How about a trade.......

[Gedanken]

Now wait a minute, JJ - am I or am I not blue-collar?

[Elagabalus]

CEOs and Execs are my betters? Do you assign value in regards to one's material wealth? That doesn't sound like someone with a doctorate in anything would do. It exemplifies the certainty of my conclusions regarding your commoner's attitude. The Blue Collar label fits.

Furthermore, I take issue with your comment that I am not worth enough of your time to be deserving of originality. You found me important enough to compose this half baked, slanderous, reply. You rant on, like some mad Ayn Rand disciple, about how I am some sort of intellectually subservient non-entity. All you have done here is a little jig to show off infront of your "friends."

It seems that you, not I, have too much time on your hands.

[Otis]

Originally Posted by Elagabalus

CEOs and Execs are my betters? Do you assign value in regards to one's material wealth? That doesn't sound like someone with a doctorate in anything would do. It exemplifies the certainty of my conclusions regarding your commoner's attitude. The Blue Collar label fits.

Furthermore, I take issue with your comment that I am not worth enough of your time to be deserving of originality. You found me important enough to compose this half baked, slanderous, reply. You rant on, like some mad Ayn Rand disciple, about how I am some sort of intellectually subservient non-entity. All you have done here is a little jig to show off infront of your "friends."

It seems that you, not I, have too much time on your hands.

I'm seeing a rather hypocritical streak in you. Firstly, I think you misunderstood the meaning of CEO's & execs being betters - I'm not sure it had anything to do with material wealth. Secondly, slandering someone for apparently "assigning value in regards to one's material wealth" and then branding them a "commoner" and "blue-collar" is ignorant and hypocritical.

Now who's dancing a jig?

I'm rather tired of your unctous, negative displays. This place should be fun and informative, not a soapbox to stand upon and preach your trite ramblings.

[Gedanken]

And yet you bother to reply and come up for another serving.

It's not material wealth that makes CEOs and execs your betters, even though you may tell yourself that to help sleep at night. It's that such people eschew pretentiousness because they have real work to do and real lives to lead. However, in your limited capacity to grasp how the real world works, I've forgive you for not being able to understand that.

I'm not at all surprised that you wouldn't know what someone with a doctorate sounds like . Such an atmosphere is one you most assuredly could not handle if you encountered it - you'd stick out like a sore thumb calling everyone Doctor when those among equals deal on a first-name basis. If you wish to find a commoner around these parts, find the closest mirror.

Don't mistake my response to you as any measure of the tiniest smidgen of your significance. What is important here is that your pitiful self-image is providing comedic stock for the benefit of the other members' amusement. There are, after all, few things more funny than someone who deliberately sets himself up to be pilloried.

It's true that I have time on my hands - after all, clients turn to me to be incisive and get right to the heart of the matter - I actually get paid for spending less time on things, but being the drone you are you couldn't possibly conceptualise such an arrangement. You, on the other hand, labour at puffery, and I can just imagine how you make yourself feel better by flaccidly belittling your students. Rest assured that in a few years, they'll come to realise what a little, little individual you are and surpass you with the greatest of ease.

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by Gedanken

And yet you bother to reply and come up for another serving.

It's not material wealth that makes CEOs and execs your betters, even though you may tell yourself that to help sleep at night. It's that such people eschew pretentiousness because they have real work to do and real lives to lead. However, in your limited capacity to grasp how the real world works, I've forgive you for not being able to understand that.

I'm not at all surprised that you wouldn't know what someone with a doctorate sounds like . Such an atmosphere is one you most assuredly could not handle if you encountered it - you'd stick out like a sore thumb calling everyone Doctor when those among equals deal on a first-name basis. If you wish to find a commoner around these parts, find the closest mirror.

Don't mistake my response to you as any measure of the tiniest smidgen of your significance. What is important here is that your pitiful self-image is providing comedic stock for the benefit of the other members' amusement. There are, after all, few things more funny than someone who deliberately sets himself up to be pilloried.

It's true that I have time on my hands - after all, clients turn to me to be incisive and get right to the heart of the matter - I actually get paid for spending less time on things, but being the drone you are you couldn't possibly conceptualise such an arrangement. You, on the other hand, labour at puffery, and I can just imagine how you make yourself feel better by flaccidly belittling your students. Rest assured that in a few years, they'll come to realise what a little, little individual you are and surpass you with the greatest of ease.

Hey slow down, you tosser. I've got this Oxford Dictionary opened up here and having a hard time keeping up with all those BIG words you're using!!

[mailman]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

Hey slow down, you tosser. I've got this Oxford Dictionary opened up here and having a hard time keeping up with all those BIG words you're using!!

When will you learn to use google?

