I am, wolfman, thanks for the thread
Uh, I don’t believe you when you say that wasn’t the intention.
So tell me, if your point with linking to such YouTube videos isn’t to try to shut me up, what could it be?
… Nope, I still don’t care, and this isn’t intimidating me either. In other words, laugh at me as hard as you want - that also won’t shut me up or otherwise get me to back down.
I think we know the coming response 
To help colorize the dialogue.
See link above
Again, that’s nice to hear.
Okie dokie!
I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean, so why don’t you spell it out for me. And no, I still don’t believe you.
To what end(s)? Hmm?
Obviously I’m still not shutting up. Do you get it yet? Keep trying to “up the ante” - see how much good it’ll do you.
Yeah John. Stop trying to intimidate everyone.
Mockery won’t intimidate me either, Consumariat.
“Mockery won’t intimidate me either, Consumariat.”
It seems that on most threads you are busy not being intimidated. So good on you fella.
And your point is?
That no-one has ever tried to intimidate you on here, and that it’s disingenuous of you to be constantly playing the “stop intimidating me” card. Unless you’re a 10 year old you might want to rethink that debate tactic.
Whether it’s true or not, why couldn’t you have said that to begin with?
“Whether it’s true or not, why couldn’t you have said that to begin with?”
I suppose I could have. I’ve said it now though.
That doesn’t answer my question. Let’s try this again: whether it’s true or not, why didn’t you say that to begin with?
Because I took it for granted that you would be able to read between the lines.
… And why did you do that? You expected me to be a mind-reader? Really?
Sure, it means the response to the quoted comment has already been given a number of times, so it would be one that could be easily guessed ahead of time…the response of course being what is said in the link.
Once again, that’s too bad.
Color?
Obviously you’re not saying much either.
Get what?
Once again, saying it’s too bad won’t do anything to make me change my mind.
Coloring the response for the purpose of color. How circular. So really, what was the point of coloring the response? The only point I can see was to try to make me feel stupid and go away. Obviously that hasn’t worked.
I consider that to be irrelevant. I also consider whether or not you consider it to be relevant to also be irrelevant. Just so we’re clear.
You heard me.
“… And why did you do that? You expected me to be a mind-reader? Really?”
I did it because in my experience people are usually able to infer the meaning of a statement from analysing the situation in which that statement is used. The meaning of a sentence is derived from its context within a particular pattern of dialogue, and not just from the expicit definitions of the individual words themselves.
So no, I do not expect you to be a mind-reader; I wrongly assumed that the context of my response woud provide enough information for you to be able to understand its intended meaning.
Okay, fair enough. Thank you for the explanation.
Now I’ll respond to your earlier post:
For one thing, I don’t think I’m constantly “playing the ‘stop intimidating me’ card”. I only do that when it seems to me like someone is trying to shame or intimidate me into shutting up and going away. If that happens often, so be it.
Second, I don’t consider that to be a debating tactic at all. As far as I’m concerned, if someone launches into an attempt at intimidation, whatever actual debate may have been going on up to that point is now over. In the present instance (this thread), there was no debate to begin with IMHO.
Third, by “intimidate” I don’t mean only things like threats of physical violence and other “internet tough-guy” behavior. I simply mean anything that appears to be intended to make someone feel like he should regret his previous behavior and stop posting in the thread (at least regarding the sub-topic at hand). Mockery is included here.
That’s too bad.
Well, people usually color things because they want them colored. shrug
More color is more fun
That’s probably because (apparently) you see that a lot of places.
It’s working quite well for the purposes I’ve done it.
K.
That doesn’t mean what I heard made any sense.
I still haven’t changed my mind.
Circularity strikes again!
How so?
Are you now admitting that that was your intention?
I fail to see how. At the beginning of this exchange - as I see it - you attempted to berate me and make me feel dumb for even questioning whether that was Bob Murphy in the linked cartoon. I didn’t feel dumb then, and I don’t feel dumb now. Whether you think I’m dumb doesn’t matter to me. Claiming that you’re now just doing this for laughs and entertainment is disingenuous IMHO. It’s just another tactic for you to try to “win” here - where “winning” involves feeling like you’ve made me feel a certain way. Even if you are honestly doing this for laughs and entertainment at this point, you’ve shifted the goalposts for yourself.
That’s right.
Somehow I think it did. Regardless, you still heard me. I don’t think I need to repeat myself.