Intellectualizing?

Originally Posted by Arthur Dent

I was just thinking about this because it is something I've experienced many times. It seems like many people intellectualize in order to prove their point, or even win an argument. By complicating an issue and using many long, confusing words (nothing wrong with long, confusing words, mind you. I quite enjoy them: ambiguous, convoluted, nefarious, etc.), people often go soaring over the simple truth of the matter, perhaps just to avoid being wrong and having to admit defeat--to admit that the other person is right and they are wrong.

Perhaps it's a tactic grown out of favor with you new breed, but I always preferred a long drawn-out quote war to frustrate and fatigue my opponents, thus ensuring my default victory once they've stopped responding to my lunacy.

Originally Posted by Arthur Dent

And it's not just using long words; it's also being so vague that there is nothing certain or concrete about what a person is saying. As in the definition, "by excessively intellectual or abstract explanation."

Kinda like most marketing blurbs...

Originally Posted by Dumb Company

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Originally Posted by Arthur Dent

This "tactic" for winning a debate often works and I end up submitting to this nameless intellectualizer (partly due to my obsequious - um - timid nature). *Sniffs*

Well you are a festizio! See, I can make up words too, sister.

Originally Posted by Arthur Dent

So, why do you think that people feel the need to intellectualize?

Quite simply, because some people give little or no value to things with purely emotional and psychological experience benefits. Especially in politics: do we give money to poor people because it makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside, or do we discuss the difficult economic questions behind such a practice? It's a fair question.

Originally Posted by Arthur Dent

Why is it so difficult to admit defeat?

Internet penis sizing contests are a difficult thing to lose. I mean, it would kill me if people online had concrete proof that my glans is a hair shorter than someone else's.

Originally Posted by Arthur Dent

Why do fools fall in love?

Same reason you normal people do, I suppose. For the great make-up sex.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You know, if I hadn't mistakenly wandered into the sewer many, many moons ago, that comment would have flown about twelve feet over my head.

A hearty ROFL to you, Brady Good to see you again. Figuratively speaking.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

You know I've got to do one of these sappy reunion "oh my god I haven't seen you in ages how are your kids and is your job going well and look at you in that cute yellow dress where did you buy it!?" kind of things every time I come back for a week.

How ya doing, buddy?

I'll pop open an Ayinger Celebrator or McEwans Scotch Ale if it's all the same to you

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?