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Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 1:29:21 PM

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My last slave was defined as "singularly the most dyslexic person" her psych researcher had ever met. But she had the 'common sense' to use a spell-checker to mitigate her weakness. Don't folks ever bother READING their posts? We ALL make typos, do sloppy cut-n-paste edits that screw up a sentence ... but, geez, folks! Ignorance compounded by apathetic depression AIN'T gonna get you a quality match! Special luminaries are the folks who put red text over a bright red background ... so they'll get noticed?
Does anyone with a full set of white teeth actually respond to any of these?
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"intellegent & whitty Collard submissive"

... I like collards ... with some salt & fried chicken
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"you really feel Dominate, you think you're in conrol, "

Still unbelievable that so many folks cannot differentiate dominate from Dominant! Weren't any of them conscious during English class?
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"I am an educated, professional lady who seeks a loving but Dominate man"

Again! At least she didn't say she was edjumakated!
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"ive decided that iam realy not looking for anyone , special maby just some play , deffinately no one over 45 , so please if you r old dont even bother sending me a message ill just delite it , also iam not into swinging women or blk men , please dont waste your time , no way am i looking for a relationship , iam over those , , just some fun ,"

Where do I start?
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"24 f seeking domminant men and women with diry perversions to forced upon me."

I heard that 40% of American college students can't find New York on a map ... I think we've found one of 'em. Someone needs a strict Daddy to get her to study!

There's a big difference from dyslexic & stupid; there is a big difference between an irrevocable typo and a profile that a person can edit ad nauseum til it's right. But how do folks expect to find an attractive match if they don't make any effort at all?

OTOH, though I understand & have no problem with dyslexia ... these folks DO make my screening process much easier.

YMMV

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered." -- Voltaire

“Youth ages. Immaturity is outgrown. Ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.” -- Aristophanes

& finally

"Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe." - Frank Zappa

RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 1:36:57 PM

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But Doc, they want to be loved for what they are, not their spell-checker

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 1:41:51 PM

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....but...but...I cna't fnid ym sepll chekc!!! Heeeeeeeeeeeepl!

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 4:01:04 PM

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when I started school I had troubles spelling and reading and while I wasn't bad enough for special ed (in fact in most subjects I was and am way above average) I needed extra help to learn to read really well. During the course of those classes they determined I was borderline dyslexic. I now read perfectly fine and when I was in eighth grade had reading comprehension rated at the level of a person in their first year of college. Unfortunately however, I never really became good at spelling or grammar. I just have problems with specific placements of things, another thing I can't do worth a damn is math in my head. On paper I do fine, just can't do it in my head.

Spell check will only do so much and will give you what it thinks, not necessarily what you want. And when it does grammar checks that can do even worse.

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 4:22:36 PM

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Oh great now someone tells me the reason no one responds to my profile is I am using fuchsia on fuchsia for my background and text! Dang, don't I feel silly! Actually I am trying to think of ways to write my profile so certain people will not email me, but alas I give them the benefit of thedoubt and assume they can read.

Adomdoc, there is a match for everyone, even those "dominates" you mentioned. Not all people are literate, not all people care about the ability to articulate a complete sentence, and not all people are looking for someone who can. In fact there are some people that would feel uncomfortable with those bookworms, geeks, and "intellectuals".

There really is someone for everyone, and if it doesn't come naturally to someone to type in complete well spelled English I hope they do not have someone else proof their profile so the unsuspecting end up dating someone unsuitable to them. Why not make it that much easier to separate the wheat from the chaff?

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 4:26:11 PM

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Just think of it as a Darwinian filter that helps you weed out the, ah, less fit.

I once tried to help a friend correct the spelling in her profile and she objected, saying it wasn't important.

I didn't mention it might have something to do with the quality of the guys she was meeting.

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 5:27:43 PM

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I agree with you only to a point. In this day and age with technology being what it is even the grammar and spelling challenged should be able to run their spell checkers and grammar checks. So, there is something to be said about those that do not. However if they just be themselves and they are grammatically challenged, then... they are being honest and not hiding who they are. It is a catch 22 really.

What I do not like are the people that use Internet shorthand. Now, some is fine because it is better for the flow of conversation in an IM or a chatroom to go LOL rather than say Laughing Out Loud. The ones that use u for you, 2 for too or to, r for are and so on are obviously not the ones for me, but they are for someone.

On a slight serious note, I take a small issue with your comment about 'apathetic depression.' Depression is a serious illness and apathy happens to be a symptom. I just want to point out that the term should not be thrown around loosely or as an insult.

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 5:41:38 PM

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Real Dommes and Doms don't submit to their spell checkers. And real subs do submit, waiting for permission to pleasure it by feeding it typos, waiting for ages, waiting until they can wait no longer.

Hope that explains it a bit.

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 6:24:43 PM

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Here's the profile of a male dominant:

marrried man very dominated looking for either m/f for afternoon delite

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 6:25:05 PM

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quote:

Real Dommes and Doms

Always a starting phase for a weak argument.

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On a slight serious note, I take a small issue with your comment about 'apathetic depression.' Depression is a serious illness

Apparently you think my handle indicates I'm a plumber? I'm quite aware of not only the psychological symptoms, but also the long-term neurological changes in the brain caused by depression. But folks always have a logical choice ... to wallow in it ... or do something about it.

