Of course, extrapolating genders of people from the gender of their nicknames is a somewhat inexact science. The word “potato” is also feminine, but Mr Potato Head is most definitely a male. And let’s not forget that in French, the word “penis” is feminine, and “vagina” is masculine.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Varqanir wrote:
Of course, extrapolating genders of people from the gender of their nicknames is a somewhat inexact science. The word “potato” is also feminine, but Mr Potato Head is most definitely a male. And let’s not forget that in French, the word “penis” is feminine, and “vagina” is masculine.
You are so Johnny-on-the-spot, Varq. 
Now answer my earlier question![/quote]
You asked two questions: one, whether you were right about being wrong, and what I would do in your predicament.
The answer to the first is, of course, “yes.”
The second is a little more complicated. As I implied, there is a difference between being a knight and being a bishop. Both have equal value in chess, but tactically the knight is a superior piece, as far as has been my experience.
Whereas the knight can drive forward, then wheel around to make an unexpected attack, the bishop is constricted to linear movements. As such, he is predictable. If he sees an opening, the bishop often charges as far as the very boundaries of the board, from corner to corner. As such, he often overextends himself, and gets into predicaments that take a lot to extricate himself from.
I hate to say it, Push, but you are a bishop.
You extended yourself too far without first knowing the battlefield. Your stance on this thread has been one of absolute certainty, even in an area in which you have no expertise, and yet you couldn’t even recognize a beautiful woman (supposedly an area in which you possess great expertise), even after pages and pages of dialog with her, until she provided pictorial evidence and written confirmation. And all efforts to reverse yourself now just make you look shallow.
I’d say you’re well fucked and far from home, old friend. If it were me, I’d apologize to the lady, cut my losses, and move on.
And I’d say it’s no accident that the bishop is shaped like an erect penis.
Ok, I’m back for one more.
This thread has lost all traces of a decent argument. No one is going to prove anyone else wrong here given that valid information has been presented on both sides over and over and over and overandoverandoveroveriwkjrhefvh BLAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Push, somehow I thought your name was Pushmeharder, and that was why I wrote it that way in the poem. I realize that is ironic given that you said I had a reading disorder. Oh well… Fruedian slip perhaps? I’m hoping not.
Beta Berry, just leave these guys alone. Your way too good looking…erm…way too smart to be arguing with these guys. It’s time to let the thread die and stop filling my inbox with emails.
Just because this was halfway decent, here be the poem once more with an extended edition to make you all shut up ; )
heres a poem right off the top of my head, it’s entitled “The Missing Link”
“push oh push”,
a man once said,
“why oh why is it that you’re sick in the head?
You’re name should imply
that you’re one stand out guy,
but your plainly a fat bloated pirate instead.
You have a plethora of facts
which you use to confuse
designate, order, and misuse,
but the truth still remains
as we all can think,
evolution is real, you’re the missing link!”
Now I don’t mean to shout,
we all know what evolutions about
the ordering of life as we know it.
Creationism is fine,
If you know how to rhyme,
and you’ve got the balls to show it.
So let both sides exist
shake hands, bump fists
and start an argument over abortion.
Sky
Ok, I was at the gym for the past couple hours, and see what I find when I’m back!
Push that was mean. It was mean because it was just too hard for me not to blush. Now we’re both laying down the arms and the fun is over!
I’m glad you acknowledge you were being patronizing and offensive though. And had I known it would be such a topic killer, I would have refrained from putting up an avatar.
And the berry/cherry/potato thing made me laugh. Potatoes are feminine in Portuguese too. And there’s several words for penis that are feminine but not a single one for vagina that is masculine. This is something that I have to get used to about English, the lack of feminine/masculine atributes for words. Also, Beta sounds obviously feminine to me (it’s the short for me real name), but a bunch of English speaking people have told me that they thought it was Beta for the greek letter (no, it isn’t).
Edit: love the chess reference too. My dad’s parents are hungarian so it’s in the blood I guess. I must say though, while I do agree that knights are superior to bishops, let’s not forget that the Queen is your most valuable piece.
[quote]BetaBerry wrote:
Edit: love the chess reference too. My dad’s parents are hungarian so it’s in the blood I guess. I must say though, while I do agree that knights are superior to bishops, let’s not forget that the Queen is your most valuable piece.[/quote]
Most valuable, and most powerful. Believe me, I never forget that.
