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Originally Posted by Pants
Or you could have acted like a man. You could have been intellectually honest, admitted that you got a little carried away with your OP and everyone would just go "Oh lol, it's just ol' Frankie being Frankie."
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Originally Posted by Frankie
Fuselages can break up mid air if they are not maintained right. I was generally questioning some airliners maintenance practices.
If there were any mistake on my part it was in my wording. But I will not leave unanswered ridicules by half-wits who did not give THAT a little thought in their blind rush to "prove" THIS "FERNER" is less intelligent than them. That's why I'm still here and adamant in seeing it through.
I learned long ago on this forum that I cannot afford to embolden the chimps.
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Armchair psychologist here, but it seems to me that Frankie fears somewhere deep down that his inartful phrasing, were he to admit to it, would be used in the future as evidence that he isn't as versed in English vernacular and the finer elements of idiom and turns of phrase.
Like that scene in 2010 where the Russian cosmonaut says that a particular task would be "Like a piece of pie." Only, . . . when the 'Merkins tell him the phrase is "A piece of cake," Mr. Cosmonaut feared loss of honor and spent a bajillion posts to explain that "he can't help that inbred reeruns couldn't comprehend his dessert metaphor skills, but he knows he and his son were 'Thuper Therially' smart."