Are continuous displays of attempted cleverness tiring?
 

What do you think? Poll.

yes. the attempts. worthy of strangulation.

If only more people would understand that. Clever banter, especially of the forced kind, makes me weary.

Oh yes. These people would be better employed clearing up pub tables or picking up dropped litter.

i dont care about this place enough to care.

Jonboy, you do care enough to reply, therefore you do care. Anyway, on a less aggro-related note and more seriously, this is about the general public, not this messageboard as such.

You mean pretentious people ? Yeah, I can't stand them. But most of the time, I neglect them. Unexciting. Unknowing is the best way to despise this kind of people.

not really, merely adding my opinion.

Would you prefer dumb banter?

(What would count as dumb? Talking about Posh'n'Becks?)

EN got it right.

particularly if they are attempts and continuous..

Why would anyone add an opinion to something that they don't care about is beyond me.

Yes.

ok then maybe a little but not a huge amount. i find people who are perposefully argumentative more tiring.

Some might interpret being argumentative as adding your own opinion and then disown the subject that you're commenting on in an act of passive-aggressive display. Or maybe that's a little too clever to understand. Who knows, eh?

who indeed.

i feel like noah when the ark was...

...no wait...i have one...

it's better to have bird in hand...

...damn it!...


yeah, it's tiring, i rather it make it come naturally as usual.

Indeed, who?

i guess asking what you think then becoming aggressive with a person who answers could be considered so.

Well, you make assumptions about the tone of someone's posts on the internet and interpret them as aggressive. My, you do take the internet seriously, don't you?

It's a context thing, surely? Smart-arse know-nothings are infuriating; the violently dim equally so. People, in general, are annoying, if you're an intolerant person (which I certainly am if I don't have enough fags/ sleep).

One frequent annoyance in my life is people who will begin and engage in an argument and then refuse to listen to any counter-arguments, or call their protagonist (in this, and most cases, myself) 'pretentious' rather than listen to what I'm saying. Ad hominem, it's known as.

The other side to that is smart-arse know-nothings who insist on repeating, verbatim, some criticism of a minutae of protocol or grammar I may have made, refusing to concede the thrust of a hurried argument as superior.

Ultimately though, it's me that's the prick for engaging in such things, so to answer the question of the thread - yes, my continuous expression of cleverness is futile.