[mailman]

Originally Posted by Elagabalus

All you have done here is a little jig to show off infront of your "friends."

It seems that you, not I, have too much time on your hands.

He's my friend and he's not showing off. He's having fun.

[Elagabalus]

Ahh a significant reply. An elitist peacock. An insufferable plutocrat.
I know that right now you are sitting behind your monitor plotting your next major diatribe against me. Yet, I digress.

I have definately learned from your courtesy. You've attempted to slander my chosen field of employment, my teaching abilities, and deemed me some small little man with delusions of grandeur.

Fancy, that through all of this, never once did I bring up anything about your own personal life off of this forum. If I were to mimic your mentality no doubt we would be discussing your wife, your children, and anything else completely off topic. However you see I am not here to attempt to insult you. You do that to yourself. I am merely rebelling against your rabid tyranny.

I'm the egomaniac?



I Triumph Over All! well self praise is no recomendation.

Deus Sol Invictus

[Otis]

Originally Posted by Elagabalus

Ahh a significant reply. An elitist peacock. An insufferable plutocrat.
I know that right now you are sitting behind your monitor plotting your next major diatribe against me. Yet, I digress.

I have definately learned from your courtesy. You've attempted to slander my chosen field of employment, my teaching abilities, and deemed me some small little man with delusions of grandeur.

Fancy, that through all of this, never once did I bring up anything about your own personal life off of this forum. If I were to mimic your mentality no doubt we would be discussing your wife, your children, and anything else completely off topic. However you see I am not here to attempt to insult you. You do that to yourself. I am merely rebelling against your rabid tyranny.

I'm the egomaniac?



I Triumph Over All!

Deus Sol Invictus

Whoah! Settle down Napoleon, there aren't enough emoticons in the world to show how much I am laughing right now.
Talk about delusions of grandeur.

[JJ Irani]

Hey John,

Why don't you just take my advice and BAN yourself? I did give you that other link didn't I, the minute you PM'd me? So why don't you make your presence felt and known there? I'm sure they'll LOVE you!!

[Earl]

John as you said "I have definitely learned from your courtesy. You've attempted to slander my chosen field of employment, my teaching abilities, and deemed me some small little man with delusions of grandeur." You opened that can by your self and he just pointed that out to you in a round about way I would say. Back to what we are about tho, we have debated with you and allowed you to come into our community and disrupt it as you have now also pointed out; "I am merely rebelling against your rabid tyranny." When you have been banned from larger forums then ours! Pray tell, how we are the tyrants.

[Launch Mini]

I once recall hearing the following.....

"those that can, Do. Those that cannot, teach".

For some reason, I had a moment of Deja Vu.

I may be off topic, just this flash from the past.

[C.J.]

Originally Posted by Elagabalus

Ahh a significant reply. An elitist peacock. An insufferable plutocrat.
I know that right now you are sitting behind your monitor plotting your next major diatribe against me. Yet, I digress.

I have definately learned from your courtesy. You've attempted to slander my chosen field of employment, my teaching abilities, and deemed me some small little man with delusions of grandeur.

Fancy, that through all of this, never once did I bring up anything about your own personal life off of this forum. If I were to mimic your mentality no doubt we would be discussing your wife, your children, and anything else completely off topic. However you see I am not here to attempt to insult you. You do that to yourself. I am merely rebelling against your rabid tyranny.

I'm the egomaniac?



I Triumph Over All!

Deus Sol Invictus

I recall you mentioning that Elagabalus was a Roman Emperor. He was the homosexual that didn't do anything significant enough to warrant much mention in the present history books, right?

[dman]

Guys, let the troll go back under his brigde please.

[Gedanken]

Originally Posted by Elagabalus

Ahh a significant reply. An elitist peacock. An insufferable plutocrat.
I know that right now you are sitting behind your monitor plotting your next major diatribe against me. Yet, I digress.

I have definately learned from your courtesy. You've attempted to slander my chosen field of employment, my teaching abilities, and deemed me some small little man with delusions of grandeur.

Fancy, that through all of this, never once did I bring up anything about your own personal life off of this forum. If I were to mimic your mentality no doubt we would be discussing your wife, your children, and anything else completely off topic. However you see I am not here to attempt to insult you. You do that to yourself. I am merely rebelling against your rabid tyranny.

I'm the egomaniac?



I Triumph Over All!

Deus Sol Invictus

Ah once again you demonstrate your inability to read. Look, I keep telling you - don't be shy, call Mommy and ask her to help you with the big words!