To: Wolf1020 ... I think I made it abundantly clear that I'm tolerant and recognize dyslexia ... the previous slave of 9 yrs ... and a prominent Doc friend whose clinical recommendations I have to translate before I forward 'em. Unfortunately, Doc friend has saved all the wrong spellings into his spell checker :-) I've had friends w/ 180 IQs who honestly cannot decipher his letters.

To: Petruchio ... "Just think of it as a Darwinian filter" ... you betcha! As I said: "... these folks DO make my screening process much easier."

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 6:32:49 PM

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Benji was making a funny, seeing this is the random stupidity forum... smiles

( I laughed Benji... )

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 6:48:15 PM

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Benji was making a funny, seeing this is the random stupidity forum... smiles

( I laughed Benji... )

Thank you, julia, but benji was making a funny, seeing this is benji.

Doc,

If you would be so kind as to explain to me how the hell you took my post, on asking a spell check permission to use it, seriously, I would seriously appreciate it. I have, in the past written posts which could be taken seriously. However, that one was the last one I would have thought someone would take seriously. Seriously, this is serious.

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 6:50:43 PM

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Benji: Suppose it was in the context of all the other responses. And ... no facial cues ... no tone of voice cues to differentiate a serious leg pull from a bad argument :-)

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." -- Mark Twain

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 6:51:47 PM

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ORIGINAL: ADomDoc

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." -- Mark Twain

I really mean it. Seriously.

Yours,

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 6:55:25 PM

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Honestly, I don't understand how spelling is such a terribly difficult task for so many, but then, I suck at math, so I guess that makes us even.

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 7:15:46 PM

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Honestly, I can't understand what the big deal is..would you choose not to love someone because they are a poor speller? Would you choose to like someone only if they were a great speller? At the end of the day, it isn't a person's ability to spell that makes someone fall in love with them... If spelling was a make it or break it for a relationship, I'd be worried that some really great, wonderful and wise, but poor spellers would be left lonely forever

..and seriously, i have NO clue where the spell check is...* continues searching for it*

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 7:42:25 PM

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I can't understand what the big deal is..would you choose not to love someone because they are a poor speller?

What was unclear about "My last slave was defined as "singularly the most dyslexic person" her psych researcher had ever met." I was with her for 9 yrs. It's NOT about spelling ... it's about caring enough to put one's best foot forward. If a person can't spell ... then there are easy ways to ameliorate that. We all make typos and gaffs (and some will get away from multiple checks). But if someone doesn't care enough to even bother to check what they've written ... they don't care if they have letters matching the background ... then they obviously don't have any "common" courtesy for the folks that they hope will read it. It's not JUST about poor spelling & grammar ...it's also about not caring & an innate disrespect for others. Why would I want to have a sub/slave/companion who, from the first moment when they should be trying to make a good impression, makes no effort to do so?

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 8:17:40 PM

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ORIGINAL: gooddogbenji

Real Dommes and Doms don't submit to their spell checkers. And real subs do submit, waiting for permission to pleasure it by feeding it typos, waiting for ages, waiting until they can wait no longer.

Hope that explains it a bit.

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benji

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 9:41:48 PM

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Apparently you think my handle indicates I'm a plumber?

Sorry, didn't notice the handle. Didn't think twice about it either. I have seen Internet nicknames from Nine_Inch_Clit to Roswell_Escapee. Am I to give credence to every moniker on the Internet based on what it says?

As someone that is claiming to be a doctor (and I am not disputing that) I find it a bit disenchanting that you actually did use the phrase in a caustic and flippant manner. One would think that you would have a bit more compassion for those that suffer from depression.

This is not the time, nor the place for this discussion and I do not care to hijack your thread. If you want to continue this conversation, feel free to email me on the other side.

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But if someone doesn't care enough to even bother to check what they've written ... they don't care if they have letters matching the background ... then they obviously don't have any "common" courtesy for the folks that they hope will read it. It's not JUST about poor spelling & grammar ...it's also about not caring & an innate disrespect for others. Why would I want to have a sub/slave/companion who, from the first moment when they should be trying to make a good impression, makes no effort to do so?

As an educated person, you have an advantage that some do not. You have apparently immersed yourself in etiquette and manners and have a sense of respect and dignity. Some are less fortunate than you. I would think that as a doctor, you would understand that and realize how trite your position sounds.

It isn't like your posting this thread is unique. These types of threads rank up there with the 'No one replies to my emails' and 'Are there any true subs/doms out there?' they sprout like weeds.

Why worry about someone else? If they aren't for you, move along.

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RE: Random, albeit pervasive, stupidity - 5/29/2006 10:24:52 PM

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I'm quite aware of not only the psychological symptoms, but also the long-term neurological changes in the brain caused by depression. But folks always have a logical choice ... to wallow in it ... or do something about it.

Sadly, that isn't precisely true for folks who have treatment-resistant refractory depression. SSRIs positively affect only a subset of depressions and patients here in the US are restricted from many kinds found in Europe (reverse MAOIs, modern tricyclids, etc.) The good news is that some old drugs have been found to have anti-depressant characteristics and new drugs are constantly being tested.

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