Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a viking!..?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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, 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

and imo he's a total viking of ILX

He is an intrepid viking staring into the vast seas of mystery.

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.

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

wow i wish this thread didn't go native/non-native.

it should have stuck with duh/smart imo, less fraught with danger

xp!

I'm an Ivy Leaguer and I say it's B

although really the answer is C

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.

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.

non-native minorities coming into our threads not getting our jokes iirc

i went 2 a shitty st8 school so i say fuck this shit i am going to a monster truck rally

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.

okay srsly can we drop the native/non-native thing now

xp: m bison kinda OTM

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, 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.

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.

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

As opposed to linguistically rigid monolingual people, who seem to be fixated on a literal interpretations?

okay srsly can we drop the native/non-native thing now

i'm trying to kill it with puns, it works on every other thread, but srsly-yes pls.

my theory is that multilingual people (i.e. smarter people)

or people whose countries have been occupied historically?

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

hahaha yes that was awesome

although in this case I won't be happy unless C wins

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.

or people whose countries have been occupied historically?

wait, are we back to the "vikings were militarily weak historical losers, therefore ralph would not associate them with excelling" thing?

yeah guys i apologize, to dyao for causing offense and to everyone else for the ensuing shitstorm

i really wish C wasn't an option itt

hahaha but it's perfect because it is exactly what everyone is doing

ya c is gonna take away more b votes than a votes

apology accepted some dude. keep on bloggin imo

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

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

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

but how will u see my zings?

if they are good, a wise B voter will quote them in his withering response

lol aerosmith I have just finished a book on informal logic and that is basically the conclusion

lol

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, 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

brb creating 51 socks to stuff the b@llots

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.

that place already exists and it is called 77

do not malign good 77 posters by accusing them of voting A

ive never been, whats it like

http://www.carenvy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/homersimpson-in-chocolate-land.png

just wanted to talk about the word emphasis after watching it on youtube

ralph says "SLEEP! Thats where I'M a VIking" - I used to hear this pattern all the time with my kids, it indicates that they think they are, or at least are pretending to be something ( I'M a RObot, I'M a COOL girl, I'M a MONster ): equal emphasis on I'm and Viking, implying equivalence.

compare that to the metaphorical use, which would usually be "i'm a MONSTER", "i'm a VIKING", ie all the emphasis on the metaphor.

― tomofthenest, Friday, April 30, 2010 4:47 AM

But Ralph's voice isn't done by a real kid rather than an adult.

― Tuomas, Friday, April 30, 2010 4:58 AM

in all honesty, this is one of the greatest exchanges I've ever read

yeah Tuomas has really brought his "A" game to this thread

^^^ SB'd myself for that

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), 30 April 2010 15:19 (23 minutes ago)

:) just tryin to widen this debate about a cartoon boy dreaming of being a viking tbh.

ftr I feed myself by trying to decipher what english-as-a-second-language kids are saying and writing, so ~shrug~

Explaining why you are right when you are wrong is NAGL.