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Massassi Bread Parade: The Pretentious Patrol
2017-07-11, 8:54 AM #1
Sincerity Mode: This is not a malicious, hateful or insulting-by-intent thread, I just like poking fun at these two guys for their wacky thread derailings, especially lately in the Trump thread.

END OF SINCERITY MODE

You know them, you might love them, but you've definitely seen them cite the thoughts of a famous German mental patient when discussing just about any topic imaginable!

Who is the indisputable leader of the Massassi Temple Pretentious Patrol? Is it Reverend Jones (who I still suspect to actually be moneyobie in disguise) or Reid (who I still suspect to actually be Reid in disguise)?
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2017-07-11, 9:05 AM #2
I'll take the title, I deserve it.
2017-07-11, 9:21 AM #3
So, wait... Does this mean that my lengthy soliloquies on Sophocles and Kant so obviously possess intellectual merit that I couldn't possibly be called pretentious?
former entrepreneur
2017-07-11, 9:24 AM #4
Dude, you suddenly reappeared in late 2016 and while you've been quite active ever since, the Pretentious Patrol Commander Duo have been at it for the past few years.

Oh, and it's not solely about the content of de POSTE PRETENTIOSO , it's a lot about where you do it.
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2017-07-11, 9:37 AM #5
Looks like you gotta post some more to get caught up, Eversor :)
2017-07-11, 9:57 AM #6
Hmph!!

How dare you question my Massassi credibility! I was cleaving sectors when you were...

probably...

about the same age as me!
former entrepreneur
2017-07-11, 10:02 AM #7
I was the first person to ever reach 5000 posts on this forum, so...

I'm kind of a big deal.
former entrepreneur
2017-07-11, 12:16 PM #8
I feel like I care about this thread more than I should.

For what it's worth I sometimes look at the stuff I write here with some revulsion. But because it strikes me as obscure and fanciful more than it does pretentious. There is I guess the pretense that I am being clearer than I am actually.
2017-07-11, 12:22 PM #9
Originally posted by Nikumubeki:
Oh, and it's not solely about the content of de POSTE PRETENTIOSO , it's a lot about where you do it.


Well I'm guilty of that! This site is my personal blog.
2017-07-11, 12:29 PM #10
Originally posted by Eversor:
So, wait... Does this mean that my lengthy soliloquies on Sophocles and Kant so obviously possess intellectual merit that I couldn't possibly be called pretentious?


I believe that is correct.

You gotta drop a bunch of names while remaining clear as mud.
2017-07-11, 12:34 PM #11
If I am pretentious, then so is William Blake

Quote:
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.

A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons
Shudders hell thro' all its regions.
A dog starv'd at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.

A horse misused upon the road
Calls to heaven for human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted hare
A fibre from the brain does tear.

A skylark wounded in the wing,
A cherubim does cease to sing.
The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fight
Does the rising sun affright.

Every wolf's and lion's howl
Raises from hell a human soul.

The wild deer, wand'ring here and there,
Keeps the human soul from care.
The lamb misus'd breeds public strife,
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

The bat that flits at close of eve
Has left the brain that won't believe.
The owl that calls upon the night
Speaks the unbeliever's fright.

He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be belov'd by men.
He who the ox to wrath has mov'd
Shall never be by woman lov'd.

The wanton boy that kills the fly
Shall feel the spider's enmity.
He who torments the chafer's sprite
Weaves a bower in endless night.

The caterpillar on the leaf
Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
Kill not the moth nor butterfly,
For the last judgement draweth nigh.

He who shall train the horse to war
Shall never pass the polar bar.
The beggar's dog and widow's cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.

The gnat that sings his summer's song
Poison gets from slander's tongue.
The poison of the snake and newt
Is the sweat of envy's foot.

The poison of the honey bee
Is the artist's jealousy.

The prince's robes and beggar's rags
Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.

Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.

The babe is more than swaddling bands;
Every farmer understands.
Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in eternity;

This is caught by females bright,
And return'd to its own delight.
The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar,
Are waves that beat on heaven's shore.

The babe that weeps the rod beneath
Writes revenge in realms of death.
The beggar's rags, fluttering in air,
Does to rags the heavens tear.

The soldier, arm'd with sword and gun,
Palsied strikes the summer's sun.
The poor man's farthing is worth more
Than all the gold on Afric's shore.

One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands
Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
Or, if protected from on high,
Does that whole nation sell and buy.

He who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mock'd in age and death.
He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

He who respects the infant's faith
Triumphs over hell and death.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons
Are the fruits of the two seasons.

The questioner, who sits so sly,
Shall never know how to reply.
He who replies to words of doubt
Doth put the light of knowledge out.

The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Nought can deform the human race
Like to the armour's iron brace.

When gold and gems adorn the plow,
To peaceful arts shall envy bow.
A riddle, or the cricket's cry,
Is to doubt a fit reply.

The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

If the sun and moon should doubt,
They'd immediately go out.
To be in a passion you good may do,
But no good if a passion is in you.

The whore and gambler, by the state
Licensed, build that nation's fate.
The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding-sheet.

The winner's shout, the loser's curse,
Dance before dead England's hearse.

Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.

We are led to believe a lie
When we see not thro' the eye,
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.

