The Great Gatsby

[harveymudd]

A few things.

1- Who smokes cigs and reads at the same time? You're not Bill Hicks. You will never look badass smoking, and reading at the same time. Especially reading steven king. You should just hang outside a thrift store smoking Kamel Reds and reading the latest issue of Shonen Jump. God that would be so badass and funny I'd shit myself.

2- Great Gatsby is a good book. I liked it. Does it matter that I liked it and you didn't? No it doesn't. That there is a matter of taste. Was it well written? Yes, that there is a matter of quality. You could like the taste of venison all you want (I'm not into it that much) but if it came to you undercooked, riddled with shrapnel and flesh eating bacteria you would question its quality. I would hope so, no opinion there...that Venison is pure shit.

3- Thank you Raven for proving to me once more that teenagers think the world revolves around them. Only a self-involved teenager would believe that an author would write a book to vicariously gain attention and sympathy through the main character. Fitzgerald didn't create Gatsby as an extension of himself, if anything it was in response to the events going on in America at the time.

4- This is just a note to everyone between the ages of 13 and 18. More likely than not, you are wrong. You are not a prodigy. If you were a prodigy you wouldn't be posting on this website, you'd be recruited into some NSA program at an early age and force fed government propaganda until you thought persian food was poison and indians eat giant dung beetles for dinner.

Oh wait, that last part was from Indiana Jones...

[Lordredeye]

I hate the internet because I can’t really convey a message the way I would like to, I’ll leave it at that.

[Turkey_Slayer]

That either means you're lazy or you've seen that you're wrong.

[Vladimer]

Um, what?

[Lordredeye]

Turky_Slayer Wrote:
That either means you're lazy or you've seen that you're wrong.

wrong about what?

[Gorbadoc]

"Quality" is largely objective, and most of its subjective significance disappears if we're careful to discount anecdotal evidence (the fact that Kaz says it's elixer does not make it so). "Taste" meanwhile is the quintessence of subjectivity. If you insist on nitpicking over definitions, put your criticism in the form of a request for clarification. For example, "I'm not sure what the distinction is that you're drawing between 'taste' and 'quality'; please clarify."

Is your mom a sharp wit? Because I found that clever.

[herbyhancok]

Just wondering. Since when is 4 a couple? Or is this also a subjective matter?

[Zeuter]

A couple of couples.

[harveymudd]

Alright, this raven fellow hates himself as much as a crab in a craw house. This is good.

Your next step is to drink yourself into oblivion. God I love my fucking advice. Maybe I could moonlight as the devil.

[Kaz]

Kaz, quality is a matter of opinion. Some might consider a Lincoln or Lexus car high quality, while others driving their Roles-Royces might consider it mediocre.
Of course, the first group of people would rank a Roles-Royce higher than the Lincoln or Lexus, but consider experience. Someone who has bought their stuff at Sears for 20 years and never had any problems might consider the store's quality higher than one who has only received defective products.

No. They might prefer one car manufacturer over the other (in an educated manner or not) based on certain factors, but that's a question of tastes and preferences. The quality of these different aspects of their cars can be empirically measured. There are many people whose career is doing just that.

The Sears thing is just an example of dumbshits basing their opinions on anecdotal evidence. Speaking of which, are you going to argue next that opinions can't be wrong since they're subjective? Because it's about as dumb as "quality is subjective".

[Dr.Mellifluous]

And yet you still come back.

[Cassiel]

Is your mom a sharp wit? Because I found that clever.

Word. That's much funnier than anything Raven himself has ever said. Then again I once asked a student if she knew what voyeurs and exhibitionists were, and she replied, in all seriousness, that they were people who went on voyages and expeditions.

[Dr.Mellifluous]

Was this a student who wanted to slob on your knob?

[Dr.Mellifluous]

So what is platonic conception? It's not a platonic reflection...

[Kaz]

It's making babies by just holding hands.

[Dr.Mellifluous]

Raven's mom already made that joke.

But I'm totally serial guys. Platonic conception like the twice divided line?

[Cassiel]

The line is divided four times and yes, conception as in concept as in idea as in eidos.

[Gorbadoc]

But I'm totally serial guys. Platonic conception like the twice divided line?

Plate tectonic convection like the twice divided supercontinent.

[Dr.Mellifluous]

The line is divided four times and yes, conception as in concept as in idea as in eidos.

Divided into four sections, or four times?

[Gorbadoc]

4, 1+4, 2^4, or any integer in between. You feeling lucky?

[Bobwich III]

I prefer Animal Farm

[Turkey_Slayer]

I prefer Animal Crossing.

[ScarLet Leviathan]

Alright, this raven fellow hates himself as much as a crab in a craw house. This is good.

Your next step is to drink yourself into oblivion. God I love my fucking advice. Maybe I could moonlight as the devil.

What if oblivion doesnt come fast enough?

[Dr.Mellifluous]

Fetynal.