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Disagree and contradict

  • 17-09-2014 05:26PM
    #1
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭


    Do some people just do it for the sake of it?


Comments

  • #2
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    No. You're wrong.


  • #3
    groucho marx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭groucho marx


    I dont agree,i think your dead right


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    You're both wrong.

    All three of you.


  • #5
    Donald73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭Donald73


    None of you know what you're talking about.


  • #6
    mockingjay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭mockingjay


    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    Do some people just do it for the sake of it?

    Well - yes and no.


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  • #7
    Slicemeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭Slicemeister


    Surely they're agreeing if they disagree and contradict?


  • #8
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    You're all barking up the wrong tree. Every one of you!


  • #9
    TheSheriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭TheSheriff


    People are D**ks

    *Must reach 50 posts to get my picture posting ability back


  • #10
    The Rabbit
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 140 ✭✭The Rabbit


    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    Do some people just do it for the sake of it?

    On Boards?

    It certainly seems like it.


    Some people need their little victories.


  • #11
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    The Rabbit wrote: »
    On Boards?

    It certainly seems like it.


    Some people need their little victories.

    Do you have any links to back up this claim? :pac:


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  • #12
    The Rabbit
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 140 ✭✭The Rabbit


    aaronjumper wrote: »
    Do you have any links to back up this claim? :pac:

    *shudder*

    "Google it, retard!" :pac:


    I felt the smiley face necessary incase I upset one of the lonely busy bodies.


  • #13
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    The OP is correct.

    There are way too many contrarians and holier-than-thous on this site.


  • #14
    Guill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


    Some people think it makes them look intelligent to take the opposing side. But all they can do is disagree, when you push them on it they start contradicting themselves. Have a few annoying people in my family like that.


  • #15
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    People can be yeah, both on here and in real life, you'd tell them the sky is blue and they'd say it was green just to disagree.


  • #16
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    catallus wrote: »
    The OP is correct.

    There are way too many contrarians and holier-than-thous on this site.
    where is she? Our friend.


  • #17
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    gugleguy wrote: »
    where is she? Our friend.

    Out there somewhere, thinking up more ways to be contrarian and holier-than-thou!


  • #18
    The Rabbit
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 140 ✭✭The Rabbit


    Guill wrote: »
    Some people think it makes them look intelligent to take the opposing side. But all they can do is disagree, when you push them on it they start contradicting themselves. Have a few annoying people in my family like that.

    I have friends like this.

    No matter the topic, they'll disagree.


    I've come to the conclusion over the years that it's because they can't articulate anything worth hearing in a group conversation so jumping on the opposite side/offensive gives them an opportunity to be involved.


  • #19
    Donald73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭Donald73


    krudler wrote: »
    People can be yeah, both on here and in real life, you'd tell them the sky is blue and they'd say it was green just to disagree.

    Tis grey this evening :P


  • #20
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnTmBjk-M0c


  • #21
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    I challenge you all to fisticuffs and tiddlywinks!!


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  • #22
    DLMA23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭DLMA23


    I much prefer the native North American contraries

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrary_%28social_role%29


  • #23
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    The Rabbit wrote: »
    On Boards?

    It certainly seems like it.
    Definitely. Three threads recently where being contrarian and edgy just seemed so important to people: Ian Paisley's death, the one about the kid with acne reduced to tears in the cosmetics department of a store, the thread by that woman who's had so much tragedy in her life.
    Anyone whose mission for decades is to ostracise and incite hatred against a community is objectively not "a great man" - it's not celebrating his death to concede this, and the issue is not that he was unionist/protestant.
    A sales rep in a cosmetics section isn't supposed to cold-sell and certainly isn't supposed to refer to acne as "sore stuff on your face", for which make-up is not the answer - she may not have been a bad person, just a bit silly, but what she did was objectively wrong.
    A thread where someone just wants to let off steam about the awful things that have happened in their life - it is objectively dickish to post about how it's suspicious and to post about how it's ages since there has been a pity party. It may be a discussion forum but that doesn't mean everything has to be debated. There is a line when it comes to "Telling it like it is" and only a socially inept person wouldn't be able to see it. Sometimes (very occasionally, hardly a regular occurrence) just be a bit respectful to what a person's going through, try to have a bit of compassion, or just stfu - reading the thread is not necessary.


  • #24
    Miss Lizzie Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Miss Lizzie Jones


    The_Sheriff wrote: »
    People are D**ks

    *Must reach 50 posts to get my picture posting ability back

    It doesn't work that way anymore so I've been told.


  • #25
    Miss Lizzie Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Miss Lizzie Jones


    gugleguy wrote: »
    where is she? Our friend.

    She's not your friend.


  • #26
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    I challenge you all to fisticuffs and tiddlywinks!!

    This should sort out the wheat from the chaff, I challenge you all to Truth or Dare.Who's first?


  • #27
    Kev.OC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 808 ✭✭✭Kev.OC


    To be fair, it can be great fun playing devil's advocate.


  • #28
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    The_Sheriff wrote: »
    People are D**ks

    *Must reach 50 posts to get my picture posting ability back

    Def a rereg. Hey Mods .......... no need for a posse ......... just bang The Sheriff up.


  • #29
    ireland.man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    Is it allowed to link to other threads? I'd love to spend some time collecting the most needlessly contrary, supposedly cool transgressive posts and put them up here...


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