God appears, and God is light,
To those poor souls who dwell in night;
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.
2017-07-11, 12:38 PM #12
Somehow I don't think I just helped my case. :downs:

OTOH, +5 to my post-count, so w00t
2017-07-11, 12:46 PM #13
bump
former entrepreneur
2017-07-11, 1:22 PM #14
dwnq
2017-07-11, 1:26 PM #15
Where is the option for Ban FGR
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2017-07-11, 10:44 PM #16
Originally posted by Reverend Jones:
then so is William Blake


what's his postcount

is he moneyobie

aren't you
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2017-07-11, 10:49 PM #17
Originally posted by Nikumubeki:
what's his postcount

is he moneyobie

aren't you


Do you, of all Massassians, really want to bring postcounts / spamming into this?
2017-07-11, 10:54 PM #18
Originally posted by Eversor:
I'm kind of a big deal.


Look, Reid and Reverend Jones are the High Commanders of the Pretentious Patrol (OR judging by the current poll results, Reid alone - Reverend can be the Co-Pope or sth), you can be the Urine d'État sécrétant .
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2017-07-11, 10:56 PM #19
Originally posted by Reverend Jones:
Do you, of all Massassians, really want to bring postcounts / spamming into this?


what's my postcount

am i moneyobie

aren't you
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2017-07-11, 10:58 PM #20
15,859
2017-07-11, 11:00 PM #21
Honestly this thread has left me speechless

I mean, being inducted into a Massassi Pretentious Patrol is kinda awkward. The whole notion feels pretentious, even. :v:
2017-07-11, 11:02 PM #22
Would it make you feel better to know that I've been referring to you and Reid as the [something] of the Pretentious Patrol/Parade for, like, 3 years now?
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2017-07-11, 11:04 PM #23
I know you think I spam too many words, but: did you know that in a recent thread I said somethings that left me embarrassed enough to declare that I would bestow unto FGR the rights to my custom title?
2017-07-11, 11:05 PM #24
Originally posted by Nikumubeki:
Would it make you feel better to know that I've been referring to you and Reid as the [something] of the Pretentious Patrol/Parade for, like, 3 years now?


Where? Is there a secret society I am missing out on? I haven't seen you on #massassi in a long time.
2017-07-11, 11:10 PM #25
I'm always there, even when I'm not.

(At this point I'd have quoted your line "I know you think I spam too many words" and linked to the #massassi chat stats, but since I can't remember the URL from memory, well, I won't!)
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2017-07-11, 11:11 PM #26
Why is there so much space at the bottom of your posts?
2017-07-11, 11:16 PM #27
Originally posted by Reverend Jones:
I know you think I spam too many words, but: did you know that in a recent thread I said somethings that left me embarrassed enough to declare that I would bestow unto FGR the rights to my custom title?


Actually, on second thought, I remember that I said this about Wookie06.
2017-07-12, 12:41 AM #28
Originally posted by Nikumubeki:
Look, Reid and Reverend Jones are the High Commanders of the Pretentious Patrol (OR judging by the current poll results, Reid alone - Reverend can be the Co-Pope or sth), you can be the Urine d'État sécrétant .


I refuse to be anyone's urine.
former entrepreneur
2017-07-12, 12:46 AM #29
Rigged system. There should've been a runoff election first.
former entrepreneur
2017-07-12, 12:51 AM #30
Until then I'll be memorizing lines of Novalis and Goethe, and I'll activate my Greek keyboard on my phone so I can cite words like νοῦς and ἀρετή in the original Greek.

WHICH I KNOW HOW TO READ BY THE WAY.
former entrepreneur
2017-07-12, 1:19 AM #31
"What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening?"

I am impressed that Eversor is at once succeeding in making himself look smarter than either of us by claiming for himself the positive dimensions of pretentiousness, while also being so noble as to fall on his sword pen by competing for FGR's ire simply in order to rescue Reid and me from the awkward impass created by this mythological Nikumubeki creature's riddle.
2017-07-12, 1:21 AM #32
Thank you based Oedversor!
2017-07-12, 1:22 AM #33
Or as my computer puts it, "thank you based oldversion".
2017-07-12, 2:38 AM #34
Originally posted by Reverend Jones:
I haven't seen you on #massassi in a long time.


Wrong hours. The man goes to work and lives in the GMT +2 zone.
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2017-07-12, 2:51 AM #35
Originally posted by Krokodile:
Wrong hours. The man goes to work and lives in the GMT +2 zone.


I guess you are right. I don't know why I thought he would be on at this hour.
2017-07-12, 7:40 PM #36
Originally posted by Spook:
Where is the option for Ban FGR


This.
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2017-07-12, 10:54 PM #37
I actually regret not putting that option in because this poll's activity (i.e. number of voters) is atrocious.
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2017-07-12, 11:26 PM #38
Actually, democracies have been known to present electorates with false choices... from time to time. Even so that they occasionally resort to writing in candidates, such as the Donald.

2017-07-12, 11:29 PM #39
Originally posted by Nikumubeki:
I actually regret not putting that option in because this poll's activity (i.e. number of voters) is atrocious.


Should have made it a checkbox poll then
2017-07-12, 11:45 PM #40
Go for it, Nikumubeki.

:colbert:
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