Mav42
Tuesday 3rd February 2009 2:10am
Exeter
76 posts
Quote: Danny K @ February 2 2009, 4:23 PM GMT
Unclench thy buttocks!
Relax, and I'm sure you'll find it far easier to remove the cork that's been ever so firmly, well and truly wedged up your arse.
Condescending? Bugger off and read the paid-for-professionals art and media reviews if you want considered 'perfection'. In my posts you'll find first thoughts, half-thoughts, misspellings, grammatical errors - all borne from enthusiasm for something I'm in a hurry to well ...enthuse about. Enthusiasm; try it sometime - you might like it.
Surely the result of such hurried enthusiasm is often exactly the opposite of condescension. In fact, your haughty rebuke was spiced so lavishly with quotes and links (at one point you dismiss a valid criticism as simply "not the case", offering an irrelevant quote in support) and so pragmatically structured, that I would sooner accept the excuse of over-thinking to have bred such a supercilious tone.
It might have perhaps been forgivable had you confronted Blenkinsop's criticism with the response it deserved, but instead you proceeded to a) miss the point entirely, b) assure him, incorrectly, that he was simply "misled", c) somehow link toilet humour to a quote referencing hard-hitting political satire and d) offer a patronising olive branch with a reference to "paid-professionals", before making an incoherent point about originality.
Finally I feel I ought to highlight that my eagerness to skewer the pomposity of your post does not immediately lend itself to a demand for "considered perfection" - though, having said that, I would suggest that if you spent as much time constructing your counter-arguments as you do coming up with half-baked synonyms for anal-retention, you might next time achieve something other than simply ratifying the inarguable nature of Blenkisop's points.