Kansas Crimson

chiknbut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:15 am

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:00 pm

chiknbut wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 5:19 pm

I take immense pride in my KU education and degree.

Doesn't matter to me that it's from a "Public University that admits 93 percent of applicants." Or that it's "not a worthy accomplishment by most standards" to someone like you.

I'm sure most others on this board feel the same way. And I don't find it meaningless. But I do take exception to people who try to run it down. Even if it's just to make a weak point.

You misunderstand. I'm not running down KU. I am putting one individual's misguided sense of elitism associated with going there in perspective.

Bear in mind that it is a response to someone who regularly ran down my status as a professor at a "shitty Bible college" over the years - an insult to which I have never stooped to respond with the statistical fact that my employer admits 37% of applicants until now. (That's significantly more than twice as selective as KU, BTW).

The moral is that we choose what we are offended by and how offended we allow ourselves to become. If you choose to be grievously offended, I can't stop you.

Psych describing "the high road" he takes is that extra kind of special I was hoping for on Hump Day.

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:57 am

chiknbut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:15 am

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:00 pm

You misunderstand. I'm not running down KU. I am putting one individual's misguided sense of elitism associated with going there in perspective.

Bear in mind that it is a response to someone who regularly ran down my status as a professor at a "shitty Bible college" over the years - an insult to which I have never stooped to respond with the statistical fact that my employer admits 37% of applicants until now. (That's significantly more than twice as selective as KU, BTW).

The moral is that we choose what we are offended by and how offended we allow ourselves to become. If you choose to be grievously offended, I can't stop you.

Psych describing "the high road" he takes is that extra kind of special I was hoping for on Hump Day.

You were doing so well, Chikn, and then you got your feelings hurt when mean old Psych pointed out that a KU degree and Harvard degree aren’t equally prestigious like Sea has been telling you. Back to the Martyr Card we go to salve the bruised ego. Take comfort: relapse is a natural part of recovery.

chiknbut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:34 am

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:57 am

chiknbut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:15 am

Psych describing "the high road" he takes is that extra kind of special I was hoping for on Hump Day.

You were doing so well, Chikn, and then you got your feelings hurt when mean old Psych pointed out that a KU degree and Harvard degree aren’t equally prestigious like Sea has been telling you. Back to the Martyr Card we go to salve the bruised ego. Take comfort: relapse is a natural part of recovery.

You seem to have misunderstood. My feelings aren't hurt at all.

When you respond to something, I look at it the same way as the guy yelling at an imaginary thing as he's digging out food from a garbage can. It's mostly harmless and it means nothing.

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:47 am

chiknbut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:34 am

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:57 am

You were doing so well, Chikn, and then you got your feelings hurt when mean old Psych pointed out that a KU degree and Harvard degree aren’t equally prestigious like Sea has been telling you. Back to the Martyr Card we go to salve the bruised ego. Take comfort: relapse is a natural part of recovery.

You seem to have misunderstood. My feelings aren't hurt at all.

When you respond to something, I look at it the same way as the guy yelling at an imaginary thing as he's digging out food from a garbage can. It's mostly harmless and it means nothing.

Of course. You respond to the worthless, crazy, homeless guy not one, not twice, not thrice, but FOUR times, expressing varying levels of indignation. Yup. Youbetcha.

chiknbut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:31 pm

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:47 am

chiknbut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:34 am

You seem to have misunderstood. My feelings aren't hurt at all.

When you respond to something, I look at it the same way as the guy yelling at an imaginary thing as he's digging out food from a garbage can. It's mostly harmless and it means nothing.

Of course. You respond to the worthless, crazy, homeless guy not one, not twice, not thrice, but FOUR times, expressing varying levels of indignation. Yup. Youbetcha.

Responding and caring are two different things, Psych.

I would think a highly intelligent man would understand that (shrugs shoulders).

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:43 pm

chiknbut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:31 pm

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:47 am

Of course. You respond to the worthless, crazy, homeless guy not one, not twice, not thrice, but FOUR times, expressing varying levels of indignation. Yup. Youbetcha.

Responding and caring are two different things, Psych.

I would think a highly intelligent man would understand that (shrugs shoulders).

After all, I didn’t go to KU

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 5:21 pm

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:43 pm

chiknbut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:31 pm

Responding and caring are two different things, Psych.

I would think a highly intelligent man would understand that (shrugs shoulders).

After all, I didn’t go to KU

It was easy to tell.

Why do 2 non KU grads feel the need to come here and troll/argue?

lobster wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 6:01 pm So now, trolling = having a different opinion than others. Stop trolling, HD.

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:14 pm I'm here because I'm a Kansas fan.

I like talking to other Kansas fans about our basketball team.

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 6:55 pm

lobster wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 6:01 pm So now, trolling = having a different opinion than others. Stop trolling, HD.

Exactly. I'm willing to bet that not everyone who goes to KU has the same opinions either. But I'm also willing to bet that they get shouted down a lot like some of us do here. I was actually accepted to two different graduate programs at KU about five years apart. Each time, after sitting in on a classroom with a surfeit of people the likes of Sea and Feral, I knew I wouldn't be able to ignore the OuTRaGe propaganda enough to actually learn anything, so I went elsewhere. Every time I come on this bored, I am reminded of what a good decision I made - twice over.

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:57 am

chiknbut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:15 am

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:00 pm

You misunderstand. I'm not running down KU. I am putting one individual's misguided sense of elitism associated with going there in perspective.

Bear in mind that it is a response to someone who regularly ran down my status as a professor at a "shitty Bible college" over the years - an insult to which I have never stooped to respond with the statistical fact that my employer admits 37% of applicants until now. (That's significantly more than twice as selective as KU, BTW).

The moral is that we choose what we are offended by and how offended we allow ourselves to become. If you choose to be grievously offended, I can't stop you.

Psych describing "the high road" he takes is that extra kind of special I was hoping for on Hump Day.

You were doing so well, Chikn, and then you got your feelings hurt when mean old Psych pointed out that a KU degree and Harvard degree aren’t equally prestigious like Sea has been telling you. Back to the Martyr Card we go to salve the bruised ego. Take comfort: relapse is a natural part of recovery.