Your Silence Speaks Volumes
By Mitch Berg
Truth!
Among the best ways for me to file your “argument” under “not worth the effort” is to begin with something like “your silence about [pick an issue that is not actually the subject of the current discussion] speaks volumes”, delivered with a rhetorical and literal “shame finger”.
I mean, I do appreciate the vote of confidence – your apparent belief that my addressing an issue on my show or blog will have some sort of affect on that issue over time, and that my “silence” – generally less “silence” than “lack of opportunity, interest, or any angle on which I have anything to contribute to the discussion” will cause the world such damage.
I assure you, it will not, but thanks for thinking I’m such a big cheese.
August 10th, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Top 11 Things Mitch Berg Has Never Discussed on His Blog, To His Eternal Shame
(apologies to the Nihilist in Golf Pants)
11. Why God didn’t make the little green apples
10. The potential benefits of Penigma receiving a high colonic
9. His ardent yet unrequited childhood crush on Joy from the Bugaloos
8. His extensive yet secret collection of Green Bay Packers memorabilia
7. Refreshing Jell-O Pudding Pops
6. His long-surppresed duets with Tammi Terrell
5. How Omar Sharif kicked his butt in bridge
4. Rumors that Dog Gone actually sells prairie dogs
3. Sweet Little Mary Pickford
2. The poor drumming on “Kitty’s Back”*
1. One weird trick for losing 25 lbs., and you won’t believe what comes next!
*Actually, he’s discussed this at length.
August 10th, 2016 at 2:39 pm
Troll so hard. 😀
August 10th, 2016 at 3:14 pm
2. The poor drumming on “Kitty’s Back”*…
…*Actually, he’s discussed this at length.
I was about to unleash. Thankfully, I read the whole thing.
August 10th, 2016 at 3:18 pm
Your silence on the lack of progress on deep-ultraviolet lithography in nanometer silicon speaks volumes about how little you care about technology, you Luddite!
Actually, if you were speaking out on the subject I’d be worried for your sanity. There’s a long list of subjects where I would actually subtract from the value of the discussion and know far better than to intervene. I respect folks who know the limits of their knowledge. And that’s what peeves me off the most about “progressives.” They act as if they innately know what will make me happy rather than what actually does. For example, eating organic doesn’t make me happy because I know that it’s actually less healthy and more environmentally damaging than regular food. Yet all progressives act as if shoving organic foodstuffs down my throat will make me happier when in fact all it does is make them happier.
August 10th, 2016 at 3:20 pm
Is thinking you’ve become more cheesy the same thing in your mind as seeing you as a big cheese?
August 10th, 2016 at 3:30 pm
Distinction without a difference.
August 10th, 2016 at 3:36 pm
DG and Peeve finally accomplished their goal – dragged Merg into the gutter.
August 10th, 2016 at 3:49 pm
nerd;
Funny you should bring up the organic thing.
Three people that I know are organic only vegans, that grow their own fruits and veggies during the summer. They get more colds and come down with the flu more often than any other adults that I know.
August 10th, 2016 at 3:58 pm
Is part of the job of becoming a democrat to remove the part of the brain that can recognize satire? DG while at this point practically a walking parody of herself is quite normal among those on the left. As someone who struggles with sarcasm (I have aspergers) sometimes even I can tell when this stuff is tongue in cheek. Newsflash DG the onion isn’t a real and respected newspaper.
August 10th, 2016 at 6:01 pm
Just for the record, I think that cannibalism is wrong.
August 11th, 2016 at 8:42 am
I dunno, Bento, I am sure you would taste just like chicken.
August 11th, 2016 at 1:05 pm
boss;
I know similar folks, but it’s always hard to say if they’re organic vegans because they’re in poor health, or they’re in poor health because they’re organic vegans.
Still, there are stories like the vegan climbers who both got altitude sickness trying to climb Everest, and that killed one of them. Now, Everest isn’t a walk up a casual trail like Kilimanjaro, but it isn’t all that deadly. There’s only a 1% death rate on that climb (it’s not like the 25% on K2), but it does stress your oxygen carrying capacity and that’s something where vegans in general are notoriously poor due to lower iron levels.