Where to even start?

Firstly, I am completely calm. I'm not shouting at you or calling you names or freaking out. That's in your head.

Re: Schizophrenic. I'm not saying the joke was good or complete (that's why I posted it to workshop), but it was a consistent idea: people say this trite phrase, here is a dramatic situation in which it's triteness would be highlighted. That's not characteristic of schizophrenia.

Re: New Yorker. Known for wry, detached observations; not optimistic puns. If someone was trying to emulate something, they would not do something that was almost the opposite. Again, you can't blame me for thinking you were a bit of a off after that, right?

Stop being so defensive. You're projecting your concerns about your own intelligence onto me. Just a few hours ago you didn't get a clever race joke. Then you had to backtrack and eat shit when someone explained it to you.

Ah, of course, some armchair psychology. A worthy diagnosis.

What an ungenerous fantasy you have constructed. I didn't get the joke, said I didn't get it, someone else posted something that explained it, so I voluntarily and with humility posted about how I was "slow off the mark" on it. You are off point - again.

I am frequently wrong, I frequently don't get things. I don't see it as backtracking or eating shit when that happens, you clearly do. I think that is an unhealthy approach to living and learning.

As I've said already "I'm not saying I'm either smart or funny". I am happy to take criticism from people (see any other criticism I've gotten here), but like I said, you've put me in a difficult spot because I think you're a bit of a moron.

Anyway, I let you get the last word in, we both know you need to.

Then after that, do me a favor and stop wasting my time. I'm not getting anything from this, you've nothing to offer me. Not smart, not funny, not interesting -- as based on my interactions with you. Maybe you are smart and funny and interesting, who knows? But the evidence is not there for me.

If your post about the ideals of truth and honesty was more than just cheap rhetoric, that's my truth and honesty.