]

Imagine an argument you might have with someone and the most frustratingly inconclusive middle point you could conceive. That's the game. Fun for the whole family!

 

[SimonDoom]

I am not authorized to disclose that information. That would contradict the point of the thread. It's the exact mid point of the argument and nothing else.

It's like edging, but with discourse.

All I can say about that kind of argument is that it's complete

 

[CyranoJ]

All I can say about that kind of argument is that it's complete

Probably so. But I enjoy gesturing to things outside the frame.

I have, like, no illusions that this will catch on as a thread. But if it does? Hot damn. I really want to see people's incomplete mid-point arguments.

 

[Rustyoznail]

From a meeting I had with a consultant about his design for a fire service to a new building, which he said needed two large water tanks and a diesel pumpset.

"I appreciate that you've been working in this area for a number of years, but I question your interpretation of the water flow and pressure report."

My thoughts...

"For fuck's suck, this is hydraulics 101! You cannot pull 20 litres per second out of a 50mm hose and expect the pressure NOT to drop off a cliff! What sort of idiot are you, and why are we paying you for your moronic advice?"

After listening to his inane defence and blatantly wrong assumptions, my desire to protect his professional integrity faded. We don't have tanks or a pump.

 

[CyranoJ]

From a meeting I had with a consultant about his design for a fire service to a new building, which he said needed two large water tanks and a diesel pumpset.

"I appreciate that you've been working in this area for a number of years, but I question your interpretation of the water flow and pressure report."

My thoughts...

"For fuck's suck, this is hydraulics 101! You cannot pull 20 litres per second out of a 50mm hose and expect the pressure NOT to drop off a cliff! What sort of idiot are you, and why are we paying you for your moronic advice?"

After listening to his inane defence and blatantly wrong assumptions, my desire to protect his professional integrity faded. We don't have tanks or a pump.

OY, that sounds frustrating. "Consultants" can be a bane.

 

[shelleycat1]

You told me to go right at that junction, can’t you read the map; and you in the back, we are still not there yet.

 

[CyranoJ]

You told me to go right at that junction, can’t you read the map; and you in the back, we are still not there yet.

Beautifully succinct. I salute you.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

and so I say to this motherfucker, I say to him:

"Twenty fucking minutes, it took you! You were two minutes away from me for twenty fucking minutes! And now my food is fucking cold, you unbelievable asshole!"

But only in my head. What came out of my mouth was:

"Thanks for making the effort. We all have bad days."

Now, that anecdote is admittedly incidental to the point I was just making about Dialectical Materialism. But the relevance is this: remember that when you're interacting with people in the gig economy, you're interacting with an extremely distributed and powerless variant of Marx's proletariat. Ultimately, whatever frustration you're currently feeling, you owe them as much support as you can give them.

Getting back to the question of whether revolution is a feasible solution to the difficulties we're currently facing, I'd like to reference Herbert Marcuse, who very perceptively says

Years spent on Lemmygrad.ml have so atrophied my conversational skills that I no longer have the power to argue. I communicate exclusively in memes.

 

[CyranoJ]

Years spent on Lemmygrad.ml have so atrophied my conversational skills that I no longer have the power to argue. I communicate exclusively in memes.

I mean, hey. The memes you would use in the middle of the argument would totally count. And they would be extra-cryptic! That's a feature, not a defect.

 

[nice90sguy]

...and that is basically my point...

- middle point of all my arguments

 

[Softkissblelips]

Really!

 

[TheLobster]

And now for something completely different.

 

[onehitwanda]

"On second thoughts, let us not go to Camelot. It is a silly place."

 

[StillStunned]

"Yes, dear."

 

[lovecraft68]

"Yes, dear."

That's not the middle, that's the end.

My version, "Yeah, okay, whatever."

 

[StillStunned]

That's not the middle, that's the end.

It's the middle, the end and quite often the start as well.

 

[onehitwanda]

It's the middle, the end and quite often the start as well.

"It is not the end, nor it is the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
- Lady Margaret Chadwick upon viewing the new strap-on her Amoratrix had brought for their "port and cigar" evening.

 

[SimonDoom]

Personally, after a quick intro I prefer to skip the meaty middle of the argument altogether and cut through to the playground-insult finish, as so many threads here do, where it's just one participant after another saying a variation of, "I know you are, but what am I?" It's mindless, but there's a clarifying purity to it.

 

[THBGato]

"But look, if one pair fit me, and the other didn't, why would I not wear the pair that fit?"

"Yes but the other pair were huge on me! It was like wearing a marquee!"

"But you bought them. Why didn't you make sure they fit?"

"I did! But then you took my pair!"

"How were they your pair? They fit me!"

Ad nauseum. Repeat every year. Anyone want to guess what this real life annual argument that my kids delight in bringing up was about?*

*why my wife ended up with a pair of waterproof trousers at a festival that didn't fit, while mine did.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

In the exact middle of an argument with my husband, I usually hear one of us say, "What do you mean? You don't know what I mean? I mean what I said, and you know it. You know what I mean?"

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, in here, if it is certain people, not mentioning any names (tilan), I either tune them out or block them. This is long before we reach the middle.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Sunday to Sunday is one week. That makes twice a week.