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| jpanhalt:
--- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 12:27:00 pm ---Well, the generel consensus here appears to be the fact, that I am appearently to young to comment on this, where as you - the veterans - have used this term for ages, which makes it right. Just think about that statement, doesn't seem right, does it? he meantime completely missing the point. While I just become a bigger and bigger snowflake. --- End quote --- Didn't take long for you to play that card. Fact is, you seem to have a hard time understanding an abstraction, so you call it "stupid." So far as I know, a file cannot be stupid. That's purely an animal trait and mostly applied to humans. |
| LeoTech:
--- Quote from: jpanhalt on April 25, 2020, 12:36:23 pm --- --- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 12:27:00 pm ---Well, the generel consensus here appears to be the fact, that I am appearently to young to comment on this, where as you - the veterans - have used this term for ages, which makes it right. Just think about that statement, doesn't seem right, does it? he meantime completely missing the point. While I just become a bigger and bigger snowflake. --- End quote --- Didn't take long for you to play that card. Fact is, you seem to have a hard time understanding an abstraction, so you call it "stupid." So far as I know, a file cannot be stupid. That's purely an animal trait and mostly applied to humans. --- End quote --- Considering people where questioning my age and told me that it had been so for a long time, it was a valid card, but I could counter, with it didn't took you long to point it out.;) AFAIK I never called a file stupid, but rather what one might call that file for stupid. In other words, your point is completely irrelevant and doesn't bring anything to the table except implaying that I as a human may/could be stupid. Next time, don't start discussing semantics about something I never said. That's pointless. (Which could imply, that you have a hard time understand what I mean.) |
| BravoV:
--- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 12:46:15 pm ---Considering people where questioning my age and told me that it had been so for a long time, it was a valid card, but I could counter, with it didn't took you long to point it out.;) --- End quote --- Just wait few decades, that probably JPEG (.JPG) format is obsolete, and a cocky proud youngster shout out loud that why elders keep saying .JPG file is an image file, instead of a blob of binary file that needs extra trouble/effort to decode/view it at that time. |
| Brumby:
To the OP: Pick one (or more) of the following: * Troll * Snowflake * Pedant * Childish * Entitled Please note: "Right" or any flavour thereof is not one of the options. (I'd hate to see you on a discussion of current flow.) |
| rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 12:46:15 pm --- --- Quote from: jpanhalt on April 25, 2020, 12:36:23 pm --- --- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 12:27:00 pm ---Well, the generel consensus here appears to be the fact, that I am appearently to young to comment on this, where as you - the veterans - have used this term for ages, which makes it right. Just think about that statement, doesn't seem right, does it? he meantime completely missing the point. While I just become a bigger and bigger snowflake. --- End quote --- Didn't take long for you to play that card. Fact is, you seem to have a hard time understanding an abstraction, so you call it "stupid." So far as I know, a file cannot be stupid. That's purely an animal trait and mostly applied to humans. --- End quote --- Considering people where questioning my age and told me that it had been so for a long time, it was a valid card, but I could counter, with it didn't took you long to point it out.;) --- End quote --- In my eyes the question about your age, which can at times be translated to inexperience on naïveté, came with the following assertive: --- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 10:47:11 am ---Because if not, let's try to stop that misconception. And just call the exectables, which in my mind is a far more correct and usefull name. --- End quote --- They way I read the first answers were people imparting their knowledge in a jokingly way. If you look around this forum, you will see lots of other similar threads with similar jokes and pokes. |
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