[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
That One Guy wrote:
Growing_Boy wrote:
BAAAIM!
Do you think someday I’ll have haters like him GB? Do ya, do ya!?
Only if you weigh more than 200 lbs. That’s where one stops being natural, you know. True story.
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First off dood its “haterz” Secondly, with that hair-do you could potentially already have some. lol! jk I second C_C anything over 200lbs and you gotta be on da juice and totally like unfunctional.
Being from Texas I though everyone knew to respect others’ private property, it was common sense because you could get shot. Up north where I am living I had to remind some complete strangers to stop steeping in my flower beds as they where playing Frisbee in my yard. My wife reminded me that up here I can not shoot them. But seriously, private property?..common sense?..
Shooting strangers because they stepped in your flowers, that seems like common sense …
[quote]joebassin wrote:
Being from Texas I though everyone knew to respect others’ private property, it was common sense because you could get shot. Up north where I am living I had to remind some complete strangers to stop steeping in my flower beds as they where playing Frisbee in my yard. My wife reminded me that up here I can not shoot them. But seriously, private property?..common sense?..
Shooting strangers because they stepped in your flowers, that seems like common sense …
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Damn right brother. Just like when a man breaks into your house in the middle of the night to rob you. He has to die, no question about it. As long as there’s only one story to tell, you should be alright.
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
I do not think we are that far apart on this. I had an example (to lazy to pick the book up now) about an indigenous group in SE Asia that think sperm is not generated by the body but passed down from man to man over the generations. There it is common sense and practice to blow some old guy to get your sperm count up. While that makes common sense in that context, you want sperm and you have to get it from some old dude, we might disagree. In the end though, it is about commonly held knowledge that predicates what makes good sense.
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Is that the ethnic group that has the highest incidence of hermaphroditism in the world? I’ve read about them, they do that until the boy is 13. They also act like women are dirty and just want to get it done with.
Not sure if that’s common sense or a Catholic priest went through there a few generations ago telling the alter boys that “duh how else are you going to build up your sperm” Oh yeah i went there.
[quote]Growing_Boy wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
That One Guy wrote:
Growing_Boy wrote:
BAAAIM!
Do you think someday I’ll have haters like him GB? Do ya, do ya!?
Only if you weigh more than 200 lbs. That’s where one stops being natural, you know. True story.
First off dood its “haterz” Secondly, with that hair-do you could potentially already have some. lol! jk I second C_C anything over 200lbs and you gotta be on da juice and totally like unfunctional. [/quote]
Oh boy! I sure hope so!
[quote]ctschneider wrote:
Prof X, you make a good point, but I have a serious problem with this thread nonetheless.
The title sucks.
Why does it suck?
Well first of all, I’m assuming it’s an allusion to the famous line from Romeo & Juliet, “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” But you misspelled “Wherefore.” Strike one.
On to point two. “Wherefore” doesn’t mean “where,” it means “why.” (It’s the interogative analogue to “therefore.”) Strike two. What was it your high school English teacher told you? He told you this: Juliet wasn’t asking where Romeo was. She was asking why the hell Romeo had to be Romeo, and more to the point, why he had to be a Montague. After all, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet.”
So the title fails on multiple levels, but good points all the same.[/quote]
You could have made your point without the “strike one…strike two” part of the lecture.
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
I think common sense and common knowledge have been conflated enough in this thread to use interchangeably. Both are culturally particular. Some one has to judge whether something is good judgment within the confines of that cultural group and that reasoning will be based on the cultural knowledge of that group. They go hand in hand although I consed that I was less than clear in how I got from common sense to common knowledge.
A problem I see often while teaching is the idea of “Everyone knows…thus, its common sense…” My response, generalizations are flawed (even this one) and it is culturally specific.
Being from Texas I though everyone knew to respect others’ private property, it was common sense because you could get shot. Up north where I am living I had to remind some complete strangers to stop steeping in my flower beds as they where playing Frisbee in my yard. My wife reminded me that up here I can not shoot them. But seriously, private property?..common sense?..
Common sense and common knowledge draw from the same cultural base.[/quote]
Randomly interchanging the use and definitions of the terms “common sense” and “common knowledge” based solely on the incorrect use of others, is not the basis for a good argument and will discredit any points you make.
Your private property scenario doesn’t show any failure of common sense, you can’t shoot them anymore so they have no reason to fear (respect) you or your property. If anything it shows a lack of common decency, but that can join common knowledge over in the irrelevant corner.
common sense is knowning not to take candy from strangers.
[quote]Kerley wrote:
common sense is knowning not to take candy from strangers.
