"that's where I'm a 'champion' " just sounds like a borderline nonsensical malapropism
so wait it's the phrasing in itself that's odd not just the fact that "viking" is not a granted metaphor for being good at something? all this time i thought the latter was the argument here
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 30 April 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
he also is known for being the dude who asks stuff like "why are there so many helicopters in america?'
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not saying that's the reason you guys are wrong. i'm saying it's interesting enough to be worth mentioning that the 2 biggest vikings of option A have that in common. i said it, there's not much more to say imo, but you can continue to dwell on it and pontificate on what kind of person that makes me if you like.
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
dyao is american, some dude
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
it's the insinuation that if you're not part of a culture your judgments about that culture are open to being considered less valid & less correct.
see, i'll actually not agree with you there. this is actually a 'right or wrong' issue imo, so not all judgements are 360-degrees valid.
imo tuomas is fluent, native-level, and obviously spends a lot of time interacting w/ american culture, and to attack his argument based on the grounds that he is from Finland is pretty ethnocentric if you ask me
read ur blogs, mayne. read ur blogs. I'm not gonna talk about Tuomas like he's not here, and imo he's a total viking of ILX, but he's got huge amounts of previous in not getting fairly simple/well accepted concepts that very few others of ANY culture struggle with.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
― sonderangerbot, Friday, April 30, 2010 11:04 AM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the latter is the main argument, but I'm just saying even if you try to wrap your head around the metaphor thing, actually looking at the sentence that way is pretty sketchy. you think we can't dissect this thing on more than one level after 1k posts?
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
dyao makes a very valid point; Tuomas's fluency is better than many Americans
that doesn't mean his interpretation makes the slightest lick of sense tho
every tribe here is made up of a myriad of villages, some more sensible than others
xp: holy lol are ppl actually buying the "English is not dyao's first language" thing????? shine on you crazy thread
― Anything With Bagpipes (HI DERE), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I mean, you may as well just throw me out of the discussion too - - - I was born in Florida and did my book-learnin' in pathetic, backwards, non-fluent Georgia, so obviously I could have no legitimate opinion on the content of "The Simpsons," a show written by Ivy Leaguers and then broadcast to an audience of millions and millions of Americans and Finns. But maybe someone can review my past posting history and find proof that actually I do deserve the right to an opinion on a cartoon show.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 April 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
iatee i know nothing about dyao, i based my comment on Tuomas saying he was a non-native English speaker before someone pointed out that that's apparently not correct.
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, April 30, 2010 11:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
I've lurked here for some years and have always felt Tuomas gets the short end of the stick so, remembering scratching my head when he got 51'd
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
and imo he's a total viking of ILX
He is an intrepid viking staring into the vast seas of mystery.
― mierda defensa ... no impedir ... espectador (onimo), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
imo he's a total viking of ilx, but when he got sb'd it was because he 'didn't get' something for 1500 posts iirc.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway according to some dude's rule I'm an ivy-leaguer therefore I am more qualified than almost everybody else on this thread to interpret this question and I say it's A lock thread I win
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
wow i wish this thread didn't go native/non-native.
it should have stuck with duh/smart imo, less fraught with danger
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
xp!
I'm an Ivy Leaguer and I say it's B
although really the answer is C
― Anything With Bagpipes (HI DERE), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i reckon it's a poll thread, and those found to have voted the losing option don't have any say in ILX for four years.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
re: non-native thing: consequence of B people trying to figure out why in the world otherwise intelligent folks would go with A. let's be cool.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
non-native minorities coming into our threads not getting our jokes iirc
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i went 2 a shitty st8 school so i say fuck this shit i am going to a monster truck rally
― (m)(m )(m b)(m bi)(m bis)(m biso) (m bison), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Now at:"I dream I'm a viking" (183) 65.59%"I'm a champion sleeper" (96) 34.41%
so 13-3 to the Bs since Cozen posted the link.
I actually found that poll before the link was posted in this thread, and I voted B.
― jaymc, Friday, 30 April 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
okay srsly can we drop the native/non-native thing now
xp: m bison kinda OTM
― Anything With Bagpipes (HI DERE), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, April 30, 2010 10:04 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I'm a solid option A person as indicated several times above and English was my first language.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
However, I grew up overseas and was fluent in French at age 5, so my theory is that multilingual people (i.e. smarter people) are more likely to follow the option A interpretation.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i look forward in 7 hours or so to discovering that this is like all the ILM polls where fifty lurkers who never posted send "Everybody Hurts" to the top of the charts, and the Excellers begin their long reign of triumph
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 April 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
As opposed to linguistically rigid monolingual people, who seem to be fixated on a literal interpretations?
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm trying to kill it with puns, it works on every other thread, but srsly-yes pls.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
my theory is that multilingual people (i.e. smarter people)
or people whose countries have been occupied historically?
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha yes that was awesome
although in this case I won't be happy unless C wins
― Anything With Bagpipes (HI DERE), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually I was living overseas because my father was a diplomatic representative of the GREAT COUNTRY OF THE U.S. of A. to lesser nations, but nice try.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, are we back to the "vikings were militarily weak historical losers, therefore ralph would not associate them with excelling" thing?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 April 2010 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah guys i apologize, to dyao for causing offense and to everyone else for the ensuing shitstorm
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i really wish C wasn't an option itt
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha but it's perfect because it is exactly what everyone is doing
― Anything With Bagpipes (HI DERE), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
ya c is gonna take away more b votes than a votes
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
apology accepted some dude. keep on bloggin imo
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.pollpub.com/when-ralph-wiggum-said-oh-boy-sleep-thats-where-im-a-viking-what-did-he-mean-by-it.aspx
"I dream I'm a viking" (186) 65.72%"I'm a champion sleeper" (97) 34.28%
lol @ at least 20 ILXors (including me) taking this poll outside
― mierda defensa ... no impedir ... espectador (onimo), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
wow thread was bringing many lols overnight and then a buncha guys decided that what this thread was missing was SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS
love that "an open mind" is what people who get a joke are missing - you A people, let me know if you're ever teaching a formal reasoning class so I can cruise along to an improved GPA by blowing your minds about how a lotta stuff if just your opinion, man
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
in all seriousness though would somebody who is viking at internet please get on a script that'll allow us to add a "hide all posts by people who voted 'A' in the 'where I'm a viking' poll" option to our settings? will improve user experience for 65% of the board
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
but how will u see my zings?
― (m)(m )(m b)(m bi)(m bis)(m biso) (m bison), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
if they are good, a wise B voter will quote them in his withering response
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
lol aerosmith I have just finished a book on informal logic and that is basically the conclusion
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, April 30, 2010 11:33 AM Bookmark
;_; almost everything i post is tl;dr though so maybe it wouldn't really impede the reading experience
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 April 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
brb creating 51 socks to stuff the b@llots
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
imo the mods should create a special subboard only A people can post on, and let the rest of us study how they interact in isolation.
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
that place already exists and it is called 77
do not malign good 77 posters by accusing them of voting A
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
ive never been, whats it like
― (m)(m )(m b)(m bi)(m bis)(m biso) (m bison), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.carenvy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/homersimpson-in-chocolate-land.png
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link