Although I’m sure you’ll agree that a knight stands a far better chance against a queen than a bishop does.
Speaking strictly about chess, of course.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
BetaBerry wrote:
knights are superior to bishops,
Don’t admit that.
[/quote]
Too late.
Nah, I’ll be gracious about it. Noblesse oblige, you know. 
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Varqanir wrote:
Noblesse oblige, you know.
I guess you didn’t catch the part earlier where we (I) were admonished not to speak in tongues on this thread. It is somehow…unbecoming.[/quote]
I caught the part where the young senhora admonished whoever it is in this thread who “thinks a few words in French and Spanish make him sound smart,” chastised this person for bad Spanish, and poked fun at his misunderstanding of gender in Romance languages.
As far as I can tell, it’s not unbecoming if one uses the words correctly. 
[quote]pushharder wrote:
C’mon, slap leather and draw![/quote]
The only possible response to this, in keeping both with the Tombstone reference and your (almost certainly fruitless) infatuation, is “I’m here, Huckleberry.”
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Hey, hey, hey, don’t let this thread die on account that I’m infatuated with the Brazilian Berry. C’mon, slap leather and draw!
(I just had a thought…I actually am planning on driving from Cincinnati - Wyoming soon and my route takes me through Kansas. Who here would pay a reasonable sum to have a pic of Berry and me enjoying a cup of coffee in a Topeka Starbucks, me with my [u]B[/u]ible in one hand and Senora Berry with her “On the Origin of Species” in her hand, having a simply divine time, smiling (snarling?) and yukking it up?
Jab, how much, buddy?[/quote]
Hmm… while I’d love to meet you, since your weird beliefs intrigue me, I’m not in Topeka, or even near that. I’m in KC suburbs. But sure we could arrange said picture, I’d most likely prefer to hold “The Selfish Gene” though. The Selfish Gene - Wikipedia good book this one.
Well Push, I was enjoying picturing you as this grumpy, old, chubby guys (kinda like those guys who are strong but have a big gut), red face, trucker tan (you know, just the right arm), religious fanatic. Now that I’ve seen your profile I don’t see you as a person I’d enjoy disliking anymore, and I dislike you for that, if that makes sense. Luckily, I haven’t seen your face, so I can still imagine you red-faced as I say bible. AHA! Prove me wrong!
I’m sure it’s not hard at all to get me to discuss a topic, I’m kinda crazy and I have all these (some would say controversial) point of views. Just pick one.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
pushharder wrote:
Varqanir wrote:
Noblesse oblige, you know.
I guess you didn’t catch the part earlier where we (I) were admonished not to speak in tongues on this thread. It is somehow…unbecoming.
I caught the part where the young senhora admonished whoever it is in this thread who “thinks a few words in French and Spanish make him sound smart,” chastised this person for bad Spanish, and poked fun at his misunderstanding of gender in Romance languages.
As far as I can tell, it’s not unbecoming if one uses the words correctly. :P[/quote]
Kudos for the “senhora”. Very proper portuguese. I’m too young for it though.
And well, what an advantage a knight would have against a queen, depends only on how well the queen is played.
Push this is a picture for you. I’m holding an apple. Ha, get it? Genesis, woman, apple?
*pic is from Nov/07, before I started working out. Hate my arms in it.
From a real chemistry test final.
I suppose that the test-taker may have chosen an answer, based on derived laws of quantum mechanics, Pauli’s exclusion principle, etc.
After all, organic chemists could predictably synthesize complex molecules in the 19th Century, well before there was an atomic theory of matter.
But no. The test-taker thought that “God made it that way” seems as “provable” a proposition as any. No one has seen an atom, right? Electron microscopy may be wrong, right? All the observations, accumulated over 200 years, that conform to atomic theory may be God’s will instead, after all. And this chemistry student may have such a high standard of proof, that no answer but Divine Intervention will pass.
Nevertheless, I would not trust him or her to oxidize a policyclic ring, or to design an a new drug.
[quote]BetaBerry wrote:
I’m too young for it though.[/quote]
That goes without saying. It seemed appropriate, however, you being (alas) a married woman.
True. A vigilant queen would have nothing to fear from even the most cunning knight.