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What if she’s really hot, though?
use your common sense to work that one out 
Actually on common sense, you know the Californian Condor? Driven to the edge of extinction until only 22 were left? Heavy metals in the food chain were the cause because of its effect on reproduction. Well as you can imagine some of the best and brightest censervational biologists in the world worked on the expensive breeding program and reintroduction to the wild. One problem though: after the new condors were released into the wild they failed to reproduce again… BECAUSE THE HEAVY METAL WERE STILL IN THE FOOD CHAIN! Did no-one check?
I think that’s a good example on the absence of common sense, even with the height of academic success.
[quote]shutupnlisten wrote:
Actually on common sense, you know the Californian Condor? Driven to the edge of extinction until only 22 were left? Heavy metals in the food chain were the cause because of its effect on reproduction. Well as you can imagine some of the best and brightest censervational biologists in the world worked on the expensive breeding program and reintroduction to the wild. One problem though: after the new condors were released into the wild they failed to reproduce again… BECAUSE THE HEAVY METAL WERE STILL IN THE FOOD CHAIN! Did no-one check?
I think that’s a good example on the absence of common sense, even with the height of academic success.[/quote]
I wonder, when we can create glow-in-the-dark dogs and fly to outer space and somehow get all that delicous meltiness into a chocolate truffle, why hasn’t someone yet figured out a better way to clear out a pipe with a turd stuck in it than by just trying to slorp it back up with a big suction cup on a stick.
just so you know… “wherefore” means “why.” the word you were looking for is “where.”
[quote]gabriel97531 wrote:
just so you know… “wherefore” means “why.” the word you were looking for is “where.”[/quote]
No, the word I was looking for is the one I used. If any others of you feel some strange need to worry about my grammar, you can stop now before you begin. It isn’t needed nor do any of you look smart for trying this hard.
[quote]gabriel97531 wrote:
just so you know… “wherefore” means “why.” the word you were looking for is “where.”[/quote]
does that really matter, this isnt a english grammar forum.
Common Sense: Shugs training with the guys from Elite FTS and calling none of them fat gear heads because even the women could rip his head off, turn him upside down, and pour out all the Metabolic Drive, Surge, and Spike.
I agree, nothing is more annoying then when someone corrects your grammar…This is not G-Nation, it’s T-Nation…Now go do some deadlifts…
[quote]Professor X wrote:
No, the word I was looking for is the one I used. If any others of you feel some strange need to worry about my grammar, you can stop now before you begin. It isn’t needed nor do any of you look smart for trying this hard.[/quote]
When I went off on that crazy rant 5 pages ago, I wasn’t trying to look smart, I was trying to look like a smartass. Sorry if I failed. Next time, I’ll try harder to convey the sheer magnitude of my annoyingness.
Oh, thanks for correcting the spelling of the thread title. I appreciate it.
[quote]Itchy wrote:
shutupnlisten wrote:
Actually on common sense, you know the Californian Condor? Driven to the edge of extinction until only 22 were left? Heavy metals in the food chain were the cause because of its effect on reproduction. Well as you can imagine some of the best and brightest censervational biologists in the world worked on the expensive breeding program and reintroduction to the wild. One problem though: after the new condors were released into the wild they failed to reproduce again… BECAUSE THE HEAVY METAL WERE STILL IN THE FOOD CHAIN! Did no-one check?
I think that’s a good example on the absence of common sense, even with the height of academic success.
I wonder, when we can create glow-in-the-dark dogs and fly to outer space and somehow get all that delicous meltiness into a chocolate truffle, why hasn’t someone yet figured out a better way to clear out a pipe with a turd stuck in it than by just trying to slorp it back up with a big suction cup on a stick.[/quote]
UN-common sense would be to design a toilet that didn’t clog in the first place. We should get that Dyson guy on it.
Or just go shit in the bushes. ;'o
EDIT: Of course, the plunger consortium would probably frown upon someone cutting them out of the poo action, and have us killed for even discussing this…
F*ck! I didn’t know what wherefore means…
maybe because I was in the back of the class reading a Flex Magazine when my english teacher in high school went over Romeo and Juliet.
Then in College I was in the back of the class reading a muscular development…or you know… I might have been in the gym cranking out some deads when my teacher went over shakespeare.
I just completed a 10pg research paper on Shakespeare. The guy was boring. His ‘literature’ isn’t even that great.
Faulkner kicks his ass all over the place…and his stuff sucks too. I find 90% of ‘great literature’ extreeeemmmeeelllyyy boring.
I’d rather read some poetry by Tupac or one of Grisham’s books.
Good post tho X, kinda goes with Dante’s post somebody linked a while back about the people worrying about the difference between waxy maize and dextrose when they are missing workouts or meals throughout the week. LOL