I have cast no aspersions on your profession - in fact I view the teaching vocation in a rather good light (it is rather interesting that you have chosen the term "employment", unlike real teachers who tend to describe it in more personal terms). You simply can't comprehend anything more than the most basic sentences, at least enough so as to understand that I have instead slandered you personally. Actually, it's not slander if it's this accurate, but I'll keep it simple, just for you.

If I have to spell it out to you, what I am saying is that the way you're carrying on, bucks to your aunt's cherry that you're a FUBAR excuse for a teacher, and that you're one of those that your students will laugh at in years to come when they get past the age of sixteen and realise how small you are.

Summary: teaching good, you bad. Do I have to bring the crayons out again?

Ooh, rebelling against my tyranny. I did mention Quixote earlier, didn't I?

Don't go whinging about anyone talking about your personal life. You're the misguided one who imagined he could impress people with his little History degree when I've already told you that you're a nobody in the present company, so don't go bleating when your game plan falls flat and you prove yourself to be impotent. You put it out there, and it's up to everybody else to decide what to do with it. Can't help if if you're too dim-witted to realise something as simple as that.

Me, elistist? Certainly. Insufferable? Most assuredly. Egomaniacal? BZZZT - wrong answer, thanks for playing.

The difference is that I talk about things that I am and I do. It's not egomania when I walk the walk. On the other hand, I don't expect you to understand. You, after all, delude yourself into borrowing achievements and characteristics from people long dead.

By the way, I just got back to my computer. People do go out for lunch, you know - don't go assuming that we're all tucked away in the basement like you are.

[Prince]

Man, this is unbelievable!!!

I vote that the "Little Emperor" stay. This is way too much fun - I haven't read anything this entertaining since Samuel Pepys' Diary...

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Elagabalus

I have a degree in History and I teach highschool students far more mature than you Gedanken.
Your blue collar sense of humour, while distracting, is not uncommon and certainly unoriginal.
All I wanted were pictures of a Rolex explorer.
Your vitriolic criticisms aren't appreciated nor warranted.

And you was helped in every way by the forum members to show you these pictures.

http://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=8283

Deus Sol Invictus
Again its according what you think great is.
Elagabalus or Heliogabalus (c. 203–March 11, 222), born Varius Avitus Bassus and also known as Varius Avitus Bassianus Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was a Roman emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218 to 222. Elagabalus is one of the most controversial Roman emperors. During his reign, he showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. Elagabalus' name is a Latinized form of the Semitic deity El-Gabal, a manifestation of the Semitic deity Ēl. He replaced Jupiter, head of the Roman pantheon, with a new god, Deus Sol Invictus, which in Latin means "the Sun, Undefeated God". Elagabalus forced leading members of Rome's government to participate in religious rites celebrating Sol Invictus, which he personally led.

He also took a Vestal Virgin as one of a succession of wives and openly boasted that his sexual interest in men was more than just a casual pastime, as it had been for previous emperors.

Elagabalus developed a reputation among his contemporaries for eccentricity, decadence, and zealotry which was likely exaggerated by his successors. This black propaganda was passed on and, as such, he was one of the most reviled Roman emperors to early Christian historians and later became a hero to the Decadent movement of the late 19th century. Real or exaggerated, his outrageous behavior sometimes causes him to be listed among the so-called Mad Emperors

Think that just about sums Elagabalus to a tee,just a sausage jockey so it seems.And further evidence a cross dresser who likes to swing to both sides,seems like a nice guy.

[Otis]

You forgot this Padi:

"He had the hairs plucked from his body in order to appear more female, and delighted in appearing in public wearing make-up.
And he is said to have promised his physicians large sums of money if they would find away to operate on him and turn him into a woman.
More so, at court a blond Carian slave named Hierocles acted as the emperor's 'husband'.
Accounts also point to Elagabalus enjoying to pretend being a prostitute, offering himself naked to passers by in the palace, or even prostituting himself in the taverns and brothels of Rome. Meanwhile he would often arrange it to be caught by Hierocles, who would then be expected to punish him for his behaviour with a severe beating."

I wonder why anybody would want somone like that as an 'idol'.

[Gedanken]

Originally Posted by padi56

Think that just about sums Elagabalus to a tee,just a sausage jockey so it seems.And further evidence a cross dresser who likes to swing to both sides,seems like a nice guy.

Dunno about that, Peter. I mean, sure, he's turned up here begging for a blue steel enema, but where's the bit that says he's a complete, utter and flaming jackass?

[Prince]

Originally Posted by Gedanken

Dunno about that, Peter. I mean, sure, he's turned up here begging for a blue steel enema, but where's the bit that says he's a complete, utter and flaming jackass?

Right HERE!!!

[Prince]

Originally Posted by Otis

...I wonder why anybody would want somone like that as an 'idol'.

My thoughts exactly, Otis.